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by nzp 10y ago
Yeah, I think conceptually there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that the contrast is too low for me.
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by nzp 10y ago
I think GH gives off this impression because the UI looks like it has more stuff going on at the same time. It's probably an illusion caused by GH's design having more contrast between elements. GL is trying to look minimalistic
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by nzp 10y ago
That Poettering quote is a frightening example of intellectual dishonesty. It's like a politician talking nonsense to legitimize the shit sandwich he's about to stuff into your face. Either that, or he has no clue what he's
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A Map Showing Every Single Cargo Ship in the World(digg.com)
4 points by nzp 10y ago|2 comments
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by nzp 10y ago
I'm under the impression that “gun culture” people mostly obsess with exactly these things? This is in a way a dual of what I was saying, they far more fear and obsess over the threat of their metaphorical neighbor then they do about
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Calibration of Ρ Values for Testing Precise Null Hypotheses (2001)(tandfonline.com)
1 points by nzp 10y ago|0 comments
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by nzp 10y ago
Governments always had better resources. Until they didn't. The only way a government has resources is by people providing the resources by doing work. Once people collectively deny work, it's game over for the government. As
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by nzp 10y ago
A non-sequitur. You, as a private citizen, are not in a position prevent someone else having something by not having it yourself. A company, private or public, whose business is arranging for people to get various stuff has the potential
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by nzp 10y ago
That's a fantasy view of how military engagement works. The whole argument that the US military has advanced tech, particularly air power, therefore “your guns” are useless is demonstrably false. If it were true, you wouldn't ha
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by nzp 10y ago
All these things are just GitHub's implementation and UX details. The README file is the traditional meta-level documentation (if I correctly understand what you mean by that: top level document that gives a more or less comprehensi
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by nzp 10y ago
The one you quote first.
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by nzp 10y ago
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but README file was a convention for decades literally.
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by nzp 10y ago
You're right in that it can be said about almost anything, but it's not about time. If you're born into poverty, you can have all the time in the world, but you'll find it extremely hard to get proper education before
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by nzp 10y ago
In the first case they're held accountable because business interests are compromised. In the second, no business interest is compromised by screwing up Joe Public's computer (except Joe's, but he has no material social leve
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by nzp 10y ago
For crying out loud, what is wrong with people these days, are moral compasses so wacked out by constant corporate brain washing that people don't see there is simply no issue here. None at all. Not even from Facebook's point o
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by nzp 10y ago
It's a voluntary commercial relationship between me (or any other patron of Facebook) and Facebook, and none of your business. Neither I nor Facebook need to justify any aspect of said relationship to you or any third party as long as
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by nzp 10y ago
That's quite optimistic when you think about it. Most simple coding tasks are pure drudgery with no consequence to positive human values (other than “I have to do this to not starve”). Defeating most online advertising, on the other
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by nzp 10y ago
I find his podcast relaxing (well, most of the time) to listen to even though I'm not a Mac user either. I think he mentioned Deck a couple of times, so I turned uBlock off to see, and hey, they really are reasonable and tasteful, so
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by nzp 10y ago
Deck is the only decent ad network I'm aware of, so I keep them unblocked. The fact that you haven't noticed he has ads on the site speaks enough.
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Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight(nature.com)
2 points by nzp 10y ago|0 comments
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Fewer Than 1000 Brits Googled “What Is the EU?” After Referendum(steve-patterson.com)
112 points by nzp 10y ago|28 comments
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by nzp 10y ago
This is a non sequitur. There is a myriad of reasons why one might not profit even if they're completely right about the market. For example: just can't be bothered.
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by nzp 10y ago
So how did you establish "the fact" that the Swiss public, in particular, is "educated enough" and the US and the UK public, in particular, are not? Is there a standard somewhere, a test that was done, or is it just the
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by nzp 10y ago
I'm not deflecting. Their best result was something over 35 % (don't remember the exact number) of the votes, and that was in the elections before the ones they supposedly won. Democracy failed not because the "general pu
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by nzp 10y ago
No, we don't remember. It might have to do with the fact Hitler wasn't ever elected for anything. Neither has NSDAP ever had a majority before they took power.
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by nzp 10y ago
So you're characterizing everyone who voted to leave based on a distorted statement of one person the BBC pulled out. He in fact did not say that, quoted no less, sentence at all! Find the clip, the full clip, and watch it. He sai
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by nzp 11y ago
I don't know what you (they) meant by "blissful times", but "fascinating out-of-body" experiences doesn't sound right. It could be that they experienced something close to Jhana[0] but I'm skeptical it ca
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by nzp 11y ago
In case of C it's not just makefiles, in fact I would guess that the reason makefiles use tabs is because there is a historical preference for tabs in C programmers (just a wild guess really). Various C style guides mandate the use of
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by nzp 11y ago
It's interesting how almost everyone, and certainly those who harassed our good plumber, sees the words "extremists in Syria", completely ignores what group it actually is (the name is there, it's not ISIS), and just ass
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by nzp 11y ago
You're welcome to explain how it works, of course.

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