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by philh 10y ago
I agree with wpietri's interpretation more than yours. ("Mock" might be a bit strong, but I don't think it's totally unfair.) The article talks about people integrating into BM's unique culture, and defending t
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Like I warned about in my sibling comment, the map is comparing divorce rates per capita, not per marriage. It does not say what you claim. (Also, eyeballing it I couldn't even tell you whether the south has an unusually high divorce r
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Suppose you want to sue Megacorp over a few thousand dollars. You're 95% confident of winning, but if you lose, you need to pay Megacorp's legal fees. Megacorp's legal fees are always going to be high, but they can make them
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ISTR looking into the divorce statistics once, and mostly finding articles that (through malice or stupidity) compared divorce rates per capita, instead of per marriage. Evangelicals had a higher divorce rate than atheists, but married e
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If the point of the scheme is that the government wants to stop providing services to Nowheresville, then they basically have four options: 1. status quo 2. pay 85 people to relocate, keep paying to provide services for 10 people 3. pay 95
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It looks like CSS modules is meaningfully different from being just a naming convention. With a naming convention, if you want to use work from two different packages and they happen to use the same names, you need to edit one of them. Peop
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> If you started your critique of Windows 10 by calling Microsoft "Most overrated software shop of all time" and then proceeded with a few subjective, shallow criticisms with no detail, you might indeed be told that. How about
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"The JavaScript community" need not include everyone who has used javascript. Why do you assume GP was intending it to do so?
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It sounded to me like $100 for a thirty-day supply.
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> epi pens are off patent and there are many competing companies in Europe, but the FDA refuses to approve any of them Not entirely true: there's adrenaclick. But if a doctor writes "epipen", the pharmacist isn't allo
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> 20+ years is way too long a term I've heard that the approvals process eats up almost half of those years. (Or if not the approvals process, then something that's going on after they get the patent but before they're all
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I wouldn't expect the terminal emulator or screen/tmux to cause a 5s delay in this situation; and if they did, I'd expect them to cause it in neovim as well as in vim.
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"It should be borne in mind that, in virtually all English civil litigation, damages are merely compensatory." That doesn't sound like it follows from the English rule.
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The problem isn't that .keys() isn't returning them in order. The problem is that the kwargs (a=1, b=2) aren't passed to OrderedDict() in order, so the constructor has no way of knowing which one should be first.
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"This project was built for revenge, over a three-day sleepless marathon fueled by my hatred." "Cool, so what does it do?" "It prints Jacob is a loser nerd in large ASCII art characters, over and over again."
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by philh 10y ago
> I think we need to digress from regexes a bit by introducing things like 'Separated by'. You might be interested to learn that perl6 regexes have this, notated '%'. https://docs.perl6.org/language&#x
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> The problem with addicts is that they are born addicts. That is to say that addiction ... is something some people are born with and some people are not You seem to be counting as "addicts" some people who have never experi
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> GNU grep really doesn't do all that well for multi-byte encodings. I might be wrong, but I have a recollection that this was massively improved somewhat recently, maybe a year or so back. Are you using a recent-ish version? This m
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That's not obviously the sunk cost fallacy. The $180 is gone, the only relevant question is "how much more do I have to put in before I win?" If you think that amount is more than $180 and you continue to play, because you&#x
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I have a github pages blog, but I seem to find it psychologically easier to write directly into a browser window.
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Now suppose the supermajority of babysitters are racist. If they all leave the platform, it shuts down. Nobody gets a babysitter. If they all pretend not to be racist, you get black kids being looked after by closet racists. It's not o
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> If we want to find the address of a global variable in our program, all we need to do is look up the name of the variable in the symbol table, and then add that to the start of the range in /proc/whatever/maps, and we&#x
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On android, there are unofficial apps which act as shells on the mobile web interface (the ones I have are "Tinfoil for Facebook" and "Swype"). IIRC these are capable of uploading photos, but they won't upload any t
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Nor does a meteor know what it means to be an extinction event.
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The EU also has more languages than the US. Even if it was legally a single market, that wouldn't make it a single market culturally.
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> If it means they have to spend a few mllion dollars less on advertising Captain America 4 or Star Wars 8 or Fast and Furious 8 then so be it. It's not like they have "spend money on advertising" as a terminal value. They
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> expressing a desire to literally have everybody killed who had an abortion She expressed a desire to have those people locked up and arrested for murder. That is not literally killing someone. > Making it immune to criticism I don&#
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They told us why they reimplemented it in python. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:orxAytX...
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> You can fork it and set it to RemoveOnly. This seems like it removes half the value of the tool, though. I can comment out a line of code, compile and test the program. But if I uncomment that line, I'm now missing an import. edit
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> Everything from chemtrails to anarchocapitalism. Here we see one problem with downvoting lunacy: some people notice it where it doesn't exist, and others fail to see it where it does. I'm not ancap myself, but I think the mov

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