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I hate this attitude that the "pretty people" are going to ruin the "party" for the people who were already there. What a gross over generalization not based on any sturdy foundation of reason. The author just feels like
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The data on terrorist attacks does not support this conclusion. Terrorism is rarely effective in its political goals and studies have concluded that it is not a rational or cost effective strategy.
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11y ago
I came here to say exactly this and link to that talk. If you can't code live then don't, Beazley apparently can. Python lends itself to these kinds of talks because of its brevity.
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I do have to say, my experience with Apple News has been very nice. These apps seem to affect publishers more than the 'open web' and at that they are little more than nice RSS readers that don't ruin your experience with ads
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Most guys I know play Xbox/PS4 and some mobile games. I know maybe a few people who play computer games on top of that, and plenty of people who just play mobile. PC games are generally seen as 1. extremely expensive since the cost of
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Marketing I think was the key here. The Steam Machine needs to appeal to people who are not previously exposed to PC gaming. People who already play PC games have PCs to play them and hooking up a computer to a television is trivial. Most
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I actually come back to a lot of saved Reddit posts, particularly ones on programming subreddits where I can't easily read the article or mess with the code on my phone.
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11y ago
I kinda miss when computers looked like this.
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True, I didn't really think about also the possibility of backward linkages and the ability of the company to be worth it's investment value in terms of research and patents that can be applied to other use cases.
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To preface: I find it extremely unlikely that this will ever see widespread consumer adoption if any at all. If it is indeed feasible to transmit power via ultrasound, there are additional hurdles to overcome. It will likely be high cost an
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11y ago
I think the takeaway had more to do with the shift from "man life really threw me a curveball and I could use some help" to "my spewcial schnequflake needs a new violin and we renovated the kitchen last year, someone else ple
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Not exactly because you can combine as many questions as you like and get an answer about whether one of them or all of them is correct, furthermore if you can ask question in first order logic, like "for all x is y true?" as oppo
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The trick resides in how you can ask questions like "if and only if" which in my opinion are really multiple questions masked as one. For example you can formulate iff as "(not q or p) and (not p or q)" where the "n
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There is an excellent and simultaneously light hearted Nat Geo documentary on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO11bdsWvOo
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It still provides a legitimate means to hold countries accountable. For example if you were holding children in literal slavery working 100hr/wk absolutely no one would believe that this constitutes "acceptable conditions." Y
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I have the good fortune to have worked in the same office as Alex Gulotta my senior year at an internship. This was before he left to work at the Bay Area Legal Aid but he was a huge presence and boost for the office in Charlottesville.
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Inspite of being completely superfluous I kind of like the entertainment on the Weather Channel and their website. They have done a good job making an otherwise boring topic entertaining.
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I've never been to one. It feels irrational to put so much interest into particular drug stores but for some reason I refuse not to compromise.
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I agree with the cheap feeling. It seems like they either don't have what I'm looking for or they have a cheaper version. When they do have what I want it always seems to be one of the items that didn't pass QC but wasn'
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East Coast, Virginia. I actually didn't have Rite Aid until highschool but CVS mostly dominates in my hometown which is odd because everyone I know from every socioeconomic background prefers not to shop there.
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I currently automatically assume that reviews online are fake. The thing about paid reviews is that I don't have a problem with them in principal. I would even like to see "trusted" groups or even companies who are paid to gi
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I did always love Rite Aid though Walgreens is good as well. CVS is the only one of that type of store that I routinely avoid. I wonder if Rite Aid and Walgreens will follow suit in not selling cigarettes anymore.
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I really could do without "considered harmful" titles. x86 has been one of the most influential technologies of all time and a clickbait title doesn't do it justice imo.
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David Chalmers, a famous philosopher of mind among other things, shares your idea in a fairly influential paper. http://consc.net/papers/extended.html
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I didn't really think it was that terrible or hard to understand. I have minimal experience with Ruby and it made sense to me. Doing this sort of thing was why I learned how to program in the first place.
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At least he was pretty honest.
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What he thinks is that people are going to be outraged over this and new regulations will drive down the stock price of other pharmaceuticals which he has shorted, and if that fails he will still make some money off the pills. It's an
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I think it was more of a semantic than an argument and likely OP's friend would tell you this as well.
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When you say "executive" do you mean "execute" or is this some other legal proceeding? edit: thank you for the downvotes on a legitimate question?
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Its the same as coding. People are good at writing code because they write a lot, however a person who is at the top of their game still might be benefited by taking a computer science course or two.
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