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by languagehacker 9mo ago
Isn't postal arbitrage how the original Ponzi scheme started?
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by languagehacker 9mo ago
There are a lot of reasons why people are here illegally. Over 50 years we created an environment in Latin America that made it dangerous and unlivable for normal, law-abiding people. At the same time, we radically altered what we consider
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by languagehacker 9mo ago
There's a challenging burden of proof that starts even with what constitutes the ability to detain a person. US Citizens don't need to show anyone proof of citizenship due to a law that's been on the books since before World
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by languagehacker 9mo ago
For sure, using civil power, since these are all administrative violations and aren't considered felonies.
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by languagehacker 9mo ago
The issue isn't with the deportations -- it's actually with the change in tactic, and a lot of the extrajudicial behavior. Immigration is an absolute mess, and it's one we created ourselves with one bad policy after another.
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by languagehacker 9mo ago
When the Cato institute publishes something like this it's all over. These guys used to be considered incredibly conservative. For them to submit something so level-headed and factual which goes counter to a Republican-led administra
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by languagehacker 9mo ago
For the first couple of paragraphs, I almost agreed with this dope. Thought he was a moderate on the wrong side of things after the next couple of paragraphs, and after the AI-generated anime picture, I'm pretty sure the guy is a groyp
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by languagehacker 9mo ago
I miss Newgrounds so much
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by languagehacker 9mo ago
The Tesla board should just put a bumper sticker on Musk that said "I bought this before Elon went crazy". Like, how did you not know.
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by languagehacker 9mo ago
Will 2026 be the year hammers get a little phillips head on the back in case you run into one of those weird ribbed nails?
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by languagehacker 10mo ago
Interesting development. I had assumed a private equity company was behind this, but it seems like a deal brokered between two public companies, maybe struggling to show growth. Something tells me the outcome will likely be the same -- year
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by languagehacker 10mo ago
Good old Jurafsky and Martin. Got to meet Dan Jurafsky when he visited UT back in '07 or so -- cool guy. This one and Manning and Schutze's "Dice Book" (Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing) were what g
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by languagehacker 10mo ago
Production-Ready GraphQL is a pretty good read for anyone who needs to familiarize themselves with enterprise issues associated with GraphQL. My favorite saying on this subject is that any sufficiently expressive REST API takes on GraphQL-l
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by languagehacker 10mo ago
I've wondered for a while whether it's a dark pattern where they're trying to optimize for more text to speech in this post-literate world. The iOS keyboard "just not working" is something I gripe about pretty much
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by languagehacker 10mo ago
Sure, but an informed opinion would mention that not only do these chips become obsolete quickly, but the ones that will survive long enough to become obsolete are likely to have a very fast and high failure rate.
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by languagehacker 10mo ago
Impressive that you have have that many assets under management and still not show a clear understanding of an industry you're prognosticating on. The author doesn't talk at all about the hardware aspect of this stuff such as the
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by languagehacker 10mo ago
Possibly the best thing John Milius has done -- I said what I said!
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by languagehacker 10mo ago
Mary Beard's SPQR is an amazing book about Rome and I recommend it to any fellow history nerds. If it wasn't for that book, I wouldn't have gotten the "Cataline conspiracy" joke in Mountainhead.
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by languagehacker 11mo ago
This made me think of The Tree that Owns Itself in Athens, GA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_That_Owns_Itself
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by languagehacker 11mo ago
"What if I farmed everything out to an AI and felt like I accomplished something"
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by languagehacker 11mo ago
My first impression on property-based testing is that it's likely to introduce flakes that distract engineers from their task at hand, forcing them to investigate a new failed test in an area that they weren't even touching.
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by languagehacker 11mo ago
Just because you couldn't figure it out doesn't mean the capability wasn't there. More than ten years ago at this point I was running a massively scaled Celery + RabbitMQ + Redis deployment with excellent off-the-shelf report
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by languagehacker 11mo ago
I don't see it mentioned enough in the comments here, but not considering Celery as an alternative to Django + async really is the missing puzzle piece here. Aside from application-level options that weren't explored, I'm won
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by languagehacker 11mo ago
A very accessible and gentle introduction for the scientific set who may still be largely stuck on Conda. I liked it!
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by languagehacker 1y ago
I thought The Body Keeps The Score was interesting and informative. I made sure to look up counterarguments afterwards, because there were definitely parts that I wasn't so keen on. Psychology and other social sciences are too multi-va
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by languagehacker 1y ago
Very disingenuous to put second-coming style prognostications from religious nutsos in the same list as people trying to use science, pattern analysis, or surveys of scholarly literature to identify when society will gradually break down fr
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by languagehacker 1y ago
Any project that doesn't need 30 or more devs with various specialties working on it all at the same time doesn't need the complexity that frontend/backend separation introduces. I learned this the hard way through years of o
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by languagehacker 1y ago
There's definitely a market for something like this, because most software companies at a certain size end up needing to build something like this. The real question is, how much work will you need to do to fit your current software to
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by languagehacker 1y ago
When Jeff Hodges gave a presentation of his "Notes on Distributed Systems for Youngbloods"[1] at Lookout Mobile Security back in like 2014 or 2015, he did this really interesting aside at the end that changed my perception of my j
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by languagehacker 1y ago
Thanks, I hate it. Keep an eye out for Nathan Grayson sliding into your DMs though.

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