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by shantly 7y ago
“Most” is certainly wrong. I’d allow “some”.
602.
by shantly 7y ago
Not much harder than with a take-home challenge. Either’d be tough to do convincingly.
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by shantly 7y ago
The poster might have meant that heritable psychological tendencies that make one less likely to use birth control will become much more common.
604.
by shantly 7y ago
Last I checked Signal's UX was worse enough that I'd be fighting a real uphill battle to get my friend group to switch.
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by shantly 7y ago
> And this can be very confusing, unless you come from a self-centered elite worldview where (a) and (b) aren't highly differentiated. I'm a white dude from a family that was totally fine financially (though more due to good mo
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by shantly 7y ago
> I've taken to appending "reddit" to many of my search queries, because flawed though it is, reddit is one of the few places you can read an actual human thought. Same. It's the only place to find the sort of genuine
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by shantly 7y ago
Ah, good point, I read those were his expenses and didn't catch that was before insurance reimbursement. Looks like the actual damages beyond that are just loss of personal property in the house and whatever it cost to deal with the
608.
by shantly 7y ago
I assume a simple "they didn't have a good reason to wreck my house and should pay for it" was a legal non-starter, then, hence the plainly longer-shot (all else being equal) eminent domain argument?
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by shantly 7y ago
It's exactly the same for teaching. Around here the nicer schools even pay worse because they get the best applicants anyway! The job's way easier, more pleasant, less full of horrors that haunt you for years after, and you don&
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by shantly 7y ago
> And those men remain at risk throughout the duration of the siege. Assaulting the house seems to me many, many times more personally risky than hanging around a block away behind cover watching the house for a day or three.
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by shantly 7y ago
The article just said they offered $5k total to go toward the deductible and temporary housing. It says nothing about how much that actually cost, which was surely more. That wouldn't even cover fairly modest housing for a family dur
612.
by shantly 7y ago
It seems like the gun was present for but not used during (even to threaten) the crime, which doesn't change the fact that he was armed while shoplifting or that he was probably a dangerous dude to be around, but does make it a bit
613.
by shantly 7y ago
"Police decide what's reasonable" seems to be so at least implicitly . And I assume part of their argument was precisely that this was reasonable.
614.
by shantly 7y ago
I didn't get the impression they found out he was armed until later. But the article's not especially clear on that point, among others.
615.
by shantly 7y ago
More like a company town paying in scrip. Dollars trade just fine outside the borders of the US, for non-US goods and services. Or at least trade readily for other things that do, in the worst case.
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by shantly 7y ago
Especially when it sure seems like they had a good or superior alternative. If the situation/area was sufficiently under control that advancing with siege equipment didn't involve excessive risk of harm to officers or of the suspe
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by shantly 7y ago
They offered $5000 toward the deductible and temporary housing. No mention of actual costs involved (like, how large was the total deductible, for instance). Given how long it takes to build a house, plus extra time + expense for demo &am
618.
by shantly 7y ago
There is a high probability the guy stealing a few dollars of clothes from a friggin' Walmart doesn't have much money to take.
619.
by shantly 7y ago
Total loss to Walmart was probably like $10, wholesale, shipping, and stocking. That they pursued him more than about 100 meters is kinda nuts. The "high speed chase" that seems to have preceded this was dumb as hell, too.
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by shantly 7y ago
The way judges expect normal people to, within reason, use good judgement and will hold them accountable if they didn't, but will take police at their word that whatever dumb shit they did was totally necessary and appropriate and they
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by shantly 7y ago
Normal users tend to be "less on the design side" when it comes to actual usability. They might (or might not—I don't think most companies bother to find out) care that you came up with some hot-shit pretty design that impr
622.
by shantly 7y ago
To be fair native controls were total ass for years. And still kind of are. Doubly so if you're trying to build an "app". Basic crap any half-decent UI toolkit would provide out of the box, just not there at all. The stuff th
623.
by shantly 7y ago
For a blog you can just have one "posts" page or similar, linked from every page, organized chronologically. Or even with anchor links to the same posts organized a few different ways. Then you also don't need a search functi
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by shantly 7y ago
I think we hit a pretty good local maximum for website usability in the few years when "leftnav column, header, content" layouts all looked and worked basically the same and were the standard look for lots of sites. Granted they w
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, some of it is just familiarity but I do think GH truly nailed UI to quickly evaluate a project while also being good for working in long-term, at least on desktop—I have complaints about their mobile UI, but when I'm using that i
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by shantly 7y ago
Part of it's the result of extreme centralization and integration of industry, too. If no individual companies work across the entire scope of what a given agency or department regulates, and if there are many such companies rather t
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by shantly 7y ago
What throws me is that they seem to think this would make their life much easier, and that there's no solution unless someone makes it... but there already is one. There are several. Specifically for their problem. Most of which seem t
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by shantly 7y ago
Places with ex-FAANGers in decision-making positions seem to favor it. Nevermind their business is a boring-ass CRUD app and their anticipated usage patterns will only require solving "hard" problems to scale if they totally fuck
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by shantly 7y ago
I think it'd be really fucking impressive if someone could discuss the ins and outs of systems they've used, likes and dislikes, taking conversational questions about it that they don't know about in advance, without settin
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by shantly 7y ago
I love a rough lines/size guide and will be stealing that idea :-) The biggest risk with those take-home projects is that you'll lose out on the "2-3 hour project" because someone else spent 5-6 hours and had time not to

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