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The CDC Is Still Repeating Its Mistakes(theatlantic.com)
3 points by jgwil2 6y ago|1 comments
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Article does not provide older numbers for comparison but implies that this represents an acceleration of earlier trends: > Unlike the serendipitous sense of discovery that comes with browsing a bookstore, people tend to search by author
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by jgwil2 6y ago
The new title is also terrible. It takes one fact mentioned in an article about broad trends in publishing and elevates it to the main thrust, which it really isn't. Would have been better to leave the original title and let people who
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by jgwil2 6y ago
From TFA: > Bookstore sales fell nearly 30 percent in 2020, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
If he's a freelancer then he probably got more than 270 pesos in advertising out of this.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Surely there will always be wild plants (weeds) that compete with cultivated plants for sunlight, no?
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by jgwil2 6y ago
That is conventional wisdom, yes. That's why it's interesting to see data that suggests the contrary.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Play the board, not the opponent.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
But you can't live in your stocks.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
He spent 21 months in federal prison.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Hah well my two downvotes here and two corresponding lost points say otherwise. But I'll take your word for it.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
It's 1:1 with comment upvotes, less with submission upvotes (how much less I'm not sure but my observation would peg it around 3:1). Personally I think it should be the other way around as a submission can add a lot more value tha
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by jgwil2 6y ago
That would be the error. You're supposed to be seated in the driver's seat and alert.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Okay, but what about the performance question? I assume this would apply to any language wrapping SQL. How does GraphQL prevent people from sending pathological queries that would wreck DB performance?
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by jgwil2 6y ago
It's hard to imagine a more toxic mainstream platform (by "mainstream" I am excluding the likes of 4chan and certain Reddit subs). I can't really think how I would design a system to better promote ad hominem attacks and
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He Was Convicted of a Bombing Plot. Was It a Setup?(nytimes.com)
1 points by jgwil2 6y ago|0 comments
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Well, rules can be simple and there can be few exceptions and people will still screw up, so I don't think that anecdote proves anything. In any case, my claim is that there is exactly one possible pronunciation per correctly spelled S
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I'm always surprised this guy isn't more well known. If we're indeed living in a second Gilded Age, it's hard to imagine a writer more due for a renaissance.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Most of these examples are unambiguous in context. For example, C is always pronounced /k/ when preceding A, O, U, and always pronounced /s/ or /θ/ depending on the dialect when preceding E and I. The function
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by jgwil2 6y ago
It's not subjective; French is better than English in this regard, and Spanish is better than French. English has more complex pronunciation rules and many, many more exceptions than those languages.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
She could also be French, or a speaker of any other romance language, or really any language that doesn't have the vowel [ɪ]. For speakers of such languages, "beach" and "bitch," as well as "sheet" and &qu
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by jgwil2 6y ago
A good guideline I've heard is that you say "X has died/eaten/gone" but "X died/ate/went this morning." So simple past if there is a specific time attached and present perfect if it's a gene
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Interesting. I suppose you are probably right, but I would still argue it's confusing and doesn't actually line up with the semantics of the C-style for loop. If it were a language like Python, wherein collections can actually be
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Counterexample: as a beginner, I think knowing English made "for" harder to understand: for loops in C don't seem to bear much relation to the meaning of "for" in common usage: yes, there is a condition that initiat
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I think Python is a good name because although it's arbitrary, there's very little domain overlap that could cause confusion: context can pretty much always tell you whether people are referring to the language or the animal. Lati
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I would think that if there is any language that could be a viable alternative to English for programming, it would be Chinese: more native speakers than any other language, and with a writing system distant enough from that of English that
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by jgwil2 6y ago
It does seem like support for Spanish-language characters should be a feature of a Spanish-based programming language.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I hope getting the opportunity to be a prick was worth the downvotes.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Also Jeremy Ashkenas (CoffeeScript, Backbone, Underscore).
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Can you explain how having buildings erected on adjacent (i.e. not your) property prevents you from using your yard however you want?

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