porpoisemonkey

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by porpoisemonkey 9y ago
> the logic here is "if curse then harsh", not "if harsh then curse", which raises an interesting question is there a soft curse word? I don't mean this to be insulting but rather to answer your question. I think
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by porpoisemonkey 9y ago
> Why even have swearing if it cannot be used? I think the point of having words which are not supposed to be said is to create a sense of risk around using those words. Because swear words are mostly considered taboo there is a social r
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by porpoisemonkey 9y ago
I think the point of the parent comment is that the strategy of capturing the two end seats of a three-person row displaces noncoupled passengers across more rows which has the potential to make finding coupled seats less likely for other f
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by porpoisemonkey 9y ago
My general feeling from the comments I've seen over the years is that HN is not keen on market leading companies in general. I suspect it could be due to a selective audience since the site is tailored to entrepreneurs and startups.
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by porpoisemonkey 9y ago
$250,000,000 divided by 10,000 people is $25,000 per person, not $2,500 per person.
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by porpoisemonkey 9y ago
Good point - I think I misunderstood the purpose of the article. I'll leave the original comment as a matter of record.
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by porpoisemonkey 9y ago
> But isn't the whole point of inheritance in python precisely because the namespaces collide? I think the point from the original post is that a collision of the private namespaces of the parent and child class is a bad thing. He
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by porpoisemonkey 9y ago
Two nitpicky comments. > Even if, right now, we were to change it to _note2, the maintainer of A could, in any future release of A, add a new _note2 variable which conflicts with something B is using. This is why Python offers actual nam
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by porpoisemonkey 9y ago
I've been on HN for almost 4 years now and didn't know about the 'web' link. Thank you!
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by porpoisemonkey 9y ago
> What we're seeing is a force of nature, the legal profession cannot stop it, overall society has to choose to stop it, which means they have to choose to allow conservative voices. I find this observation very strange considering
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by porpoisemonkey 9y ago
How does this apply to "software engineers"? Do they have to call themselves something else in the state? As far as I know there is no national accreditation body for the title in the US.
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by porpoisemonkey 9y ago
Write a fake or cookie cutter review about popular app X, link to app X in your article and then collect commissions on people who buy it through the link.
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by porpoisemonkey 9y ago
> Add to that the issue that every taxi ride I've taken in recent memory involved the driver spending the entire ride complaining about the low fare To be fair most of the conversations I've had with Lyft drivers quickly turned
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by porpoisemonkey 9y ago
Are you referring to private mortgage insurance (PMI) or homeowner's/flood insurance? There's a risk that an owner will walk away from the mortgage on a house that has bad long-term value prospects. Other than pooling the ris
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by porpoisemonkey 10y ago
For what it's worth I agree with the Electron dev's decision to close the ticket. They don't seem to have the same use case as you and are under no obligation to support it. There's also the unstated issue of ongoing sup
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by porpoisemonkey 10y ago
Wouldn't the asy workaround b to writ what you wantd to writ but drop th "3"? Even without the e's you can probably infer meaning with a high probability of success.
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by porpoisemonkey 10y ago
Agreed. Honestly from a feature implementation perspective there's more business logic required to take this approach and I don't think it would behoove any programmer to come up with these restrictions. If I had to hazard a guess
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by porpoisemonkey 10y ago
I think I've identified my confusion. I had interpreted the original post to be a comparison of the levels of physical danger in manufacturing vs. service industry jobs. From my perspective both programming and retail are service ind
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by porpoisemonkey 10y ago
Could you clarify why this should be noteworthy? I mean this in the nicest and most respectful way possible - I'm not sure how the statement fits into the discussion.
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by porpoisemonkey 10y ago
> jobs in services are less dangerous This depends on how you define dangerous. Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States killing ~614,000 people per year whereas accidents account for ~136,000. Sedentary behavi
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by porpoisemonkey 10y ago
> in general capitalist prefer people to be rich I'm not convinced that this is true. Poor populations allow for is the cheap accumulation of power - people who have less are easier to motivate with an offering of money or support.
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by porpoisemonkey 10y ago
> The situation in the NPR article and your own seem different though. Good point - I realize that including my own experience muddied the waters of my argument a bit. I mentioned my experience to highlight that aside from the situation
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by porpoisemonkey 10y ago
> The workers should feel free to form a union -- this is a fundamental right. I agree that people should have the right to band together in an organized way to increase negotiating power. What I have a problem with is when joining the u
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by porpoisemonkey 10y ago
Correction: > To compile a list of all companies that have their personal information an user would have to identify every business they have a business relationship with that could possibly be gathering this information and then send a
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by porpoisemonkey 10y ago
Thanks for the additional information. This is a step in the right direction but it's unfortunate that the obligation to disclose appears to be opt-in and not opt-out as detailed in paragraph (a). > that business shall, after the r
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by porpoisemonkey 10y ago
> Sure, they can destroy their data, but everything shared with those 3rd parties is still at those third parties. Agreed. I think it would be more effective deterrent if VIZIO had to work with those third parties to locate and delete th
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by porpoisemonkey 10y ago
> Is your checklist copyrighted? I think by US law it was copyrighted as soon as I created it. > Can I use it? I give you or anyone else on HN the right to use it verbatim and without restriction.
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by porpoisemonkey 10y ago
I think it mostly boils down to fixed-price vs usage-based billing. It seems like utility companies that do usage-based billing (cellphone service providers, electricity, water, etc) typically bill for the previous month so that they can wa
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by porpoisemonkey 10y ago
> I have found a perverse interest in the fact it took google 18 months to drag fiber literally 250 feet to my house Did you ever get an official response on the reason for the delay? The reason I'm asking is because I wonder if the
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by porpoisemonkey 10y ago
I've got a bit of a different tactic you might take if the CANSPAM thing stops working. I keep a copy of a form letter on Google Drive that I send back on any suggestion of a "job opportunity" on LinkedIn. >>> STAR

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