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by kough 9y ago
There's no way high school kids can wake up at 8:12AM and go to school because they'd be late by two hours by the time they'd arrive. I'm a millenial and I was waking up at 6:20 to catch the 6:40 bus to arrive at school
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by kough 9y ago
This author must use spaces.
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by kough 9y ago
You ask your team of lawyers who can make a good decision for your company based on your business goals and the relative values of complying with each of the competing laws, along with the relative risks associated with failing to do so.
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by kough 9y ago
> The famously flat Dutch terrain, combined with densely-populated areas, mean that most journeys are of short duration and not too difficult to complete. > Few Dutch people don lycra to get out on their bike, preferring to ride to wo
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by kough 9y ago
are you the same pizza as on tumblr?
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by kough 9y ago
Ah – that's fairly reasonable! Thanks for the answer :)
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by kough 9y ago
I ask this out of deep curiosity and by no means with any intent to offend: how does (will?) dreamscopeapp.com make any money? (I don't have an Android device or I'd install it – I'm asking because it's entirely unappare
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by kough 9y ago
That is a new level of aspirational.
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by kough 9y ago
> In the same statement, the police force turns a little more towards pre-crime. South Wales police and crime commissioner Alun Michael said: "Our approach to policing is very much centred upon early intervention and prompt, positiv
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by kough 9y ago
> As you get older, you have time to see others experience pain and also play through enough hypothetical scenarios that you can find meaning in your own suffering. This, I believe, is one of the secrets to being happy. It is why we ofte
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by kough 9y ago
My friends and I blow off school pressure by playing smash. It is, no joke, the biggest addiction in my life. But it's exactly what you say – a way to regain some control in a world that otherwise is lacking in it.
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by kough 9y ago
I read the optimist view as more idealistic – "not rock forever on a sea of changing assumptions", "the thing out rightly be defined", "shouldn't contain compromise".
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by kough 9y ago
An example of in the middle: realize things have flaws, but work to improve them. Realize that perfection cannot be achieved, so work with the stakeholders to come up with something acceptable. Programming here is just one other set of task
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by kough 9y ago
The readme is awesome. Has anyone looked at the code? What can you actually do with this?
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by kough 9y ago
Well, they all have the same number of employees.
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by kough 9y ago
81 upvotes and 1 comment? I'll bite: this is stupid but fantastic. I love seeing things like this, where someone learns (and teaches) a lot about a system, and clearly has fun doing it. Sure, I'd never use morfus in production cod
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by kough 9y ago
> The Lancet Psychiatry aims to avoid the excess of certainty currently afflicting the world. Awesome opening line.
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Ask HN: What CS-related careers are underpublicized?
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by kough 9y ago
Haven't read anything else by him, but JPod wasn't bad. It wasn't great but it was at least pretty funny and not that political. Maybe stay away from Gen X and give JPod a try.
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by kough 9y ago
Branding and name immediately reminded me of Cicada 3301: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301 Haven't had a chance to fully evaluate yet but I do like that they're taking inspiration from scifi.
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by kough 9y ago
Some of those schools are unlike the others. It makes absolute sense to go $250k in debt for an MIT or Harvard degree, makes less but still some sense for Tufts and Olin, and makes no sense at all for the rest. And the average college that
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by kough 9y ago
Also, the current grad-level class in the same area (taught by Sussman) is online here: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/ By far the most rewarding class I've taken at MIT. Check out
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by kough 9y ago
Huh, I wonder if cdixon has any incentive to interest people in starting their own startups...
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by kough 10y ago
What exactly do you mean by "null-pointer exception"?
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by kough 10y ago
Was just about to post this! Highly worth checking out if for the story alone.
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by kough 10y ago
PDF describing the AI system written by the Author was discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235532 If you read this article and want to learn more, click that link.
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by kough 10y ago
> There is no acknowledgement that "not motivated by money" and "not motivated by more money" are two very different things. Exactly what I came here to comment. Once you're guaranteed to make no less than $X00,0
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by kough 10y ago
For anyone interested, MIT's systems class has students read two different papers on buffer bloat: http://web.mit.edu/6.033/www/papers/gettys.pdf http://web.mit.edu/6.033/www/pa
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by kough 10y ago
The milkshakes are a ripoff, just buy protein powder and whole milk and make your own at home for much, much cheaper. I wasn't doing a supersize me experiment, I ate a lot of other calories in other ways.
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by kough 10y ago
Yup, I was trying to balance everything out and eat the right macros. I ended up settling on a DQPwC and a 10-piece chicken nuggets + 2 packets of ranch sauce + a small fries as my standard order.

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