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   by nkoren 10y ago

   That is correct, but I believe you meant 'e.g.' rather than 'i.e.': http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/ie-versus... (If someone can spot an error I've made, this can go on
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   by nkoren 10y ago

   ...Or you could just use https://www.mailpile.is/ , which is a genuinely less painful way to do encrypted email.
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   by nkoren 10y ago

   The fact that the proposal was made in written rather than spoken form is supposed to matter, how? She certainly did make the proposal, and defended it afterwards. Not "fake news" by any stretch of the imagination.
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   by nkoren 10y ago

   Without intending any snark, here's a guide to getting upvoted rather than downvoted for a comment like this: "I think the typography of the issue list makes it hard to look at for me, because ________(insert constructive criti
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   by nkoren 10y ago

   Also, re: these ostentatious religious invocations at the conventions. Think Jesus might've had a thing or three to say about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_6:5
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   by nkoren 10y ago

   Parties become problematic when their tents gets too big: the central organising principle become personality-driven factions. The Democratic party may already have this problem. When push came to shove, the DNC's core concept of itsel
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   by nkoren 10y ago

   While winning seats would be good, moving the Overton window[1] would be very valuable in its own right. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
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   by nkoren 10y ago

   Thank you. We need more of you. Keep trying!
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   by nkoren 10y ago

   Agreed. By most metrics I am very liberal (although am orthogonal to the left/right axis by some metrics), and I would love to see Republican primaries jammed up with intellectually honest science-believing fiscal conservatives. And
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    Um, no. It's FAR safer than the US, but not nearly as safe as Japan (but then, what is)? Comparing crime statistics is notoriously difficult due to differences in methodologies and reporting rates, but "homicide" is one stati
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    Something weird is going on with the comment thread here. Messages from the Lyra creators are being downvoted with no conceivable justification that I can see; the fusion_cow account appears to have been hell-banned. Looking at the their co
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    I wonder: what's the point of a ranking like this? It's got China wedged between Canada and Poland. On the one hand, on average this is probably correct: there are vast swathes of inland China that are undoubtedly quite stultify
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    In the long term, there are only two paths that life can take: the stars, or extinction. By not choosing one, we are choosing the other. And yes, that is a fucking tragedy.
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    The analogy to VIM is, in this respect, quite a good one. That said, Blender's GUI has been updated dramatically over the last 5 years. It is still quite painful ("discoverability" does not seem to be a concept they've b
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    This, this, a thousand times this. One thing that Apple has done very well is put together a website that: A.) Tells you what they are selling, and B.) Can sell it to you. Why is it so hard for other vendors to figure out that this
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    I would hope that she would answer "white...?" -- eg., demonstrate the ability and willingness make a useful provisional inference, with the understanding that it is provisional and the curiosity to know more. That, it seems t
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    Or careful thought: > In 1856, General Alexander Cunningham, later director general of the archaeological survey of northern India, visited Harappa where the British engineers John and William Brunton were laying the East Indian Railway
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    I'm a founder bootstrapping a startup, so at the moment both my income and my assets are very well short of middle class. Nonetheless, I can afford to live in London Zone 2 -- a ten-minute walk away from Tower Bridge -- because I'
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    The mouse they ship -- the Magic Mouse -- issues a right-button click when you click on the right side of it. There's no slight of hand: it's a two-button mouse.
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    This. > ...take the time to notice both the pros and cons of the article, not just the parts you want to be true. Deciphering reality takes time instead of just listening to reflexive beliefs. It requires that one’s mind be open to the p
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    Thanks, that really helps. It's getting noticeably laggy for me at 611 nodes, but below you say it shouldn't be a problem to do 5k. Have you actually tested that kind of data?
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    I don't have the study readily at hand, but per-kilometer costs for rail infrastructure are 5-10 times higher in the US than in developed countries like Spain and Germany, and 20-40 times higher than in developing countries like China
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    Oh gods, I didn't keep a list. Most had no effect, but I eventually traced it to Contacts, and with the exception of a couple of even more mysterious rogue issues with the windowserver, that seems to have fixed it.
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    It may not be the hardware; it may be the the OS. Since upgrading to Sierra, I've been plagued by various runaway kernel processes randomly eating 100% of the CPU. Have finally managed to kill most of them through deleting .plists and
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    Out of curiosity, what do you think of what flux.io is doing? If a SaaS structural engineering application could be integrated with that, would it address your needs? (For what it's worth, I'm doing something similar in the transp
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    Pirates given mandate to form new Iceland Government(icelandmonitor.mbl.is)

    2 points by nkoren 10y ago|0 comments
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    Try reloading the page? But, yeah, the social media hooks on this adver^H^H^H^Hsite are extremely aggressive and annoying. It starts with popup, then if you close that it opens a sidebar, then if you ignore that opens a footer. All demand
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    Absolutely. I worked as a transport infrastructure planner for both public and private clients in 14 countries. On the side, I started a couple of software companies, and saw how collaboration tools like Google Docs and Github made the deci
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    You need to learn about trophic cascades. Here's a quick intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q This played out in the Pleistocene extinctions to a very significant degree, having tremendous effect on ecosy
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    by nkoren 10y ago

    "Sustainable", if you conveniently forget about the extinction of the Woolly Mammoth, Woolly Rhino, Giant Sloths, Sabre Tooth Cats, Glyptodonts, Elephant Birds, Giant Lemurs, Giant Otters, Cave Lion, Cave Bear, Cave Hyena, Irish E