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by gspetr 10y ago
Post-apocalyptic irradiated countries, maybe. World? Not completely. I am skeptical of China's capability of successfully nuking US, aside from perhaps the west coast.
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by gspetr 10y ago
Even so, how would one go about defeating such RNG?
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by gspetr 10y ago
Great article and HN thread about this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9570713
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by gspetr 10y ago
As was said elsewhere in the thread: It seems that the organizer of this affair does not want his hired hands to figure out what's going on, telling them instead it's some computer magic they calculate real-time.
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by gspetr 10y ago
> ...but the casino would certainly let someone next to you give you advice or help, because unless that person is counting cards they're still going to have a house edge (and it's pretty easy to tell when someone is counting,
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by gspetr 10y ago
Forgot the obligatory: - You are rich/famous.
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by gspetr 10y ago
What I did was try to stall to see if he would run out of steam and come to his senses, this was on Wednesday. That day I also made the call to a team I've interviewed with before to ask if they would still be happy to see me. They wer
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by gspetr 10y ago
> They repeat several times that React is a framework - it is not. People[1] who were there when it started seem to be OK with calling it framework: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2994373 [1]Pete Hunt, who at the tim
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by gspetr 10y ago
> I manage a dev team. I don't care how many hours they work. > I don't measure when anyone comes in or when they go home. > I care about output. I've got a personal anecdote, it's not meant as an attack on you.
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by gspetr 10y ago
Initial release March 2013; 3 years ago Hot, but not new on a JS timescale.
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by gspetr 10y ago
When I hear the word "way", I reach for my gun. Seriously though, if there has to be a certain "way" of using some technology I can't help but remember Code Complete, that you should always code into a language as o
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by gspetr 10y ago
> Expecting things to stay the way they are isn't compatible with economic growth. Legal immigration is virtually non-existent in China. There goes goes your stagnation theory.
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by gspetr 10y ago
> Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. This stand by Joel here is quite puzzling. Has Joel made a stand for the rights of gays and women in these countries? Will he make a stand for Israel? 6 out
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by gspetr 10y ago
The problem with your argument is the existence of China, to this day ruled by the Communist party of China. It's GDP grew by a factor of 25 since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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by gspetr 10y ago
Can vouch that this is a mainstream point of view in Russia. Virtually nobody takes Gorbachev seriously no matter their political views.
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by gspetr 10y ago
Free his people? The man actually walked all over the will of the people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_referendum,_1991 Those who grew up in Russia in the 90s see this differently. People had to turn to g
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by gspetr 10y ago
The normal clock they based it on did. Otherwise they should have used something more appropriate to make their point.
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by gspetr 10y ago
> (How do you like it, my little warrior, getting groped by TSA agents? You enjoy that? Do you feel filled with the spirit of "the free and the brave" when you censor yourself on social media so you won't get harrassed at
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by gspetr 10y ago
You wish to tell me that the character of people is not based on religion in a theocracy, where the ruler is literally called "Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution"? Iran executes over 1000 people every year using very barbari
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by gspetr 10y ago
Does any of this sound like it supports your viewpoint? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_thought_and_legacy_o... Since his death, politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran have been "largely defined by attem
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by gspetr 10y ago
Following your logic: they literally came before Trump was elected, so they must have done so during Obama's term. Was Obama the one who came for "immigrants, muslims, women, and leftists with this guys good conscience"?
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by gspetr 10y ago
That does not seem to be the case: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/16347/is-islam-b...
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by gspetr 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terro... In July 2012, the United States State Department released a report on terrorism around the world in 2011. The report states that "Iran remained an ac
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by gspetr 10y ago
> Yes, Mexicans are willing to do what it takes Textbook case of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by gspetr 10y ago
> Please know that the majority of people in the US do not support this policy. This seems to be false: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-taps-americans-war... In the poll, 54 percent of Americans, incl
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by gspetr 10y ago
Foundations for the case you're trying to make are not very persuasive: 3 out of 4 people on this list seem to have moved during a much friendlier Shah's regime, before the 1979 revolution which turned Iran into a theocracy.
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by gspetr 10y ago
Millions of people showed up to supposedly protest Trump, yet Hillary Clinton couldn't consistently rally even a thousand people without help from A-rank celebrities.
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by gspetr 10y ago
Sure. All the KO's in the House[0] Senate[1] and gubernatorial[2] elections have them shaking in their boots. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Represe... [1] https://en.wikipedia
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by gspetr 10y ago
> It's barely been a week and it's already seven, I imagine the entire set of Muslim countries can't take more than a month or two. Without further evidence that this is a stable pattern, you appear to be succumbing to thi
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by gspetr 10y ago
If I may ask, what exactly were you and your friends hoping to accomplish by participating? What were your goals?

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