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by nilkn 10y ago
My Facebook feed is nothing but ads, low effort clickbait, and liberal anti-Trump news pieces. I'm pretty liberal myself but I just find the incredible level of groupthink to be completely insufferable. Content from friends and family
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by nilkn 10y ago
Of course. Some people just need some encouragement, and it makes pretty good business sense to provide it, at least in an industry like software development which will probably attract a disproportionate share of shy people. I used to be v
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by nilkn 10y ago
If by real plane you just mean the standard vector space R^2, the answer is algebraic rather than topological. R^2 as a vector space has an addition operation, but no multiplication operation. The complex plane is obtained by simply picking
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by nilkn 10y ago
These questions don't seem all that unreasonable to me in and of themselves. I've barely used Scala and could answer a few of them. Several of them are prominent questions I immediately had the first time I read Scala code (e.g.,
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by nilkn 10y ago
Yes, and it should be. I took it for granted that this sort of argument is already applied to celebrities. The unexpected/counter-intuitive part of my claim is that it should also apply to the people writing one-off tweets that they th
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by nilkn 10y ago
Your opinions have consequences. They can affect other people in real ways. In this case, the imprecise, incredibly untrustworthy outrage of thousands of people -- fueled by a sensationalist media hit job -- almost ruined someone's car
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by nilkn 10y ago
To be fair, he did say that he was just reporting the final outcome. It's unclear exactly what was involved in his trial and error approach or how he judged "significant clusters".
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by nilkn 10y ago
I pretty much see iPads as family devices these days. Sure, that's not to say they can't be fun to have as personal "I will be the only person using this" devices, but since the original iPad: (1) phones have gotten a l
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by nilkn 10y ago
> For less than the cost of the Switch you can buy a "shitty watered down PC", that has MUCH greater performance, plays Blu-Ray, Netflix, and whatever else you want. Can you link me to where I can buy this other portable gaming
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by nilkn 10y ago
The article itself, despite its headline, seems to acknowledge that blaming everything on Trump is not quite correct: > Already, fewer Mexicans had been willing to risk border crossings as security and deportations escalated under the Ob
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by nilkn 10y ago
Immigration raids? Those have been going on forever now. Deportation is not new under Trump. I assume they must be happening on mass scale starting months ago to have had any effect on this already. He's barely been in office 50 days.
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by nilkn 10y ago
> Trump’s border crackdown is supposed to help U.S. citizens. For California farmers, it’s creating a desperate shortage of help. I'm immediately skeptical. What has Trump even done on the border that would have any effect on this a
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by nilkn 10y ago
I also enjoyed the serial killer quest line in Novigrad.
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by nilkn 10y ago
By the way, the old man does give a cooking tutorial in the Great Plateau, but you have to seek him out for it. Cooking is encouraged there as a way to deal with the cold to access one of the shrines. You can either cook hot peppers to make
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by nilkn 10y ago
Any recommendations on which new prelude to use? I'm fairly competent with Haskell but have never looked into these and am feeling decision paralysis -- too many choices.
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by nilkn 10y ago
This sort of post is actually yet another reason why I dislike tipping culture. I'm being guilted/pressured -- and not even by a driver -- into supporting a system in which drivers are underpaid and every customer has to individua
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by nilkn 10y ago
Thanks, that explanation makes sense to me.
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by nilkn 10y ago
The rest of your post seems to be talking about cases where the market changes and the labor force changes as a result. But we're looking at the opposite, right? We're looking at a direct change to the labor force, and there may o
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by nilkn 10y ago
Why?
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> This is just not sound economics at all. Honestly I think the statements I made are extremely simple. Is it false that low-wage earners are also consumers? Is it false that low-wage earners have less money to spend as consumers?
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by nilkn 10y ago
It's possible he didn't think it needed clarification. This discussion took place within effectively a far-right echo chamber where everyone was already more or less on the same page. It's also possible he didn't even fe
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by nilkn 10y ago
Well, first of all, many consumers are also low-end salary earners. Second and perhaps more importantly, the more salaries are driven down, the less money those earners have to spend, which means businesses will see less potential revenue.
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by nilkn 10y ago
A generous interpretation of Bannon would be that he simply wants to see more domestic workers founding successful tech companies. He might see these statistics not as a reason to get rid of ethnic minorities, but rather as a sign that some
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> there's no evidence that immigration, even mass immigration, has any negative consequences, apart from some more competition at the very low end of salaries So, in other words, there is evidence that it does have negative conseque
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by nilkn 10y ago
> Rich host countries are poaching productive individuals while selecting against people who are most in need of help I'm not sure that "poaching" is the right word. The US isn't seeking out potential immigrants and t
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I think that needs a citation with a clear quote.
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I also felt that closing line was unnecessary and actually detracted a bit from the thrust of the article. It ironically felt a little tone-deaf to me. (1) I don't really like being shamed over having a penis. I don't really like
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I don't really think you have to be in the upper echelon of consumers to afford the occasional grocery delivery. It's more about not being in the bottom echelon, i.e., you definitely do need to have some disposable income every mo
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I actually have a similar commute right now (more like 5 minutes by foot). My apartment is just a block away from the office. As an aside, if you ever find yourself in a situation where it's possible to do this, I highly recommend taki
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by nilkn 10y ago
I think this is a less than ideal workaround because it breaks (Cmd|Ctrl)+F search on large comment threads. I do this quite a bit just to see if some particular topic has already been discussed somewhere. Actually I think the current desig

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