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by meric 11y ago
We follow the github approach and put it all in the headers: < HTTP/1.1 200 OK * Server nginx/1.9.11 is not blacklisted < Server: nginx/1.9.11 < Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 03:19:48 GMT < Content-
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by meric 11y ago
I have no car - I even used to ride a bicycle everyday for 15 minutes to the train station. I've started becoming weaker after I moved to another suburb where it was inconvenient and difficult to ride my bicycle daily. These days while
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by meric 11y ago
I have a feeling we'll have to go through a period of global catastrophe before humanity resumes making progress at a quick pace. The momentum of the previous age of intellect[1] is coming to an end, and we're well into the age of
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by meric 11y ago
No regrets, though I'm thinking maybe in a year or two I'll retire completely from programming and work on physical fitness instead. Perhaps find a job that doesn't involve programming. I will probably program as a hobby. I k
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by meric 11y ago
That's one kind of lonely person, though they are not strictly lonely because often they have lots of relationships online, so they are talking to people. Often they are considered unattractive by women. The kind I have in mind is 67
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by meric 11y ago
>> our society works on the principle of contract The principle of contract is a leaking abstraction. Society has always worked on the principle of obligation. Parents are obligated to protect and provide for their children. Rulers i
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by meric 11y ago
One could argue those children are the very people childless single people are expecting to be paying their social security payments on retirement, as well as the people who serve as the cashiers and waiters and waitresses when they're
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by meric 11y ago
The flip side of this phenomenon, along with the demise of the traditional family, is, those who aren't chosen as part of the hand picked family, can miss out on having one altogether. Where decades ago there were many people who had n
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by meric 11y ago
Should we really be relying on the medical system for loving support? That's the direction where depressed people will be drugged up and plugged into the matrix. If a person has to rely on the medical system for affection, I'd say
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by meric 11y ago
Central banks are discussing outlawing cash, so that when the time comes and they want to impose negative rates, they won't be limited by a lower bound - they can be as financially repressive as they like. Outlawing suicide is the same
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by meric 11y ago
Mosul Dam wasn't completed till 1986, and 1983-1986 is the period of time where Mosul Dam was being constructed, and when U.S.-Iraq relations were at their most friendly.
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by meric 11y ago
Also, back then, Saddam Hussein was an effective leader who kept his people in control, and Iraq was one of U.S.'s staunchest allies, it would have been hard to imagine U.S. would be the invaders that would create the power vacuum for
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by meric 11y ago
800 years is a bit of a stretch, but history can very well be personal. My Chinese great-grandmother was an opium addict who got kicked out of her village along with my grandmother and her sister after my great-grandfather died. That opium
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by meric 11y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if he was blackmailed by the NSA. It's not like that's never happened before in the US.
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by meric 11y ago
Yeah, I agree and it's unreasonable to attribute it to Elon Musk every time someone brings the idea up.
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by meric 11y ago
Hey, I think it was a pretty obvious idea. In high school, preparing for physics exams, rather than memorising all the formulas, I worked on figuring them out based on some root principles, on the fly. So every exam I spent the first 10 min
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by meric 11y ago
Sorry, was replying to parent comment with a bit of humour rather than directing at you.
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by meric 11y ago
There's a word for it in English starting with a B and is an analogy to an output of an animal, which I'm disinclined to repeat here.
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by meric 11y ago
I agree. I have Chinese parents, studied in Hong Kong until I was 9, and had Chinese classes every weekend until I was 18, and I can say my English is vastly more fluent than my Chinese in terms of writing, and only much more fluent in term
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by meric 11y ago
If there's no question someone killed your dog, then you don't need to read what's in the phone, do you? There's a point to your analogy.
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by meric 11y ago
Email is communication between two people, and is a complete different matter to if a person wrote in their iOS Notes "Feb 17, I've been fantasising eating BWStearns dog. He looks yum. Should I or should I not?". And if you d
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by meric 11y ago
I pay $30 per week in rent and maybe $30 in utility a week, after renting an apartment, and sub-letting with the owner's permission the other rooms. That's like $300 a month. Your figures are way off. I started with $5000 in late-
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by meric 11y ago
>> It has to be an absolutely bizarre market A renter can rent a small room as part of a larger house, but you can't buy a small room.[1] My personal investment fund has had 50% per year gains since 2012[2]. Perhaps we do live in
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by meric 11y ago
What about interest? What about property price falls during housing downturns (it will happen). Interest is equivalent to setting it on fire IMO.
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by meric 11y ago
I wonder if this destruction of brand equity will mean Uber have to write down the "intangible assets" section of their balance sheet.
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by meric 11y ago
The U.S. pays the Pakistani government for the right to use drone strikes against innocents who are prescribed as terrorists by a computer algorithm, which encourages hatred and fear and creating the very terrorists justifying U.S. giving t
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by meric 11y ago
You're doing fine. I think there's need to be potential for friendship in the first place. If one person don't get the other's humour or the other person don't get the response, I think it could be because there&#x2
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by meric 11y ago
I think "offence" is required to build human relationships. I find myself say something in a joking manner to my best friend that would be offensive to anyone else. In a way I think it's a test - you test if the relationship
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by meric 11y ago
If it was a two star general who did this, he'd be in jail.
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by meric 11y ago
I like using the 'Well played!' when my opponent makes a horrendously bad move.

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