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by istjohn 5y ago
It was banned in the US in 1978.
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by istjohn 5y ago
>> One of the primary impetuses for the law was the situation that occurred during World War I when the belligerent countries withdrew their merchant fleets from commercial service to aid in the war effort. This left the US with insu
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by istjohn 5y ago
It's silly for people who've decided they don't want to be parents to then style themselves as marginalized and build an identity around opposition to their imagined persecution. There's nothing wrong with not reproducin
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by istjohn 5y ago
China is also happy to steam roll large portions of its population, e.g., Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hong Kong; and has no regard for privacy or free speach or democracy. I'm not sure a genocidal regime can really be said to treat its people b
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by istjohn 5y ago
They're homeless because housing costs are absurd in California. There are mentally ill people all across the country, but few places have a housing crisis anything like that in California. Only a quarter of the homeless in California
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by istjohn 5y ago
As a mostly self-taught dev, it's really helpful to read code reviews like this. I also enjoyed the author's code review reference[1]. That document cites Erick Breck's code review reference as inspiration. Is that publicly a
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by istjohn 5y ago
What's weird is not acknowledging that a huge portion of the world is not comfortable exposing their children to nudity due to religious beliefs and/or societal norms, which is why every major search engine, social network, and ap
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by istjohn 5y ago
See https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/faraday/ : > At least in the frequency ranges I tested, two commercial Faraday pouches (the EDEC OffGrid and Mission Darkness Window pouches) yielded excellent performance suff
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by istjohn 5y ago
I think you'd find it much harder to block RF signals than you would expect. As Matt Blaze found[1], creating even a small effective faraday cage can be quite difficult, and I imagine the problems only compound as you scale up. 1. htt
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by istjohn 5y ago
I totally agree and would love to hear a counter argument from your downvoters. Some of this is just semantics around the word "happiness." I would argue that it's silly to pursue a state of perpetual bliss or enthusiastic jo
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by istjohn 5y ago
I can absolutely believe that there is rampant ageism in tech, but if you don't mind my asking, is it possible part of the difficulty you faced in finding a new job just stemmed from your skills getting a little stale? I ask since you
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How is this classical music? Grammys controversy(theguardian.com)
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by istjohn 5y ago
Execute Program[1] uses this, and while I was initially annoyed at having to check my email to log in, it has grown on me. I only have to do the email step once in a while since the auth cookie is long-lived. And even though the traditional
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by istjohn 5y ago
How is this any more of a problem than the conventional password reset email?
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by istjohn 5y ago
Vanilla HTML Canvas is easy to get started with and can be a lot of fun.
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by istjohn 5y ago
I tried DO after using Linode for a few years, and DO felt more polished and streamlined. DO's docs are great, too. But I honestly have no complaints with Linode. Note that I'm just running Nginx on a $5/mo VPS.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Anyone have good experiences with a LiveView-style Python framework?
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by istjohn 5y ago
I wonder if the Cannonball Run has led to any injuries or deaths of non-participants in its history. It certainly seems like something that recklessly endangers life and limb of the public, but I've never heard of any accidents attribu
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by istjohn 5y ago
All else being equal, people prefer to associate with their more attractive peers. It's an ugly fact, but true.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Fascinating. Attractive children were found to have an average of 12.4 more IQ points than unattractive children. He suggests beauty and IQ are correlated to the same extent that educational attainment and IQ are. I think I had read about t
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by istjohn 5y ago
Well, an anxious, self-conscious, depressed person will certainly struggle to carry on an engaging conversation.
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by istjohn 5y ago
I'd like to believe that there is some kind of counter-balancing drawback to beauty like you suggest. Life would be more fair. But I think the cruel truth is that people continue to enjoy advantages from the headstart they got from the
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by istjohn 5y ago
I imagine that certain genes can effect two or more of those areas. For example, I would be quite surprised if there isn't a gene that effects both IQ and EQ. But no, I don't think there is some single "god gene" that en
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by istjohn 5y ago
> There’s no good reason to believe that someone extremely attractive would be a great conversationalist, or that someone extremely intelligent would be emotionally intelligent, etcetera. I actually disagree. At the extremes, sure. The t
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by istjohn 5y ago
If you bet a dollar every time, you'll average $0.60 of growth every click no matter how much money you accumulate. That is linear growth, not exponential.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Fermenting alcohol that tastes good is not easy enough to justify a mass market product. Furthermore, why buy this when you can just buy cheap boxed wine that probably tastes much better than whatever you would get from fermenting reconstit
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by istjohn 5y ago
I would just add, do something altruistic and social. We're social creatures and we need to belong. Be a contributing member of a community.
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by istjohn 5y ago
I think we find happiness in service to a community. It can be religion or family, or it can be mentoring, community service, activism, etc. It could be as basic as visiting a retirement home or walking dogs at a shelter. It's pretty h
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by istjohn 5y ago
How do you handle comment spam?
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by istjohn 5y ago
With regard to the concerns that this use of HN may be unwelcome, perhaps there is an opportunity here for a 3rd party website designed for this usecase. But maybe we're just redesigning Disqus at that point?

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