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Also FTA: "So it made sense to choose a color that everyone could see and not mistake for black." That's not how colorblindness works.
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It's be great to have Book You'd Hate as a service. I have a very faint memory of some reading list site doing that way back in the day, but I can't recall exactly what or where.
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It's hard to say, but what this definitely does not show is that "starting university classes at 11am or later would improve learning." Rather it shows that, on average students, who have classes at 8 or 9 are most alert and
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Yes, but I don't understand this comment. Were you mislead by the title into thinking it was a visceral urgent article about concurrency that included a vision of nuclear holocaust?
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Oh, hell yes. 1. Make a sketch of your choice 2. Pick the first AutoDraw suggestion (or randomly one of the first N) 3. Feed that to google image search 4a. Google's best guess for this image is a prompt for the next human sketch. Re
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It thought my horse was pliers, a camel, or a hand gesture: http://imgur.com/a/JWifP
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Yes, that is the point of this tool, and it probably beats slapping together a bunch of clipart based on google image search, but I was hoping it was something more than that. The tagline is misleading because it's not really helping a
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Neat. Does Roswell do all this without modifying your current lisp/emacs/slime/quicklisp if you already have them set up the way you like but want to play around with it? And is there something like Roswell for Clojure?
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"cultural fit"
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> Well, anything is people poison if you take enough. Yes, but that's not interesting or really relevant. As someone else pointed out, Warfarin is people poison if you take the same amount that's normally used to poison rats .
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Warfarin is also people poison if you take enough. An appropriate clinical dose is a few milligrams.
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Junk mail is a source of revenue for the USPS
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The "World Happiness Report" is mentioned by name twice in the article: http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2017/
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> See you over at Digg! Weak. I'll be at Slashdot!
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It sounds as if you like Reddit and Reddit likes you. Maybe instead of getting salty because HN doesn't appreciate puerile humor, you should just take it back to Reddit.
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> Suppose you have a pattern of behavior around me that offends and discomforts me. If I speak out, and complain, and you continue, you are probably being abusive (although not necessarily.) On the otherhand, if I make no attempt to expr
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Because I don't want my car stopping when a panhandler/hitchhiker/etc is trying to wave me down, this is actually a much more complicated problem than simply recognizing gestures.
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Ah yes, I'd confused you with @JoeAltmaier. Good takeaway :)
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> Near the bottom, "Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." I have always read that as meaning that a commenter should resist commenting about having one's own
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Where is the policy "don't discuss voting in threads" outlined? My personal policy is never to downvote just for simple disagreement. I upvote comments that I disagree with if I think they're making a quality contributio
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> Well, one answer is to create stronger federal legislation ... That is one answer, but it's not a very encouraging or empowering one. The people currently in charge of the US federal government seem less likely than the average go
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> In cities people typically have a grocery store within 5 to 10 minutes walk from home. That really depends on the city, and on which part of the city one lives in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert Becau
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I don't terribly mind the "bait" -- it's an attempt to be topical. But the article is shallow garbage. There's plenty of other commentary on Orwell that would better serve as the basis for a discussion. Two examples
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The post quotes it, but does not mention it.
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This is such a strangely sparse comment. Can you say something about why you recommend this article?
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Would it have killed the author of this post to name the essays he's quoting? "... good prose is like a windowpane." - Why I write , 1946 "Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties,
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> There is far too much conviction in the world. Are you sure? :)
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I dislike OOP. It's my least favorite paradigm. The "objects-first" approach to teaching programming was such a bad idea. All that said, there is a place for OOP. And while a world without OOP would be a better place than a
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Just so we're clear, I think the right strategy for anyone who could reasonably expect to be targeted (journalists, certain types of researchers, people with funny names, those who've sent mean tweets about the POTUS, ...) is to a
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> Have there been any incidences of people who signed up for CBP's Global Entry program having trouble? Yes. The ArsTechnica article we're discussing here fails to mention it, but Sidd Bikkannavar is enrolled in Global Entry:

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