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by glesica 12y ago
Not necessarily. If you have an index into the posts and you want all the comments for a given article you can find the post quickly and the comments are just one hop away from that. Beyond that it's just like SQL (order by, limit, etc
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by glesica 12y ago
So a business can't act preemptively to keep users from boycotting? There are several comments in this thread that suggest people shy away from using Rap Genius because of perceived bad behavior on the part of the founders. It is quite
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by glesica 12y ago
Or just the market responding?
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by glesica 12y ago
Speaking from personal experience, so YMMV, the trickiest thing about moving from a relational or document DB mindset to a graph DB mindset is remembering that you can store information implicitly in the structure of the graph. So, as a ver
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by glesica 12y ago
Agreed, that is an important distinction to make.
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by glesica 12y ago
But there isn't always (or even usually) a "mothership" from what we've seen lately. Look at the Prenda Law saga (Ars Technica has some great write-ups). They can't even figure out who officially owns the company, i
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by glesica 12y ago
Ahh, you and another commenter pointed out multiple targets, I supposed that alone would be reason to need a functioning crew after the detonation. It's interesting stuff.
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by glesica 12y ago
> so that they'd have one good eye to operate the plane after (atomic) bomb detonation. Serious question, this is quite interesting to me... why? I mean, if the Cold War had gone "Hot" there likely wouldn't ha
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by glesica 12y ago
Full-time is generally 40 hours per week in the US, although there are always exceptions. The vast majority of "office" jobs, however, insist on 40 hours per week.
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by glesica 12y ago
To be fair, I worked nearly full-time for several years (37.5 hours per week, government job which also had a ton of paid time off) and then I've been back in school for the last couple years, which pays me a stipend. I also work part-
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by glesica 12y ago
I tried the new maps when they first released it. Clearly the search was different in some ways because simple directions searches simple wouldn't work. Since the, obviously, they have ironed out those bugs. But in the intervening year
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by glesica 12y ago
> "...work is valuable in itself." This is it. We have been fed a lie that "work" has intrinsic value and that people who don't want to work constantly are somehow inferior or immoral. Worse, "work&q
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by glesica 12y ago
The git history wasn't her most "concrete" charge of sexism. Your attitude demonstrates that you have no idea what sexism is. Her most "concrete" charge of sexism was the charge that Theresa Preston-Werner, with her
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by glesica 12y ago
Where does it say that? It says he and his wife encouraged other employees to work on her startup, but it says nothing about the other findings relating to a "range of other employees".
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by glesica 12y ago
So you think the Preston-Werners treated male employees that way? Sexism isn't just boys being mean to girls. It is when women are treated differently or targeted for some sort of special consideration or evaluation, just as appears to
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by glesica 12y ago
Is it also a part of that "classic" scenario for one of the founders of the company to be forced out based on the results of an investigation that found "confrontational conduct, disregard of workplace complaints, insensitivi
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by glesica 13y ago
That's an excellent point. I wish I could think of an alternative that would be an improvement, though. The "benevolent, incorruptible dictator" is kind of a cliche in the political science world I think.
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by glesica 13y ago
I don't know about that, I'd take European paid time off even if it meant giving up half my income. Who cares if I have two cars if I have no where to drive to except work?
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by glesica 13y ago
> There is no conclusive evidence that rising inequality will have bad consequences on say growth - it might. I agree that there is probably more research to be done, but I think it is important not to forget about the social and
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by glesica 13y ago
I don't know that it is. What is controversial seems to be what comes next. Do those capitalists get to use those fortunes to wield massive political power? Do they get to make rules that benefits themselves even to the detriment of th
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by glesica 13y ago
Has it? I've tried two recent versions of Kubuntu (14.04 being the most recent) and found both of them so buggy and unpolished as to be practically unusable. I want to love KDE so badly because I love so much about it (the apps are pow
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by glesica 13y ago
"...tweak tool or extensions." To me, this is the problem. I don't want to rely on extensions that will potentially break when Gnome updates or be abandoned when their developers move on to other things. I also don't wan
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by glesica 13y ago
Can you explain why market makers are necessary? Why doesn't the system just pair "true" buyers and sellers"? If there's a spread and neither is willing to bridge that spread, then the transaction doesn't happe
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by glesica 13y ago
But unicode strings are the default in Python 3, so they could have kept the 'u' syntax and just let it be a no-op. I think that's what was meant.
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by glesica 13y ago
Just because the game was rigged already doesn't mean that rigging it even more doesn't make a difference.
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by glesica 13y ago
You can't, in good faith, argue that Iraq was about WMD proliferation. First, we didn't go to war with Pakistan or India to prevent them from getting nukes, despite the fact that the historical tension between those countries mean
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by glesica 13y ago
> ...went into the thinking of the political leaders back then. But if the things you cite don't make logical sense, then those things must not have been actual considerations, or those considerations were made in bad faith.
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by glesica 13y ago
(C) Saddam Hussein had irrefutably demonstrated that he was willing to use weapons of mass destruction in pursuit of his ambitions: he had used chemical weapons both on Iraqi Kurds and on Iranians (and let's not forget his brutal conq
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by glesica 13y ago
Starting with GW-BASIC in third grade... soon moved to QBASIC, which had a fancy GUI (if you can call it that). I was lucky to have a parent who knew some programming. I was the only person my age I knew who could program a computer until I
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by glesica 13y ago
> * assuming that you use the same model as we do, it is impossible to support Prop 8 unless you also think that gay people don't deserve to be treated as people This is basically accurate. It is not possible to support Prop

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