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by gerbal 10y ago
From my perspective the main benefit of this is there is now a non profit that can take over administration of JS projects the community values but the original developers want to abandon.
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by gerbal 10y ago
Have there been animal model tests of these particles?
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by gerbal 10y ago
> It's also worth mentioning that a side effect of efficiency wages is more unemployment. Paying more results in a better class of applicant, meaning that people who would normally use WalMart as the bottom rung of their career ladd
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by gerbal 10y ago
I really dig the aesthetic and simplicity of http://luckyshot.github.io/twentyfive/
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by gerbal 10y ago
The article directly addresses those risks, asserting that they are not significant.
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by gerbal 10y ago
You didn't read the article, did you?
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by gerbal 10y ago
If you have a bunch of 1-6 month jobs on your resume your going to get passed over as unreliable and not worth the expense of hiring unless you are one hell of a rockstar.
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by gerbal 10y ago
Given the parts look like they're off a bargain basement chrome book just without the expensive processor and ssd, the hardware will be low quality, but they can probably hit the $100 price point.
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by gerbal 10y ago
It was Libya in 2013 http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/libya-cancels-dst-switc...
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by gerbal 10y ago
A trust buys shares; control of that trust is then sold on secondary markets. Or a very, very long term fulfillment contract that grants rights to the contracts current owner. Which is also sold on secondary markets.
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by gerbal 10y ago
Even if abiogenesis is common, the transition from simple to complex cells is incredibly uncommon. As far as we can tell it only happened on earth once in 4 billion years. f_l may be 0.1 but f_i is almost certainly multiple orders of magnit
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by gerbal 11y ago
I like how all it takes to get some cool art is to impose an arbitrary constraint on technically skilled people.
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by gerbal 11y ago
How is this new? This is the sort of thing the wealthy and the C-suite have been doing for decades. The internet makes parts of it a little easier, but it's not novel. The whole conceit of the Concorde was Executives could live in New
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by gerbal 11y ago
Planned economies are not inherently unable to direct said effect. They just have a harder time reallocating resources from failing enterprises because of the political nature of resource allocation. Look at a large corporation like IBM som
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by gerbal 11y ago
Doggerland[1] and Sundaland[2] were also above the sea at that point. I wonder if there were neolithic cities, the precursors to Uruk, that are lost beneath the sea. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland [2] ht
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by gerbal 11y ago
for users that have internet access beyond facebook. Internet.org and many mobile phone providers provide free access to facebook but not the rest of the internet.
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by gerbal 11y ago
Germany newspapers apparently use weird grammar conventions that makes translation engines have fits. Google Translate is pretty good on german conversations, anything the EU publishes, and literature, but is really terrible at newspapers.
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by gerbal 11y ago
Yep, Gmail's spam filters work based on the collective judgment of Gmail users. The core of your and linus' problem is a lot of people use the 'mark as spam' button as unsubscribe button for mailing lists.
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by gerbal 11y ago
Intellij is developed by JetBrains and features the occasional massive merge[1] from the non-community addition [1] https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/commit/5b9f9...
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by gerbal 11y ago
Wasn't that airport supposed to be open in 2010?
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by gerbal 11y ago
In North Carolina the worst offenders are actually exempt from emissions test. Vehicles made before 1996 and diesel vehicles don't have to pass any sort of emissions tests.
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by gerbal 11y ago
Aryan in the context of this article refers to the populations in the Indo-Aryan language group[1] which shares the R1a haplogroup[2] with multiple other groups. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_languages [2
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by gerbal 11y ago
Three generations to move a population of 1.6 billion from 4 to 11 years of schooling? That doesn't seem all that bad. Rapid development is great, but development generally over the course multiple generations.
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by gerbal 11y ago
A paradox of a safer society is that tragic acts like child abductions make more news than they would if they were more commonplace, inflating the perception of the threat. People feel that the threat is greater in fact because it is so muc
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by gerbal 11y ago
Limetext[1] is an actual open source sublime text. [1] https://github.com/limetext/lime
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by gerbal 11y ago
Many if not most businesses file taxes and tax forms on a monthly or quarterly basis. Between 75% and 100% of the relevant data is already in the IRS's hands. Businesses also generally don't wait until the deadline to file.
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by gerbal 12y ago
1. Closed shops are pretty much necessary for Unions to form or persist. It give Unions bargaining power. 2. Unions are democracies, in a functioning democracy what's good for the power structure should be good for the electorate.
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by gerbal 12y ago
Holy cow CJK unification is a terrible idea. Maybe if it originated from the CJK governments, it might be an OK idea, but the idea of a Western multinationals trying to save Unicode space by disregarding the distinctness of a whole language
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by gerbal 12y ago
So vote in your community. Every municipality in the Bay Area has its own problems, mostly various forms of NIMBYism. You can make a difference where you live.
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by gerbal 12y ago
IIRC there are some algorithms that can subtly alter headset feedback vs actual motion to make a VR user walk in circles instead of into a wall.

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