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by hashkb 8y ago
> But anything observable in the world of reasonable energies (up to whatever modern colliders achieve) can be predicted with existing theories. This is classic "world is flat" / geocentric argument. Breakthroughs are imp
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by hashkb 8y ago
> It seems the field has advanced so far that EVEN IF new discoveries emerge, they would be of no practical value Particle physicists would disagree. A complete understanding of quantum mechanics, squared with general relativity, is ver
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by hashkb 8y ago
Many developers view git (and other "helper" tools like text editors, linters, grep, SQL, ... everything but their programming language) as second-class citizens. The way to teach these tools is to make them primary citizens in yo
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by hashkb 8y ago
The bullet, falling from the same height as a crashing drone, is at least as lethal if it strikes a human. There is no "safe weight" for a falling object... but there may be a "safe momentum".
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by hashkb 8y ago
The point I was trying to make is that the gov't has no clear principles on what is dangerous; just politics and money. Deregulating drone operation seems to me like something you could choose to make very frightening, if you were in
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by hashkb 8y ago
Also... weight is not a useful metric. A 1lb rock has very different ballistic properties than a 1lb feather. A typical 9mm bullet weighs 0.01lbs.
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by hashkb 8y ago
This seems inconsistent, coming from the administration of a president who is hyper-concerned about terrorism and tends to overstate the security implications of just about everything. Close the borders, but open the skies?
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by hashkb 8y ago
> In the 80's it was considered fact that homosexuality This is untrue. You could say "it was considered by some/many/bigoted people" but I doubt it was ever true that the same percentage of people with relevant
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by hashkb 8y ago
Are you saying you don't believe it's unhealthy to be obese?
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by hashkb 8y ago
You can use an ad blocker to block FS.
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by hashkb 8y ago
This is a real shame. And shameless... I want to keep using Google smart things but I don't want to give up my high quality analog gear. Being able to Chromecast to a channel on my band's mixing board is super handy for practice.
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by hashkb 8y ago
The web equivalent of this is emailing registered users. Works fine, always has. This trend of taking away control of when and how users are interrupted is very abusive. We (developers) should really be trying to make everything less lik
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by hashkb 8y ago
If the purpose was to make a point about app stores being walled gardens, then it could have been made more effectively. Edit: and you're going to be buying at least one domain name anyway, if you have a Serious Business. The magnitud
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by hashkb 8y ago
Addicts aren't addicted to the dopamine; they're addicted to the thing they do that causes their brains to release dopamine. There's a healthy way to get that dopamine rush; just as there is a healthy way to use social media
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by hashkb 8y ago
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/vitality/201205/face... tl;dr> FB addicts are chasing the same dopamine rush as cocaine and heroin addicts.
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by hashkb 8y ago
That's irrelevant to this argument. The amount you have to pay an addict to stop using something does not give you the value of that thing. Gambling should be easy. Casino gambling has an obvious negative value to gamblers because mo
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by hashkb 8y ago
This is spot on; likely compulsively downvoted by folks in denial about their FB addictions.
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by hashkb 8y ago
This is the same as saying that the value of cigarettes is the same as what it would cost to pay a smoker to stop smoking. With Facebook users, it can't be ignored that, in not all but many cases, we are talking about behavior that ran
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by hashkb 8y ago
This is trite. Stop learning frameworks with your personal time, let someone pay you to learn them on the job. Then wonder why you are underpaid. The more you know, the more valuable you are. That includes frameworks and libraries. Using yo
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by hashkb 8y ago
Have you worked with SXML or Reagent or anything like that? You're not wrong, but your comment makes me wonder if maybe you just haven't seen a more elegant solution than string interpolation.
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by hashkb 8y ago
This article made me go back and play with https://ncase.me/trust/ my favorite society simulator.
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by hashkb 8y ago
What you say makes sense. But we are talking about the USA.
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by hashkb 8y ago
Remember, before they hit the street and became politicized, many drugs (MDMA, LSD, and a variety of other psychoactives) were produced by major pharmaceutical companies and used by therapists at major universities. There is no legitimate r
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by hashkb 8y ago
I highly doubt this is true. More likely, people won't officially admit how much they hate each other. But all you have to do is listen to any group talk about an absent friend to hear reliably negative feedback.
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by hashkb 8y ago
Linux + i3. I don't even have a lock screen. Nobody can open Chrome.
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by hashkb 8y ago
> on guitar is much more difficult than piano. Yes of course! Classical guitar is on the level with all the other instruments. Those guitarists, of course, can all read music. > some sort of counterpoint Could you even write counter
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by hashkb 8y ago
You're probably right about physical technique. As a lifetime guitarist, I'm certainly not going to disagree. But we're talking about notation. Guitarists avoid learning it (and invent crap like tab) because of the many tr
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by hashkb 8y ago
If you throw the entire event yourself, you get to sell tickets however you want. Some bands that use TM have enough leverage to do presales or lotteries for their fans before the main sale on TM. Most acts, at most venues, are forced to u
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by hashkb 8y ago
Sure. That'd probably work. That's why the article is so explosive... it shows that TM will never implement anything to make its service fair to the actual fans.
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by hashkb 8y ago
Before Ticketmaster, you could go to or call the box office and reliably get tickets to shows in your own city. Now I have to buy them from scalpers in Canada. Ticketmaster artificially expanded the market and used its leverage to force v

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