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by lsiebert 8y ago
I'd remind people that when dealing with a bad system, a less bad system that still has bad points is still an improvement. What you really want is a system that allows further changes based on assessment of it's faults.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Of course the number of terrorists trying to do something on domestic flights is vanishingly small. there were 631 million people flying in 2010, for example (I did a quick google, I'm sure there are more up to date numbers somewhere).
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Experience is one thing, writing another. Things that are perfectly clear in a person's head can be hard to communicate to someone who lacks the same set of references and assumptions, and a good writer has to account for that. Being
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Perhaps our experiences varied, but I don't recall a lot of emphasis on critical thinking, decision making and figuring things out for myself in elementary school. If you go back far enough you are absolutely correct, and there certain
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by lsiebert 8y ago
That implies that college is only important for skill transfer towards an occupation. Historically, part of college was to help an individual grow personally and intellectually, to learn not just what to think, but how to think clearly, in
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Does http://www.metafilter.com count as a niche community? If so, that. Great discussions enabled by a small fee to join and active paid moderators. Also http://www.owbn.net international live action roleplaying (L
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by lsiebert 8y ago
It strikes me that, if people want web developers to load less stuff, there have to be ways to reduce redundancy. It might also make privacy easier. For example, some sort of self hosted standard based framework for tracking common things l
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Okay, this is a post about how wages haven't gone up, not about how bad americans are at budgeting. American's haven't suddenly gotten bad at budgeting, real wages have been stagnant as the cost of many things, like college
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Well, I mean an obvious correlation isn't necessarily real or proven until you measure it, so this isn't nothing, but it's not what I think people saw when the read the title, which was evidence that therapy itself lead to wo
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I think we as a society (or rather as a collection of societies, as I should acknowledge non US HN people) should be able to decide, hey, I don't want companies/cities/individuals tracking me wherever I go, knowing about whic
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by lsiebert 8y ago
This was longitudinal study where people who chose to go to therapy were compared to those who didn't chose to go, not a randomized experiment with a control group. Here's a link that gets you a pdf, I recommend reading the genera
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Definitely true. Steel will stretch or bend if overloaded but aluminum is brittle enough that it will break once but without any warning of fatigue that may have occurred. Now, in this case I wouldn't want to use steel, because it ru
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by lsiebert 8y ago
"A friend gave me design advice once. He said to start with left-aligned black text on a white background, and to apply styling only to solve a specific problem. This is good advice. Embrace this, and you embrace Brutalist Web Design.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I mean, recursion is just a way of saving state on the program's call stack implicitly instead of explicitly in a stack data structure. fundamentally recursion is syntactical sugar over loops and stacks, as assembly can show you. C can
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by lsiebert 8y ago
For future reference, is there a quick way to look up which month my account was created in, before something like this happens?
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Just a note that defining a function using the keyword "function" is a BASHism, not generalizable to every POSIX-compliant shell. In BASH, as well as any POSIX shell, you can define a function with function_name () and just remove
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Consumed money is more stimulative of the economy then money that is invested, because consumed money first circulates 1 or more times, and then is likely invested as well, whereas directly invested money doesn't circulate before it&#x
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by lsiebert 8y ago
If you are older or disabled, you can potentially move and keep your base year value and move. Alameda, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Ventura counties all allow this. Persons over age 55 or who are severely and
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Nah it's a myth that SF attracts homeless people. 71% of the homeless here lost housing here. ( https://48hills.org/2016/02/five-myths-about-the-homeless-pr... ) Per the same link, SF spends very little money
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I mean Pebble watches live on with rebble.io, if you like that sort of thing.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
well AT&T is crappy, but this article is poorly sourced. The CEO has said exactly that before, but the court filing is about what the government could prove, not about what will happen. https://www.cnet.com/news/at
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by lsiebert 8y ago
git itself uses the same process for patches.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, even after massaging the numbers by suggesting measurement issues may account for differences, shows a 30% difference between poor and rich in terms of average propensity to consume. https:/&#x2F
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by lsiebert 8y ago
You can dual license, CC non commercial attribution or something, and a regular commercial license.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
That's one of the reasons for the broad array of plaintiffs. Maybe some of them don't have standing, but as long as one of them does, they can continue.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
And that's nice, but I'd also love to see a bot that formats the pull request into a patch email for you.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I'm a very (very) minor contributor to git. If you are at all interested in hacking on Git, it's not that difficult. Knowing C and portable shell scripting for writing tests are the big things. One sticking point, you need to subm
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Vaccines and other infrequent medical interventions. Something you can pop once a day for the rest of your life is much more lucrative then a cure or once every 7 years booster shot vaccine. Chicken Pox is a type of Herpes virus. There&#x
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Git does default to the current HEAD, but it allows you to specify a start point if you want to. Doing this with git branch might be useful if you have changes you haven't committed and can't git stash for some reason. See man git
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Most android phones can function as portable storage devices, but I don't see them banning them.

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