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by mrslave 5y ago
> Shouldn't the new houses have lower tax then? Why would developers lobby for lower taxes on old houses? Sorry if my first comment was a bit coy and unclear. Both ancestor comments are about Australia & Belgium. Google tells me
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by mrslave 5y ago
Developers lobbying politicians. And because jobs! Is win-win[-everybody-else-loses].
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by mrslave 6y ago
The Wayback Machine did capture his URL ( http://azstarnet.com/~zot ) in 1999 which unfortunately was too late and is just a file-not-found page. According to the article his show - Video Games and More - ran from 1993 to 199
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by mrslave 6y ago
Agree. Everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too. Live by the patent, die by the patent.
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by mrslave 6y ago
But how do I lose it quickly?
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by mrslave 6y ago
And what group identity do young people, or young males as you identify, have today? Sports teams, comic book movies, fancy sneakers, streaming subscriptions, fast food, alcohol, and video games. Group solidarity was destroyed and now every
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by mrslave 6y ago
Thanks for the tip. This is a rebranded Asus RT-AC68U and in the $200 sweet spot. Unfortunately it's a Broadcom-based device which means OpenWRT support is limited, but apparently DD-WRT has better support[0]: > DD-WRT has a license
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by mrslave 6y ago
What is good cheap consumer gear for putting OpenWRT on? Similar to WRT54G was, back in the day.
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by mrslave 6y ago
Is he a dot, or is he a speck? When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead? Nobody knows, Particle Man
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by mrslave 6y ago
Firefox's `dom.security.https_only_mode` disagrees with you. As far as it's concerned Nautilus doesn't exist. ;-) Edit: actually it upgrades to HTTPS without complaint! Something might be wrong with your software/interne
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by mrslave 6y ago
Darrell Huff - How To Lie With Statistics[0]. And the first chapter or two of David Spiegelhalter - The Art of Statistics[1] has a good example of absolute vs relative rates/probabilities with respect to medicine. Pretty basic an impor
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by mrslave 6y ago
Distribution by compound keys and rebalancing when configuration changes (e.g. a new node is added) are features I would consider essential in the core product. Long-standing commercial competitors are doing this and it's really only t
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by mrslave 6y ago
Very interesting. I go through phases of coughing after cardio exercise and only now realize the correlation with the seasons! Though late last winter I made a conscious and extremely difficult effort to exclusively nose breath while doing
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by mrslave 6y ago
Filling in your [0]th link. Thank you so much for this pointer. [0] https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/haskell/
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by mrslave 6y ago
Is there anything PostgreSQL can't do? Incidentally at work I find myself repeatedly having fun with MariaDB fans. They got started with something and never considered the alternative. Some of the responses to "yeah but what can i
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by mrslave 6y ago
Are the AliExpress sellers using the exact media taken from the market leader's websites? This is what I have noticed, even for somewhat unbranded products (e.g. furniture).
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by mrslave 6y ago
> The S&P 500 has returned 400% since the crash in a mere 12 yrs. If doubling your money every 6 years does not sound excellent to you, the it's a financial education that is lacking, not real opportunity. This is rich in hindsi
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by mrslave 6y ago
> IMO The real issue is a crap education system which gives neither opportunity, nor good advice The nihilism of YOLO has little to do with schooling. A broken education system is well after the fact of the economic and social reality co
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by mrslave 6y ago
It's not a bug, it is the same value . Only instead of using `first_table.foreign_id` to fetch the entire record from `second_table` only to use `second_table.id`, if you only need the identifier itself you already have it in `first_t
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by mrslave 6y ago
> Look at Boris Johnson, a mix of Turkish, french and old England I don't understand, is Boris Johnson good or bad?
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by mrslave 6y ago
Implying the opposition has a raft of policies that differ in any significant way and will improve things.
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by mrslave 6y ago
Sci-fi novels and TV shows with 26 hour days always make me envious. Just one more hour of the day and one more hour of sleep would be bliss.
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by mrslave 6y ago
In case anyone missed it, The King of Kong (2007) [1] is a great watch. Steve Wiebe is the true champion! Well, maybe. Who cares? From the outside this was just great fun. [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/
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by mrslave 6y ago
Is this akin to the "everyone gets pen tested eventually, whether they want to or not" joke? Also I would guess whether we hear about it or not is more likely to be a political decision. Can the news be leveraged for whatever chan
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by mrslave 6y ago
Arranged marriages by parents back home is widespread.
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by mrslave 6y ago
> it's just 7 billion individuals Maximum deconstruction here, and a failure to recognize patterns. I wonder where this thinking will take us?
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by mrslave 6y ago
The irony of educating the average Joe about the long term investment mindset when the hedge funds people despise for getting rich while Main St suffers are anything but long term thinkers. > Hedge funds have idea dinners in private behi
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by mrslave 6y ago
PEP 20 -- The Zen of Python [0] ... "Explicit is better than implicit." In the case of the unnecessarily repetitious `self` it means to violate DRY, make the mundane manual - and therefore error prone - and tedious. [0] https:&#x
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by mrslave 6y ago
Thank you. I will check these out. I intended to read House of Suns because it both comes highly recommended, and it is only a single novel (this is very important). A trilogy is pushing the limits against my priorities at the moment. But I
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by mrslave 6y ago
Kirill is a character in Vadim Panov's Enclaves. To the greater conversation, my relationship with sci-fi is on-and-off but I really enjoyed A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge. This one got me back into it. I recently finished the A

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