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by panopticon 5y ago
> That's not how it works. Most larger trees survive fires just fine, they just don't look very pretty for a while afterwards. In theory that's how it should work. The problem is when you have heat plus drought condition
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by panopticon 5y ago
I think that depends on the city/neighborhood. We heard fireworks pretty regularly throughout the year when we lived in San Jose. And they became more frequent after the Flyod protests. On the flip side, we heard far more gunshots than
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by panopticon 5y ago
I think a lot of the negative connotation comes from the type of parent that's trying to live out old glory years or missed opportunities through their child by forcing them into a particular sport or activity instead of allowing their
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by panopticon 5y ago
And on the genitalia too. There was that Chicago police squad that tortured suspects with a cattle prod to the testicles to coerce confessions.
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by panopticon 5y ago
> There's definitely some influence there, but the twitter's importance and impact on the world is severely overhyped. I'm not sure I would make the same claim. Twitter is wildly popular among journalists, pundits, and o
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by panopticon 5y ago
A function still seems appropriate even if you're not using this multiple times. Unless how you're computing the haversine distance is relevant to the surrounding code, it would be much more readable to extract it out.
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by panopticon 5y ago
> Well, the roads are safe (for cars). Not necessarily. Your risk of being in a fatal car accident is nearly 3x higher on suburban roads than urban roads. This is a good video on the deficiencies of suburbia road design if you're
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by panopticon 5y ago
> Then there's the press which lives by sensationalizing every bad thing that happens, leading us to grossly exaggerate risk levels in our society. Humans are really bad at assessing risk. Parents are more likely to be afraid of a
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by panopticon 5y ago
Number 7 is also already true in some cars. You have almost zero gauges and just get an engine light when something's amiss. Then you need to use an OBDII reader to know what's wrong.
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by panopticon 5y ago
My question was about FAANG-level salaries specifically though. You're probably not going to be able to buy a house near the office on that salary, no. But renting is still a viable option. To provide an anecdote: my wife and I moved t
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by panopticon 5y ago
> makes me wonder why anyone (especially more numerate people) would tolerate not working remotely Honest question: are there a substantial number of remote companies paying bay area FAANG salaries? You put in any decent time at these
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by panopticon 5y ago
You posted a tangential rant disparaging the comment section of another website. The voting system is the most appropriate response to flamebait.
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by panopticon 5y ago
These use GM's 4L60E 4-speed automatic. I don't remember the 4L60E being that much of a lemon that you blow through four of them with normal use.
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by panopticon 5y ago
It likely originated there, but I observed it all over the place. MMOs, IRC, other message boards, etc. From my experience, it was a common fixture of the late 2000s internet culture.
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by panopticon 5y ago
2D art or 3D art? If the former, it looks like some of that is from existing art (e.g., "Bear Rider" is clearly from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogatyr#/media/File:Viktor_Vas... ). The latter is m
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by panopticon 5y ago
It's hard to tell based on the material available on the website, but it looks like their book isn't physical. If you go through the checkout process, it doesn't gather shipping information. I assume the <$1 figure was j
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by panopticon 5y ago
I think your understanding of the law is more strict than it actually is. The text of 17602(c) reads: > In addition to the requirements of subdivision (b), a consumer who accepts an automatic renewal or continuous service offer online s
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by panopticon 5y ago
While I don't think the study is particularly strong by itself, your criticisms are kind of strange. I find that hard to believe that defining a roster of "Democrat elites" materially changes the survey responses and analysis
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by panopticon 5y ago
It's a weird world where a company that does billions in annual revenue isn't considered big.
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by panopticon 5y ago
Many national parks set monthly visitation records last year, campground reservations are at all-time highs, and SAR operations across the country are stretched thing. What else was there to do when other vacation and travel activities are
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by panopticon 6y ago
That's not strictly true. Wikipedia is crowed-sourced, and losing visitors means losing potential contributors. You could probably make the case that someone who would rather read the snippet on Google isn't likely to contribute,
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by panopticon 6y ago
Isn't bribe-taking the poster child "corruption" activity? Or do you mean "lining their pockets" in another sense?
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by panopticon 6y ago
On each individual point, you're right. But I'm curious which titles you think do better than GTA V on all of those points? Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Witcher 3 are the only two that come to mind.
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by panopticon 6y ago
Note that using `let` instead of `var` in your for-loop fixes this in JavaScript (ignoring IE's faulty implemention of `let`).
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by panopticon 6y ago
This is a pretty common practice throughout the US. Some big chain retail stores will even fire employees if they try to confront a suspected thief. It's generally cheaper to call the cops and file an insurance claim than it is to deal
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by panopticon 6y ago
If you think $20 is high, wait until you find out that it's actually $170. The $10 for preordering is just to reserve a unit. The preorder does include a $40 coupon though, so the total price for preorders is $140 ($170 device + $10 pr
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by panopticon 6y ago
A hardcore mode isn't super rare in gaming. Tell your kids to try Minecraft's hardcore mode; that'll change their answer.
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by panopticon 6y ago
> California (and if we are being honest, liberal) types will do anything and everything to avoid any kind of conflict Someone hasn't heard of Minnesota nice[0]. The conflict avoidance in the midwest is way more extreme than what
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by panopticon 6y ago
I don't buy the premise that package managers are the reason why companies need DevOps. Software deployment has gotten complicated for a variety of reasons (containerization, micro-services, continuous integration, cargo-culting FAANG
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by panopticon 6y ago
I don't understand this critique. Is this a complaint about package managers in general, or is `brew install git` lowering the bar from `apt install git`?

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