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You can do event-driven and non-blocking IO in PHP. Check out a library like ReactPHP.
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Comparing Google's workforce to Amazon's is an apples-to-oranges comparison. The labor required at each is completely different. Instead, compare Walmart to Costco: similar operations, same skills required of their workforce. Yet
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RewardStock | Software Engineer | Raleigh, NC | Fulltime | Onsite | https://www.rewardstock.com RewardStock has a simple mission: to help our users save hundreds to thousands of dollars on travel. Our small team is based in the
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Anyone can throw up a marketing site with no actual product behind it to "gauge interest" in a weekend for a few dollars (though even a few dollars isn't trivial to everyone, so can't be assumed.) Marketing, actually bui
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It is survivorship bias when someone says "they're not lucky, they just kept trying and failing until they succeeded." The vast majority of people don't have the time/money/talent/resources to keep trying
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It does not surprise me in the least that the executive branch of a state (which includes the AG's office) is supporting net neutrality at the federal level while the legislative is passing state-level laws to hamstring it. I live in o
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I'd be interesting in seeing something like this breakdown for someone like Mitch Hedberg, who is generally considered to be one of the greatest stand-ups of all time (especially among other stand-up comedians. You'll often hear o
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I agree with you that the Senate is not moot, as far as the need for giving individual states a voice. It's power has shifted, though, from making sure that more populous states could not ride roughshod over less populous, to the oppos
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"States' rights" is used as a dogwhistle in the United States for supporting legally protected racial, sexual, and religious discrimination. [edit] In many political circles. In the antebellum era of US history it was used to
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And that made sense when the Senate was the representation of the states' desires and most states chose their Senators at the state legislature level. The system as set up so that that the people chose their Representatives directly, a
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Almost every other product they buy is not a matter of life or death where they are personally emotionally invested in the outcome. Also, how does the market work if the customers die (because the treatment is a sham) before they can warn o
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So more education is probably the answer. Too bad that home economics (as well as civics and other useful life-skills classes) have been systematically removed from the US education system. A class like home economics would be precisely whe
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Addicted to drugs, not alcohol.
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Using IoT to protect rhinos from poachers(arstechnica.com)
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> I feel that the only reason to spend $5,000 on a watch is so that you can show off to other people that you can afford to piss away $5,000 on a watch There are social and political circles in which demonstrating the ability to piss awa
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The response to that is in the article: > While a Google spokesperson says the program is "scoped for non-offensive purposes," a letter signed by almost 4,000 Google employees took issue with this assurance, saying, "The t
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This can be directly observed in the case of Shirl Jennings[0], upon whose life the movie At First Sight [1] is based. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirl_Jennings [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/
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Probably because they're engineers and not actors. It's actually very difficult to read scripted lines in a natural sounding way, especially if it's phrased in a way you wouldn't normally speak.
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How easily these can be used by people with disabilities? Someone in a wheelchair or on crutches who can't move fast enough would be frustrated or, at worst, seriously injured by one of these.
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Born 1981 here. My cohort call ourselves the "Oregon Trail Generation".
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Ingredients and care in the roast are the big things. You can taste the difference between chocolate made with cane sugar vs corn syrup, or in how much oils or coagulants are mixed with the cocoa butter. You can feel that same difference in
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My spouse works at an artisanal chocolate factory in Raleigh, NC[0]. From experience, there is a huge difference in quality between small batch chocolate bars and bonbons vs mass manufactured. Even with small batch, there's a differenc
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Additionally, "KSC" is the abbreviation of the space center in the game video KSP.
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This assumes the mined resources would be brought back to Earth. Why would we bring resources back down the gravity well? The real value is mining and manufacturing in situ. The real race is to become the first person to build a manufacturi
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No. My original comment stated "These are issues that can be worked on in parallel."
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And not being from the US, I think you're ignoring the reality of how large a problem "preventing the police from murdering any innocent person" actually is here. It shouldn't be, but it is, and we have to work in the wo
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You are correct in everything you wrote, except for one thing. > Policemen killing unarmed innocent people is the problem that really needs solving No, policemen killing unarmed innocent people is a problem that really needs solving. B
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It's a combination of factors. First off, culturally, it's just one of those "things you do" if you're pursuing the American Dream. Many people believe that owning your own home is one of the major milestones to liv
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Governments can not "grant" rights, they can only "violate" them.
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Does something like AmeriCorps fit your description? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmeriCorps

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