jack9

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by jack9 9y ago
"Extremely hot" without predicated value is cannot be an accurate label in any context. It's a relative label, alone. In this case it's means "largest positive normalized value". The proposition that it is accu
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by jack9 9y ago
Is there any example of a usable Graphical UI written in a functional language? I've seen something very minimal in erlang, but it was so resource intensive it barely functioned at all.
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by jack9 9y ago
> But the uptick in other languages is likely more because they are new and therefore there they have a virgin land advantage. That is incorrect. The languages in production that interact with javascript, might be a better way to think a
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by jack9 9y ago
> Also Japan is the largest holder of US treasuries, followed closely by china. What's the point of that? 2017 is not 2013.
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by jack9 9y ago
> Sonic is incorrect game design Roguelike also require repetition to learn and master, in conjunction with skillful assessment. Games are the exploration of a fixed environment to discover and exploit linear optimizations for abstract g
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by jack9 9y ago
JS doesn't have a reasonable patch and release cycle, so it's always going to be a chore to try to keep up with discoveries and best practices. The noticeable uptick in releases for other languages are why it's such a joy to
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by jack9 9y ago
I agree. This is why the "counter-argument" doesn't make sense. It assumes that it's not preventative (so it's a negative effect?). Might as well let them carry on?
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by jack9 9y ago
More like 12-13% then since half of the total 24% is from Land Use Change and Forestry (according to the 2014 numbers)
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by jack9 9y ago
Factually, his opposition to Iraq was not publicly strong prior to 2003. As is classic for Trump, in 20015 he claims the opposite, despite his purposeful equivocation. This is a strategy he employs to cover all his bases whenever possible.
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by jack9 9y ago
My first indication something was wrong, was when Snopes made a determination about Hillary that smelled of journalistic corruption. http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-freed-child-rapist-lau... http://www.fact
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by jack9 9y ago
Isn't a fallacy a false (baseless) justification? I'm not sure how providing justification changes a fallacy.
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by jack9 9y ago
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis... 9%?
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by jack9 9y ago
> Kentucky and New Jersey, for instance, have shifted from bail toward personalized risk assessments The cost of the New Jersey implementation, has been offensively expensive, to some. Lawyers charge by the hour. The new bail system requ
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by jack9 9y ago
> Types and laziness are independent I think they are directly linked. If I have to worry about arbitrary types, my code can never be robust for the environment it runs in without raising some generic exception. This is the lazy approach
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by jack9 9y ago
If you think there's a right and wrong, a hypocrite is usually right in either deed or stated intent...
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by jack9 9y ago
"As California's slave labor shortage grows..." The awful conditions and pay and protections result in people not wanting to do the work, since it's not even a livable wage. Might as well be begging (or move to somewhere
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by jack9 9y ago
> The counterargument is that if drugs are legalized then the crime syndicates will need to find a new line of work Is that a counter argument? There are bad actors (in society). Some bad actors have social, moral, physical, intellectual
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by jack9 9y ago
What are soft drugs now? Interesting new neologism.
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by jack9 9y ago
Isn't the 3 strikes system for felonies?
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by jack9 9y ago
Why would an alien race, who sees our very corrosive atmosphere as poisonous, care if we do things to it that make it less habitable for our particular species? Small thinking imo.
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by jack9 9y ago
I first read this theory in the book Calculating God, but it has also appeared in the Hyperion book series. I recently saw it in Black Mirror season 3 (for humanity). Not exactly a new theory. Still has the problem of the exponential popula
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by jack9 9y ago
Despite that clarification, there were fraudulent claims made and fraud performed. As a critical piece, it's both informative and outrageous in content. If there was any interest in reform, it would be damning. The FCC's modus is
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by jack9 9y ago
Those 122 compounds were also over-representing publicly available products, as opposed to medically regulated compounds. You would need more rigor for a study where the compound efficacy actually mattered to make a general finding, across
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by jack9 9y ago
"god doesn't play dice" was a layman's phrasing of a complex subject, not a metaphysical assertion.
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by jack9 9y ago
Adding a "reject for maintenance" button to an app that summons an automated car is the obvious solution to a problem that was brought up years ago. To avoid abuse, you use a consensus pattern (2 or 3 rejects in a row).
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by jack9 9y ago
The costing difference between an elevator and stairs is substantial. Especially when you have to have stairs when you get an elevator by building code.
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by jack9 9y ago
POSIX counts, for POSIX systems. There is no standard for systemd supported systems. The logic is straightforward, like the reality.
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by jack9 9y ago
I'll just say that I strongly disagree. Pointing to the IEEE compatibility standard is being misleading. That's part of a standard and is not adequately inclusive to be considered "the standard". OS's that systemd s
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by jack9 9y ago
> your init system should not dictate what a valid username is systemd is a task manager (which happens to manage init along with everything else it can and often cannot). Referring to systemd as an init system is just muddying well-trea
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by jack9 9y ago
If you have ever spent a non-trivial amount of time in a bar, you can see that people with credit cards run up tabs due to a myriad of events that include intentional bad decisions or irresponsibility (like being too drunk to remember to pa

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