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kaibee
7y ago
Don't know about Sublime, but there's a plugin that does this for Visual Studio. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TomasRes... Probably not helpful to you, but maybe some other lurker.
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7y ago
Facebook is a monopoly. There is an impossible inertia to starting a Facebook competitor because they have the network effect on their side (not to mention the money). Their monopoly is basically the same as rail monopolies, only on the s
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8y ago
> How likey is it that people will develop content if the possible install base is only people with high-end headsets? This isn't how tech goes mainstream. Facebook is trying to eat its cake before its ready. There's a lot of
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8y ago
> There is also a false dichotomy presented here, because the alternative to nuclear is not limited to just fossil fuel. There are numerous forms of clean energy that doesn't have the failure possibility of nuclear. On the other han
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8y ago
Alternative Title: Most jobs, even newly created jobs, aren't exciting.
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8y ago
> I'll just mention that Japan gives you your choice of about 2,000 insurance providers, which advertise extensively. How does all of this additional overhead provide more value to the consumer at the end? How are they actually dif
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8y ago
> A September 2015 report by CIS asserted that "immigrant households receive 41 percent more federal welfare than households headed by native-born citizens."[78] The report was criticized on the basis of poor methodology by Ale
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8y ago
> If you support violence, that's fine. Go ahead and say so, and make that arguement. Lots of people support the government's monopoly on violence. It is not a particularly controversial opinion to have. If someone is squatting
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8y ago
> I don't think Trump really cares that much about these things, it'll only be a thing if it turns into a pop-culture war in which he may choose sides. > But if MS and a bunch of other heavyweights are in favour of it, he ju
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8y ago
That seems to be the same thing as representing sqrt(2) as sqrt(2).
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8y ago
> This is possibly the exact worst time in our nation's history to stage one of those. It seems that that kind of comes with the territory, no? You don't have a Constitutional convention when everything's going great.
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kaibee
8y ago
This works fine but you can only do it if there are large foreign reserves of your currency. Now, since foreign reserves of USD are massive, we can print a lot of money (relatively) before it becomes a problem, but it isn't like this
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8y ago
> but it certainly isn't natural. So what? Nothing about software development is 'natural'. I don't even know what definition of 'natural' you're using here. > It's a phony concept that exists
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8y ago
> A sizable portion of the population in CA and TX are not eligible voters but they are represented in the electoral college anyways. This is intended behavior. IIRC it was to address the question of whether slaves counted as members of
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8y ago
I would like to know more. I've literally never heard of this stigma.
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8y ago
> that's not really powerful at all. I'd be more inclined to agree if it wasn't working so well for him.
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kaibee
9y ago
It is much easier to compare airline tickets than hospitals/medical procedures. The worst case scenario for choosing wrong in the first case is a flight you're uncomfortable on and overpaid for.