jamescostian

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by jamescostian 8y ago
Those are very good points, thank you. I agree that having more people increases the chances that there will be more different parenting styles. And when the child picks a favorite, there will be more people whose feelings get hurt. And I c
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by jamescostian 8y ago
I know this is true for divorce situations (probably because of the fighting), but I didn't know that polyamorous parents could mess up a child's psychological development. Any sources for this?
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by jamescostian 8y ago
> I checked the official register Sorry for the stupid question, but what does this mean? How does one check this?
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by jamescostian 8y ago
While it seems we agree about religion, I disagree about questioning this person's religion. This person is talking about writing a book about their experience which they believe to be a divine intervention that changed their life
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by jamescostian 8y ago
They mentioned religion but when describing the experience they called it "OBE or Out of Body Experience", which my friends use interchangeably with "hallucination". Drugs that are less harmful can cause hallucinations (
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by jamescostian 8y ago
Was that your first hallucination? Sorry if it's too personal, I'm just curious because I thought hallucinations were more common for meth users.
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by jamescostian 8y ago
I didn't downvote you because I understand where you're coming from. The APIs you work with probably don't change and you already know most of them, disabling code completion works for you. But if someone renames things in yo
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by jamescostian 8y ago
I'm confused. TFA says "all dogs succeeded in each trial", and while there may have not been a lot of trials, that still sounds like grounds to believe it wasn't by coincidence. I don't see how the fact that they di
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by jamescostian 8y ago
Do you have a source for that? It took 7.5 million years for Deep Thought to discover the significance of 42, and it didn't even break it up into a sum of three cubes :) https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Deep_Tho
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by jamescostian 8y ago
I have a hunch as to why this table isn't anything like the periodic table of elements. For those that don't know, a long time ago Josh Duck built an HTML Periodic Table that actually resembled the periodic table. It got taken dow
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by jamescostian 8y ago
Are you talking about the distance the rovers traveled while on mars? Because that's not what Retric is talking about. Retric is talking about the distance from the earth to mars (hence why they compared it to the moon).
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by jamescostian 8y ago
Should be suffixed by (2017) When I read "BlueBorne, announced this week" I feared there was some new vulnerability, and this article has quite a lot about BlueBorn (which was also from 2017)
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by jamescostian 8y ago
The date signals that on April 1st (aka April Fool's day), Google will announce that they're resurrecting Google+
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by jamescostian 8y ago
> Go comes nowhere near Ruby's readability for me I am not fluent in either, and I'm not looking to change that, but I have read code in both. I feel the exact opposite way, and I'm not trying to start a war or anything, b
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by jamescostian 8y ago
>> Googling revealed no studies or data on the topic. > Ergo, there must be no articles on the subject, right? Not at all what I said. In fact, my very next sentence was clearly making a guess, and it was just the opposite of your
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by jamescostian 8y ago
I was born and raised in Texas, I still live in DFW, and I'm aware of the law here. I'm also aware of sociopaths and their symptoms, but I see no correlation between them and thieves. Googling revealed no studies or data on the to
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by jamescostian 8y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I think whoever did downvote you did it because you missed the important parts of my comment. To summarize, the thief and the person with the shotgun "practically live in different worlds" and &quot
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by jamescostian 8y ago
After the guy with the package has the girl who tried to steal come back to his porch, he tells her to get a job while weilding a gun and she lists off excuses why she doesn't. Perhaps she made excuses for her own self-preservation, bu
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by jamescostian 8y ago
I think a better parallel would be "your bank's website has advertisements and one of them says 'click here to pay off your credit cards' but it's actually just a phishing attempt" That said, I wouldn't ca
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by jamescostian 8y ago
In the post you're replying to, I included a link that does not contain the sentence you quoted. In fact, that link shows the person making a valid correction. If you read it, you'll see why I upvoted it. The entire point of the
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by jamescostian 8y ago
Tangent: somehow every single one of your comments was downvoted, even this non-inflammatory, informational one where you replied to someone and they ended up agreeing with you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18740217
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by jamescostian 8y ago
I'm curious, why do people on HN warn about PDFs? The worst things I can imagine happening with PDFs are (1) you don't have any software that can read it (probably like .2% of HNers?) and (2) it could potentially have some malware
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by jamescostian 8y ago
I'm curious what your takeaway from the discussion the spawned from your comment. You asked why racism was talked about so much - do you feel you understand it now?
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by jamescostian 8y ago
> nice way to land into the left stereotype that the poster identified Sorry, but that post did completely ignore that racism exists, and it made the social-left out to be people who are mad about others who don't "talk about s
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by jamescostian 8y ago
> TL;DR: you are incapable of separating minority views that tend to choose one party from the views of people in the party in general. You must have not read enough of the article to see that the Neo-Nazi was polling second (first was t
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by jamescostian 8y ago
> why does it seem like the majority of the social-right in America think that the social-left automatically consider them racists? > media and academics are whipping up a problem where none exists TL;DR: a large number of social-righ
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by jamescostian 8y ago
I agree with your point about empathy, but I disagree with the idea that a "gross assumption" was made. jriot was talking about an "unnatural obsession with race" and asking why it exists, and the person who replied to i
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by jamescostian 8y ago
AFAIK, the only difference between "semaphore of 1" and "mutex" is that a semaphore is definitely able to be signaled by someone who isn't holding a lock, whereas a mutex is sometimes only able to be signaled/u
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by jamescostian 8y ago
I like your intro to the topic, and how it's nice to both sides. But you're drawing quite the straw man when you say > one side thinking (and saying) the others are racists because they don't support various race-targeted
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by jamescostian 8y ago
"Skew liberal to progressive" here. I've heard friends of mine who are black talk about things like being followed around at a grocery store. I remember when Eric Garner was killed, a lot of my friends who are black didn&#x27

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