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by iak8god 11y ago
Yep. I found this story horribly and very immaturely expressed, but it may still serve well as a cautionary tale.
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by iak8god 11y ago
Can you recommend a tutorial that uses idiomatic Emacs Lisp and covers both "why" and "how" of Emacs Lisp at a level appropriate for someone who's used CL and Emacs a lot but has never noticed that he needs ELisp?
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by iak8god 11y ago
My grandmother is also experiencing declining mobility. She'd probably break her hip getting on this thing, or hopping off to stop it.
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by iak8god 11y ago
I find it incredibly sad that the only way to make people care about the destruction of wild bees is to talk about how much economic benefit they provide.
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by iak8god 11y ago
> I call this my "Radiohead metric" I don't use Pandora very much any more but when I did I'd just create a station based on a single artist and then usually listen to it without further interaction. All my stations
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by iak8god 11y ago
I haven't tried it but keep hearing of BeWelcome as a place aiming at "CS but without the crap" http://www.bewelcome.org
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by iak8god 11y ago
> the US worker is ..effed Work is almost over. Good riddance to it. Why shouldn't everyone benefit from the fruits of full automation? > We are going to have ... the super low wage unskilled laborers in a race to the bottom, tr
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by iak8god 11y ago
The Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991.
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by iak8god 11y ago
I don't have any belief in the supernatural, but this suggestion intrigues me. Can you suggest an intro at the level of "Chaos Magic for Dummies"?
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by iak8god 11y ago
> in real dollar terms Prime still saves me a boatload of money Me too, which is why I keep it. But I do wish they'd offer a Prime Lite with just the shipping.
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by iak8god 11y ago
As longtime Prime member and a resident of a metro area that doesn't make the cut (and is almost certainly not in the next round), I can't help feeling like I'm subsidizing this service for those who live in the right place.
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by iak8god 11y ago
> the idea that knowing somebody's SSN basically puts you in control of their life and gives you the ability to ruin it is unbelievably ridiculous Especially since they get passed all around like that's not the case by employer
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by iak8god 11y ago
Fellow introvert here. I find that on days I go to the office, I am just done dealing with humanity long before the end of the day. All of my energy and will to socialize is drained from me, and it's wasted on largely meaningless int
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by iak8god 11y ago
benbreen just missed the "-3" at the end, or maybe even removed it intentionally thinking it was a link to the third page of the article. It is interesting that the date is ignored in the URL. It looks like the part after the date
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by iak8god 11y ago
I'm guessing gd1 is just slightly confused by recent reports that Antarctic sea ice extend has reached new highs. I easily imagine how this has been spun in certain circles to give the impression that > We have incredible new sea
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by iak8god 11y ago
Don't run my own domain, but I'm thinking of creating a second gmail address for this: * myrealaddressregistration@gmail.com * use myrealaddressregistration+websitename@gmail.com per site * use a filter to forward to myrealaddress
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by iak8god 11y ago
I'm sure if they'd known this was going to personally disappoint you, the broke and broken people of occupied postwar Germany would have put a little more thought into aesthetics. Snark aside: have a look at Dresden, which was com
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by iak8god 12y ago
This is only a concern with distilled spirits.
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by iak8god 12y ago
My problem with the PATRIOT Act and with this (USA Freedom Act) is that the name is completely uninformative and seems designed only to get acceptance from people who have no idea what it is. Why not call it the USA Less Spying Act?
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by iak8god 12y ago
What do they think of the USA PATRIOT Act?
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by iak8god 12y ago
Ugh, that was my first thought when I got to the end too. After all that work and expense, I was hoping he'd installed a ferromagnetic backing and was going to use tiny magnets as markers.
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by iak8god 12y ago
Including a photo with resume/cv is much more common in Europe than the US.
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by iak8god 12y ago
Let's assume for the sake of argument that all killings by police in 2014 were completely random and 100% malicious. Then my chances of being killed by police in the US during that year were about double my chances of getting hit by
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by iak8god 12y ago
> I'm all for failing classes pervasive cheating. There isn't enough social pressure in schools to name and shame cheaters. I'm all for failing individuals who cheat, including every single student in a class if that'
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by iak8god 12y ago
Wow you're not kidding. Out of print, no PDFs anywhere. I've placed an inter-library loan request, as my soul could use some cleansing.
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by iak8god 12y ago
I think we mostly agree. I'd need much more information to decide whether I think US law enforcement is more bloodthirsty . The fact is our cops are much more heavily armed. They have to be because our criminals are too.
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by iak8god 12y ago
Around 1,000 people were killed by police in the US last year[1]. I assume that in the vast majority of those cases the use of lethal force was justified to protect the officer(s) or bystanders. Then there are the mistakes. In what percent
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by iak8god 12y ago
If it is (or was), I'm curious what happens if a person doesn't have an ID. As someone well above the legal drinking age who does not own a car, I often go about my day without carrying my Driver's License or other state-issu
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by iak8god 12y ago
Something like SUNY Excelsior (suggested in another reply) would definitely help. There are also CLEP exams[1], which allow you to take exams for college credit. Most people seem to have never heard of these, though I know they were popular
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by iak8god 12y ago
> And yes, racial segregation of classes is something that enriches the upper class in general, and the prof is advocating this What in the world are you talking about? This? "...there are substantial differences in the way that var

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