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by sfRattan 9y ago
Your post is a non sequitur. I said nothing about whether a car is a choice or a necessity. That would depend on where you live also, but for different reasons. I only said that it is not wasteful to house a car under the following circum
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by sfRattan 9y ago
> housing a car seems rather wasteful Not if you live anywhere with a significant amount of snow in the winter... Especially if the local municipal authorities combat that snow on the roads with absurd amounts of salt.
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> After witnessing war, authors grew particularly concerned with totalitarian governments’ ability to regulate the arts. One of the most popular examples continues to be Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, which breathes into awfully vivid li
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by sfRattan 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante ...specifically, 'the penal code of Jante...'
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Technically, JetBrains is a Czech company with offices in Russia, among a half dozen or so counties.
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Having two planets with launch capability makes resupplying, servicing, and responding to emergencies for eventual facilities in the belt would make logistics across the solar system an order of magnitude easier. Suddenly, you have twice as
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by sfRattan 9y ago
I suspect the lower number of job postings related to react has to do with the legal language in the repository concerning patents[1] and the uncertainty that generates for many businesses, especially those in the 'social' space.
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by sfRattan 9y ago
# Always Be Creating If you want to shift from being a consumer to a producer, create something every day. If you're a writer, Stephen King suggests writing at least a page a day, even if you throw most of them away. The idea is that e
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And expensive for Apple to process and vet the now orders of magnitude larger numbers of developers asking for a (hypothetically) free signature. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
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I deliberately didn't specify the illness for privacy reasons, though it was an airborne contagious disease. I did not ask him why he was using such an old machine, but it seemed to work and he was rather old also. The detail only stic
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by sfRattan 9y ago
On the flip side, many drugs approved by governments in the rest of the Western world languish in the FDA's queue for years. I contracted a common illness while living in Germany as an exchange student, and was prescribed medication by
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by sfRattan 9y ago
I've historically had the opposite problem. I find attempts in both science and mathematics textbooks to provide some sort of real world context to be distracting and wasteful. I remember that impression going all the way back to high
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by sfRattan 9y ago
My initial reaction was, "yeah, that was an awful D-Pad." Then I realized the reference was to the disk drive. Oh, well... Two promotions, then, according to the root comment's saying.
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Democracy has become an empty word. It never reflected modern systems of government (neither those that come close to respect for individual liberties nor those that do not) and its adjective form democratic really only refers to the proc
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by sfRattan 10y ago
>First, "libertarianism" is a highly misleading, US-centric label for certain brands of liberalism. It's not a coherent political position and instead used by very different people ranging from the right-wing authoritarian
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by sfRattan 10y ago
> In Comments >Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity. >When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idioti
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by sfRattan 10y ago
My middle school had these, and a typing course. None of our words-per-minute scores improved so much as an iota until Christmas break, when we all started using instant messengers at home. Our teacher was flabbergasted that AIM did more to
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by sfRattan 10y ago
Perhaps if a career author came up to you and disparagingly explained why his preference on time keeping was more correct than yours, and that yours was: laughable, borderline-aspie, and legitimately obsessive behavior.... ....that would ce
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by sfRattan 10y ago
It's very reductive to claim that only addresses, bank account [numbers], and SSNs could be dangerous if leaked. What about people who discuss private matters in chat? (e.g. sexuality, medical history, drug use, etc.) Yes, we know th
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by sfRattan 10y ago
Their graphical representation of a McMansion is perhaps overly generous: - some of the windows actually match (and are even symmetrically aligned) - the garage takes up less that half of the house's front face - the columns next to th
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by sfRattan 10y ago
Just as it is entirely reasonable not to trust the state to do so either competently or altruistically.
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by sfRattan 10y ago
Appropriate that this subject makes an appearance on HN so close to the anniversary of Aaron Swartz's suicide under duress and attack from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Making court documents more publicly accessible was one of
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by sfRattan 10y ago
"We do not allow ranking private individuals on physical appearance or personality." [1] Exploiting that particular human proclivity is part of why Facebook exists.... [2] [1]: http://68.media.tumblr.com/1b024b598c
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by sfRattan 10y ago
The definition of "sort" that I'm finding in the context we're talking about is: the act of separating things and putting them in a particular order : the act of sorting things [1]. The same source gives a further defin
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by sfRattan 10y ago
Am I the only one bothered by the use of the term "sortation?" I had a roommate in college from London who pointed out that Americans tend to add "-ation" onto words where it isn't necessary or doesn't further
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by sfRattan 11y ago
Words do matter, but I'm of the opinion that changing the term for a thing doesn't change the essence of the thing, or what people think of that thing... At least very much. Some examples: [Note: I'm citing these examples to
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by sfRattan 11y ago
The "Star Wars" reference is really just an insinuation that geek culture signals social suicide to conformist high schoolers. But geek culture also signals passion . My objection is really that mandating bland décor in the name
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> Over and over, Dr. Cheryan and her colleagues have found that female students are more interested in enrolling in a computer class if they are shown a classroom (whether virtual or real) decorated not with “Star Wars” posters, science-
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Or the development of seeds whose plants do not bear further seeds. Impossible with corn, which is entirely seeds, but possible with many fruits (apples, oranges, peaches). That way the consumer can't buy a piece fruit and plant a frui