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by kbutler 8y ago
What do you think is the business of senators? Senators are legislators. Legislators write laws, changing things from "illegal" to "legal" or vice versa. The question of whether conduct should be illegal is thus absolut
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by kbutler 8y ago
> I don't know why they went with the idea that people don't need real threads like they can get in C/C++, Java, C# Well, for one reason, the choice for Python (or the implementation we now call CPython) was made when you
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by kbutler 8y ago
I discussed memes in the 90s, but have never read Dawkin's book. I probably got it from study of artificial intelligence/machine learning/evolutionary algorithms - I had no indication most of the others in my discussions had
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by kbutler 8y ago
> I don’t think they qualify as memes to be honest. For a lot of people “meme” is synonymous with just “funny picture” it seems, but a real meme is something more than just a funny picture. Agreed. > it needs to be adopted and adapted
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by kbutler 8y ago
I had a maid in Thailand who did laundry for us, and her favorite person in the world was a previous employer who found and provided a washing machine. I haven't yet read the book, but I recently heard opposing statistics that washing
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by kbutler 8y ago
But it's a more-or-less constant cost (energy costs, maintenance, rock supply), vs rising costs of sand (diminishing sand reserves, increasing shipment costs).
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by kbutler 8y ago
Or did their counters reset? ;-) 30 odometer miles per engine hour seems about average (to one significant digit - varies with proportion of highway vs city vs idle hours). That would suggest all your 20+ year old cars are under about 120K
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by kbutler 8y ago
> Most people can't afford to worry about what's "boring", they're focused on making sure they can survive Isn't the point that kids (transitioning to adults) who can get the good jobs without college are go
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by kbutler 8y ago
http://www.bestcollegevalues.org/best-college-dorms/ But they are seeing some pushback, with $1000/month price tags. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-07/texas-a-m...
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by kbutler 8y ago
On a recent family trip a few miles from our destination, all my vehicle's dash controls went out, then reappeared with a charging system error indicator. Everything seemed fine - I watched battery gauge and hoped I'd make it. Wh
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by kbutler 8y ago
It works quite well - though I disagree with his reluctance to hold it up to the mouth like a mic (speaking only) rather than up to your cheek like a phone (speaking and listening). It's usually More comfortable to me. Maybe we are jus
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by kbutler 8y ago
timehop.com is a prime example of a site that gives newcomers no information about what the application does. In contrast, wikipedia starts with: "Timehop is an application for smartphones that collects old photos and posts from Facebo
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by kbutler 8y ago
> It's a silly definition, not what I want it to mean. You wrote this intending to say, "I'm saying the dictionary definition is silly, not that bigotry should mean what I want it to mean." Instead, the sentence says,
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by kbutler 8y ago
No need, as you provided it.
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by kbutler 8y ago
Wikipedia (and my personal experience) disagrees: "Pay toilets are especially common in Continental Europe." "In the United States, pay toilets became much less common from the 1970s, when they came under attack from feminist
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by kbutler 8y ago
Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsgu
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by kbutler 8y ago
The only reason power costs go less than zero is the contracts that the green (primarily wind) generators have that guarantee a minimum price for their power regardless of time of supply. This creates an incentive for them to keep producing
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by kbutler 8y ago
If you want to draw a line-drawing of a hand vs a bicycle, the hand is much easier - four parallel fingers off a palm, with a thumb off at an angle. The bicycle is much more complex geometrically - wheels in tandem, triangular frame, relati
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by kbutler 8y ago
Is balancing needs really the best, though? Balancing everyone's needs tends to result in something that doesn't make anyone really happy. This leads to a least common denominator result (you can have any color you want, as long a
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by kbutler 8y ago
So the bowl of vegetables is not the salad, but the runny stuff in the bottle is? And so much for applesauce. sigh I guess that's no true sauce, man.
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by kbutler 8y ago
> ... Latin salsus meaning "salted". Salad and sauce also come from this root ... so if you remove the salt, it's not a salad or a sauce? Hmm.
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by kbutler 8y ago
In my experience as a lay minister, I've generally seen an inverse relationship between contributions (time/effort/involvement, not just financial) and support needs, though there are definitely exceptions. It may be that the
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by kbutler 8y ago
> This retroactively changes previous writings, This is an overblown/not new concern - emojis have always rendered according to the client platform, so you never knew if, for example, your :-D was going to be a big smile or a laugh
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by kbutler 8y ago
I am also interested in this, but I'm concerned about the accessibility aspects. Native Qt can be accessible. Web apps can be accessible. Can Native Qt on web assembly be accessible? How would that work cross-platform?
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by kbutler 8y ago
I'm sure he didn't think of it this way, but I'm on a high-deductible health insurance plan and will not meet my deductible, so he was directly asking for the money from my pocket to his office revenue, with all the overhead
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by kbutler 8y ago
The prescription is probably good for some limited number of refills.
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by kbutler 8y ago
Personal experience: I was getting an annual physical from the doctor who had written a prescription that was expiring. We discussed the condition and agreed I needed a renewal. I was told I had to come back for a separate visit "beca
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by kbutler 8y ago
The blame comes earlier - he should have read his insurance policy before buying it. Along with the policies of the airline(s), cabs, web sites, phone services, hotels, ... Basically, every service provider provides custom contracts with di
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by kbutler 8y ago
"the winning strategy in a game of chicken is to make sure your opponent knows you threw the steering wheel out the car window." Unless your opponent also knows "the winning strategy."
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by kbutler 8y ago
Yes, they are spending their own money - Sorry I didn't make it clear I was endorsing that action. They also state they will share revenue with the city. > there are two visitor centers No, in re-reading the article, I didn't f

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