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by pekk 11y ago
Buying a gun really only requires filling out a tiny slip, it took me less than 5 minutes and was not invasive in the least. Maybe this varies between states.
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by pekk 11y ago
It's odd that you call the article pure opinion, because I don't see you providing anything more substantial than your own feelings here. Can you provide any citation or even a thesis to evaluate rather than just flinging around e
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by pekk 11y ago
Python 3 wasn't really starting anew, they were also balancing the ongoing screaming about every difference from Python 2.
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by pekk 11y ago
I couldn't detect any real proposal in anything you said except that Python programmers should switch to Swift, and your main thesis seems to be that Python 3 is bad because it changes.
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by pekk 11y ago
What was wrong with Python packaging that conda needed to replace it entirely (including virtualenv)? If you say the installation story for the scipy stack, that is less a matter of Python packaging and more a matter of the scipy stack.
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by pekk 11y ago
You don't have a right to unlimited quantities of other people's money to support you being there. If we could pull all support for communities which are a persistent drain then maybe you could argue you had a "right to be th
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by pekk 11y ago
The cost to the government may be lower than fixing potholes in asphalt, but not necessarily to the people driving cars.
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by pekk 11y ago
Logical validity only means that the argument works given its premises, not that the premises are correct.
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by pekk 11y ago
Google puts resources into reducing spam and does reduce spam, so it would be even worse than it is if Google didn't do anything. The author's troubles may be side effects of some of the things Google does at scale to filter out s
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by pekk 11y ago
It's a coherent opinion which makes sense, even if we don't agree with it. The claim isn't that the author is spamming, the claim is that the availability of effective spam filtering ("needs of the many") trades off
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by pekk 11y ago
If cost is your main concern, you can get VPS hosting from a dollar a month.
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by pekk 11y ago
Another way to read that is as more of a slam of his major competitor.
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by pekk 11y ago
Whether to use Go on App Engine or not is a much less important question than whether to use App Engine or not. Java is also a good choice on App Engine. But either way, using App Engine dramatically affects almost any decision you'll
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by pekk 11y ago
I took the implication to be that NYSE (like some other companies) makes disproportionate use of H1B and similar. One purpose of making very heavy use of H1B is to get workers who are more desperate and likely to accept worse pay, condition
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by pekk 11y ago
Somehow this wasn't well explained, leading to a really persistent misunderstanding that comes up any time Docker is mentioned; you can see in this very thread someone claiming to be an expert with Linux and saying that Docker is no go
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by pekk 11y ago
Python has had octal literals like this for years, so it is misleading to say that it is "moving to" it.
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by pekk 11y ago
What distinguishes normal accountants from these apparently corrupt "government-sponsored accountants" who "cook the books"? Do they have pointy ears or forked tongues?
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by pekk 11y ago
The problem with this line of argument is that books like "The Bell Curve" have been debunked on scientific grounds, leaving no reason for scientists to believe in them except that someone wants them, ex ante, to believe that bl
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by pekk 11y ago
If you aren't talking about tests, then what are you talking about? What does "intelligence potential" mean? The IQ test is at least a specific operationalization of intelligence. If all you have to say is that you're no
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by pekk 11y ago
Just a correction, this can't be "incredibly obvious" merely from people having different abilities when grown, since that really doesn't cast much light on how they got that way.
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by pekk 11y ago
This is also a use case for not developing on OS X, which doesn't have anything to do with production anyway.
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by pekk 11y ago
Being able to use several languages natively does not actually mean "more security attack vectors." Nobody is asking or even talking about ActiveX. This is FUD.
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by pekk 11y ago
Yes, Javascript will still be the fastest option with the cleanest support. That's because browser vendors have intentionally put everything else at a disadvantage (Mozilla ensuring nobody puts Brendan Eich's baby in a corner). Th
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by pekk 11y ago
What makes it more worthwhile?
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by pekk 11y ago
There is no reason why governments should be involved in it, except that people can't keep their grubby hands off of it. Doesn't make a lot of sense for us to subsidize people to do something which they are supposedly doing becaus
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by pekk 11y ago
If we are only concerned with nebulous "resources," we won't change anything. Obviously that should not be our only concern.
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by pekk 11y ago
What I think happened is that gay rights activists realized they would get better standing to fight for equal rights if they called it marriage. That was a successful tactic and I'm not quibbling with it. But I know there are people wh
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by pekk 11y ago
I can't agree. The word "marriage" in particular makes people irrationally excited and start thinking about their church's definition of marriage. So politically, it is a line in the sand. "Defense of civil unions a
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by pekk 11y ago
That is unnecessarily negative toward the efforts of literally everyone else.
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by pekk 11y ago
In terms of this one concern, more obscure services probably are safer than one which is so overwhelmingly popular, and it makes a difference if the service does not have your data in plaintext. Of course it's easy to give up other kin

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