jonfw

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by jonfw 7y ago
It seems like privacy issues are inherent to Uber's business model, and there is nothing they can really do to remedy that.
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by jonfw 7y ago
This guy has a real knack for complaining about an issue, and than admitting it was actually fixed a while ago. Complains about a certain guy's benchmarks being affected by using different compilers, but of course that guy switched to
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by jonfw 7y ago
It seems like there are a lot of different ways to get tiling windows. You can do it in window managers by using different instances of applications. You can do it in terminal sessions using tmux and screen. You can do it in VIM, you can do
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by jonfw 7y ago
One thing that I'm interested in is the politics subreddit. How is it that so many paid subscription sites hit the top of the subreddit so often? I've never seen the popularity of subscription sites, and the lack of objection towa
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by jonfw 7y ago
I think you, I, and even Bezos would agree that he doesn't need 100 billion. Which is why he doesn't have anywhere near 100 billion dollars. He has ownership stakes in companies that have been estimated to be worth 100 billion dol
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by jonfw 7y ago
> Of course if you get stuck on a mountain overnight This is often my end goal when I go hiking
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> laws should save more victims then they create This isn't a simple rule at all. How do you quantify this?
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by jonfw 7y ago
> minorities (persons of color esp) have been scapegoated in elections in ads on TV, etc. Do you have any sources for this?
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by jonfw 7y ago
For used cars, you absolutely need them on-site. The wear and tear is a primary determinant in price. You also have a very diverse lineup on a used car lot, so the odds that you have something legitimately comparable is very low.
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I don't think that help and handouts is bullying, and frankly I find it amusing that somebody would argue that
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> outside of the Executive Office of the President's oversight > The president is probably still in control What you're saying is directly contrasting the quote you responded to
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Would you care to support that statement?
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> And the evidence that someone prone to schizophrenia who develops it because of drug use but wouldn't have otherwise developed schizophrenia is scant or non-existent. It's much easier to prove that something happens, than som
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by jonfw 7y ago
Used car prices are practically always in freefall. You can expect a car to depreciate by over 60% in a decade, even more if it's driven often. I don't expect this to radically change. As demand for gassers lowers, so will the rat
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by jonfw 7y ago
Knowledge != intellectual property
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With such a shallow view of freedom, physical property ownership is a very anti-freedom concept as well, is it not? Ownership of a house is an infringement on the freedoms of other poeple who want to live there? Intellectual property is no
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by jonfw 7y ago
> There's many ways to mess this up, from intentional dataset poisoning (to encourage patients to get unnecessary procedure) Within the current system- you can just skip to encouraging patients to get unnecessary procedures. At wor
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by jonfw 7y ago
If you eliminate the low hanging fruit- you can make it much harder to live off the weaknesses of the rest. The bad people in the cartels very well may just continue being bad people- but without the lucrative illegal drug trade they will n
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by jonfw 7y ago
> i suppose if people want to make the comparison that humanity is as mindless as a fungus that causes disease, then by all means. It's clear that that's not his point. It's hard to take people seriously who don't arg
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I think they were referring to cats with that line. If not- I'd be interested to hear some scientific support that dry food isn't good for dogs. Last I talked to my vet he was happy with the commercial dry food my dog was eating-
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by jonfw 7y ago
It's been many years since I've looked into it- but I remember using a program called GameSalad back in the day. I used another couple of similar apps in middle school but I don't remember the names
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These days though- kids have access to much higher level languages and libraries and frameworks that can make some of these processes much easier. While it is much harder to understand the tech stack from the ground up- you can do a whole l
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This doesn't just have nothing to do with the work you are hiring for, this is testing for something that's actually a negative trait in your work. Technical writing should be as concise and clear as possible
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> “I’ve been hiring people for 10 years, and I still swear by a simple rule: If someone doesn’t send a thank-you email, don’t hire them.” I was contacted by a recruiter a short while ago asking my availability for a phone screen- and I r
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hkmap.live The map is online as well, I guess they also wanted the app
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Maximizing survival goes beyond "simply just trying to survive" What we are trying to do is accomplish our goals we have for our short lifetime. We are certainly not the only species in the world who does things for pleasure that
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I have no incentive to care about the grocery store I frequent, but it is still illegal for me to steal from them and I can expect to be held accountable by the government in the event that I do steal from them. I'm very libertarian- b
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Personally, I've decided that if somebody bases their opinion of of me off of an internet comment I made a couple of years ago- their opinion really isn't worth considering. So I've decided not to care about it. Whatever stig
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I really do feel like I get a lot out of having conversations with random people on the internet. Especially a place like this, filled with intelligent people. It's really healthy to have people challenge your ideas sometimes, which ha
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by jonfw 7y ago
For self responsibility to work, you obviously can only accept responsibility for things under your control. If you are taking responsibility for things outside of your control, I think the more appropriate solution is to learn some humilit

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