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   by ppseafield 8y ago

   For one: vue, vuex (centralized state library) and vue-router are stewarted by roughly the same people, which has a few benefits. The documentation is all pretty decent and uniform. I never sit for very long wondering how to do something. C
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   by ppseafield 8y ago

   > Well the fact is that most people drink alcohol Most people drink alcohol =/= people are forced to drink alcohol. You've moved the goalpost. > minimum age of 22-23 and proper education Teens keep finding ways to drink and
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   by ppseafield 8y ago

   OK, but the OP's point was that academia is not simply some free-floating institution avoiding usefulness. Because some sorting algorithms were developed outside of a university doesn't contradict that. Also both von Neumann and H
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   by ppseafield 8y ago

   > Drugs desensitise people to life's "regular highs" which makes them seek out stronger, more stimulating experiences in their lives, which makes them want more money (since these experiences tend to be expensive), which m
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   by ppseafield 8y ago

   Related: BlackBerry gives Indian government ability to intercept messages (2013) https://www.wired.co.uk/article/blackberry-india Edit: Also RIM to share some BlackBerry codes with Saudis: source (2010) https:/&#
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   by ppseafield 8y ago

   More specifically: there exists social monogamy and sexual (closed, not open) monogamy. The definition doesn't specify which.
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   by ppseafield 8y ago

   OK, but what of the other families I mentioned? Are you simply saying they're not families? Neither does the definition mention the monogamy of the parents.
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   by ppseafield 8y ago

   I don't agree that everyone wants a polyamorous and open relationship. Myself, I am in one, and it suits me. However, how do you define a family? Polyamorous families exist, families with parents in open relationships exist, and they a
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   by ppseafield 8y ago

   Now he's contributed his impression and every comment is browbeating him or criticising him. Sounds like he got very unlucky. Wouldn't it be worth it to discuss how that could be mitigated? Also, people always forget the rest of t
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    by ppseafield 8y ago

    For Rust and Go, they're very new languages, so multiple implementations are going to be hard to come by. Although there is gccgo. Some of those you listed though have a lot of different implementations. Ruby has the Ruby MRI, JRuby, a
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    by ppseafield 8y ago

    I found the comment! https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/esfrv/im_an_ornitholo... The comment wasn't exactly as I remembered it, but it says more or less the same thing.
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    by ppseafield 8y ago

    A counterexample: Resident Evil was actually harder in the US because they removed the auto aim feature, specifically so US game renters would have a hard time beating it. I'm sure there are more examples of both kinds of modifications
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    by ppseafield 8y ago

    Back when I was in college, I saw on reddit this quote and a wonderful response to it, which I'll try to recount it fully. There is a species of birds in Europe that time their eggs' hatchings to a particular point in spring, whic
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    by ppseafield 9y ago

    My last Amtrak ride was my very last for this reason. My train was delayed four and a half hours!
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    by ppseafield 9y ago

    It tastes a lot like an earthy, grassy tea (Camellia sinensis). It's pretty good.
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    by ppseafield 9y ago

    Well, something that happened where I live (Portland, OR) is that AirBnB became popular enough that people and businesses would buy houses to rent out. One of the consequences was that, because it was so profitable, these renters could buy