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by spiralx 7y ago
They can tell the difference because the manufactured ones, especially those produced by the vapour deposit process, are too flawless to be natural :)
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by spiralx 7y ago
Although if you believe these anecdotes from a supposed ex-employee then competency is not the word to use: https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376
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by spiralx 7y ago
> Honestly, this reads more like you're burnt out and would prefer not to have to keep apace of new developments to continue contributing. Do you think that the patronising and confrontational tone of this comment and others here ar
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by spiralx 7y ago
Or you could conclude it's a complex issue that well-meaning people can come to very different views on the causes of and the solutions to. Different viewpoints existing doesn't mean they're all meaningless and/or lies.
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by spiralx 7y ago
My new earbuds have a clean and fast enough sub response that I can tell exactly when one track is being mixed into the next in a techno mix, just from the sub changing - but after years of using them, that is the first time I can say that!
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by spiralx 7y ago
I've recently bought these after having an earlier model for a year and a half (which I lost, they were still working fine). They've got a replaceable cable which solves the main issue I had with earlier earphones. https:/&#
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by spiralx 7y ago
The DNC supported the candidate that won the primary, that's true. I've yet to hear what actual wrong=doing was exposed by the leaked emails though, what bylaws are you referring to? > Well, Manning then chose to hack and was p
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by spiralx 7y ago
Sentiment analysis would be possible to run on either or both of articles and individual comments - I've done it before on a forum that had far less activity than HN does and gotten at least some usable data. You could then track indiv
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by spiralx 7y ago
And thinking about it weren't value-less attributes also illegal? I remember doing a lot of <button disabled="disabled">...</button> in XHTML, instead of <button disabled>...</but
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by spiralx 7y ago
The conversation wasn't about the MSM, but still... > Nearly 100% of the mainstream media was against the person who ended up being elected. Including Fox News and other right-leaning news outlets? I would suspect that for people wh
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by spiralx 7y ago
Could you have unquoted attributes in transitional?
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by spiralx 7y ago
I wrote an XSLT stylesheet that could turn an XHTML document into a display of its own source, complete with indenting, code folding and syntax highlighting. I was quite pleased with that :) When I worked at the BMJ all of our content was s
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by spiralx 7y ago
The new Ikea down the road is 344,445 sq ft in floor space over two floors - so about 170k in size - and it has a B&Q next door that's about two-thirds that size, although only one floor. That's within a few miles of the centr
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by spiralx 7y ago
The new Ikea down the road is 344,445 sq ft in size, it has a B&Q next door that's about two-thirds that size and there are at least three other shops selling DIY supplies within ten minutes walk. Plus a couple of large specialist
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by spiralx 7y ago
I think a lot of this has to do with the lack of stable groups of a size that enables social effects and feedback to dominate - things like guilt, shame and reciprocity. Without this sort of group interactions become much more stressful and
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by spiralx 7y ago
First place is home, second place is work, third place is communal areas - sometimes the media is referred to as a fourth place. He's saying that homes are built/valued almost entirely with access to jobs in mind and not communal
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by spiralx 8y ago
It is in the UK - go to Companies House, either buy a defunct company name or register a new one, enter your details and some info about what the company will do, pay a small fee {about £25 if you're using an existing name, a bit more
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by spiralx 8y ago
Creeping Calvinism is indeed a thing that exists in America, hence the existence of things like the prosperity gospel .
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by spiralx 8y ago
He's a polarising figure amongst the very small number of people in the UK who a) have heard of him or Wikileaks, b) are more concerned with "overly liberal" European laws than someone who flees the country and enters an emba
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by spiralx 8y ago
Well, fractional reserve lending isn't a useful model for how money is created in the modern economy - bank loans are just a matter of adding an amount to the borrower's account balance and are constrained solely by the bank'
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by spiralx 8y ago
Pretty much, as it would require the other party to make their own patents available to Tesla, or at least not use them against them - and Tesla just doesn't have anything like the patent portfolio that other manufacturers have, so the
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by spiralx 8y ago
I'm not familiar with your editor or block-based editors in general, but it looks like a basic version of a visual editor I used in WordPress a while back. Is there some reason you can't do it similarly to how that did it, by allo
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by spiralx 8y ago
All of Addy Osmani's stuff is well-coded and/or well-written, I've been reading his front-end stuff for almost a decade now: https://addyosmani.com/blog/large-scale-jquery/
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by spiralx 8y ago
Because not having free will won't change the fact that we act as though we do, nor will it change the desired outcome - punishment is meant as a deterrence, not just retribution.
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by spiralx 8y ago
But the variation between lowest and highest usage and cost for a TV or dishwasher is going to be far less than it is for the cost of fueling a car, there's a huge difference between someone who uses the car for a few short journeys a
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by spiralx 8y ago
The phrase "familiarity breeds contempt" exists for a reason. A lack of contact with something can certainly lead to ignorance and bigotry, but it's our closest neighbours in geography, culture or ideology that spark actual d
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by spiralx 8y ago
I've had a Dell technician come to my office within a day of reporting an issue and replace the screen on my XPS 13 there and then, that was just with the standard warranty.
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by spiralx 8y ago
The top mod of /r/punchablefaces decided that he was going to give it away and offered it to the first person to accept it of two other mods, one from a left-leaning sub, one from a right-leaning sub. The left-leaning one accepted
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by spiralx 8y ago
How are you going to get any traction when after losing 90% of your visitors to that home page's design you lose 99% of the remainder because nobody is going to join for content that may or may not exist, let alone be interesting. That
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by spiralx 8y ago
If using Chrome's Stylus extension's support for using Stylelint to lint a style written in Stylus is the same as on the command line, then the only real issue I've had is that you often need to use colons to separate propert

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