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by ryangittins 10y ago
Couldn't Google just revoke all of those access tokens? It'd be a minor inconvenience for some, but it would hardly be a big deal, right? You'd just have to grant access again.
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by ryangittins 10y ago
I think I've read this four or five times since Paul posted it in January. I'm not especially old, I don't have kids, and I suspect most of my life is ahead of me still, but damn does this one strike a chord with me. It&#
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by ryangittins 10y ago
This kind article comes out every year or two and it's always incredibly misleading. They always try to make it sound spooky and dystopic. What would it even mean for 14 people to "control" the internet in any newsworthy wa
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by ryangittins 10y ago
The first two were actually making a good point. This website (yours, presumably) is just jumping on the bandwagon and sticking an affiliate link in it. I'm not against affiliate links, but this site lacks substance.
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by ryangittins 10y ago
Couldn't you have made this same point at most times in modern American history? Wasn't it possible that the US was at its peak in 1970? Or 1980? Or 1990? I suspect it is only due to hindsight that we know it wasn't the p
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by ryangittins 10y ago
I have to say, I vehemently disagree on all points. The largest valid reason people dislike affiliate links is because it changes the motivation for posting. When you see someone recommend a product behind an affiliate link, you can be cer
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by ryangittins 10y ago
I think if (more likely, when) we get to the point where people can have an alibi in this way, it will quickly turn sour. When you're accused of a crime and you can't be located during that time, it'll be used to make you
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by ryangittins 10y ago
Agreed! His predictions were spot-on given all the information he had to work with. It's not like this guy was rabidly against solar power or anything; in fact it seems like he's pretty delighted to be wrong. Who wouldn't
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by ryangittins 10y ago
The cost of inflation (at, say, 3%) is $30 for every $1k you have in your emergency account. That's $150 per year if your emergency fund is $5k, or $300 if it's $10k. I'd be surprised if the combination of the effort it take
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by ryangittins 10y ago
This is absolutely a valid use for credit cards if you're careful and disciplined, but it can only stretch you for a maximum of one month before you've got to start making payments. What about when you're out of a job for si
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by ryangittins 10y ago
Consider this scenario (which is not out of the realm of possibility): You stick $10k in the market when shares are $10 each. This means you get 1000 shares. Then the market crashes and now those 1000 shares are worth $5k. Normally this
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by ryangittins 10y ago
Fair point; this stuff certainly doesn't happen in a vacuum. I should have mentioned that investing comes with the caveat that one should also have a plan for major life events like a job loss. Having 6+ months of living expenses on h
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by ryangittins 10y ago
When the market takes a dive is the best time to invest in index funds. The problem comes when people panic and pull out their money in a recession, realizing the loss. If the market rebounds you come out ahead and if it doesn't, y
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by ryangittins 10y ago
It is a bit backwards, yes. As other users pointed out, this is for historical reasons. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if porting those things over from compiled languages to be a part of the library would prove to be subst
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by ryangittins 10y ago
It's really a command-line tool at its heart. The library is essentially just a wrapper around this command-line tool. You could feasibly do the same stuff in an interpreted language, but (I suspect) it would be substantially slower t
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by ryangittins 10y ago
There are two kinds of programming languages: The ones people complain about and the ones no one uses.
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by ryangittins 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by ryangittins 11y ago
How much does an average credit card user understand about what happens when they swipe it?
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by ryangittins 11y ago
Dang, that's not even a terribly naive attempt. Do you think he really wrote that, or is it a PR thing? I don't know anything about the guy but props to him!
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by ryangittins 11y ago
"How DARE you make money from this thorough, thoughtful, and well-researched post at no cost to me?!" I just never understand people's hatred for affiliate links in good pieces of content.
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by ryangittins 11y ago
Hah, wow. What a great reply. Props to you, man. That's just a terrific analogy.
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by ryangittins 11y ago
Wow, what a great post! This is just incredible. It makes you realize how much the world has changed and how much more change we're going to see in the near future. Props to you, Terence.
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by ryangittins 11y ago
I've had enough of this discussion! The new gender-neutral singular pronoun is thou ! That's right, thou was the answer we were looking for.
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by ryangittins 11y ago
"Mess up" sounds like a pretty loaded term to me. It sounds like "change" would be a more appropriate word, but the headline wouldn't be able to be skimmed over and then passed along to friends quite so easily.
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by ryangittins 11y ago
Thank you for all of your hard work! I have used flux for years now and it's only when I don't have it that I realize how damn well it works.
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by ryangittins 11y ago
I think OP is asking about enforceability. Okay, your country loses. So what? Why must you comply with what the computer says?
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by ryangittins 11y ago
A counterexample is only definitive proof when opposing an absolute.
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by ryangittins 11y ago
Isn't Sherlock more akin to movies than TV episodes at this point? Each season is quite like little trilogies.
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by ryangittins 11y ago
I think this video was debunked as having been tampered with quite a while ago. Someone spliced different questions in there, making it look like he didn't have an answer.

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