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by jack9 9y ago
> I personally use vim and once I know a code base I rarely need to look stuff up. Must be nice to work on stuff you're familiar with for years, day in and day out. That's not the use-case.
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Why would FB want to shoulder an additional cost?
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There's lots of unintended, expected, negative outcomes from regulation. The counter culture is unregulated experimentation like https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298919/ An impetus to circum
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You will enjoy the video in its entirety, if you haven't seen it. https://vimeo.com/9270320 ~37:00 he covers: El Emam et al (2001): The Confounding Effect of Class Size on the Validity of Object-Oriented Metrics http:
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> then ISPs will only see opaque encrypted traffic and will be unable to effectively implement really fine-grained traffic prioritization/de-prioritization Is there any doubt that no-tolerance of encrypted traffic will be baked int
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Looks like a marketing ploy by a company which is comfortable being meta. The headlines giveaway what it is.
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It's my opinion that it is interpreted that way all over Silicon Valley as well as in the US legal system. Ok shrug , it's an opinion that appears to be relevant to the topic.
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> Not every student learns the same In the 90s the Teacher's Union often discussed the fruit cart metaphor. Much of the fruit is at or above standard, but in any pile the growth the substandard (and rotten) always occurs. Education
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The phrasing was poor. > But, the deregulation of media companies is allowing anti-consumer practices. > Even the video game industry is starting to receive backlash for its "non-gambling" practices and the lootbox. The imp
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Now called I Heart Radio, iirc
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OC Weekly (orange county, CA) and a host of other zines got plenty of traction in the last 50 years that catapulted them into a stable marketshare.
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There's a similar PHP library called NotORM http://www.notorm.com/
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"consensus" is the new goalpost? SMH
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> The idea that scientists were warning about global cooling in the 70s is a myth. The Scientific American articles from the 80s still exist. Myth, is not the appropriate term.
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>> Everyone at Tesla, without exception, is required to go through an anti-discrimination course > This is the literal bare minimum in a U.S. corporation in 2017 Not in the slightest. It might as well say "drum circle", s
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> on the correct balance between state a federal powers, and how long ought an election cycle be The US doesn't have mechanisms for removal through accountability. This would mediate any need for an optimal cycle (which doesn't
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There are a number of issues that contributed. Predominantly a lack of clarity on federal vs state power which stems from a combination unnecessarily high barriers to change (other countries tend to change their Constitutions rather frequen
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> SSN are NOT an identity mechanism That's exactly what they are. I don't understand who you're trying to fool here. It's a number, for social security, that is assigned to a person. It's poor as an identificatio
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US Companies do that. You're trying to split hairs to start an ideological argument. It's the US insofar as the US (as a regulatory entity) could stop it. There are caveats to both "the Chinese" and "the US" wh
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That list plays with numbers in very interesting ways that aren't very useful. Not counting digital sales (uniformly), you end up with stats from an arena that doesn't really apply anymore. Notice LoL isn't on the wiki or Kri
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by jack9 9y ago
Calling D3 a "massive success" is blowing it out of proportion. It got game of the year in 2012. It hasn't lost enough money to be shut down but not quite enough to get the love it needs to be better than release. Path of Exi
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> That's only obvious if you take it as a given that the more money you have the smarter you are. Intelligence isn't a ladder, so that wouldn't make sense in any context. Effective understanding of the relationship of Goog
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by jack9 9y ago
As the internet population increased the mean intelligence went down. Such an obvious and expected trend, I have to wonder if you're ok. Maybe you're so well-trained that you stop thinking when you jump to a conclusion.
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Default behaviors with custom overrides are the way I've always dealt with such "redundancy". In the end, tracing down the default behavior with it's own default behaviors often causes me to pull them out as simple pojos
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlta9iFxQE4
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I stopped moving live files around in MySQL as a migration strategy decades ago. Why would you want to deal with anything but data?
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> Taking away diversity of political thought is an incredibly dangerous thing. Equity of content isn't a practical goal. Any view can be split infinitely into sub-viewpoints. Diversity, in this context, cannot be enforced without se
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The links cover the details. There isn't much more to it. https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2017-Octob... https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10027523/
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> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20050809/2227209.shtml?thr... Mike Masnick had an interesting response.
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> I've been reading it pretty regularly since the year it started (20 years ago) and wouldn't characterize it that way at all. My account was purged sometime in the last 10 years, so whatever. Here's Mike Masnick respondin

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