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by novembermike 8y ago
Or the application was rejected but they only send rejections to completed applications. There's a lot of reasonable explanations.
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by novembermike 8y ago
It looks like it's accurate. https://www.businessinsider.com/migrant-children-in-cages-20...
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by novembermike 8y ago
A lot of stuff is like this. If you replace Geology with Rocklore then it sounds kind of weird but it's basically what it was in Greek.
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by novembermike 8y ago
I see him as more of a Ben Carson figure personally (a legitimate expert in his field that often answers questions about things he knows nothing about), but I agree that it's a little disappointing when his critics make fun of somethin
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by novembermike 8y ago
>You have to look at really successful indie games, such as Terraria, Factorio, Mini Metro, Stardew Valley, Darkest Dungeon, Papers Please.. and there are many more. If you look at these games do you really think there is an alternative
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by novembermike 8y ago
Yep, to be honest I might even want to buy a genuine counterfeit item for some reason. If I see a listing for a counterfeit rolex then maybe that's fine (not legally, but it's not harming the consumer). The problem is when you buy
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by novembermike 8y ago
Eh, I'd call them culturally close. I always read it as "the most common systems programming languages", since that's how the phrasing is usually used.
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by novembermike 8y ago
Yeah, IIRC almost none of the old Japanese wooden buildings are original. They all have a strong ship of Theseus theme going on, but philosophically the Japanese tend to view the building as the place and purpose and layout and not the indi
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by novembermike 9y ago
I'm not sure what's scary there. It's got a low velocity for a lightweight round and penetrates light armor. As a trade off it doesn't have great terminal performance against people.
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by novembermike 9y ago
Militaries have been moving away from that gun because it just isn't that lethal.
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by novembermike 9y ago
Mostly not that bad. The problems were typically that the guns just sucked. The R51 might have had safety issues, I can't remember off the top of my head, but the other ones were just bargain quality guns at middle of the line prices.
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by novembermike 9y ago
Depends on the era. By the time they were adopting guns most of the Samurai had given up bows. Most Samurai were spearmen, with Ashigaru typically being the bowmen.
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by novembermike 9y ago
A lot of the unconscious bias studies are failing to replicate.
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by novembermike 9y ago
The saying is "one bad apple ruins the bunch".
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by novembermike 9y ago
One of the problems is that people hear "DRY" and they don't hear "Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system", which is the actual idea. They don't e
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by novembermike 9y ago
Can you bake a loaf of bread worth $10k?
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by novembermike 9y ago
Mouse Guard is basically the rangers from the Lord of the Rings in mouse form, with cats and owls as monsters.
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by novembermike 9y ago
The pattern I've seen is that AWS makes sense for startups, then you hit a point where you need a hundred hosts in a couple of data centers and you can do that more cheaply with raw hardware and a small team to handle it. Then you hit
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by novembermike 9y ago
This isn't much lock-in though. It's just a way to server a bunch of static files. It would take a little effort to port it to google cloud or a random file server, but not that much effort.
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by novembermike 9y ago
Reality is global mutable state. You can't get away from it entirely, you can only isolate it.
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by novembermike 9y ago
I doubt Postgres could handle what Riak's doing. Riak is a Dynamo style database, which basically means that you get zero features but you get something that's fast and scalable. Postgres gives a different set of tradeoffs.
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by novembermike 9y ago
How is she a master? She looks like an amateur hobbyist, the main positive she has is that she looks fairly active and she's actually building stuff. Looking at her youtube I saw 3d printed bikini cups, what looked like her putting tog
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by novembermike 9y ago
It's an interesting idea but a lot of the research is pointing against things that are near the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Culture is an influence, but it isn't normally close to a majority influence.
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by novembermike 9y ago
JS isn't the problem though. V8 is pretty efficient and lightweight. The problem is that Electron pulls in all of the DOM stuff when there are lighter alternatives built into most operating systems.
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by novembermike 9y ago
Isn't Phoenix just Plug + Ecto + generators and a folder structure? I always saw it as "how to use Plugs" rather than a separate project.
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by novembermike 9y ago
"Preparation" in this case meant going from 1% as prepared as Western Europe to 5% as prepared as Western Europe. Remember, when the Mongols attacked Vienna at the same time they were beating the Polish and Hungarians they were de
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by novembermike 9y ago
He's referring to the fact that a major catalyst for the Nazis gaining power was German communists engaging in what was practically open warfare with them.
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by novembermike 9y ago
To be fair, from his perspective it appears he was trying to discuss discrimination taking place against him. I'd think long and hard before I told a woman to shut up if they were talking about the same. There's actually a reasona
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by novembermike 9y ago
Are you sure you aren't thinking of post plague Europe? I just double checked wikipedia and it basically says between 13-20 million people in France depending on what you consider to be "France" (modern borders are closer to
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by novembermike 9y ago
The Mongols were having trouble in Europe before Chenggis died and there is evidence that they turned around before they heard of his death. It's easy to mythologize the Mongols, but when they tried to move on castle builders in the le

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