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by lowboy 13y ago
Going on a Soylent diet doesn't mean that you'll be a cog or that your vision of the future will come to pass. Granted, I too am terrified of that future coming to pass, but it doesn't follow from increased Soylent consumpion
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by lowboy 13y ago
Organic growing techniques use "vastly" less water? How so? I'm guessing that there's a correlation between farmers who choose to grow organic and those who try to conserve water, but I can't see how one is "va
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by lowboy 13y ago
Why not? The human body is a machine, and we can examine and alter that machine. We've been doing that throughout history. I don't like the early claims of Soylent being "perfectly optimized" and the like.
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by lowboy 13y ago
A scam? Hardly. The only "scammy" thing was overreaching claims about how it's "optimized perfectly" and the like. And from what I've heard, they've toned that down. We haven't cracked the human body,
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by lowboy 13y ago
Actually I think they do. Check out Fair Use[0]. [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
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by lowboy 13y ago
Fair Use[0] would cover it, I should think. The primary use of lyrics on RG is educational in nature - that is, explaining the meanings behind the lyrics. Lyrics are a very small part of the completed music as a whole. It's not even th
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by lowboy 13y ago
CoffeeScript is much much more than just avoiding extra brackets. Anyone avoiding it because of the hype should do themselves a favour and check it out before dismissing it. I can't quantify the amount of time I've saved both read
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by lowboy 13y ago
I wouldn't say "considerably" for most pages. From what I've read, complex CSS selectors won't have much of an appreciable impact on your average site/page. http://stackoverflow.com/a/12279
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by lowboy 13y ago
Work can be done remotely, but it's the extra-curricular stuff where geography counts. In-person networking, the ability to go to meetups, talks, conferences, etc.
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by lowboy 13y ago
And you seem to be implying that they're not okay to do. Feel free to substantiate your opinion.
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by lowboy 13y ago
1. Context and common usage often flavours words in a way that isn't captured by the definition. I'd argue that a certain amount of positive attitude has to be expressed before it's considered an endorsement. It can't be
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by lowboy 13y ago
That is a fantastic resource that every web developer should be aware of. But it can't tell you if things will look the same, and it only goes back as far as ie8. Examples: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer
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by lowboy 13y ago
Yup!
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by lowboy 13y ago
> [Published] SEP 27TH, 2011
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by lowboy 13y ago
A positive analysis !== "NYT endorses". This is semantics, but I wouldn't describe what the NYT did here as "endorsing the current TPP proposal".
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by lowboy 13y ago
To me the NYT seemed like they were endorsing the idea of such an agreement, not any current one. It's too bad that the linked EFF article is so overblown, because I think that transparency is badly needed, and that media outlets shoul
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by lowboy 13y ago
So far. I believe that part of Goog's motivation is to stop malware, but part of their motivation is platform control. I just don't know the proportion.
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by lowboy 13y ago
I think bolder88 has a problem with the idea that an IPO creates intrinsic wealth, or somehow increases the overall "wealth" of the entire system (either global or within a given country). Yup, and now the word "wealth"
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by lowboy 13y ago
Yes, because it could be exchanged for other goods and services. You could buy gold or land (if you printed enough money). Is that not "wealth" to you?
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by lowboy 13y ago
I think you have different requirements on what constitutes "wealth".
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by lowboy 13y ago
> if it is worthless to you, it is When I was 8, I was selling some baseball cards at our yardsale, priced per their trade book value. At the end of the day, I was distraught because the only offers I got were well below the cards'
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by lowboy 13y ago
Care to justify that opinion for those of us that can't read into your mind?
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by lowboy 13y ago
I think that parent's complaint is that we come into the word problem with loaded expectations from our real life experience, and these distract from the core of the word problem. I don't see a way around it, but it's a valid
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by lowboy 13y ago
Wow such angry.
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by lowboy 13y ago
Related is Tmuxinator[0] of which I've been a big fan. Looks like tmuxp gives pythonistas a more robust interface [1], although I'm not sure I'll ever need to unit test tmux configs. [0]: https://github.com/az
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by lowboy 13y ago
Wired is a pop sci magazine with a much broader audience than HN.
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by lowboy 13y ago
No worries! I just put some context in my reply so that it made sense, not as a comment on your edits.
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by lowboy 13y ago
I'd like it if I could set the UI elements to 1x actually. More space for the image while having familiar interfaces still usable.
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by lowboy 13y ago
Ah nice, that must have cost a pretty penny to get that screen. I still wonder if that's not quite retina though. For better or for worse, Apple coined the phrase, and I'd tend to peg off of that to make 220ppi @ 20" the lowe
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by lowboy 13y ago
edit for context: bsimpson's comment originally said "I think it was a Thinkpad with a 1080p monitor" Minor niggles: 1. 1080p would have been rare in 2003, considering 16:10 was the usual widescreen format at the time[0]. 2

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