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by mmatants 15y ago
This is getting off-topic, but it's possible to oppose taxes to the rich without fancying oneself to be rich. The above Joe the Plumber description paints a picture of a delusional redneck. That's not necessary to debate taxation policy. ED
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by mmatants 15y ago
Rdio is also in Canada.
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by mmatants 15y ago
Companies like Hover have a user/password scenario unlike e.g. an email provider: users only visit their site one/two times a year (to renew a domain or whatever). So I wonder if they should instead allow "authentication-by-email". Basicall
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by mmatants 15y ago
For any product, the name is part of the "user story", although to a wildly different degree. In your case, the user story starts with "Joe finds and downloads your software". And the argument here, really, is how effectively "Ninite" as a
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by mmatants 15y ago
I think that the complaint is not with regulation in general - it's with poorly executed regulation. We can all benefit from a discussion about good ways to regulate.
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by mmatants 15y ago
If I want to use bulk-import to move contacts to a more discreet sharing service, doesn't that make me the opposite of an attention whore? I doubt that most people with many contacts have acquired them for the specific purpose of seeking at
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by mmatants 15y ago
For the main usage of the car that EVs are supposed to replace - commuting - the comfortable range can be far less than a tank of gas. Maybe a quarter. For long-haul trips, it is of course a much bigger issue - in part because putting charg
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by mmatants 15y ago
I agree: the issue with "I love X" as a pure statement is that it has nothing to do with why we argue on the Internet. Debating a topic is supposed to enrich us on that subject. I have changed my opinion on things before, based on Slashdot
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by mmatants 15y ago
The "four hours a day" figure cannot be construed as evidence of laziness. The article states that that average includes the unemployed or part-time workers. In fact, same article mentions a 7.5 hour average when only working days are count
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by mmatants 15y ago
Gold's inherent value (industrial uses) is nowhere near the price it trades at. You could say that gold can't fall to zero because of that, but if it still devalues even 10 times, you can bet that people will panic. Bottom-line - nothing is
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by mmatants 15y ago
Gold coins have no intrinsic value, either. Gold is just another divisible and non-perishable carrier of human-assigned value.
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by mmatants 15y ago
The exam was probably mostly about the algorithms involved in managing FIFO data. Whether you extend an array list or create a custom class wrapping a buffer does not change the algorithm. Hence the blank look from the teacher.
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by mmatants 15y ago
Well, JavaScript's language features are actually not that shoddy. Better than PHP, that's for sure. I think what made JS (and PHP, too) great is not some PR trickery, but the fact that it is genuinely more useful in many situations. It is
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by mmatants 15y ago
It seems that both sides - employers and job applicants - have to reduce their biases... Which the article suggests.