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by gortok 10y ago
You can't trust that the user has JavaScript enabled; and since you can't trust user input anyway, you'd have to do this server side.
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by gortok 10y ago
The BLS only counts the people who aren't in prison, and are over 16 as the Labor Force participation rate. You aren't counted if you are thought of by employers as too young or too old to work; so there are a substantial number
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by gortok 10y ago
The US is closing in on "Full Employment", if by Full Employment, you mean: January 2008 Labor Participation Rate: 66.2% July 2016 Labor Participation Rate: 62.7% 62.7% participation means 94 Million Americans are not working. (So
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by gortok 10y ago
Hard to have a voting mechanism on Github. Stack Overflow isn't really suited for this either. They try to do it with this question, but even that is hard to do: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/562303/the-
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by gortok 10y ago
For WSJ if you click the 'web' link above you'll get taken to the Google result page for this article.
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by gortok 10y ago
No. The price for a digital subscription for the WaPo is too high to justify paying for it; especially when I don't read the site every day; I only read it whenever it's linked to from Twitter or Hacker News. I'd gladly suppo
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by gortok 10y ago
Tip: If you've run out of 'free articles' to read this month, you can open an incognito window (or 'private browsing') on your favorite browser and paste the link in. The 'web' button works for the WSJ, b
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by gortok 10y ago
WSJ reading tip: if you type the title into Google, you can click that link and read the WSJ article for free.
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Events are not Cesspools of Harassment(medium.com)
3 points by gortok 10y ago|0 comments
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Open plan offices are basically terrible in every way (2015)(tommorris.org)
18 points by gortok 10y ago|1 comments
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by gortok 10y ago
I don't believe so, the brief covers this claim: > Thus, this case should not be confused with the recent litigation over the Java computer language. As observed by the Federal Circuit, that case “was not a situation where Oracle wa
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Lawyer Submits Brief Partially in Klingon for Paramount Language Lawsuit(drive.google.com)
128 points by gortok 10y ago|54 comments
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by gortok 11y ago
Since the site is currently experiencing a Database error, here's the link to the google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2Zf0Pqw...
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by gortok 11y ago
Jewelbots: http://www.jewelbots.com Friendship Bracelets that teach kids how to code. Currently working on the firmware for our production bracelets, and then will be working on the Arduino API and bootloader to allow our Jewel
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User Apparently Suspended by Twitter for Reply FemFreq Tweet about GamerGate(twitter.com)
1 points by gortok 11y ago|0 comments
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The Sad State of Entitled Web Developers(medium.com)
14 points by gortok 11y ago|2 comments
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by gortok 11y ago
One reason this is brought up is this recent Op-ed in the NY Times about enacting a Window Tax: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/opinion/make-them-pay-for-...
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Window Tax in Great Britain(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by gortok 11y ago|1 comments
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Boy Babydolls and Princess Builders: Rethinking the Pink Aisle(medium.com)
1 points by gortok 11y ago|0 comments
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Still can't get udemy to remove my pirated courses they're selling(twitter.com)
37 points by gortok 11y ago|1 comments
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Highflying Startups like Uber and Snapchat are getting humbled(mashable.com)
1 points by gortok 11y ago|0 comments
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Seriously? A PreK-Eighth Grade School Can Build a Satellite?(jewelbots.tumblr.com)
3 points by gortok 11y ago|0 comments
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by gortok 11y ago
Yes, it does. Our current system is based on corporatism (labor unions are not exempt from this behavior); where those with power and connections help make the laws that keep them in power and from competition. In a libertarian society (or
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by gortok 11y ago
One of the issues that are continually brought up by 'regulation' is that there are hundreds of thousands of pages of regulations in the Federal Register that are not enacted by Congress, but enacted by the agency that does the re
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by gortok 11y ago
I would love for you to cite where in the Drone Papers it says that the 'unintended targets' were 'foot soldiers' instead of civilians. Of course, you can't; since the military automatically classifies any "mil
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by gortok 11y ago
Some libertarians support the Basic Income Guarantee only if our only choice is between our current system and abolishing it for the Basic Income Guarantee. I can't speak for all libertarianism, but generally speaking libertarians
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by gortok 11y ago
> It makes you a tragic accident. "We're not going to apologize for this, because you hung out with someone who was on our list, who we think was in this area, and so clearly you deserved being bombed by a drone. What? You bo
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by gortok 11y ago
There are lots of important points in this set of articles, but a few stand point: - Congress has not defined what "assassination" means; and since they haven't defined it, the Executive Order 12333 is effectively meaningless
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by gortok 11y ago
This is a great way to teach gerrymandering. It also illustrates the problem with 'Party X is evil, Party Y is not.' Political parties (stripping away all else) are groups of people who identify with one another. Take that one s
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Why beef is the new SUV(cnn.com)
1 points by gortok 11y ago|0 comments

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