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by natnat 12y ago
For some businesses, Yelp puts a big consumer alert on their business page when they catch the businesses soliciting reviews on craigslist or whatever: http://officialblog.yelp.com/2012/10/consumer-alerts-because..
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by natnat 12y ago
One really cool tool that web programmers should know if they work with JSON data a lot is jq: http://stedolan.github.io/jq/ . It's a line-oriented tool like sed, awk, and grep, but it's for manipulating JSON
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by natnat 12y ago
Everyone writes unreadable code sometimes. Bad languages make it easier.
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by natnat 13y ago
It's funny that a huge part of the reason that a business like this exists is the TSA. If flying commercial airlines didn't require an hour and a half of waiting in line for security and a fair dose of humiliation, I think people
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by natnat 14y ago
I think this has a lot less to do with taxes than it does with the prices of real estate. Buying a house in California is prohibitively expensive for most people, which eats up a huge amount of everyone's disposable income. In Texas, you ma
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by natnat 14y ago
In this case, enforcement doesn't matter quite so much -- if a heat scan counts as an illegal search, the evidence is inadmissable. Illegal searches happen all the time, and for most people there isn't much recourse. The fact that evidence
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by natnat 14y ago
Let's not discuss politics here.
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by natnat 14y ago
San Jose, which is ostensibly a city, is only a little more dense than Nassau County, which isn't anything like a city. Manhattan is more than four times as dense as San Francisco. Although there are a bunch of geographical barriers prevent
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by natnat 14y ago
That's not true. Ford is more than $100 billion in debt. If a corporate raider were to take over Ford, they would be saddled with a ton of debt too, making such a takeover a much less attractive option.
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by natnat 15y ago
Young people tend to be single, which means they have a lot more at stake in terms of public image than married people do.
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by natnat 15y ago
The government can borrow money at negative interest rates. People are literally paying the U.S. government to take their money. It may have a large budget deficit, but the government has no shortage of cash.
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by natnat 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that Ubuntu, Debian, and Centos come with nano preinstalled. nano isn't nearly as powerful of an editor as emacs or vi, but it's got most of the basic features you'll need when you're just trying to get the network up and ru
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by natnat 15y ago
A paragraph isn't an essay. Even though essay writing isn't a crucial skill for programmers, clear and effective English writing often is, especially when you need to explain technical issues to non-technical people. Besides, good writing a
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by natnat 15y ago
When the government spends a million dollars building a bridge, it creates a bunch of jobs because people need to design the bridge, extract the raw materials for the bridge, and build the bridge. When the government spends a million dollar
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by natnat 15y ago
> discount the military spending (arguing that any president would have done similar after 9/11) I'm pretty sure a very large part of the military spending was because of the war in Iraq, which had nothing at all to do with 9/11.
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by natnat 15y ago
When all you do is provide a dumb pipe, you're a commodity. When you're selling a commodity, and there is any competition at all, your margins will race down to virtually nothing pretty damn quickly. No one wants to invest billions of dolla
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by natnat 15y ago
> Yup, plus don't forget that the risk posed by having bad engineers isn't nearly the same as bad doctors. I'm not sure that this is totally true. I don't want to drive on a bridge designed by an incompetent engineer any more than I wan
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by natnat 15y ago
How about, instead of creating arbitrary fuel efficiency standards, we just tax gasoline so that people consume less of it? Fuel efficiency standards do virtually nothing to reduce gasoline consumption; they just make people buy gas-guzzlin
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by natnat 15y ago
In the US, the unemployment rate for people with at least a bachelor's degree is only a little above 4%. This includes journalism, history, and interpretive dance majors. Would unemployment be lower if these people got healthcare and engine
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by natnat 15y ago
The government can indeed devalue or even confiscate your assets if it wants to. The problem is that legislators have no interest in pissing off well-heeled companies that can contribute billions to their opponents when the only people oppo
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by natnat 15y ago
The government can indeed devalue or even confiscate your assets if it wants to. The problem is that legislators have no interest in pissing off well-heeled companies that can contribute billions to their opponents when the only people oppo
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by natnat 15y ago
Have you seen the GPS bugs that the U.S. government uses? They look they're from the 70s.
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by natnat 15y ago
After you make about 375k, you have to pay 35% tax on every extra dollar of salary too.
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by natnat 15y ago
A trust fund is a huge pile money that a wealthy person (a trustee) gives to some beneficiary under certain conditions. The money is dispersed gradually to the beneficiary (stereotypically a spoiled rich kid) so they don't spend it all at o
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by natnat 15y ago
I don't see how this is any more political than all of the articles about how the newest anti-piracy bill is the worst thing ever or how patent trolling is horrible. I don't disagree with either class of posts, but they are, strictly speaki
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by natnat 15y ago
I think decentralizing the story so that it comes from a bunch of noninstitutional observers is a pretty good way to get rid of bias. I think it also helps make news more accurate, in the sense that, in the very short term, the accuracy of
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by natnat 15y ago
Not to pick nits, but this is off by one. If you need the n most common elements, you should use c.most_common()[:-n-1:-1] because the element at c.most_common()[-n] is actually the n-1th most common element.
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by natnat 16y ago
If they make cool things so that they can sell overpriced energy drinks, aren't they still making cool things? Isn't that still a good thing?
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by natnat 16y ago
And Native Americans.
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by natnat 16y ago
I think an online form would be nice if there were a way to ensure we weren't getting duplicate applications. Unfortunately, there is no unique identifier, so we would need to go by heuristics, which complicates things enormously. If you do

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