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by geon 10y ago
HTML and CSS "won" on the web. No one in their right mind would call them good or even suitable for their main use case.
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by geon 10y ago
> SQL still works as well as it does today Or... It sucks as badly now as it did back then.
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by geon 10y ago
> DBs have overstepped their bounds And they have a stringly typed interface! It sucks! When both the languages inside and outside the database are typed, why should the interface between them not be? It is just unfathomably bad.
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by geon 10y ago
> they don't HAVE to provide a service to someone I'd say they gave up that option once they sold the device. They could have refused to sell it initially, but after the transaction is completed, arbitrarily cutting of the serv
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by geon 10y ago
Easy way to publish?
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by geon 10y ago
Absolutely. The c64 had a bunch of things that was global, but could be changed per scanline, like graphics mode, border color, background color, sprite positions/bitmaps/colors, character offset, etc. You could actually change th
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by geon 10y ago
Im talking about the insurance companies. They dont take any risks, since they know in advance how many accidents that will happen. To them it is just a forseeable cost. The risk of each client is not transferred, but eliminated.
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by geon 10y ago
Insurance is not transfer of risk. Having many ensurees takes the risk away. It becomes inevitable and predictable. Simply a cost.
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by geon 10y ago
You should just tax it instead.
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by geon 10y ago
Etsy did something like that, but on the production site. Every visitor had a small probabillity it would run the code, and after a couple of million visitors, they had a pretty good idea of what styles were unused.
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by geon 10y ago
What would be the total energy required to heat the probe from space cold to venus hot? That's your theoretical maximum output. Assuming the probe doesn't heat up during entry.
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by geon 10y ago
I believe it (or some other bot) detects silence on the other end of the line to trigger playing samples. So it can insert "u-huh" whenever the salesman is done talking.
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by geon 10y ago
> probably did not agree much with Swedendemocrats in other issues except foreign aid. He did not agree with them about that either. SD used that rethoric, but their actual policy was to substantially lower foreign aid.
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by geon 10y ago
Perhaps not from lawyer specifically, since that tends to be a much more ambitious goal, but yes in general.
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by geon 10y ago
> A new company that only produces 30-45 MPG SUV models cannot compete, whereas it would be relatively competitive with a higher gasoline tax. Wouldn't that be the point? Low mpg cars are undesireable.
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by geon 10y ago
> city petrol gasoline tax Higher tax for gasoline sold inside the city? A lot of people commute, and would just fuel up outside the city limit. Others would make an extra trip out of the city only for that.
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by geon 10y ago
Stand out? The only thing I see are slightly rounded edged of the screen. And that took me a close look.
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by geon 10y ago
He is calling you a socialist, and implying that you are not normal.
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by geon 10y ago
Hey, here's a radical idea; leave your phone at home alltogether.
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by geon 10y ago
The syntax is pretty simple. The problem is all the available attributes and values. I don't see how lisp syntax would help.
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by geon 10y ago
Did .org ever have any oversight?
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by geon 10y ago
Here in Sweden, we have plenty of chestnut but they are all poisonous.
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by geon 10y ago
That is irrelevant. They wouldn't settle if they could get away with not paying anything.
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by geon 10y ago
They wouldn't need to force-bundle 20 other channels no one wants.
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In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut(independent.co.uk)
10 points by geon 10y ago|0 comments
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by geon 10y ago
Seriously. I use the desktop site on mobile.
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by geon 10y ago
The "buss factor".
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by geon 10y ago
See, this is great! Im learning stuff now.
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by geon 10y ago
Insightful. I also think the 2-party system in the us tends to polarize all discussion. Everything has to fit on the same left/right scale, and there is no middle ground.
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by geon 10y ago
That would have no effect over just a few generations.

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