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by hawkice 11y ago
It breaks my heart but the first shots in that war were fired long ago, during the Cultural Revolution, when all humor had to be pro-"Revolutionary ".
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by hawkice 11y ago
So, it turns out this is a fairly clever (remember kids: clever doesn't mean good) of discrediting people who want to be seen as either conscientious objectors or principled. Make them go back on their word, often in public. But the vi
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by hawkice 11y ago
I use the --cf-invalidate flag(s) with s3cmd -- but for something with the usage patterns of tumblr, might be better to use a * invalidation so you don't have to pay too much for them. 24 hour invalidation would be confusing for tumblr
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by hawkice 11y ago
I was familiar with the lotteries (didn't participate -- I just put my receipts in the charity buckets or the trash) but had NO IDEA this was why. I just assumed it was because the culture is just much more amenable to gambling (which
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by hawkice 11y ago
I've read this so many times I am starting to think this makes sense to the people saying it: "Trump may be [insert whatever], and [policy X] is ridiculous, and [statement Y] went over the line. But [X] won't ever happen, so
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by hawkice 11y ago
You confuse my meaning. I am against my own personal use of drugs, but would (with some caveats) support the legalization of all substances in any quantity, particularly prescription medications. EDIT: my position, which would typically be
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by hawkice 11y ago
I didn't equate them. Saying "I don't think people should drive drunk" doesn't mean I want the legal limit blood alcohol level reduced to epsilon.
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by hawkice 11y ago
> In short: I'm the most vanilla, square, anti-drug person you can find. I don't want to use them, and I think other people would be better off if they reduced their usage as well. You say you don't understand why drugs ar
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by hawkice 11y ago
Let's not underestimate how many startups do things to keep afloat that are black-and-white illegal. I've been ordered to do something illegal to help keep the company afloat. It's tremendously upsetting for me but was treate
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by hawkice 11y ago
This is straight off the top of my head, but are you referring to 计算机？ I have always considered that best translated as 'calculator', but obviously it is used in a lot of places where the English wouldn't be calculator. Of al
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by hawkice 11y ago
Or, looking at even tighter bounds of GDP per working-age person, today the US is at ~$82k/year, and Japan ~$64k/year -- a slightly larger gap. I prefer this metric when talking about "the economy" in the sense that most
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by hawkice 11y ago
The Baltic Dry Index chart IS zero-based. It is at an all time low, that's not just some weird illusion.
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by hawkice 11y ago
Many big-ticket items are not transacted through a sales funnel beginning in google ads, even for individuals (businesses tend to have more formal processes). Houses, cars, etc. are largely purchased by going to a specific place (digital or
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by hawkice 11y ago
>You could keep that corporate job, build your credit, and then buy a McDonald's or a gas station or an apartment building. There's no reason to make a dent in the universe if all you want to do is put your kids through college
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by hawkice 11y ago
?? Why not? If you can make money and help good people, what's the X-factor? Obviously I like investing in products, but I see it more as a way to keep utilization high without busywork. Given, YC might not like it, but I bet they like
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by hawkice 11y ago
Many businesses will sell consulting services and a product, transitioning away from consulting if the product supplies regular income and is more time-effective to invest in.
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by hawkice 11y ago
I was extremely worried to see this headline. Patreon is opening up a new path towards professionalism (a 10x improvement over e.g. YouTube, and that was a pretty massive deal), and if it goes under a lot of human potential will be shuttere
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by hawkice 11y ago
I'm not sure being ignorant of your own ignorance is enough to promote yourself out of 'idiot' status. I don't think these people are dumb, just frustrated. But your phrasing was curious to me.
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by hawkice 11y ago
Suffice it to say I was making $1X0k/year in a second tier American market (Chicago/Seattle/LA you know the deal), so I didn't feel underpaid per se -- more that, for those weeks when I was missing a lot of sleep, I got
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by hawkice 11y ago
> There were multiple weeks of uncompensated 24/7 on-call rotations throughout the year, many for stressful legacy applications the company refused to invest resources to actually maintain for real. I am a 20-something who was woken
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by hawkice 11y ago
Not really, it used to be that they would just pick the first non-conflicting transaction they saw, although iirc that wasn't a "rule of the protocol" so much as how-the-software-worked.
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by hawkice 11y ago
Sounds like 2nd Ave Sagas thinks a world class city should have a world class public transit system. That is my main thought, having been a user of Chicago and New York public transport: Why is this so much worse than e.g. Hong Kong? WiFi i
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by hawkice 11y ago
The NHS seems to have approved it at ~17% discount (but may be towards a higher risk group because it is only available as a first-line medication if you have a chromosomal anomaly -- I am not sure of the relevance of this but it seems it&#
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by hawkice 11y ago
Extremely low cost -- considering how easy it is to pop in a new private method, no big deal. Seconds, and not that frequently needed. Extremely low benefit -- I wouldn't even notice, and most actually confusing things are bigger scale
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by hawkice 11y ago
I used to stick religiously to <=15, in C#. This was detrimental to understanding only twice, and a fairly small issue even then. Not a ridiculous standard for interns who don't have an excellent refactor-sense yet, so I didn't
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by hawkice 11y ago
Explained in the talk that Taft is the Greatest US President by Volume.
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by hawkice 11y ago
Not a bad way of organizing code, though, at least for relative beginners like me. I'm sure there are more clever things to do, or things that aren't quite possible to do reasonably or efficiently with independent small passes, bu
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by hawkice 11y ago
> Getting a kid into adulthood with perfect or near-perfect eyesight could well be a greater gift than helping them be an academic superstar. Isn't there a widely available patch for low-$X00, and a permanent fix in adulthood for no
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by hawkice 11y ago
Ruby -- object data is all private, and the reader/writer/attr things just make the getters and setters for you.
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by hawkice 11y ago
I've been in interviews where over half the questions were legit non-programming puzzles, and the rest were algorithms. Most interviews are heavy on tool-specific questions. I've had only two interviews where I've been asked

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