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by jmknoll 8y ago
Here is a (very) incomplete list of recent CIA activities in South Asia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Pakistan Going back to the 80's, you have Operation Cyclone, which was the CIA operation to
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by jmknoll 8y ago
Great, thank you. I have no idea what the author was trying to achieve there, but it made the article really difficult to read
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Is this kind of what you're looking for? https://bootstrap.build/app
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I really like the way you phrased that - following someone's recommendation and it becoming part of your shared experience with that person. I've felt this in the past, but hadn't heard it put into words like that.
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Also worth noting that Bloomberg has demonstrated its willingness to put journalistic integrity ahead of profits in the past. They’re currently blocked in China because of a story they ran years ago about the business connections of the cou
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I can kind of see what they're getting at. Women are under-represented in the tech industry. I don't think many people would disagree with that. But this feels like a blunt instrument for a highly-nuanced issue. If diversity of ex
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by jmknoll 8y ago
I think Stripe offers a great product, but I still don’t think they have direct support for react-native, relying instead on a third-party library which isn’t very well documented, and only implements portions of the stripe API.
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This is a great reply, and I want to second a lot of the points brought up. Adding on, the original developer is almost certainly aware of definciencies in the code. My guess is that they are largely a result of rushed deadline, changing sc
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I’m not 100% sure, because I haven’t been to the US recently, but I think there’s a difference in terminology. The scooters in the article are talking about the little folding things that you stand on, right? Like Razor scooters from the 90
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Google maps is not accessible without a VPN in China. Not sure what the disagreeement is about. I’m looking at it being blocked on my computer right now. You can see your own location in the Maps app, but that’s based on the phone’s GPS, no
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Can you expand on this a little more? Why does the financial sector want settlements to take longer?
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Can that statistic be interpreted as 65% of people who use Facebook at all use it every day? That’s some pretty impressive stickiness
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Agreed, these sound like completely arbitrary measures. I agree that senior researchers probably bring valuable experience and insight to research projects, but I don’t think you can validly arrive at that conclusion from the number of time
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I agree with you on the importance of diversity and the quality of Netflix programming, but I don’t think it’s accurate to say that the general public has no interest in comic book movies or Star Wars. The Force Awakens is the third best-se
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Testing your front end code – A four-part series (2017)(hackernoon.com)
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What I find really interesting here is how badly “move fast and break things works in other industries”. Balwani’s outlandish behavior aside, a lot of this stuff doesn’t seem all that bad, if this weren’t a medical product. Raising money fo
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by jmknoll 9y ago
I'm a big fan of Jekyll (and more recently, Gatsby), and I think you're correct in saying that in most cases where a CMS is used, a static site generator would be a better option. However, I see a couple of problems standing in th
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by jmknoll 9y ago
Reduce, reuse, recycle. It was in that order for a reason : )
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Certainly, if ISPs can access your data, they would like to. Its basically free money. But its not a life-or-death situation for them, and thus my (somewhat uneducated) guess is that there is less management focus on things like deep packet
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by jmknoll 9y ago
"Over-populated ant farms" is a pretty strong phrase, and is usually more the result of bad policy than density in and of itself. San Francisco has about 6000 people/square km, and feels crowded. Paris has about 20,000 people
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by jmknoll 9y ago
Not taking either side here, but a boycott doesn't have to be 100%. I can choose to ride my bike to work when its convenient. Oil companies will lose a little bit of money. I can choose not to eat meat 3 days per week. A few more anima
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by jmknoll 9y ago
Isn’t one of the central tenets of federalism that everything should be done by the smallest government that can do it effectively? If something is done at the municipal level, it is almost definitely more democratic than if it is done at t
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by jmknoll 9y ago
Ugh, these bikes have been horrible in Shanghai. I loved the idea when it first came out last summer, but they’ve gotten to be a plague. Every block is choked with these bikes, but you’re more likely to see their handlebars sticking out of
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I’m not sure that they’ll announce the next one. I think BCH was a bit of an anomaly i this regard. At the time of the fork, Coinbase announced that they wouldn’t support BCH, and then in response to the outcry, changed course and said that
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by jmknoll 9y ago
I’m not familiar with Canadian law, but we can take an illustrative example from US law. Say you want to stand in the town square with a sign and talk to anyone who will listen about Yemen, or Black Lives Matter, or Universal Basic Income.
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The Bitcoin Crash Is Coming – $10,000 at High Range of Plausible Value(huffingtonpost.com)
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Regarding drivers who don't have a good handle on their costs, almost definitely. Mr Money Mustache just did a piece on this recently. https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/11/22/mr-money-mustache...
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Does it have to be one thing or the other? Like the United States, China is a large and complex country. Pollution is horrible, there is a serious shortage of professional skills, and a looming demographic issue. However, at the same time,
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by jmknoll 9y ago
Relevant text: "Google spokeswoman Susan Cadrecha said the company’s goal isn’t to do the thinking for users but “to help you find relevant information quickly and easily.” She added, “We encourage users to understand the full context
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What they've done makes complete sense, and is probably the way more developers should start looking at SPAs. The initial page load doesn't use React. It doesn't need it. Its a pretty simple page with a bunch of links and a c

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