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by proveanegative 12y ago
Why is Everett prohibited from going back?
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>"Most people" aren't ones I want to be around or work with. I come here to associate with those who do their homework. I am not sure what you mean here in the context of what I said. My was simply that most users of Pytho
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Citing "fast CPU performance" alongside "large community" and "already installed" sounds a bit disingenuous. The version that is fast has a smaller community and is unlikely to be already installed while the
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Fair point about the naming but on Unicode handling I'll have to disagree with you. The problems of the kind described in http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/5/unicode-in-2-and-3/ are not difficult to r
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The general consensus seems to be that it was more readable than Perl and forced you to write more maintainable code at the right moment in history. Today it has an abundance of libraries and enough competent developers to be hard to ignore
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Yep, that is what I meant.
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I imagine people with children, among others, would have a hard time agreeing with this advice.
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Urbit is trying to answer this question. Have a look http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2013/12/a-brief-int... .
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Couldn't the fraudster stimulate human browsing behavior as well, at least to some degree?
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Have you tried tweeting at Google asking for assistance with this? I am yet to try it myself but apparently you can bring companies' attention to your tech support problems now on Twitter.
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Crosswalk has the downside that it produces huge applications, at least relatively speaking (30+ MB). Is plain old Cordova viable if you want to ship an application that runs on Android 2.3 onwards? Reading their blog I think they have fixe
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In case you were, like myself, wondering, "Aotearoa" is the Maori name for New Zealand (originally just the Northern Island). >They tend to be pro-[...]hunting Interesting that you describe hunting as something favored by white
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I think a charitable interpretation of the grandparent poster is that he wants young people to channel their desire for adventure into not only playing video games rather than for them to not play video games at all.
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Ask HN: What trends do you expect in 2015-2035?
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Can you recommend a replacement?
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>Reading and experience train your model of the world. This sounds convincing but then an argument against reading fiction follows since fiction trains your model of the world with fake data.
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"What part of what I'm doing is responsible for my successes?" Credit to Less Wrong for this one.
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>Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. If true, what this says to me is that a ban on psychodelics is justified if you are interested in
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Einstein: Why Socialism? (1949)(monthlyreview.org)
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>Some errors are injustices and should be corrected, but most are not. How do you decide which are which?
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I've checked it again and now it displays correctly. Perhaps the problem had to do with me using Opera Mini at the time.
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What kind taking care of politics do you have in mind? The answer depends on whether you mean "vote like I would have for me by still have election days and campaigners and whatnot" or "abolish voting and make everything just
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Your website doesn't work without a "www" in the URL.
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Is becoming ramen-profitable before you raise your first round a possible solution to this problem?
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It's not a published book but this year I took on Unqualified Reservations seriously and found it a rewarding read. There is a lot to it, some material more morally objectionable than other, but the main effect of reading it for me
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Sure, you can make that judgement for yourself, if under the pressure from your self-preservation instinct. The antianalist argument of the kind summarized in [1] concerns not your continued living but whether you should bring new beings
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Interesting. Do you believe in life after death? This is not something eagerly brought up on Hacker News but when discussing one's fear of death or lack thereof it is probably the most important bit of context to establish.
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>Death is the price you pay for living. Be grateful that you had the chance. It is truly a miracle that you are even alive. Of course, the price you pay for living is not just death at the end of your life but also suffering throughout.