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by hodwik 11y ago
>"Treat tabs more like temporary bookmarks (and thus allow bookmark actions to be used with them like search (full-text), (batch) re-naming, arranging in folders, sorting)." That's an awesome idea, does any browser have th
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I've heard it claimed a number of times that Ruby/Python are SmallTalk-esque. Can anyone speak to that? In what ways is that so? I've also read Peter Norvig claim that Python is a LISP with C-Syntax, so I'm not sure what
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Off topic, but did you know the word "forte" in that context is pronounced "fort" not "for-tay"? I just learned that recently.
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I just paid $250 dollars for a 4 letter domain today (igzi.com) after that post, and now that rule is broken? Today stinks.
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404!!1
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In the old days everywhere you went was tight-knit. These days, only really obscure concerns remain tight-knit.
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I've yet to meet a smart person at a dive bar, and that is not for want of trying.
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I keep thinking this same thing myself, and have tried to work the IRL-angle, but when you're an adult no one really wants to meet you. Up until the early 00s, I used to hang out at a coffee/cigarette bar where I knew just about e
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Exactly, the fact that there are more people (at "HN, slashdot, reddit, many IRC channels and many other places") means that you don't really know anyone. Remember back when you'd join a new forum, and they'd have a
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The weirdos are all still out there. Something has definitely changed though, the internet communities of the past used to be very VERY tight-knit. There just wasn't that many of us, so you'd talk to people unlike you. I knew my
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If you're moving to a city you'll be fine.
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Are you sure? The handful of times I've inquired to an acquaintance about freakishly white teeth, they've always said it was just because they took really good care of their teeth, didn't drink coffee or soda, used whitening
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Teeth whitening is very cheap, you can buy teeth whiteners over the counter in the US, and most toothpastes you can buy in the store have whitening agents in them.
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A lot of Asian cultures actually have a culture around teeth blackening. http://www.traveldudes.org/travel-tips/tooth-blackening-forg...
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I think that Marshall McLuhan's "the medium is the message" gets across my position here. There is in Internet media something which engenders a short attention span, an addiction to novelty. Something which pushes breadth-
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Couldn't they just... not want to use the internet? I intentionally didn't use the internet for a few years after college. I found it too distracting, and just had too much I wanted to do in the real world to waste my time. I got
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>"Web ASM [...] installing the interpreter on the browser, for everybody to use... Then we can create Flash all over again." That's ridiculous. Is Javascript "like flash" because most browsers ship a several MB i
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Shoot, I was hoping this was going to be about Jeremy England.
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It's clear that you've completely missed my substantive position, in fact, in a number of places you're supporting it. My "about half" number was intended to include Social Security, I misspoke. The point isn't
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The US spends about half ($1 Trillion) of our federal taxes directly on Healthcare programs, between Medicaid and Medicare. We can afford to do that because of broad private-industry spending in R&D, Universities, Telecom, and other fo
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That does not measure how effective that spending is, or how burdensome for the individual. The US has higher taxes as a percentage of GDP, but we also have significantly more effective spending of said tax revenue. That lowers the 'ef
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That is, if the Chinese government was short-sighted enough to tax it at their current rates. I can't imagine that they don't see the benefit to the laissez-faire economy. They just can't admit that there's a benefit, it
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Credit Suisse had some hard data to put the number at 30%. I can't find the actual study, but here's an article on it -- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-08-12/china-s-we... However, as R
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The Chinese economy is huge, and as a nation it is undervalued, but there is no way for these stocks to actually provide coverage to that portion of the Chinese economy. Too much of that money is off the books, too many of its employees are
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> " having Aspergers doesn't make you an asshole." My experience of people (medically diagnosed) with Asperger's does not support that statement.
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Asperger's is a real diagnosis.
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I don't know where you are, but in the US that's just about average -- http://m.nreionline.com/office/once-again-office-vacancy-rat...
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40% of a small number is still a small number. Lightening strikes 100% more men than women.
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Cuba has all the benefits of a European nation. They've had major Universities for many centuries. They've had one of the highest literacy rates in the region for most of their existence. They have a tiny population (11m). And mo
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by hodwik 11y ago
Exactly, DC is quickly becoming a public transit city. In this case the building was more than a mile from the closest metro station. Doesn't sound like a lot, but try walking it every day in DC summer heat. Not fun.

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