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by mrslave 5y ago
The subtext to the requirement that only strong and willing passengers sit in the emergency row is not their ability to open the door in the event of an emergency, but to block the aisle and stem the flood of panicking passengers in the row
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by mrslave 5y ago
Preservation of the status quo?
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by mrslave 5y ago
+1 Great content, written and presentations.
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by mrslave 5y ago
This is a part of our industry I do not follow beyond headlines. A lot of those headlines are about hackers trying to be responsible getting screwed out of supposed bounties that to my mind already appear quite small. Also responsible compa
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by mrslave 5y ago
Isn't this called Boolean Blindness?
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by mrslave 5y ago
Agreed. Rode for more than a decade in many different guises. Do not recommend. Road trips are nice, but even on largely open country roads fatigue is real and it is easy for experienced riders to have accidents. Commuting is not safe. Some
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by mrslave 5y ago
There are 2 types of C programmers: those who have read Van der Linden, and those who have not.
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by mrslave 5y ago
Except this implies that disagreement on any policies agreed upon by the two major parties is extremist. What is the solution to issues where both parties perpetuate the status quo? I would suggest reversing the Senate ballot 6 votes rule.
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by mrslave 5y ago
Compulsory voting does not imply a politically engaged populace. I believe the majority of voters do not enjoy the requirement to attend on polling day, and treat the whole affair like supporting a football team. Except they care a lot less
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by mrslave 5y ago
Agree. OP needs counselling ASAP. This is not his first comment like this. First, call whatever free service exists in your country (hopefully) or even one friend (try to pick only one). Just pick someone and tell them you need their help.
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by mrslave 5y ago
Gotta love how they bank all these complaints for withdrawal at your annual bonus review instead of addressing them with you quickly and privately like an adult.
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by mrslave 5y ago
Out of curiosity, of which languages do you think programmers are the most fun to have around? This could be a really fun blog post, or descend into MBTI-style memes. I'd love to read a study about this. Perhaps tie it into probability
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by mrslave 5y ago
Excellent executive summary for non-executives. Some of these (client) companies are so afraid of code it's bewildering. It's almost like they don't trust themselves to test & maintain even small code bases. I've see
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by mrslave 5y ago
I'm starting to believe this is performance art in the tradition of Joaquin Phoenix's transformation into rap musician. At least some of his provocative "not provocative" (his words) Tweets are political satire. This is
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by mrslave 5y ago
You are right, but that is a magnifier downstream from the cause. I'm scouring my memory here so apologies for incompleteness. Also this is a somewhat political issue and I'm not necessarily throwing my hat into the ring on this o
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by mrslave 5y ago
Yes, the illusion of choice by the opposition party. Even during an election they barely differentiate. It descends from policy into brand marketing that makes me wonder if I only now get the joke behind the Duff Bowl in that old Simpsons e
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by mrslave 5y ago
I know editors of journals and they all get paid. However it is recognized that it is low and not expected to seriously complement their income. Think in the order of $2-5K p.a. All of whom I know have permanent university roles. It is cons
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by mrslave 5y ago
Libertarian reasoning circa 2005: all digital files are just numbers; you can't patent mathematics; therefore download all the movies illegally!
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by mrslave 5y ago
> After a while I realized that 3 random words can make me laugh, but no 3 random words made me cry. Attributed to Ernest Hemingway though there is some doubt, supposedly written in response to a challenge to write a very short story:
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by mrslave 5y ago
Existing conversation over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28062020
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by mrslave 5y ago
I've been thinking about your comment on and off for a few days. It's nice to hear some sympathy for criminalization from a legalizer, with genuine empathy for the addicted. Is there a natural tension between a healthy society whe
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by mrslave 5y ago
I can totally relate, except Snow Crash stayed on my stack for both its popularity and its brevity. The fourth time I took a stab at the first chapter I was in a much lighter mood, broke through the jarring entry to an AnCap society with an
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by mrslave 5y ago
ZomboDB scratches an itch in a way I find fascinating, though I have yet to do more with it than shoehorn it into a prototype that was a bit square-peg-in-a-round-hole. It is in my catalogue of technologies I hope exploit someday. And I hop
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by mrslave 5y ago
My unpopular opinion is a little boring. The common element is GDP-first economic management and everyone is cheating with inappropriately low interest rates. Instead of nations putting their people first, countries manage to this (inapprop
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by mrslave 5y ago
The chmod of the beast is 666. Also daemons are everywhere.
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by mrslave 5y ago
I went through most of the Hutton book but I already had an elementary background in the language. Then some of the recommended CIS194 course. (3-6 months spent studying total.) Finally I decided upon a project that was right in one of Hask
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by mrslave 5y ago
> Using a black skin that's part of the game is not cheating if you ask me. Editing a skin to have a bright pink that didn't exist in the game however is cheating. The entirely black skin was 3rd-party content, not an artifact
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by mrslave 5y ago
What you said about progression matches my personal experience. I jumped in the deep end of Q3 just before Quake Live came out with about 2-3 months of playing every evening for hours (vacation/between contracts -- I can't recall)
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by mrslave 5y ago
Points for honesty. Obligatory XKCD [0]. FYI: `git reflog` saves your ass when you accidentally delete a branch locally, only to then realize there were valuable commits yet to be pushed to master! How it does it is another matter. Systems
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by mrslave 5y ago
I was ranked favorably in a job application once because I had used LaTeX to produce my CV, and had also listed `\LaTeX` (rendered nicely) under publishing & communication skills. You never know what's going to pique the hiring man

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