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by pliny 11y ago
Used in anger is an expression that roughly means 'used to achieve something.' I think it comes from 'shots fired in practice' vs. 'shots fired in anger' (i.e. in combat, for the purpose of killing).
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Heroes Give, Superheroes Borrow(medium.com)
1 points by pliny 11y ago|1 comments
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by pliny 11y ago
Singapore was the focus of intensive capital expenditure by the British Empire prior to independence, and managed to maintain a stable market economy after independence which made it an attractive target for even more foreign investment.
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Mortgages, Layoffs and Bribes(bloombergview.com)
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by pliny 11y ago
What GP is talking about is a centrally planned economy, and what you are referring to (basic income) is wealth redistribution, these are basically orthogonal issues. You can have a centrally planned economy where people are only paid if th
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by pliny 11y ago
You're right, but attacks that require supplies (especially supplies that aren't dual use, like guns) and coordination between many parties, are the types of attacks that the modern security apparatus is optimized for preventing.
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SeeC – a visual debugger for C, in your browser(see-c.com)
5 points by pliny 11y ago|0 comments
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by pliny 11y ago
Is it? Since most of their money exists only on paper (they don't just have a bunch of gold in their basement), all you need to do is stop respecting the wealth (change the currency / nationalize the corporations that they own par
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How Game Theory Solved a Religious Mystery(mindyourdecisions.com)
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by pliny 11y ago
Isn't the point of that subreddit to showcase people who are outwardly insecure about their intelligence, rather than people who are intelligent and awkward?
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An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar(mcsweeneys.net)
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Service Providers See Gold in Shares of Startups(wsj.com)
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The Effect of Payday Lending Restrictions on Liquor Sales(economistsview.typepad.com)
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by pliny 11y ago
18 is conspicuously missing, is anyone (everyone?) incapable of extending both their thumb and their ring finger? Or extending their ring finger alone, without using their thumb to hold down the middle finger?
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by pliny 11y ago
>We all have a choice not to participate in the insanity (or "immorality") of war. In fact, if we all did, wars wouldn't exist at all. Refusing to go to the battlefield and kill other young people is not immoral. It is the
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by pliny 11y ago
Dereference 'they' for me. *People in what you quoted was intended to mean "anybody who would have been a farmer", so that's the 68% that have to find alternative employment. I live in an apartment building, my room
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by pliny 11y ago
>It's more people like doing something and so will tend to do so You're putting the cart before the horse (or I misunderstood you). People have less they are required to do and use time they would have spent tending to their fa
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AI by another name (2002)(economist.com)
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by pliny 11y ago
>Maybe we should be using Hacker News to, I don't know, show off cool hacks and build projects, instead of living vicariously through stereotypes on TV? Not mutually exclusive.
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by pliny 11y ago
>A SpaceX Falcon-heavy has a maximum capacity of 21,200kg to transfer orbit - that's not going to go very far in a colony even if it's all water Well, can't you recycle ~100% of it? So you really only need to ship the maxi
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by pliny 11y ago
>Dickey runs me through the process. “Say you want to build an Uber for pizza delivery. You get [a Gigster sales engineer] who’ll ask about the details. ‘How do you want to handle delivery?’ ‘Are you going to use your own fleet or a flee
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by pliny 11y ago
Previously on HN 2013, 237 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6596855
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Deep C (2011)(slideshare.net)
7 points by pliny 11y ago|1 comments
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by pliny 11y ago
>You want more women in CS? Make technology look like less of a boy's club at an early age (and leading into tech education) and wait 15 years for the results. I think the Minecraft kids generation will yield some pretty fantastic s
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by pliny 11y ago
Cormen & Rivest's Introduction to Algorithms is a solid and decently paced book that covers a lot of what you would realistically need to know to start working in CS, as far as theoretical knowledge is concerned, and will give you
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by pliny 11y ago
Are there penalties for invading those kinds of homes in the UK? Where I used to live (a city of ~100K in Israel) there are probably 500-1000 properties on and around the marina owned by foreign nationals that are conspicuously empty for
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by pliny 11y ago
Your best chance is probably to get on a boat and immigrate illegally to Australia. Good luck.
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Student “safety” has become a real threat to free speech on campus(economist.com)
89 points by pliny 11y ago|135 comments
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by pliny 11y ago
Nice! Can you tell me more about the uses of polyurethane?
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by pliny 11y ago
Those two don't seem to be mutually exclusive goals. As far as the company posting the listing is concerned, the bad outcomes are (a) if the candidate they would otherwise hire won't apply because of the content of the attached di

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