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by jfk13 5y ago
> Excel and the other spreadsheet variants are the gateway drug to software development Ah, HyperCard ... RIP.
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by jfk13 5y ago
About as likely as youtube interrupting a chamber music concert or classical symphony to show ads. It's never gonna happen... surely, right?
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by jfk13 5y ago
You're not supposed to "read meaningful data". You're supposed to be overwhelmed by the slick, professional, glamorous world and lifestyle of freelancing, and sign up for their service.
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by jfk13 5y ago
I wonder how the "10k freelancers" surveyed were chosen. Presumably the selection process used can hugely influence the picture that emerges. Looks like this is really just a promotional site for their product/service.
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by jfk13 5y ago
Makes sense; most of the Nigerians I hear from seem to be high-flyers in the world of finance, one way or another...
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by jfk13 5y ago
Anyhow, if there's a system or strategy that enables you to win every time.... what happens once everyone knows and uses it?
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by jfk13 5y ago
For the benefit of those who aren't familiar with Stanley Holloway's classic re-telling of the story, in best northern English music-hall tradition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBpttbTA908 "Jonah and the
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by jfk13 5y ago
Interesting... though for what it's worth, the Oxford English Dictionary doesn't confirm that origin for "science". Once you get back to scīre 'to know', it says "of unknown origin": > Etymology:
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by jfk13 5y ago
It's wiki pedia. Maybe you could contribute something to improve it?
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by jfk13 5y ago
I'm curious if that's a figure for the number who enter and remain long-term , or does it include those who are quickly detained and expelled? I.e. does the Mexican border account for a million-plus annual increase in overall US
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by jfk13 5y ago
In the past, a lot of (non-slave) people immigrated to the USA precisely because they were impoverished -- for example, Irish fleeing the Great Famine, among many others. > "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses
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by jfk13 5y ago
And none of that is relevant to the point that your quote from the Supreme Court doesn't even remotely support the interpretation you claimed.
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Surely judicial decisions shouldn't be dictated by "the popular vote" anyway. But then, one of the tragedies of modern America is that the Supreme Court seems to have become as much a political entity as a judicial one.
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That's an, ahhh, "interesting" reinterpretation of the phrase. I'm sure it's an attractive understanding if it suits your political stance, but I don't see any support for it in the dictionary...
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by jfk13 5y ago
> they discontinued ESR Did they? Looks like it's still there: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-e...
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Do gasoline taxes go towards providing filling stations at convenient places? I thought they were - at least in theory - supposed to go towards highway maintenance. In which case it seems only right that you should pay some kind of fee or t
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by jfk13 5y ago
If the human race wants to have a future, we need to take care of the planet we live on, not assume we can slash-and-burn our way through new environments whenever we trash our home too badly.
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by jfk13 5y ago
Looks great! One tiny detail: in Safari, the content of the yellow "celebrating the launch" banner unfortunately wraps the final ">" onto a second line, and ends up looking oddly placed as a result. (I suspect this is
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by jfk13 5y ago
"Much" may even be an understatement here; according to the WSJ article, > sales of regulatory credits to other auto makers to help them meet emissions mandates, which carry a 100% profit margin, reached $518 million. That acco
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by jfk13 5y ago
Computer Modern isn't primarily designed using "skeletal forms"; that's one way of using Metafont, but not heavily used for the CM faces. While it's true that Knuth is a computer scientist rather than a typographe
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by jfk13 5y ago
Oh, I think you're referring to the "Computer Modern Serif Slanted" sample (not the "Computer Modern Classical Serif Italic"), right? Yes, the @font-face rules for that family have 'font-style: normal', wh
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by jfk13 5y ago
And while I'm nit-picking, "Computer Modern Concrete" isn't a thing; the font (family) is called Concrete Roman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Roman (Not, of course, to be confused with Rom
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by jfk13 5y ago
Note that if you use Xe(La)TeX, for example, you get all the goodness and flexibility of LaTeX to structure and manage your document, along with the ability to seamlessly use all the same fonts you could use in Word etc.
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by jfk13 5y ago
Do you mean the bolded text? The problem there is that the @font-face family is set up with just a single weight (no bold-italic face is provided), and so the browser applies a synthetic bold effect as a fallback.
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by jfk13 5y ago
The paragraph supposedly in "Computer Modern Serif Upright Italic" is broken; it just uses the browser's default font (because the actual name used in the @font-face rule doesn't include "Serif").
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You seem to have a stray backslash. Is your C leaking through?
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But 'system-ui' is... well... intended for UI usage. It may not be so well suited for page content. If you're creating UI elements on your web page (though why aren't you using the browser's built-in form control el
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by jfk13 5y ago
> the next highest share price is two orders of magnitude lower Two orders of magnitude isn't really very much headroom.
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So hatred and killer instincts are the characteristics that appeal to you? Chacun à son goût , as they say...
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by jfk13 5y ago
> proudly flaunts patents I'm pretty sure you meant "flouts" here.

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