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by mjn 13y ago
Even most Lisps have first/rest as synonyms of car/cdr (dating back to some very old Lisps, and mandated by the Common Lisp standard). They just don't seem to have culturally caught on as idiomatic.
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by mjn 13y ago
> I also hate this constant attributing of violent crime to poverty. This seems like an empirical question, not something to like or hate. Does poverty drive crime? Is reducing poverty effective in reducing crime? If yes, then I would sa
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by mjn 13y ago
I think they're a bit different from Dansk Folkeparti (DF), mostly in having considerably more questionable roots, which I would guess doesn't help their acceptance in the party mainstream. They have made an effort to clean up the
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by mjn 13y ago
They've definitely added some lyrics to the internet that weren't previously there. Unfortunately, the rise of these aggregated ad-trap lyrics sites has also had the side-effect of crowding out better, more decentralized lyrics. G
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by mjn 13y ago
I generally use the regular library first, but I've had to resort to libgen in a few cases where: 1) no library in my country has the book; and 2) the book is out of print. Without that possibility, I would have had to either not read
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Producing Good Software From Academia(blog.regehr.org)
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by mjn 13y ago
Above the free retrieval quota (5% of your storage per month), pricing is based entirely on your peak hourly retrieval rate for the month, billed at $7.20 x [peak rate measured in GB/hr]. So for example, if you retrieve 100 GB in one h
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by mjn 13y ago
I'd be interested in any kind of study that demonstrated that rigorously, but I'm pretty skeptical by default. Most consumer brands I can think of are completely meaningless taken on their own, and to the extent they mean anything
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by mjn 13y ago
A few guesses as to factors: 1. Some prominent people are libertarians, and outspoken about it (Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Eric Raymond, etc.), so the ideas are circulating in the community. 2. This part of the economy is doing well, and as a
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by mjn 13y ago
As far as I know there is not very much solid evidence either way. There is one interesting study from the 1980s on how changing the name of already established large firms affected their stock performance. It seems to have had a moderate
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by mjn 13y ago
Many ships have auditoriums with projectors/screens. They're used for various kinds of shows during the cruise, but you can often arrange with them (far ahead of time, as part of booking the conference) to have use of the auditori
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by mjn 13y ago
One of the academic conferences in my field has been on a cruise on and off [1], for some of these reasons. One of the main things people like about it is that it keeps everyone together: everyone eats in the same dining room, drinks at the
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Play It Again archive of 1980s New Zealand & Australian games(playitagainproject.org)
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by mjn 13y ago
> You generally don't trust code updates, _which is one reason you do them infrequently_ [emphasis added] Is this true anymore? So much stuff auto-updates I barely know what goes on these days, and it seems pretty frequent. Between
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by mjn 13y ago
This is one thing I think a lot of young people here (Denmark) don't really realize about their advantages. Yeah, the taxes are higher, but they have no student loans to pay off. (Not to mention: they can start a business without worry
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by mjn 13y ago
Here's Wikipedia's blurb on the subject, fwiw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources/Furth...
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by mjn 13y ago
Yeah, good point; I edited my comment a few minutes after I posted, but it looks like you quoted the pre-edit version. :)
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by mjn 13y ago
One way of thinking of it is in terms of how far along the rope the ant is. If the ant is 20% along the rope, and the rope stretches, the ant is still 20% of the way along a now-bigger rope. Therefore the ant never loses ground, so to speak
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TuProlog: Making Prolog Ubiquitous(cs.nmsu.edu)
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by mjn 13y ago
Especially since many Westerners have similar family histories, if you count the previous generation. My Greek grandfather survived a bout of ethnic cleansing [1], a civil war in the first country he fled to [2], a Nazi occupation in the 2n
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by mjn 13y ago
Europe also changed in October. Not sure why the article claims November 3 "set[s] off an annual ritual" in 78 countries, when most have already changed, unless it's journalistic license in an article only targeted at America
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by mjn 13y ago
December is during the regular, non-DST period, though. DST is March-October. So if you don't like the time of sunrise/sunset in December, it can't be DST's fault! One solution could be to standardize in the other direct
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by mjn 13y ago
Here's an explanation Paul Graham posted ~6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17705 The short of it is that HN uses closures stored server-side to maintain state in various places throughout the site, and
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by mjn 13y ago
The Affero GPL is partly motivated by this use case. It doesn't fully solve the problem, but it means that your competitor who grabbed your code base and set up an open-source clone, will at least have to keep open-sourcing all their s
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by mjn 13y ago
The most recent update I can find from them (May 2012) said that they still have 4-day workweeks half the year, May-October: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3186-workplace-experiments-a-... Have they gotten rid of
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by mjn 13y ago
I think the American mess of healthcare precisely showcases the advantages of a simpler, government-run system. Ever since moving to Denmark, I have not been missing the bureaucratic mess that is the American health-insurance system. Also,
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by mjn 13y ago
How about just a good and reasonably fast commuter-rail network? It's faster to get to many suburbs of Copenhagen by public transit than to drive, because we have: 1) extensive commuter rail; and 2) not many freeways. I don't thin
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by mjn 13y ago
> The fact that you're stomping all over a person's right to own property and use it as they wish? Nobody is restricting your right to use your property as you wish. You may drive your car on private property all you want: yo
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by mjn 13y ago
Surely they could still visit by train? Why would you want to drive into a city, and deal with the traffic and parking? Copenhagen has deliberately reduced parking in the city center, slimmed roads, and pedestrianized a bit of the core, a
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by mjn 13y ago
I have the same view as you, except I replace "larger" with "smaller". :)

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