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by mdemare 14y ago
Night vision might save your life - that's a lot of time right there!
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by mdemare 14y ago
But this distinguished but elderly scientist makes neither of those claims; he states that growing plants for biofuels is a Bad Idea.
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by mdemare 14y ago
When social security will pay out more than comes in, the difference will come out of general tax revenue. There are no books to balance. The retirement age may go up, but reducing or eliminating social security is electoral suicide.
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by mdemare 14y ago
True, but the murder rate within the U.S. is wildly uneven. There are nine state with a lower murder rate than Finland, while one, Lousiana, has 5x the finnish murder rate.
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by mdemare 14y ago
Well, this is weird. I created this question when StackOverflow was just out of beta, hoping to steer it to more broader questions - guides, if you wish. This question really took off, but the format didn't, and SO mostly became a stack of
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by mdemare 14y ago
Nonsense, only in California are there more than 10 million voters. In Virginia, there are 3.8M, 1.9M per party. If the candidates are 2% apart, there's about a 1/100K chance of casting a deciding vote. Also: http://what-if.xkcd.com/19/
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by mdemare 14y ago
The Iraq war, at $4 trillion? These things add up. Also, over 4 years, the U.S. GDP is $60 trillion, $6 trillion is 10% of that. How much better do you think that your preferred candidate will do? 5% better? 1% better?
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by mdemare 14y ago
Here's some context for British papers from 25 years ago (Yes Minister. "Hacker" is the minister, not an actual hacker.) Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who thin
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by mdemare 14y ago
That's right - I'm in the beta and it works really well.
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by mdemare 14y ago
Exactly. Window is folder and tabs are files, that arrangement feels completely natural, and Vim never got there with all its own buffers and windows and tabs and so on. Nothing else ever got there (on OSX) until Sublime.
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by mdemare 14y ago
> The fact that there wasn't another editor that fulfilled all those "needs" at the time (mainly: simple, native looking) does not mean that it deserved it's success. What I'm saying is, it got its success not because it was better than
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by mdemare 14y ago
< In many countries, the standard payment problems have been largely solved locally, at least for the local markets. In the Netherlands, a wide selection of payment providers will give you the ability to receive payment through virtuall
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by mdemare 14y ago
It's Chalkboard actually.
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by mdemare 14y ago
10 terabytes of fanfic? I thought that you could fit the Library of Congress in less. 10TB is 20M novels of 100K words, unzipped.
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by mdemare 14y ago
Is this venting, or a bug report?
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by mdemare 14y ago
Imagine a typing tutor website. You start typing a few warming up exercises, then the system recognizes you and selects the material according to your progress so far. No need to log in whatsoever.
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by mdemare 14y ago
I think HN should take a page from SO, and introduce meta.news.ycombinator.com and chat.news.ycombinator.com. Then again, there are lots of things I'd change about HN, but it's not my site and it's free.
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by mdemare 14y ago
That's not a bold claim, that's a very safe claim. Learning C won't hurt anyone, except for the missed opportunities, which are invisible. But if you take all the "everybody should learn X" claims literally, you'll spend all your time learn
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by mdemare 14y ago
I see this usage of "literally" more as a dereference, or an unquote. I mean, it takes a dead metaphor and tries to bring it back to live. It means "hey, pay attention to this metaphor!" If you'd say, "the financial system was melting down"
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by mdemare 14y ago
So stackoverflow should remove all links to github? Unwise.
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by mdemare 14y ago
Most of them are from the era before 1password - also, I didn't realize until now how bad it was.
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by mdemare 14y ago
My linkedin password is an easy one. Then I checked 1password to see how many other sites I use that password on. 74 sites... including gmail, openid, facebook, skype, amazon, dropbox, reddit and this site.
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by mdemare 15y ago
Hear hear! Finally an article placing the blame where it belongs - on our shoulders. It is naive to expect Congress to figure out what laws are best for the nation. Instead we should be forcing the laws we want down their throats. All tha
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by mdemare 15y ago
Is it much better than iPhoto? Because that's laughably bad.
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by mdemare 15y ago
For "extremely meaty", try King of Dragon Pass, an indie PC hit from 10 years ago just released on iOS.
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by mdemare 15y ago
I meant iDeal, which will allow you to reach most Dutch internet users, as opposed to PayPal or credit cards (relatively few Dutch people have credit cards).
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by mdemare 15y ago
I've stopped bothering. Anyway, payment processing is a solved problem in the Netherlands. Which other countries have sensible, cheap payment, easy-to-implement solutions that are widely used?
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by mdemare 15y ago
All those women who "opt out of the marriage market", who choose a career over a family, these women won't have any descendants. To the extent that this behavior is genetic, it will disappear within a few generations. If there's one trend t
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by mdemare 15y ago
I'd say the tech part boils down to "it's untested crypto so it may be hacked". A successful currency is worth at least tens of billions of dollars - do you really want to base it on untested cryptography? And the transaction part looks m
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by mdemare 15y ago
Yeah, I submitted the same link earlier, and it was killed after 15 upvotes. This is not an article that deserves flagging.

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