jimison

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by jimison 8y ago
How do you covertly take notes in a restaurant... on your phone?
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by jimison 8y ago
My father believed that truly great restaurants don't do this, because they KNOW their food is perfect. Practically speaking, though, dpeck is right... shortly after the food is dropped, the waiter should confirm the meal is to the cus
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by jimison 8y ago
It's the internet... we're all unknown to each other, and many modern web apps are running a huge stack of unvetted code. Honestly, a problem like this is overdue, especially for the NPM ecosystem with its propensity for a huge nu
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by jimison 8y ago
Touche. Perhaps the rhetoric of free-market-can-solve-everything Libertarians, the get-the-government-out-of-my-health-care Republicans, and the healthcare-is-a-human-right Democrats are all co-opted by America's crony capitalism and w
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by jimison 8y ago
Perhaps their true market will be for industrial IOT devices that need to connect from all over the world. If I'm selling large HVAC units with cloud monitoring functionality, it'd be attractive to ship units that are pre-connecte
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by jimison 8y ago
> I can't afford to do another sleep study (American Healthcare rocks!). That's the invisible hand of the free market taking care of you!
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by jimison 8y ago
The paper is arguing FOR self-incrimination, not against it.
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by jimison 8y ago
Right. Everybody's pointing out the race-to-the-bottom for cities, but another bad side effect is that it's unfair to competitors (particularly small and medium businesses that don't have the same sway).
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by jimison 8y ago
I feel many fluent API's are guilty of something similar. You gain terse, one-line magic statements that accomplish a lot; you lose discoverability and meaningful object-oriented class names. For example, ElasticSearch's NEST API
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by jimison 8y ago
> I sat with a whole table of them and watched them fall for a simple social engineering attack one minute after being told they were going to fall for the attack. Story time?
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by jimison 8y ago
> Emacs/mutt/libreoffice/python/kodi have not been adversarily tuned to fire off the reward centers of our brains Indeed, some of those could desperately use a little polish to stop firing off the pain centers of our
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by jimison 8y ago
That falls under a number of strategies for Solar Radiation Management [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_radiation_management ], which, as you say, doesn't address the core CO2 concentration problem, but it migh
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by jimison 8y ago
OP (Mengkudulangsat ) expressed problems with sharia finance in terms of investing fundamentals (risk, complexity, etc.). stealthcat objected to OP raising these points and appealed to authority (variously, Islamic leaders/theologians,