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by jonreem 9y ago
And paying more to see the movie just once in a controlled theater that isn't your own is so much better? You still have absolutely no control over the media and you are paying more money to more middlemen.
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by jonreem 9y ago
It's relatively rare that APIs should be taking ownership of `String`s from you; the majority of the time arguments should be borrowed. I'm curious what cases you ran into most frequently that required `String`.
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by jonreem 9y ago
"A person shouldn't have to have an advanced law degree to avoid being taken advantage of by a multi-billion-dollar company. You should be up front about what you're doing and allow people to opt out." - Ben, Parks and R
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by jonreem 9y ago
When I play I always count victory points - how do you know what to do if you don’t know how many points people have or how close the game is to ending? Adjusting your play during the course of the game as the game gets closer to ending is
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by jonreem 9y ago
We have long since entered into an "Eternal September" in regards to things like this. For everyone that knows not to feed the trolls there are seven people who are happy to do it. Trolls are also getting increasingly more adept a
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by jonreem 9y ago
They mean javascript; jsx is a very small amount of new syntax and is embedded in normal javascript. Learning a completely separate template language with all of its own constructs for conditionals, iteration, etc. is significantly more wor
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by jonreem 9y ago
Just have to chime in with my own anecdote that I find discord to be mostly bug free and an excellent, easy to use piece of software.
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by jonreem 9y ago
Not worrying about the future works fantastically until the future becomes the present and you are woefully unprepared. I am all for living in the present and enjoying what you have, but you don't want to just pretend the future isn&#x
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by jonreem 9y ago
I don't see how this is any different from discovering years later that he had 10 pounds of gold buried in the backyard, a situation I'm sure you have some legal recourse in.
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by jonreem 9y ago
Not if you believe that alcohol being legal is already wrong but are pragmatic about its pre-existing hold on society making it impossible to change. To be clear I don’t buy this argument since I disagree with the premise, but if you agree
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by jonreem 9y ago
It still serves as a sandboxed interpreter/GUI framework and as a frontend for finding and loading apps, regardless of how complex the apps are.
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by jonreem 9y ago
I'm unwilling to be unworried by preventably sick kids who will carry the remnants of a serious illness for the rest of their lives. The consequences can be avoided if we act and talk now.
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by jonreem 9y ago
The difference is that (as I understand it, not at all an expert in agriculture) the stall would generate nearly equal income if you just bought produce from another farmer and sold it at the stall.
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by jonreem 9y ago
The problem is when they start voting based on those beliefs and help elect representatives who then attempt to make policy for all of us based on those beliefs.
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by jonreem 9y ago
In California at least, regardless of what’s written in your employment contract, you own anything you produce on your own time and with your own equipment as long as it doesn’t directly relate to your employer’s business.
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by jonreem 9y ago
As (currently) a full time web developer I am very confident this will not happen. Feel free to call me out in the future if I am proven wrong.
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by jonreem 9y ago
For a mathematical treatment of this situation/concept see the Multi Armed Bandit problem.
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by jonreem 9y ago
Easy to say when your livelihood isn't on the line.
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by jonreem 9y ago
If it's possible for the Earth to have "one" consciousness while containing both the Cheetah and the Gazelle, the universe can reconcile us and a paperclip maximizer.
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by jonreem 9y ago
Without the Provider there would be no way for the `connect` decorator to give access to the current state. Given the design of this library though (global store) it seems like it would be fine to just pass the store along in the call to `c
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by jonreem 9y ago
While the now $2 millionaire would not be likely to spend that extra million on food and clothing they would be extremely likely to invest that money in a variety of financial instruments, making that capital available in the market so it c
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Entire buildings are being deleted from China's Street View and no-one knows why(wired.co.uk)
5 points by jonreem 9y ago|1 comments
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by jonreem 9y ago
If you can get USD at the end why does it matter if you have to go through BTC for now? The liquidity is still there.
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by jonreem 9y ago
In base 12 those are just the columns for 1, 5, 7, and 11, the only numbers between 1 and 12 that aren't divisible by any of 12s factors. If you do this for any base the prime numbers will fall in columns like those. Note that there ar
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by jonreem 9y ago
If you live in a high inflation country you still have to pay taxes in that country's currency. In many of these countries the exchange rate is pinned far away from its real value and it would be difficult to sell a large quantity of c
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by jonreem 9y ago
Good news! The `reqwest`[0] library already exists and serves exactly that purpose. [0]: https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest
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by jonreem 9y ago
> Why can't we spend any effort fixing the root causes of anything and instead treat every early tech as a given and spend so much effort in developing workarounds? Network effects.
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by jonreem 10y ago
A set being "countably infinite" only means that you can write a function that maps each distinct entry in the set to exactly one natural number (0, 1, 2, etc.) without duplicates. That's it. So for example, the set of natura
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by jonreem 10y ago
No, GP is correct. If you omit the `var` (or `let`/`const` in es6) then you are implicitly assigning a property on the global object (`window` in the browser), in essence setting a global variable. Never omit `var`. If you are in a fun
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by jonreem 10y ago
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