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by jacobr 8y ago
Pretty sure `import * as React from 'react';` is the correct EcmaScript syntax because React does not expose an ES module compatible `default` export. You're just used to it working anyway thanks to babel accepting CommonJS m
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by jacobr 8y ago
> They chose their victims through information obtained from “data brokers” or from other sources, the department said. Would be interesting to know more about this. In the legit call center business the phone numbers of people who have
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by jacobr 8y ago
It has it's own default rules but it's quite easy to write your own ruleset. There are rulesets for civ2, civ3 and even alpha centauri iirc.
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Freeciv 2.6.0 released(freeciv.wikia.com)
99 points by jacobr 8y ago|20 comments
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It has not been around for 2000 years, more like 1200 years in common use in parts of the world.
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by jacobr 8y ago
I almost always have noise cancelling headphones and my colleagues ping me on Slack, "got a minute?" and when I'm ready (often instantly, sometimes not) I roll over to their desk. Decent compromise.
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by jacobr 8y ago
> Air conditioners can contribute to heat waves by blowing hot air out into the city. Never heard of this before, quite interesting.
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In India, Summer Heat May Soon Be Literally Unbearable(nytimes.com)
14 points by jacobr 8y ago|1 comments
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Regarding Civilization or savagery, which is this: Then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright calmly asserting that U.S. policy objectives were worth the sacrifice of half a million Iraqi children: https://m.youtube.com/watc
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by jacobr 8y ago
I live in a house and each bin is emptied bi-weekly by a regular garbage truck. The two front-most compartments are actually not fixed to the bin, so the bin is lifted up, the front-most part is lifted and emptied (in a vertically split com
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by jacobr 8y ago
> Additionally Sweden is tiny. Trash there is brought to local recycling centers with 6 to 8 or more different bins Actually a lot of homes now have these bins: http://blogg.tyrens.se/avfallsblogg/files/2017&#x2
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by jacobr 8y ago
GP is talking about humans who left later but arrived earlier.
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by jacobr 8y ago
Resolving conflicts between third party typings from DefinitelyTyped has cost me a lot of time over the last couple of years. The typings we use are maturing a bit, but at one point someone merged a completely unnecessary refactoring of the
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by jacobr 8y ago
> Ask most Web developers about the biggest pain point in Web applications today, and they will likely tell you that Web UI is their biggest time sink. I would say this is equally true for most native app developers.
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by jacobr 9y ago
Which type of cryptography investments do you think readers will confuse this with?
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by jacobr 9y ago
People are looking to solve some of those issues with other currencies. Not sure if any of the current iterations are good enough, but one example is Nano https://nano.org/en/faq
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by jacobr 9y ago
> With Bitcoin, for the first time in history it’s possible for anyone with an internet connection to quickly and securely send any amount of money to anyone else, anywhere in the world (or even Mars!), for low or zero fees. > And thi
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by jacobr 9y ago
It's not true that Scandinavian countries are homogeneous. 30% in Sweden are either born abroad or have at least 1 parent born abroad. Even more obviously have some non-Swedish cultural background or influence.
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by jacobr 9y ago
With PoW you use your money to buy mining equipment and you will get more money, and voting power. With PoS you buy more of the currency with that money instead.
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by jacobr 9y ago
Promote the view that you do not deserve to get instantly killed just because you are a criminal, even if you are violent. Because many people believe this is fine, they seem to accept "mistakes" where a non-criminal is killed as
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by jacobr 9y ago
I switched from Linux (KDE) to Mac about 5 years ago, with some attempts to switch back. I recently got a laptop with Windows for some gaming for the kids, and I feel Windows is actually less polished than Linux with KDE. Restarts, weird is
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by jacobr 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets is slightly less terrible, but doesn't go in much on technical details
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by jacobr 9y ago
I respect that everyone does not want it in their browser, but you could also say that about developer tools, screenshots, even bookmarks are not "core browsing". By this point Pocket is just another feature, fully owned and devel
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by jacobr 9y ago
It would be an interesting experiment to extend Vinmonopolet since the infrastructure and culture (restricted opening hours, no advertisements, etc - at least that's how it works in Sweden) around it already exists. This would be diffe
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by jacobr 9y ago
What's wrong with Pocket?
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by jacobr 9y ago
I found it notable not because of the Bitcoin transactions themselves, but because of the implications and possible effects of news like this.
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US woman used Bitcoin to move cash to Islamic State, police say(bbc.com)
21 points by jacobr 9y ago|15 comments
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You could consider it a crime to help facilitate actions that can be a danger to the society and individuals, like others have explained elsewhere in comments. This would be similar to unregulated lotteries, ponzi schemes, smoking bans, etc
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by jacobr 9y ago
It's really cool that many torrents that are over 10 years old are still seeded.
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by jacobr 9y ago
I don't think law makers ever expect a law to stop a criminal behaviour. Making it more difficult (remove apps, shut down web sites) is likely to have some impact though.

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