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by sethrin 13y ago
Yii still exists? Why? Laravel has a half decent API and doesn't rely overmuch on (untestable) static functions. My evaluation of FuelPHP was admittedly brief, but let's take another look: http://fuelphp.com/docs&#
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No, I think the principle of law they have violated is the use of State Intelligence against its own citizens. Similarly, we do not use our armed forces against our citizens, because those two bodies are intended to be used against the enem
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by sethrin 13y ago
In practice police do not pursue charges for marijuana possession unless it's bagged for retail. The general idea seems to be, that you can do what you want in the privacy of your home, but smoking marijuana is not socially appropriate
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by sethrin 13y ago
Speaking as a former screen printer, the material costs are very low, except for very elaborate prints: clear or glitter inks, adhesive and foil, partially embroidered shirts, water-based inks with or without burning out the underlying dye
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by sethrin 13y ago
I must disagree with you in turn, in most particulars. Arch's wiki is an information source par excellence , and I find that the information contained therein is often just what I need to get my Debian system working correctly. The in
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by sethrin 13y ago
Are you using gitflow? https://github.com/nvie/gitflow So yes, if you try to push without pulling down changes, then you will get an error about the histories having diverged. Sometimes you don't care about wiping
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by sethrin 13y ago
I complain about glaciers, but they're really just the tip of the icefield. Most of the ground here is some variety of permanently frozen (permafrost)[0], so that's all going to melt at some point. Most of the population here does
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by sethrin 13y ago
My apologies if you read any offense in my words; none was intended. Unless you happen to have a heat ray and a hatred for H20 solids, I can't imagine that you've had much of a personal hand in making it melty up here. I hope the
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by sethrin 13y ago
Think of it more as extra energy being imparted to the global weather system. This will have all sorts of fun and exciting effects, and as I understand the warming will be greatest at the poles. Alaska has warmed by about 1.6[0] in the last
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by sethrin 13y ago
It's not clear that commodity money or coinage existed before paper notes. Certainly the story of civilizations moving from barter to money to more complex instruments is false, but also: coins were not used any more than they are toda
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by sethrin 13y ago
>I would say the core tenants of Austrian Economics are very much observable and repeatable, much like game theory. Neal Stephenson made the analogy that math is more than just a 'physics of bottlecaps'. In the same sense, even
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by sethrin 13y ago
You must be confused. The Second Amendment deals with possession, not use.
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Setting aside the tendency of small gangs to become large ones, a gang is a form of government in most senses of the term, i.e. it is not anarchy. You'll also need to show that gang warfare is a desirous state. A government is a local
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by sethrin 13y ago
"...to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak ... to further the well-being of mankind." Or if you like "We the people of the U
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by sethrin 13y ago
Some part of it must be cultural. The entire west coast seems to score badly. I can't find a lot on "blue tickets" except to suggest that it hasn't been done since the 80s. To go from ANC to SEA by bus you'd be taki
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The last guy that I met that talked like you had blue-gray skin. This isn't silly like arguing against thermodynamics, but it is an extraordinary claim and anecdotes are just not going to cut it. This isn't quite 'Nobel Prize
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by sethrin 13y ago
I lived there for 20+ years, headed up again in a couple weeks. The homeless issue is nowhere near as bad as e.g. Portland, where I am now. Nationally the state is ranked 10th for the percent of its population who are homeless. [0] It is
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People do however use "y'all" and "you guys", and others. Just because we don't have the words doesn't mean that they're unnecessary.
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Can you give some citations on this Alaska thing? I don't know whether I can consider that bizarre or a good idea. Having people freeze to death on the streets of Anchorage is pretty awful though.
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thread closed.
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Are you joking, racist, or just stupid? Do you imagine we have jails all over the country brimming with Mexican cartel lords? Are drug-dealing latinos installed on every corner like street lights, all through the US? What does the word &qu
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by sethrin 13y ago
"Perhaps there is the odd hippie selling homegrown ganja out of his greenhouse who has never been in a fight in his life..." You don't know what you're talking about. "Drug crime and other crime go hand in hand.&quo
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by sethrin 13y ago
I've responded in more detail elsewhere, but this claim has no basis in reality. This is an extraordinary claim and needs a substantial amount of evidence to support it.
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Statistically, and in my experience, drug dealing is not a violent crime. They're not going to start knocking over convenience stores. Some of them might scrape together enough capital to start a retail store. Prices and profits are go
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You can shrink the lens and CCD down that far[0], but adding in a power source and data storage is likely to increase the size. Batteries are not tracking other improvements in technology. Additionally with a lens that small you're alm
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These devices will have very poor image quality. It's not like making small lenses is hard; the properties of light mean that anything usable as a camera will be visible to the naked eye. Cameras can be small, but they cannot be arbitr
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I'm pretty sure copyright doesn't work.
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The American Revolution would not have been successfully fought without tons of gunpowder, a couple dozen ships of the line, tens of thousands of muskets, hundreds (thousands?) of cannon, and over $1 billion livres from the French. It was a
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by sethrin 13y ago
The key difference between HN and /. moderation is the "funny" moderation option. On the positive side, it seems to encourage more serious discussion. The downside is that, to the degree that HN has inherited the hacker culture, it has not
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This is true. But it's HN so if you say that, you have to dress it up a bit, throw in some jargon and name-drop some computer scientists -- "Turing-complete" counts for both categories, and is even somewhat relevant to the topic. It's also

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