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by judk 12y ago
Ah, mobile. Recapitulating all the horribly constrained hacks of the early PC era, in handheld size containers.
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by judk 12y ago
People are not willing , right? Gingerbread phones are old and underpowered and can't handle the demands of flashy new apps. I should buy one.
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by judk 12y ago
Likely because they require complex structures processes to create, not just pressure and time and heat. "Danger to others" is not a factor in nature's selection process.
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by judk 12y ago
But carbon fiber is used in applications where high-friction (burning) is likely to occur... It is harder to burn metal. And there are levels of dangerous, based on size and shape of microparticles.
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by judk 12y ago
A typo is not a profound non understanding. When a C++ programmer misuses Java notation, it isn't a profound none understanding, it's a mistake.
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by judk 12y ago
The OP explains a specific example where Bill Gates took away user programming in order to screw over Apple. Bill Gates got rich by getting a sweetheart deal (arranged by family connections) that paid per installation of DOS.
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by judk 12y ago
The market for lemons doesn't really apply here, because a lemon market requires a supply that is heavily weighted toward worthless goods, to drag the average down to 0 as the "best" opportunities are withdrawn from market.
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by judk 12y ago
So you have a multicore JavaScript environment for parallel resolution?
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by judk 12y ago
State is sequential when it matters x <- get put y z <- get
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by judk 12y ago
I like how the misconception is introduced by the standard library itself misnaming its own method `sequence`.
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by judk 12y ago
Then the automation doesn't solve the staffing problem, it just perpetuates forced pseudo-downtime that drivers get underpaid for.
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by judk 12y ago
Find or make a website that explains the problem with detailed information, and then quickly post a link wherever needed. Example (from a totally different issue): http://begthequestion.info
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by judk 12y ago
dang, please add "Don't make snarky and irrelevant claims about Reddit and its similarity to HN" to the guidelines.
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by judk 12y ago
Not saying that fluoride is necessarily bad, but brushing and spitting toothpaste is different from drinking gallons of fluoridated water each week.
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by judk 12y ago
For a low-status game like Scrabble, what makes him unique is that people with similar brainpower cluster in more lucrative or rewarding vocations.
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by judk 12y ago
You are misquoting. "Photographic" is a misnomer because exact images are not recalled. But extensive detailed recollection does exist, as the SA article explains.
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by judk 12y ago
It's also on Netflix. Scrabble champs have no job and now money and scrape together funds to travel to events. It seems like a lifestyle that no one withing a few standard deviations of neurotypical would desire. Elite Scrabble feels a
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by judk 12y ago
If they don't notice something funny after 5 tastes, their expertise is not useful.
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by judk 12y ago
Have there been rigorous studies to test these claims?
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by judk 12y ago
It's worth looking ahead to what to do now, as the ethnic conflicts ate motivated by non-US-related reasons, and there are plenty of Russian weapons also, and there is a humanitarian crisis.
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by judk 12y ago
I still remember a gem of a comment from last time, where someone miswrote the title as "They're made of meat" (without the "out") and a responder accused that person of completely missing the point of the story bec
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by judk 12y ago
Even as a vegan, this interpretation had never occurred to me but just blew my mind. Thank you!
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by judk 12y ago
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu
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by judk 12y ago
This would be any Earth-based story from the perspective of animals who interact with humans.
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by judk 12y ago
Haskell's problem isn't that semver (ironically called PVP in Haskell land) is broken, it's that library authors don't care about providing stable interfaces, so the set of libraries really are not compatible.
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by judk 12y ago
2x "life difficulty multiplier" is way lower that I would have guessed for someone born into poverty.
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by judk 12y ago
You can choose to accumulate wealth to spend on schools or malaria cures or paying people to build public parks. You don't have to buy shiny things.
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by judk 12y ago
Have you read Less Miserables? Is Valjean's thievery deceptive questions begging?
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by judk 12y ago
And a very liberal interpretation of liberalism
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by judk 12y ago
You are in luck: followup research shows that kids with impulse control (er, patience) came from stable families with safe predictable behavior, and less patient kids came from families with unstable environments and adults who weren't

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