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by gsk22 3y ago
Are "topic icebergs" really a meme? Sure, they're an internet phenomenon, but that doesn't automatically qualify as a meme.
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by gsk22 3y ago
A microwave is a tool, and like all tools, sometimes it's a good fit for the job and sometimes not. I also prefer home cooking, but resent the implication that my cooking is inferior because I sometimes use a microwave.
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by gsk22 3y ago
While I applaud the recent-ish improvements to PHP, the biggest issue is still unresolved: the standard library is a mess. It is inconsistent as a rule -- in terms of function naming, argument order, error behaviors, etc. I think this issue
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by gsk22 3y ago
Both things can be true. Fossil fuels have certainly helped improve the lives of billions. At the same time, the negative impact can't be overstated, and only gets worse with time (the more the climate changes, the higher the future co
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by gsk22 3y ago
If you include the costs of pollution and climate change, I'm sure the "total value" of the extracted oil is well in the negative. Either way, there is no reason to let companies off the hook for their negative impacts just b
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by gsk22 3y ago
Yes, and sometimes we instead leave obsolete technology in place as a living museum. Again, surely a compromise could be found -- replace, say, 98% of the gas lamps, but leave 2% functioning in a special historic district. With smart leader
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by gsk22 3y ago
I can't tell if this is sarcastic so maybe I'm taking the bait here. Regardless, there is probably a middle ground for the lamps between "widespread use" and "extinction". It's not great that they are inef
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by gsk22 3y ago
My point is that for caching to be cost-effective, it requires long lifetimes -- especially if your # of users is relatively low. Especially for an app like Reddit with millions of subreddits. There is no monolithic "reddit"; the
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by gsk22 3y ago
Would you use a client where the most popular threads are constantly out of date due to caching? I certainly wouldn't.
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by gsk22 3y ago
You're playing a semantics game. How is a mandatory check of your residence status not a search?
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by gsk22 3y ago
If Facebook is any indication, schools have been failing to teach order of operations for decades. My older relatives are the ones I see repost these inane order-of-operation tests, getting the answer consistently wrong.
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by gsk22 3y ago
It's hard not to notice that this is essentially the same argument people made against TV ("the boob tube"). People just stare at the TV constantly. Parents let the TV raise their kids. People watch TV even on vacation. TV ha
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by gsk22 3y ago
> pretty sure “turn of sentence” does not exists in English We do say "turn of phrase" in English, which means something similar. I wonder if both have the same origin.
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by gsk22 4y ago
> I think dictating power based on war ability makes way more sense than everyone having a say simply by virtue of breathing. I honestly can't tell if you're trolling. In what world is it better to instead give all the say to o
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by gsk22 4y ago
Stylistically, pop has changed significantly even in the past 10 years. Going back 20, the differences are even more striking. Of course, chart-topping pop songs are mostly very manufactured, but that's been true for 100 years. Rock is
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by gsk22 4y ago
Well, there are no special restrictions for experimentals over populated areas, but they are still subject to all the standard restrictions (1000ft above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2000ft) and any airspace restrict
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by gsk22 4y ago
Out of curiosity, what were the videos? The algorithm (advertisers?) is certainly picky...
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by gsk22 4y ago
Oh, come on, you're being willfully ignorant if you believe there is no relation between the two. Sure, the buyback plans were made before the derailment, but the fact that plans haven't change shows how little they care about the
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by gsk22 4y ago
As someone who is very much not a lawyer -- isn't one of the major gripes about arbitration that it precludes class action suits? Certifying a class is a lot easier than thousands of individuals going through repetitive arbitrations. A
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by gsk22 4y ago
How has the ACLU lost its way? Is there a specific incident that happened? I don't follow these things too closely, but my perception is they continue to do the same kind of work they always have.
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by gsk22 4y ago
It is orders of magnitude harder to cross the US national border than between states or counties. Either way, I don't understand this idea that we shouldn't care for Americans because what if some non-Americans got in?
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by gsk22 4y ago
> There better be, in standard the meta game is basically designed in a lab and prescribed to the player base. The sheer number of bans in standard the past few years proves this isn't the case. That might be the image Wizards'
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by gsk22 4y ago
> It’s been impossible to take the game seriously from a competitive standpoint for about the past decade where they’ve continued to move further and further from the block-core annual release cycle. What does the set release cycle have
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by gsk22 4y ago
That might be fine for the HN crowd, but cloud password managers are still the best solution out there for the typical person.
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by gsk22 4y ago
Sure, if you only look at the minutae. At a high level, a relationship is a bond between two people, so it's unfair to lay all the blame solely at the feet of the other person. You've probably done things that make your partner un
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by gsk22 4y ago
The difference is the original statement was not about a specific man's experience; it was a generalization about married men's experiences as a whole. Saying "I was in an unhappy marriage and it made me a great philosopher&q
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by gsk22 4y ago
There are plenty of layers at which it's misogynistic, but the most obvious one perhaps is that it wholly centers around the man in the relationship. Why must the wife be the source of the husband's unhappiness ("nagging wife
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by gsk22 4y ago
Right on the money, except in my social circle replace WhatsApp with Snapchat. I don't think any one communication app can ever gain a true monopoly because of the social incentives to isolate groups of relationships. Having totally di
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by gsk22 4y ago
I doubt (but have no evidence to disprove) that simulated child porn causes viewers to act on those desires in the real world. It's not as if people will be "converted" to child porn by viewing these images; rather, it will b
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by gsk22 4y ago
No, everyone needs food. Not everyone is addicted to it. Maybe in the loosey-goosey "I'm addicted to chocolate" way, but not in the "I habitually over-consume despite the negative consequences" way.

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