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loggedinmyphone
9y ago
A better headline might be, the thing everyone thought they wanted is now an obviously terrible idea.
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9y ago
What did Facebook do that should be illegal?
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You can just tell Google News you're not interested in those topics. Believe me, you won't miss them. I only read news about topics I've explicitly said I'm interested in. At first I was afraid of missing out on "ge
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9y ago
This perpetuates the misconception that there is a such thing as objective newsworthiness. If I only want to read stories about endangered species and polka musicians, that's no less valid than someone who wants to read about school sh
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9y ago
He also went by Line Trace. AMP link: https://www.google.com/amp/s/mattmazur.com/2010/06/26/adrian...
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9y ago
He was Magus on aol https://mattmazur.com/2010/06/26/adrian-lamo-aol-files-profi...
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9y ago
hardware always gets cheaper and better fast This is an article of faith taken for granted by software people, but keep in mind this had only been happening because of specific improvements to wafer process technology. It's not a gua
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9y ago
Punishment seldom if ever fits the crime. There's a strong case that punishment exists to give society a chance for collective catharsis. Otherwise it makes little sense to imprison someone for 7 years. If they can be rehabilitated the
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That's probably a better description. At first blush it looks like something you might interpret as skepticism - rocking the head side to side as if to say "That's not quite right." It took me a while to figure out it in
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Shaking one's head for "no" is far from universal - it means "yes" in parts of India as well.
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https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
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This is what happens with all nations. Germany for example, being settled by the Volkswanderung (migration) in the 8th Century, which displaced the previous inhabitants. Every nation starts as a nation of immigrants and then stops being so
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Isn't this a meaningless statement to begin with? Every nation is a nation of immigrants if you go back far enough.
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I've never met a Perl developer who doesn't know and use other languages. By contrast it's much more probable that a "kid" writing Python or JavaScript has never been exposed to anything else. When you say you would
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Is there anything "suspicious" about using Perl other than it's not as popular as Python, according to Google Trends?
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> Complex data structures no longer require you to wave a dead chicken Do you have a reference on changes to data structure syntax in 5.x? Probably my biggest frustration was trying to use anything beyond a scalar list - it always ended
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> Plato's cave comes to my mind Do you mind elaborating on this? I'm familiar with Plato's cave and I don't see the relevance.