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by sgift 8y ago
> Hart says he doesn’t own any cryptocurrencies and is worried that “bitcoin might be a bubble.” Probably not a good idea.
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by sgift 8y ago
Usually by people who want to give it credibility it doesn't deserve. There's probably a reason no science felt the need to name their price almost like an existing in the hope of being associated with it.
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by sgift 8y ago
IME if you allow someone to use your private API you can be sure they will do at some point. And then they will be unhappy when you change it. Sure, you can go with "I said it was private, your problem", but that is the road to ze
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by sgift 8y ago
> then parse the completely un-parsable output to know which keys can decrypt the file. This reminds me so much about a tip in Effective Java .. 'Always provide an option for users to access every relevant part of your object. If
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by sgift 8y ago
One thing affects other people, the other affects themselves. And why should anyone care about others? p.s.: /s
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by sgift 8y ago
Yeah, it is bike shedding to discuss dependency management, because dependency management is an "insignificant or unimportant detail" of a programming language. /s
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by sgift 8y ago
> 1) PDF -> HTML improves accessibility. Out of curiosity: Does that include PDF/A or is that one okay for accessibility?
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by sgift 8y ago
> Ultimately, I haven't actually used jQuery for anything serious in half a decade, and somehow I manage. I don't understand that sentiment ... Of course you can "manage" without JQuery. JQuery itself doesn't use
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by sgift 8y ago
It's legitimate to fine US companies breaking antitrust laws. If that happens to supplement tax revenue that's an extra benefit.
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by sgift 8y ago
> But his genius wasn't just pissing off a bunch of people to get them to "trauma bond." The iPhone didn't get made that way. How do you know? Were you there? With each Steve Jobs story I read he seems less of a geniu
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by sgift 8y ago
Isn't that one of the reasons for Netflix' chaos monkey? To make sure no one thinks "my dependency will always be there"?
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by sgift 8y ago
If E:D is what SC has promised in their KS they are finished. Fly around for half an hour in the SC dogfighting mode, fly a bit more in the open world, maybe do a mission. Done. You have now fully experienced E:D. And that's with the c
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by sgift 8y ago
> As long as you don’t get yourself in trouble intentionally, you’ll be safe though. What do you mean with that part?
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by sgift 8y ago
I don't see the keyboard as necessary. Just the tablet with the pen looks like a good deal at that size for me.* Others only want the keyboard, not the pen. Having only one variant and "take it or leave it, we know what's goo
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by sgift 8y ago
> I just gave you a first hand account of it, and a concrete illustration of it is the current topic of discussion. You gave an account for a single situation, which is completely different from the normal business: Being caught in a min
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by sgift 8y ago
For an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission-type_tactics If you have only non-thinking slaves you are done the moment anything doesn't go to plan. Instead of working with the situation the whole operatio
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by sgift 8y ago
> And by the way, I include myself and many other white richy type immigrants living in the country in the issue of not identifying with the culture. You cannot fix that by physically mixing everyone in (I already live around mostly nati
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by sgift 8y ago
> The rubbish I see here is a man who doesn't understand the laws he's trying to push forward. He fully understands what he wants, but he is a member of CDU, so he couldn't care less. This whole shit happened because Germa
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by sgift 8y ago
> What do you get then? Exactly what you have in Europe: ethnic division and people living in a country with distaste for it, but benefiting economically from it. That's such a tired cliche. It is put out all the time, but there&#x2
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by sgift 8y ago
How many, how often? How do you know they abused it? Anecdote, data and so on.
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by sgift 8y ago
A good measure would be to break up Ghettos. Stop putting all low-income people in one part of the city and then cry when it leads to problems. Mix your districts. Worked wonders here. Second, there is no problem with mandatory pre-school.
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by sgift 8y ago
- Moderating communities sucks - At some point you will have to make a judgement call as a moderator, if you have no written rules every decision is a judgement call - Someone will not like your judgement call, you then get a discussion - T
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by sgift 8y ago
I think stopping China would be a very noble goal. I don't want them to set a precedent that a dictatorship leads to long lasting success. Unfortunately, China is a big market. And as long as there's money to be made no one really
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by sgift 8y ago
> Ok, I find this very problematic - along the lines of 'Hey, our country is massively corrupt and dysfunctional, and these Westerners came in and didn't do really anything really wrong or corrupt, there are other actors who ar
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by sgift 8y ago
Yeah. Isolation cells are "resort like" now. Maybe you want to check in into such a resort for a few years? I mean it seems to be a great deal according to you.
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by sgift 8y ago
I use it for Netflix, because for a while I had the problem that in FF/Chrome it would just hang on loading a video or stop in the middle and not being able to restart. That's the only use I have for it so far.
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by sgift 8y ago
Sometimes you don't have the luxury of waiting until there's a consensus. In some teams there may never be a consensus and the whole "but if we had one it would be far better!" is a myth. That's not an excuse to j
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by sgift 8y ago
As long as there are people who are desperate to somehow feed their family there will be someone doing underpaid jobs. Even if they have to commute three hours in each direction a day and need to take three of them. That's what happens
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by sgift 8y ago
I find it even more impressive how the mentality changed. When Linux was still the underdog everyone cried that you should think about Linux, don't develop for Windows only and so on. Now? "Eh, you run FreeBSD? Your problem. Use L
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by sgift 8y ago
> This map, while pretty, is fractionally as useful as a flattened stretchy-grid-auto-layouted hairball. It lacks basic features like being able to _zoom out to actually see the whole volume without rotating_, l I can zoom out and see t

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