glass_of_water

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by glass_of_water 10y ago
You are presenting a false dichotomy. The choice is not between everyone having children and no one having children. Stallman even addresses your objection in his post: > I don't wish that nobody had any children; I don't want
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by glass_of_water 10y ago
You have to drive hours north to go skiing though and even then the hills are pretty tiny.
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by glass_of_water 10y ago
It's possible the coup was staged as an excuse to purge the opposition and seize more power. Edit: changed "quite likely" to "possible" to address valid criticism.
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by glass_of_water 10y ago
> ... curious why solnik didn't mention Sequel ... From the article: > It would be unfair not to mention that Sequel showed up already around the same time and till this day it’s being used way less than ActiveRecord despite bein
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by glass_of_water 11y ago
The force of gravity in low earth orbit is about 91.7% of the force at sea level.
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by glass_of_water 11y ago
Square Cash recently introduced the ability to send money w/ your credit card (before it was just debit). Square takes 3% of those transactions. Also, I think they charge 1.9% for non-personal use when sending money w/ a debit c
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by glass_of_water 11y ago
> $200k in SV is comparable to $70k in most other cities. What's the basis for that estimation? Given California's income tax and higher rent, I'd say that the difference in cost of living is $20-30k, not $130k.
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by glass_of_water 11y ago
I didn't realize until working at a larger company that lots of "news" articles about products are the result of a company's comms team reaching out directly to the authors of such articles and telling them what to write
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by glass_of_water 11y ago
I wonder if you can improve your visualization ability. I stopped reading novels for fun about 5-6 years ago but this past year I've started reading at least one book every couple of weeks, and I feel that my ability to visualize thing
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by glass_of_water 11y ago
> ... decades of dealing with the public and the public servants have led to an accumulation of rules, regulations, practices and traditions clinging to everything like barnacles to a medieval man o’ war. I strongly feel that "garba
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by glass_of_water 11y ago
What do you want to learn and why? I think you'll get better advice if you're more specific.
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by glass_of_water 11y ago
It could be that an internal service is returning an error, which the externally facing server is not handling properly.
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by glass_of_water 11y ago
Does the cell height change during this animation?
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by glass_of_water 12y ago
More maintainable and idiomatic code.
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by glass_of_water 12y ago
What kind of unsupported/false advice have you heard other doctors give patients?
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by glass_of_water 13y ago
In that case, users may notice a performance decrease in spreadsheets for images from certain websites.
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by glass_of_water 13y ago
I don't think this has any chance of competing with Steam. Though it may offer a more polished experience, it requires much more effort to use. Why would a gamer manually type in what they're playing when Steam automatically bro
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by glass_of_water 13y ago
One obvious trick is that people could list items in poor condition to get the "fair condition" price from FOBO when it doesn't sell.
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by glass_of_water 13y ago
I think this could be a deathblow to Rap Genius. I performed the following searches in an incognito tab and could not find rapgenius in the first two pages of results (I did not look beyond the first two pages): "rap god eminem lyrics&
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by glass_of_water 13y ago
If all you want to do is execute your own js on a certain web page, you can just use greasemonkey or another userscript extension for your browser instead of writing a whole new extension each for each script. Greasemonkey also appears to p
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by glass_of_water 13y ago
I actually really like the interface of pressing a number to instantly open a search result.
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by glass_of_water 13y ago
I think Google Search is quite relevant, because it aggregates information from all of these sources. You don't have to think about which site would give you the best search results for a given query; Google does that for you.
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by glass_of_water 13y ago
What does the Syrian government hope to gain from using chemical weapons? Is the edge that they gain from using chemical weapons worth the increased potential for military intervention by other countries?
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by glass_of_water 13y ago
I think this addiction can be fine as long as its not self destructive and not detrimental to your personal happiness.
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by glass_of_water 13y ago
I'm not sure what you were trying to accomplish, but you simply left me confused.
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by glass_of_water 13y ago
Part of the reason people want to work with the "coolest" technologies is that they want skills that will be relevant/desirable by a wide range of employers. If the skills they pick up working for you are not relevant in other areas, then
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by glass_of_water 13y ago
Yeah BFS/DFS are O(n) for graphs and trees.
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by glass_of_water 13y ago
Pics with the disco ball!
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by glass_of_water 13y ago
I think you and the author are saying the same thing. It's not that Bill Gates wasn't passionate about programming, it's just that he didn't spend 10,000 hours programming just to be rich and famous.
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by glass_of_water 13y ago
No, read the article. He died before the accusations.

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