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by mbfg 5y ago
branching is just better in git. sorry. I like Hg, we used it for like 4 years, but switched to git, and have been using it for 10 years now, never looked back.
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by mbfg 5y ago
i have no idea what's going on.
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by mbfg 5y ago
I don't doubt for a minute that being a small bakery business is super hard, and competing against supermarkets etc is frustrating, but i don't think it's because the quality is the same. Supermarket cakes, etc, are absolute
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by mbfg 5y ago
Capitalism is a b*tch.
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by mbfg 5y ago
A youtube video from the excellent numberphile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MtEUErz7Gg
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by mbfg 5y ago
This isn't all that remarkable. Let's assume a giant asteroid did destroy a city that could be corrolated with Sodom and Gomorrah. (I'm not saying we have reason to believe this, just let's assume it did). What would peo
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by mbfg 5y ago
Well over 99% of all species that have ever existed have gone extinct. Our turn is coming.
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by mbfg 5y ago
Have their been substantial societies that didn't believe in free will that we can examine?
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by mbfg 5y ago
Agreed, and to add on, incarceration then, is about protecting society from harmful people, not retribution. It makes no sense to say, were going to keep this person in jail for another 10 years because s/he really deserves it. Rather,
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by mbfg 5y ago
I'm not sure that question matters. The question of whether or not we have free will is independent of what would be better.
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by mbfg 5y ago
because your mental state is a culmination of some mix of your genes and external influences, both in history and through the world now. If you are around people who consistently present ideas to you, there is a more likelyhood that yo
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by mbfg 5y ago
>> How is one going to ever prove that free will does not exist if i can perfectly predict what you are going to do before you realize what you are going to do, that would be at the least an indicator. Can we do that? not at present
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by mbfg 5y ago
i'm guessing the double "were were" in the second paragraph is one of many things in there by which they segregate the employees to determine who sent the email.
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by mbfg 5y ago
indeed. The simpler a string is to use, the more abused it will be. Programmers, forever, have used strings to represent other types, including really complicated types, with machinations of various appending formats; eg: PROJECT-33/3
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by mbfg 5y ago
Are we really saying that how a belief makes you feel somehow justifies it as good or true? That's ridiculous. Beliefs are our intentions to model the real world. We act in accordance with our beliefs because we hope this will accurate
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by mbfg 5y ago
Seems like $10/hr isn't good enough to work in a smokey/greasy/hot kitchen... who knew?
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by mbfg 5y ago
You lose a day off your life everytime you declare a String variable.
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by mbfg 5y ago
things like jaxb were removed, which i'm guessing plays a part in the soap discussion above. Not that it is difficult to fix, but...
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by mbfg 5y ago
how did you determine "fair share"
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by mbfg 5y ago
For individuals this is true, for populations this is false.
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by mbfg 5y ago
if i'm fat, my fat won't jump onto you and kill you.
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by mbfg 5y ago
i certainly would. If me getting a vaccine helps this person, a bigger win.
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by mbfg 5y ago
if you are interviewing with a global company you also have to realize you are competing against potentially cheaper regions. If two candidates are anywhere close to similar levels, it may be that one candidate can be hired for drastically
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by mbfg 5y ago
Isn't a raspberry pi 400 like $80?
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by mbfg 5y ago
Similar to how one sees [PDF] or [2002] in link titles, it would be nice if [PAY] would start being used.
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by mbfg 5y ago
One thing not discussed is how long it takes for the back packs to empty. From the picture they look like just simple backbacks without significant modification (wich is fine), but how could they not need to be refilled a zillion times a da
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by mbfg 5y ago
the problem often is, the only career ladder in most companies involves management. Some people just don't want that track, and despite whatever hand waving and speech making, there really is no non management career paths. You can han
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by mbfg 5y ago
imo the main difference between databases is some databases have an address for data and some don't, meaning, when you want to go update some value, some databases say, ok, the data is there, go update it, other databases say, i don&#x
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by mbfg 5y ago
"making things free" is not what is causing living in Cuba to be bad.
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by mbfg 5y ago
i wonder if twitter unroll would work for you.

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