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by jack9 9y ago
> being completely opposed to everything the American people want has taken control of the entire government That's not remotely true. That's what the media portrays, however. Don't try to spread FUD to an audience who has
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by jack9 9y ago
I loved D3 until I used highcharts. I find highscharts just fits the general case better and has options that are straightforward to enable/implement, comparatively. Here's a completely worthless comparison article (one of many):
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by jack9 9y ago
This is awfully misleading. One (the type of tracking referenced) has nothing to do with the other (actual web browsing history, which would spread across multiple machines), other than phrasing.
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by jack9 9y ago
> that means that people have no incentive to build wealth Less incentive. The epeen comparison factor is underrated by anyone who ignores game theory.
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by jack9 9y ago
That leads to cleaner code for the frontend frameworks, better interoperability and simpler debugging. Web server error codes are for web server failures and application level errors are communicated via a 200, properly. I run in to this al
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by jack9 9y ago
> Naïve users can be surprised by query cancellation messages. Irrelevant > Is this better or worse? Why? Uber doesn't say It's worse. Obviously. Now you have introduced a race condition that only appears at load. Don't
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by jack9 9y ago
> Moreover, this sort of growth is exactly what you would expect given Apple’s iOS monopoly: iPhone users very rarely switch to Android, while a fair number of Android users switch to iPhone, which means that even in a saturated market A
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by jack9 9y ago
> But why any individual our company thinks that helping to promote hate speech has anything at all to do with free speech is beyond me "Helping to promote" meaning what? Letting someone have the freedom to speak, or the freedo
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by jack9 9y ago
> The legal system is different than code in a very important way: the law is written to be applied by intelligent people working (mostly) in good faith. I disagree. Code is also designed that way. The humble admission and responsible ac
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by jack9 9y ago
> That's not how buy it now works. Except that it does. Observing that other people use it another way, doesn't change the existing functionality.
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by jack9 9y ago
I think you aren't quite understanding the point. It's not that some language wouldn't have dominated (in the interest of interoperability and functionality needs), but that it probably would have been a product by MS or some
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by jack9 9y ago
I noticed that the story has salient omissions. Clickbait, possibly. Miscarriage of the public interest, probably.
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by jack9 9y ago
> is it fraud (in the US) to claim that you are a member of a profession that you are not? Architect, Lawyer and Medical Doctor, for sure.
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by jack9 9y ago
> Verify All Assumptions When you have to worry about the environment unexpectedly reusing internal variables, when is it considered foolish to use a framework where you have to question every relationship between every concept? Just sto
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by jack9 9y ago
> They range from a lack of clear vision coming from the top This. > to the rampant, flagrant, unchecked abuse unleashed on prominent minorities, women, and ... No, this is the audience. This is the open and free internet and trying t
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by jack9 9y ago
> he author does not provide a "one-idea panacea" > He uses a single over-arching idea (rent) literal eyeroll Yay for semantic arguments.
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by jack9 9y ago
> Income taxes were never significantly higher than they are now in the United States. Uh...you might want to check on that.
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by jack9 10y ago
> Depends what he/she does with the money No, it doesn't. Justifying the choice is good after it turns out good as some sort of moral strategy. The choice (of how to use absurd wealth) is now subject to not-society. So any bene
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by jack9 10y ago
> China has ghost cities which they won't populate: the people for whom they were built can't afford to live there The cities aren't empty because of economics. This is not a big secret. They were built as part of a socia
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by jack9 10y ago
> There is no such thing as "just rewrite it in X". People do it all the time, every day. Code has side affects and features you don't necessarily need. NIH is usually, "don't need most of that here" or &quo
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by jack9 10y ago
> You can't say that he probably was guilty I can and do, which is not nonsense applied to an infinite amount of theoretical past cases. That's not relevant. Cases aren't assembled just to get a conviction on 20 specific i
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by jack9 10y ago
It's quite strange how people are both arguing that the prosecutor is blind to justice (he was falsely accused, because he was not convicted, this is wrong!) but also not blind when counting the particulars of associated circumstances.
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by jack9 10y ago
I'm not sure it's worth remembering. Being funny wasn't unique to SA. Fark and Random Drivel and a bunch of sites existed with different allowed formats. SA as a 4chan lite was even less interesting. I did meet Kyanka a coupl
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by jack9 10y ago
I literally eyerolled at this. The irrational leaps down these non-existent slipper-slopes, is absurd.
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by jack9 10y ago
> requested or to comply with the police when they arrived, is unquestionably against the law. Except that's not who dragged him off. Representatives of a customer safety federal aviation department physically dragged him. I don&#x2
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by jack9 10y ago
"Good thing (tm)" is not a qualitative metric.
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by jack9 10y ago
> Did they think Twitter would acquiesce? I'm sure they didn't think it would result in a frenzy. I wouldn't have either, given Twitter's behavior in the past. What's really disturbing is the implication that exe
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by jack9 10y ago
> But they can't compel a third party to help them conduct the investigation just because it would be easier on them. This is a ridiculous statement. Who isn't a third party in an investigation, other than the investigated and
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by jack9 10y ago
Just south of the US border, drinking and driving is the norm. Edit: Whoops, guess I hit a nerve with an uncomfortable truth. The lax enforcement in mexico, is just something industrialized people rarely think about...until you get there. B
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by jack9 10y ago
> Given what's in the Medium post, there's zero evidence for that Except the stated facts (if you're just gonna call anything posted a fiction, what's the point of stating it's this and not that?). It's cert

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