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by partycoder 8y ago
In general, the causes for slowness can be divided into two categories: 1. A slow server. 2. A heavy page. A slow connection, a slow computer, a computer busy running other processes, a slow browser, a browser with hundred
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Corporations already have significant control over agriculture, especially seeds.
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Malaria is the reason settler colonialism failed in Africa. If you remove malaria, Africa will be inevitably invaded by colonial settlers.
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When was the last time you saw a Native American? How often does that happen? Why do you think there are so few? Why don't most people in America partially look like natives in a continent that used to have millions of them? Use your g
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by partycoder 8y ago
Go read about Camp David accords, Egypt-Israel peace treaty and the whole mess of UN resolutions involving Israel and after you do that, let me know if it just depends on Egypt.
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How to make cake, by Russell Peters First, you get cake. Then you make it for 20 minutes. Then you have cake.
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by partycoder 8y ago
Native languages magically disappeared because their native speakers, after 10,000+ years living in the same region, abruptly became very bad at living, and died. There's also 50% chance that it was settler colonialism, ethnic cleansin
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by partycoder 8y ago
Please pay more attention to what I posted: I never mentioned Israel, and I am not biased against them. The Gaza/Egypt border only allows people, not goods. Goods need to go through Israel/Gaza borders. If you disagree with this,
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by partycoder 8y ago
> Are you suggesting that the border with Egypt should allow smuggling? No, I am not. I am describing that wall. > Goods can (and do) enter from there. No, they don't. Only people are allowed through the Gaza/Egypt border (c
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by partycoder 8y ago
The border with Egypt is walled. The wall also extends underground to prevent smuggling. The Gaza strip cannot be accessed by air or sea either.
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by partycoder 8y ago
"anti" = opposition. Opposition can have various degrees. The terms you used are often reserved for substantial prejudice and discrimination (see Allport's scale).
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Note that the article quickly turns political, and often the follow up political discussion is not welcome here on HN. It will take a lot of restraint for those kids to stay in development.
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Some developers have n years of experience, others have the same year of experience repeated n times. The latter happens when a developer becomes too comfortable with their knowledge and stops learning, or when they emphasize development sp
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by partycoder 8y ago
> Typically, the code itself is trivial. There are tremendous financial opportunities waiting behind automation of expensive tasks usually performed by developers. For many of those tasks, the moment is right now, and the code itself is
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May be a reasonable choice but I recommend just throwing.
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Does the misspelled version prevailed over the correct version if both are defined?
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by partycoder 8y ago
In this line: https://github.com/brannondorsey/host-validation/blob/2ba467... use Array.some rather than iterating through all elements with Array.filter. Then this: https://github.com/brannon
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by partycoder 8y ago
This only means many users are upset. But even if they were 100,000, that would be a small fraction of the user base and you could still say the user base is either indifferent or satisfied with the change.
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by partycoder 8y ago
Gmail's user base = billions of people. A few hundred upset users can be misleading.
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Games are risky. Only very few people are competent enough to create an entertaining game that is viable from a technical, creative and financial perspective in a sustainable manner. Hundreds of quality games are released every day. You cou
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by partycoder 8y ago
I like how "god" was substituted by "rms" (Richard Stallman's initials). Godbolt is pretty useful. It is a good idea to start by turning off compiler optimizations.
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Switching context has a cost. Resuming work has a cost. If it is already end of day, it may be reasonable to start your next task tomorrow rather than spending time next morning trying to resume your work.
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Nice deflection. While you are there, visit the Maya mass graves try to learn about the US role in making that happen.
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The Maya still exist today. What people often refer to as Maya is their classic period. In recent times, the Maya were massacred by a US-backed dictatorship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_genocide And that&#
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It starts before that. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 caused many opium poppy planters to move to Mexico. During WW1, WW2, the high demand for opioid-based analgesics like morphine resulted in increased opium planting. Why were there opi
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by partycoder 8y ago
People in Argentina enjoyed a pretty good living standard until they experienced the "Argentine great depression", that was tragic and forced many people to look for food in the trash. The US is largely living beyond its means at
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by partycoder 8y ago
The "View as" feature has been the source of many security vulnerabilities. There was a time where you could read other peoples' chats using this feature.
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Imagine a wrestling match. 2 wrestlers fight for some good amount of time. When they're tired enough, a 3rd wrestler gets in and beats both. That was World War II for the most part. After World War II, most of the world was destroyed e
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In the west we have the pizza pouch.
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Bootcamp graduates come in many flavors: no college, some college, and college graduates. Some have a CS background, some others don't. Some have working experience, some others don't.

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