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by jbattle 10y ago
I have a strong stomach but the vegan cheese I've tried brought me to the brink of illness because it was so gross. Maybe I could have enjoyed it if it didn't present itself as "cheese" - like an uncanny valley effect. C
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by jbattle 10y ago
thanks for your thoughtful answer
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by jbattle 10y ago
What does a spell 'working' look like? I'm guessing something closer to 'i found my keys' than 'i cast fireball' (?)
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by jbattle 10y ago
let them eat cake! Seriously though - I suspect the majority of american calories already comes from a grass (corn & derived products)
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by jbattle 10y ago
Do you really think the first world it going to just stand by and watch 100's of millions of people in places like Bangladesh just die? No - the little bit of upset the west is feeling absorbing Syrian refugees should be a wake-up call
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by jbattle 10y ago
Take a look at this survey Yale did: http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/yco... The found that even though large %'s of americans believe the climate is changing, a relatively small number (na
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by jbattle 10y ago
no way! they knew they would find spices, gold and prester john. And they found 2 out of 3
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by jbattle 10y ago
I hated bartleby the scrivener in high school. I thought it was a boring story about a boring guy who didn't do anything. Once I'd been working for several years I re-read it again and found it to be really funny and interesting.
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by jbattle 10y ago
Yeah this fits my experience exactly. I suppose I use docker a lot like a package manager (easy to install software and when I remove something I know it will be cleaned up). Nearly every time I install actual software on my mac (beyond edi
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by jbattle 10y ago
> What kind of journalism is that? The propaganda kind
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by jbattle 10y ago
Another article I'd recommend reading from the same site: http://www.filfre.net/2013/02/dan-bunten-and-m-u-l-e/ I really liked a lot of Dani Bunten's games as a kid, and this article lays out that w
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by jbattle 10y ago
Another idea that'd be way cheaper - start writing books on how to survive the epochalypse. You can crib a lot of material out of the books written in 99.
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by jbattle 10y ago
another tack is to harmonize. In this situation for example, you'd take a few elements of the group's consensus and fold in your own thoughts - synthesizing a new position that expresses your own ideas but with some 'bridges&
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by jbattle 10y ago
There's a pretty powerful and largely unspoken cultural norm to present yourself as happy, motivated and fulfilled. I'm not sure if it's a US thing or a universal thing. Those are all good things indeed, and good to aim for.
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by jbattle 10y ago
The Long Dark [ http://hinterlandgames.com/the-long-dark/ ] is running with a very unique asthetic and it works brilliantly. A few times I've stopped playing to just watch the sun set. It isn't realistic but it
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by jbattle 10y ago
I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for but try this tool from the swagger people: http://editor.swagger.io/#/ It gets a little laggy for large swagger docs but its' quick and easy for smaller API docs.
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by jbattle 10y ago
Obama campaigned specifically on getting out of Iraq & Afghanistan. IIRC he was gung-ho on getting more involved in Pakistan. He authorized military operations in dozens of countries and didn't question the bipartisan consensus on
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by jbattle 10y ago
yep as telo.. said - whatever will inevitably supercede git. In my own work it was VSS > Perforce > svn > git All of those were good choices when they were new, and suboptimal choices when the next better solution came along.
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by jbattle 10y ago
until the git killer comes along and the team decides how much history they are willing to migrate. I've seen it happen every 5(?) years across several companies. Ironically it's always the oldest commit messages that turn out to
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by jbattle 10y ago
I've started to think there are only two ways to impact government policy: - Have hundreds of millions or billions to spend on lobbying and otherwise playing the regulatory capture game - Create a reasonable sized public following of s
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by jbattle 10y ago
Honestly I think HN draws a crowd that leans contrarian by nature. A lot of people here like a good argument and like to feel they've arrived at conclusions on their own brainpower, no matter how popular or unpopular. (There's a t
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by jbattle 10y ago
I'm not sure it fools anyone :) Several years ago it was notable to see 'cofounder' on a resume, now I just assume they did a hackathon for a weekend and then kept the site up. If they managed to get some paying customers th
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by jbattle 10y ago
A recommendation for the book 1491 ( http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491 ). It covers a lot of ground in 500 pages but spends at least a chapter on various theories for how the Americas were first popula
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by jbattle 10y ago
Tell people "large parts of mexico may become uninhabitable"
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by jbattle 10y ago
I've said this before, and I'll say it again. But I know exactly how the next 20 years will play out. Climate change skeptic/deniers will go through the following evolution in the message: - The climate isn't changing in
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by jbattle 10y ago
Your response to possible global mass extinction is to shrug and say whattyagonnado?
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by jbattle 10y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if large number of parents of the 30-in-197X'ers were massively impacted by ww2. Imagine growing up during the great depression and 'losing' 2-4 years of your young adulthood in the army. You&#x27
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by jbattle 10y ago
What did she say about "deplorables"? What was the actual quote? You know you are misrepresenting her
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Only if they want to win elections
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by jbattle 10y ago
I'd love to see some advances in IDEs, but the author is saying pretty clearly that the bulk of the time taken was in high-level decision making, not in struggling to get his ideas into the computer. > "In a sense, programming

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