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by pyre 9y ago
Isn't this like saying: > "I've never personally experienced a BSOD in Windows ME, so obviously it's incredibly stable. Those other people are just doing something wrong."
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by pyre 9y ago
Sounds like the difference between "authenticate, then access this application" and "authenticate, then access our network which has this application accessible on it."
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by pyre 9y ago
The ratings agencies didn't benefit from the "pump" in this case. They just did a poor job of assessing the risk by buying into the idea that the risk was lessened by pooling the toxic assets together. If the ratings agencies
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by pyre 9y ago
> In Amsterdam, people cycle in -10°C when there's 10cm of snow on the ground I assume that the parent post meant 0°F which is around -18°C.
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by pyre 9y ago
There has to be a demand for all of that cocaine. If they flood the black market with cocaine the value would drop and so would their profits per kilo.
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by pyre 9y ago
> (Now you can install kernel extensions) This is wrong. There is no "now." Kernel extensions have been installable in macOS since 10.0, IIRC. The real "issue" here is that Apple has provided a mechanism for instal
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by pyre 9y ago
https://mapzen.com/blog/migration/#documentation-and-blog-po... Says the blog posts will be archived.
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by pyre 9y ago
The original comment practically said "they are Democrats, and the media is liberal-controlled, so obviously they get a free pass."
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by pyre 9y ago
... which makes Markdown even _less_ like your software. Also less relevant to marketing efforts as people up-thread are saying. Some of the use-cases that you're covering with your software were never covered by Markdown, nor were the
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by pyre 9y ago
> the Japanese going from point A to point B, (as polite as they are normally), just shrug and move on I imagine this is more of an urban vs. rural issue than anything specifically Japanese.
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by pyre 9y ago
As others were saying, the developers actively wanted to exclude disclosure the flood status of these plots to potential buyers. Eventually the city "compromised" with them to hide a one-sentence warning deep in the paperwork. Now
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by pyre 9y ago
I have a feeling that at _some_ point, a politician is going to see all of this land that the city owns and get dollar signs in their eyes, and it will eventually be privately-owned and built-up again.
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by pyre 9y ago
There's a difference between speculation and confirmation.
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by pyre 9y ago
But then you can't replace "tar.bz2" or "tar.gz" with "<something else>.gz" since ZIP does both container and compression.
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by pyre 9y ago
Being the (T)ape (AR)chive format, it was designed for tape backup, which doesn't really have random access. IIRC you would basically cat the output of tar to the tape.
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by pyre 9y ago
> Support for some features of the current SQLite format might deprecated, then removed, over the next many versions. Or perhaps a subtle bug is introduced that renders certain ancient versions unreadable ( https://news.ycombin
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by pyre 9y ago
> The same is not true for SQLite's format. That's not entirely true. Anything that comes with Python installed has SQLite bundled/compiled in. It's just the library, not the cli, but still.
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by pyre 9y ago
If you really cared about the author's credentials, then why didn't you even bother to do the most basic of Google searches before coming here to complain about not knowing immediately who the author was? I mean you didn't
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by pyre 9y ago
I imagine because China has spent more time on the required infrastructure to make this happen. Spain is trying to stop something that is set to happen on Oct 1, so they have a finite amount of time to suppress the information.
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by pyre 9y ago
> This looks like it's aimed at being a better nano, not a better vim I think that's the point. Seeing as nano replaced pico, and micro seems aimed at replacing nano. Also putting the SI prefixes in order of increasing size goe
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by pyre 9y ago
Hiding behind bankruptcy only works if the subsidiary has no assets. Patent trolls work this to their advantage by creating a company whose only asset is the patent. If they lose / the patent is invalidated the company's only asse
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by pyre 9y ago
But significant whitespace means that I can't write code like this: sub (@) { return map { "@{[ $_[0] . $_ ]}" } @$_ }; Disclaimer: The majority of the programmers that I have known in real life that have a significa
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by pyre 9y ago
So, you're stating that I'm not allowed to have an opinion that disapproves of the actions of Harvard in this instance? No one is stating that Harvard had an obligation to accept her. People are expressing their dissatisfaction
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by pyre 9y ago
Well, your only defence of the company against the parent of this thread was that they got you the best rate after shopping around. I'm pretty sure that "they don't have the best rate" is not an issue that the parent pos
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by pyre 9y ago
Personally, I don't know if "has the best rate" is strong enough to warrant the moniker, "a new kind of finance company," but that's just me.
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by pyre 9y ago
Unless Chelsea Manning is trying to convince us to trust her with our private data, I don't see where the irony is. It's similar to a reformed/retired safe cracker is telling us which safes are hard to crack. The safe crack
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by pyre 9y ago
Based on the commenter's first comment in this thread, I'm assuming that they already know who Chelsea Manning is. Unfortunately the content of all of their comments seems aimed to inflame/offend rather than discuss.
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by pyre 9y ago
> where the medical examiner listed the stun gun as a cause or contributing factor in the death This is the operative phrase. There are many cases where someone gets hit by a stun gun and dies, and the medical examiner rules the cause
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by pyre 9y ago
I think that Slack is the top-offender in the "people love to complain about it" camp (for Electron apps), not necessarily Atom.
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by pyre 9y ago
Apple's stuff doesn't show up in a Pelican case, but it does have decent-looking packaging that is also minimalist.

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