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by kofejnik 6y ago
> a portion of the human population (maybe even most of the population) that simply doesn't possess the cognitive trait or ability required to seriously interrogate various viewpoints or even their own ideas Funny how everyone who&
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by kofejnik 6y ago
Much much better voice directions; with Google, you have to check your screen often; with Apple, you just follow the voice
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by kofejnik 6y ago
While we're at it, just noticed that weather.com had 114 Mb stored, wtf?
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by kofejnik 6y ago
Parent comment was > if the developers take the egregious step of nerfing airplane mode, and I was responding that IF the developers decide to nerf the airplane mode it's very possible they will start using any open AP; some TV&#x2
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> that's rustic and colloquial at best. nope, the other way around; "don't end sentences in prepositions" is a formal rule iirc. Quoting Grammarly website, * Which journal was your article published in? (Casual) * In
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by kofejnik 6y ago
Given that per-capita GDP is higher in US than in most those countries (actually all of them except oil-propelled Norway), you can argue that the bar could be even lower
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by kofejnik 6y ago
Only until you come into range of any open WiFi which is every public place everywhere
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by kofejnik 6y ago
strawman; you visit someone else’s server, and therefore they get data about your visit; with kindle, you’re using your own device and there’s no expectation that amazon will be snooping
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by kofejnik 6y ago
because unlike government, if they fail, they will be replaced quickly
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> There's no indication that the current bar is anywhere close to perfect. There's no indication current bar isn't too high, tho
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> we might see Star Alliance type industry groups within the taxi industry ... so we get legroom reduced every year, mandatory fuel surcharges, ticket printing fees, etc? No, thank you
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> artificially constrain the number of cars Why? Also, if we're doing this, let's also artificially constrain something else, maybe the amount of meat produced, and auction the right to sell meat to few highest bidders? After a
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> that doesn't preclude us from stopping Uber and Lyft. I really really hope that you fail. Thanks to Uber, my wife can enjoy safe and reliable transportation. But some whiteknighting woke people cannot tolerate that, I guess they
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> this free for all of Darwinian economics is a shit system g every other system tried so far has been much shittier
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by kofejnik 6y ago
while we're at it, we must also note that environmental footprint of private residencies (HVAC, water supply, trash collection, construction process itself) is pretty bad as well; so it follows that house ownership ought to be restrict
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by kofejnik 6y ago
For the love of God, please don't start with node/mongo! Just pick a nice reasonable framework in a sane language, like Django or Rails, use a relational DB, get things actually done, reliably, and keep your sanity. Source: been a
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by kofejnik 6y ago
A modern car very likely already has a built in gsm module and possibly gps as well. If so, this data is collected and could be subpoenaed by whoever
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by kofejnik 6y ago
We are not in the shop
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When employees have to make frequent reports, it lowers their performance(aaahq.org)
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by kofejnik 6y ago
that slippery slope is totally real, unfortunately
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> If someone says they can hear a high-pitched noise that you can't, it's only polite to take them at their word, i Sorry, no, no way. It might be polite to agree that they believe they hear a noise, but it cannot be the moti
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by kofejnik 6y ago
F1 visa is non-immigrant; you are supposed to go back to your country after you're done with your studies or if you drop out. So the author was never promised a path to immigration, in fact, he actually promised to leave the US unless
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by kofejnik 6y ago
if you're often afraid to speak your mind, you don't have a great relationship
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by kofejnik 6y ago
nope; opened just fine in an anon chrome window with ublock origin
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by kofejnik 6y ago
Nope, the first hurdle is usually some bs resume filter which removes a lot of competent candidates from consideration
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by kofejnik 6y ago
Having administered over 600 interviews, I second this. Most people can’t code, despite degrees and years of experience.
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> Some people don't like the conflict and confusion and disruption of a liberal democracy; they'd rather a consensus of "people like us". ... they punish the people who have "mindsets that are different from&quot
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by kofejnik 6y ago
of course not; but neither does the war on drugs. Or legal drugs like alcohol. And it's quite obvious at this point that the negative consequences of the war on drugs far outweigh the negative consequences of drug use, especially if su
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by kofejnik 6y ago
but if we're being serious, "Learn X in Y minutes" is pretty efficient, and also Dan Abramov's email series (sign up on his site)
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by kofejnik 6y ago
As for introduction, how about this: > ('b'+'a'+ +'a'+'a').toLowerCase() >'banana'

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