nescoiquid

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by nescoiquid 6y ago
At a tangent to your (marvelous) response: > But what about domestic terrorism, or important exceptions? No problem! Get a warrant. I've heard about accounts of police investigations being aided with access to the mass surveillance
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by nescoiquid 6y ago
The equal time doctrine was eliminated in 1987: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine >> The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a
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by nescoiquid 6y ago
Each animal can be said to posses a survival strategy; ours resides not in talons, or rapid flight, or keen perception, or camouflage, but in cooperation. Even the hierarchical structure of our social organization aids in this. It is a humb
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by nescoiquid 6y ago
> We just use the circumlocution. I think it is an ambiguous category. At least to native (American) English speakers and heathens like me. The only evidence I can offer of this is that in my language culture, I routinely hear "spic
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by nescoiquid 6y ago
Interestingly, there is a lot of good advice on this in various writings on learning to read Latin fluently. Word order is very free due to the language's inflected nature, and of course, vocabulary requires constant attention. The mos
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by nescoiquid 7y ago
I don't think there's a chain of valid reasoning that can start with a few very exceptional people (that is to say these people are an exception, whether it be by talent, effort, or luck) and end with any conclusions about what is
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by nescoiquid 8y ago
Given that the story said they rejected a deal in which the city would pay $462,123 plus interest for Comcast to come in, then I'd say the "common folk" would be paying for it in either case. It's just in one case, the m
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by nescoiquid 8y ago
For some reason I've found that vacpots are easier to clean up than a press-pot, but they really complement each other: some coffees go to the press-pot, some are better with the vacpot.
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by nescoiquid 8y ago
> their wildly varying build/metabuild processes. Boost? I'm sure there's good reason for the -- sui generis -- build system. Always been too underwater to spend much time wondering about why that's a yak I'm sha
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by nescoiquid 8y ago
Or, new languages and language features just steal and adapt from Common Lisp (it's okay, that was just a joke, geeze). I never felt the availability of nearly any programming paradigm ever marred my experience in working in Lisp or ma
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by nescoiquid 8y ago
> It's not something an uninformed person would reasonably expect Nor is it something an informed person should tolerate.
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by nescoiquid 8y ago
> I refuse to whiteboard Why is that? How you communicate is really very important. If the discussion warrants it, I offer the whiteboard to people if it helps them explain something or if I'm having trouble following. Is there a do
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by nescoiquid 8y ago
> But you'd still expect features to be getting implemented at a higher rate Yes, I'm inclined to agree, but I actually haven't ever seen a study which compares the same project implemented in different languages to establ
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by nescoiquid 8y ago
And studies show that the number of lines of code a developer puts out in a day is basically constant across all languages. This is usually cited as an argument for more expressive languages. But if bug count is proportional to LOC and LOC
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by nescoiquid 8y ago
I think this is a good question. My suspicion is that the policy resulted from legal, rather than market forces. If that's true, then the fact that we the readers, viewers, listeners are the product sold to the advertisers is irrelevan
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by nescoiquid 11y ago
It is loadable via asdf. You can look at a very silly example here: https://github.com/grantham/clef-reading
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by nescoiquid 12y ago
Word. There's Real World Haskell by Don Stewart ( http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/index.html ), though the order of exposition is different and your mileage may vary with the exercises. I did find that "P