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1. 1051.▲
   by prewett 7y ago

   I like the examples to illustrate both sides. I think if you had to always be positive in American you would say: A: "He always completed his tasks to our complete satisfaction" ("complete" being the superlative) B: &quo
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   Lawmakers Propose Making E-Commerce Companies Liable for Counterfeits(nytimes.com)

   5 points by prewett 7y ago|0 comments
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   by prewett 7y ago

   Google Maps' refusal to show the name of the major(!) street names is infuriating. I don't need that information to determine where I am, I need it to figure out what street signs I need to be looking for so that I can get to wher
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   by prewett 7y ago

   Try freelance focusing on making MVPs or early-stage products. I’ve always been a jack of all trades, and it never felt like an asset until I started freelancing. Oh, the 3D engine you want me to optimize is Typescript, not C# as advertised
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   by prewett 7y ago

   I bet your hypothetical developer would price the new houses at $1.9 million (or maybe $2.1 million, because where else are you going to buy a new house?), and they'd sell out as fast as they could build them, netting them a huge profi
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   by prewett 7y ago

   Republicans are also against more taxes, so increasing property taxes isn't very appealing. Plus, the Republican area of northern California (the "State of Jefferson" area) isn't very wealthy, so I think people fear they
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   by prewett 7y ago

   I came here to say comment on "The Intelligent Investor", too. If anyone is interested, I have a summary [0]. I recall Graham recommending that if you don't have time to research individual stocks to buy an index fund, but I
8. 1058.▲
   by prewett 7y ago

   No, literally a face mask, so that people know that you aren't going to give them the virus. I don't know if it's mandatory to wear a face mask. But it doesn't seem like it would be too different from what always happens
9. 1059.▲
   by prewett 7y ago

   If you progress farther than the title, you may discover that the official banned book was legally purchased by the professor at a Chinese book store. I think most of use from non-totalitarian states would be a rather surprised if that happ
10. 1060.▲
    by prewett 7y ago

    I was thinking more about the printed page. I can deal with bad kerning on-screen if it prints out beautifully, although I won't be happy about it. But the whole point of the word processor is to print out text, so kerning is an essent
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    by prewett 7y ago

    I would strongly suggest prioritizing kerning. How text looks is the feature of a word processor, and I quit using LibreOffice a number of years ago because the text looked so hideous compared to anything else.
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    by prewett 7y ago

    > if you define a market simply as a mechanism of wealth transmission from dumb people to smarter Who defines a market with that kind of cynical, silly definition? I don't think most of us want that kind of "market". And
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    by prewett 7y ago

    Mao Zedong was widely liked, and the Communists were seen as much better than the corrupt Guomindang [0]. They also defeated the Guomindang militarily. I think the CCP are actually the legitimate rulers of mainland China, both by peoples&#x
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    by prewett 7y ago

    The size of an industry and the number of people that it employs is hardly a measure of how it benefits society. People are employed in the global spam, fraud, and mafia markets, and they spend their income on such wholesome things as hous
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    by prewett 7y ago

    Market cap has nothing to do with how much ads are worth, it is just how much people are willing to pay for Google stock. Google's revenue from ads could be useful, though.
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    by prewett 7y ago

    I believe that is not correct, you can still run unsigned apps, you just have to enable them in System Preferences >> Security and Privacy. https://www.howtogeek.com/443611/how-macos-catalinas-new-sec... (middle
17. 1067.▲
    by prewett 7y ago

    Use Ctrl-[ for ESC. Not only is [ always in the same spot, but you don't have to move your fingers off the normal keys or stretch. I was fortunate that a friend told me about that early on, otherwise I couldn't have handled VI, th
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    by prewett 7y ago

    I've never heard Calvinism talk about either "fortune" or the "prepared mind". I get that you're denigrating Calvinism here rather than making a precise statement, but what part of Calvinism are you referring
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    by prewett 7y ago

    Why would a decrease in the sun's radius cause a change in Earth's orbit? From those to articles it sounds like the mass of the sun will remain about the same, so the orbit should remain about the same. And less mass will cause
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    by prewett 7y ago

    https://kfbk.iheart.com/featured/sacramentos-latest-news/con... Brief article, has link to a PDF with 12 actual pictures in various counties.
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    by prewett 7y ago

    We had the Cassini spacecraft in the Saturn system for 10 years, and in the past two years we've found 32 new moons! We've found 67% more moons with earth-based telescopes than we discovered actually being there. Wow, space is
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    by prewett 7y ago

    SEEKING WORK | N. California | Remote (but can be onsite periodically) Technologies: C++, Python, Swift, ObjC, Java, Qt, OpenGL, Cocoa/UIKit, Win32, Linux, macOS/iOS, i18n Résumé/CV: http://geoffprewett.com/re
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    by prewett 7y ago

    It was Xcode 10.2, I think. (10.something), I think that’s Xcode 5. hasSuffix() doesn’t need UTF-8 to be performant, though. As long as both strings are both the same encoding, just go back len(suffix) bytes from the end of the string and
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    by prewett 7y ago

    > I don't think the evil caricature is an accurate description of the CCP Have a read of a summary of John Garnaut's talk to the Australian Parliament on "Engineers of the Human Soul": https://sinocism.com&
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    by prewett 7y ago

    I was thinking about it, however I've found that String performance is horrible (at least with Japanese strings) if you do anything like hasSuffix() or hasPrefix(). I think the problem is that String converts to unicode code points as
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    by prewett 7y ago

    I know a lot of guys who have successfully quit porn, and what they say helps is being really vulnerable with guys who have the same struggle. Part of it is looking at the emotional needs they are trying to fill with porn. Asking themselv
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    by prewett 7y ago

    Why would a renowned linguist be a credible source of geopolitics? Especially when his wikipedia article starts off the section on political views by calling him a "dissident"? > Chomsky is a prominent political dissident. His
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    by prewett 7y ago

    The use of "clazz" by Java programmers always seemed like a good solution to me.
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    by prewett 7y ago

    Oranges and mangoes, on the other hand...
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    by prewett 7y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual would be a good starting definition