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by papln 7y ago
string.length() still doesn't make sense in Python 3 There's nothing "simple" about "list of characters" in Unicode. Discussed at length at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18154667 Here&
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by papln 7y ago
SOP doesn't make it right. A journalist could say "A spokesperson made an unrelated comment in leiu of answering the question."
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by papln 7y ago
"de-energization" doesn't say anything about the reason either. Using overly-formal worlds is PR spin tactic to suppress the connotation of the common term, and psedo-justify the action by connoting scientific credibility. h
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by papln 7y ago
Headline is deceptive. There is no objective metric of "most dangerous" here. The list is a list of "employers that an activist group wants to make noise about." Does Amazon have problems to address? Absolutely. Is it &q
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by papln 7y ago
You must be too young to remember when loans were dischargeable before the banks got the laws changed.
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by papln 7y ago
The solution to bad credit can't be more credit -- people will (and do) just take the credit, waste it, and then seek more credit. A better solution is to allow discharge of private debt so that lenders put more effort into validating
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by papln 7y ago
Clickbait headline is referring to "online installment loan, a form of debt with much longer maturities but often the same sort of crippling, triple-digit interest rates"
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by papln 7y ago
Should dictionaries be put behind the counter so only adults can access them?
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by papln 7y ago
How convenient that "someone messed up", supressing installs of a competing product, with no compensation for the error. Under-12s can't have a Google Account of their own, so they can't spend money, so why would IAP be
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by papln 7y ago
Don't leave us hanging...Do you like typing German? Do you type German at all? > Does someone want their promotion/bonus and for that they have to reach x downloads? 10x yes.
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by papln 7y ago
Shades of "We do not support competitors' products." Malign neglect -- build a regulatory system that is valid in principle, but it implemented in a complex enough way that it tends to fail often, which has a tendency to scar
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by papln 7y ago
Part of this controversy is reminiscent of the Higgs Boson "God particle" nonsense, where an unscientific catchphrase created by scientists got picked put by the media and a misinterpretation overshadowed the real scientific issue
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by papln 7y ago
Could be simplified to "Bill Joy's password had a control character", since no one had announced a thought that Ken's password had one, so the misdirection is pointless distraction.
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by papln 7y ago
According to the story (which may or may not be true), he did tell her, but she didn't understand.
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by papln 7y ago
Your comment does not contradict parent, it supports it.
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by papln 7y ago
That's not "funny" enough, unless the "!!" is replaced by an emoji.
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by papln 7y ago
What's wrong with babyfood that must be consumed within 2 months. (And note that it doesn't turn toxic after it's expiration date, shelf-life for canned goods is far longer than stamped date.)
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by papln 7y ago
There's a cottage industry of this in HN, where someone posts a blog complainings about BigCo destroying their small business, getting hundreds of upvotes and comments, and then it turns out, every time, that oops their software develo
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by papln 7y ago
How do you know that story is true? Amazon is full of sellers with many complaints published on the site.
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by papln 7y ago
A lot of people actually want to get paid. They don't avoid paying jobs because the langauge is new to them, unless... someone else knows the language better and gets hired, which is not a problem for the employer.
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by papln 7y ago
Yes. Until Evan stops gatekeeping which packages are allowed to be published, Elm is a high-risk experimental language best suited to experimental projects.
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by papln 7y ago
HasField typeclass was recently added to GHC. It has no laws. https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/p...
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by papln 7y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elm First Known Use of elm before the 12th century
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by papln 7y ago
Elm was my favorite tree back before Unix became a thing. It's unfortunate that projects appropriate commmon English words.
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by papln 7y ago
"3rd-party" or "3P" sellers.
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by papln 7y ago
It's likely related to (1) US market is largest "single-language * consumer spending" market, so almost everyone outside of US/UK market puts effort in US first. (2) USPS/UPU offers nearly 0-cost shipping for China
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by papln 7y ago
But it also would not be begging the question. One should not assume that "good for Amazon" is always user-centric.
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by papln 7y ago
That's a great example of how Amazon abuses their monopoly power as a marketplace provider to boost their vendor business. "Calling you" is something that they do for their benefit, but go to great lengths to prevent 3rd par
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by papln 7y ago
It's sad that the Secret Service, who was created for one job -- investigate counterfeiting -- don't understand where money comes from.
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by papln 7y ago
This is why I discovered that my wallet tears my money when I switched to a billfold.

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