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by noxToken 8y ago
There are subsets of creationists. One being that all natural beings came directly from the creator with no evolution (typically young earth), and the kind you mention where something was created by design and further evolved.
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> the pain associated with getting hit in these all-important reproductive organs is so severe that he will go to great lengths to avoid it and protect them Too bad we're so soft-headed that we spend our formative years doing our
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by noxToken 8y ago
> where people within know the customers not only by an excel sheet Unless you don't count individual actions, this is probably nonexistent. My hometown had a very small regional bank with roughly 3 branches total. One manager was
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by noxToken 8y ago
The article dances around and slightly touches this, but for me, it was always the mythos and size of the universe. The movies were never the big draw for me. The novels held the true universe. Legends was massive. The feats within Legends
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by noxToken 8y ago
I haven't tried to write extensions for Edge or anything like that, but have you recently developed for Edge or even IE11? I've run into a few minor warts (minor as in a 5-minutes fix) with IE11, but it's been smooth sailing
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That is so abundantly true on HN[0]. Nearly any thread about poverty, money, or credit will be full of examples of people who don't understand what it's like to not have money, and it is strange. It's not usually the "Am
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by noxToken 8y ago
For me, this bit: > If they rate anything below 5 you don't forward them to the App store for adding a review. This method attempts to passively hide negative reviews from the public while actively prompting users to leave positiv
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by noxToken 8y ago
To date, my most complex piece of software in terms of how it was implemented was a simple calculator written in my first programming course. About a week before I started it, I had learned about regular expressions (the programming constru
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You're only thinking from a security standpoint. It's valid, but there can be other goals for the system. You can take off a watch to leave at your desk. You probably don't want to chop off a finger.
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I don't think this is the last few years. I am but one data point, but morality and law have always been closely linked in the United States. I would further claim that for many Christians, morality and law are also closely linked with
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by noxToken 8y ago
I'm not gonna comment on the substitution of video calls for in-person visitation nor the kickbacks that prisons get for the offsite calls. We all know that it's garbage, and that companies like Securus are disgusting. I will say
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This is plausible in either direction. I once turned down the volume for a streaming service one evening probably to talk to a friend. The playlist played through the night and well into the next evening. Depending on the playlist, some tra
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Not happiness - enjoyment. The two are closely linked, but you don't inherently have to be happy to get enjoyment out of something. What I mean is that you don't always have to hit max to be satisfied. Don't get so bogged dow
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by noxToken 8y ago
This reminds me if the college freshman who starts freaking out about post-college life. They immediately regret the college they chose. They're chattering non-stop about the what classes are worth taking. They later get two internship
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by noxToken 8y ago
A mod may want to update the URL from the homepage to a permalink[0]. The next comic update will ruin this post. [0]: https://xkcd.com/1988/
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If bootcamps trend upwards to overtake traditional 4 year curricula, then this list will absolutely make them stand out. Those courses are hyper-focused on essential OJT basics that they wouldn't have time to incorporate a lot of this
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> ...like smart speakers, with their threat of big brother-style surveillance in exchange for a minimal increase in convenience It seems like everyone in this thread is forgetting that the HomePod[0] is a thing. Apple's privacy pra
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by noxToken 8y ago
This first portion is known as Betteridge's law of headlines[0]. I don't have a source for the corollary. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%
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by noxToken 8y ago
> Javascript also goes out of its way to be friendlier. While other languages complain when you try to add two different width integers, Javascript will happily add a number and a string together. It's something that drives those of
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by noxToken 8y ago
Alcohol for depression is like taking Tylenol and applying a bandaid to an infected wound. The pain goes away. You can't see the wound any longer. Yet the infection will still be there to cause damage. Don't get me wrong: I unders
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by noxToken 8y ago
I work for a financial group, and no customer will ever have a reason to come into this specific building whatsoever. Current outside temp this morning is about 65F with a high of 68F. The temperature set for inside is 60F. What sadistic pe
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by noxToken 9y ago
So everyone else is force into being surveilled as well? In the US military, there are health and comfort inspections. They have a legitimate use: inspect the living quarters on base to ensure that personnel are living in safe, habitable co
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by noxToken 9y ago
I followed that YouTube link and currently skimming the performance. This is a hell of a concert.
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by noxToken 9y ago
The long bar (beneath the upvote/downvote buttons) that shows what level the current comment is at collapses comments by clicking it. Very unintuitive, and I only found it by accident.
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It's not that people can't lie on the Internet. Back then, it was more or less expected that whatever was written on the Internet is no more truthful than someone telling a story. One of the major differences was that people we&#x
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Back in 2006, the web was still largely something for nerds. The average person wasn't putting up the same time online as, for example, an MMO player whereas today, the average user is online just as much or more than an "early ad
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You're right, but non-technical clients don't care. It's a little different to them. With a ZIP code in the US, it consists of 5 digits that form a unique number for a geographical area with 4 more digits that represents a su
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by noxToken 9y ago
The title is a perfect mash of subjects. FB bashing, a few shots at YT's monetization policy, and a blockchain alternative to replace them. This is a trifecta for drive-by voters - even if it is pure clickbait.
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This puts Telsa at odds with itself. The feature is called Autopilot after the namesake of flight systems where the pilot doesn't need to be constantly hands on. It is marketed as an autonomous driving system that allows the car to dri
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They're not starting in a vacuum. Spotify has metric tons of listening and catalog data to help properly tag a newly signed artist. Discover weekly would help fine tune the data that's already on hand.

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