spiralx

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by spiralx 9y ago
A munter is also someone who takes drugs, it comes from the context of taking pills at clubs - a munter munting gets munted.
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by spiralx 9y ago
> Temin avoids mentioning Asians, who have a higher average income than whites, despite many being relative newcomers to the country. That would undermine the narrative of a static class structure. The fact that educated, middle-class As
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by spiralx 9y ago
The object type is the type of all non-primitive types, what you want is the Object type instead. Yes, it's confusing, especially as there's also the {} type! This article goes over the differences: https://blog.mariuss
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by spiralx 9y ago
Mixins in ES6 should be functions taking a class and returning another class that extends it: https://alligator.io/js/class-composition/
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by spiralx 9y ago
Your example is equal to await getThingAtIndex(1) await getThingAtIndex(2) await getThingAtIndex(3) whereas the async for loop is equivalent to await Promise.all([ getThingAtIndex(1), getThingAtIndex(2), getThingA
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by spiralx 9y ago
I suspect it might have something to do with allowing developers to extend the built-in types - I know that changes were made between ES5 and ES6 to allow subclassing Array, could well be the same issue. See Symbol.species for instance. Wai
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by spiralx 9y ago
> A much better example is Venezuela where many people do. I've yet to see any evidence of this being true, it appears to be a claim backed by endless "news" articles that have sourced other such articles in some giant sta
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by spiralx 9y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurengensler/2017/07/20/micros... Since 12 months ago profits have doubled, shares are up 19%, revenue is up 13%, cloud revenue is up 11%, cash reserves are up, oh, and
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by spiralx 9y ago
Because the original use referred to economic liberalism, whereas in the US the term has come to refer to social liberalism.
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by spiralx 9y ago
https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/202 It's in the roadmap, but discussions about it are still going on four years after the ticket was opened...
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by spiralx 9y ago
Well no, because the whole point of the article is that fractional reserve banking doesn't actually exist and that there is no money multiplier.
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by spiralx 9y ago
> A good example of this is that many engineers are known for a just-the-facts, no-frills approach. This is because engineers tend to prioritize facts and correctness over aesthetic and emotional value. And yet engineers are over-represe
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by spiralx 9y ago
> Fair, but how do you continuously put people under stress using only words on a screen? Once someone has become afraid of something, it doesn't just vanish after the event that caused it is over.
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by spiralx 9y ago
Those 10,000 years have involved very, very little in the way of free speech for most people - I don't think going back to the days of lèse-majesté and the Inquisition is what you had in mind, even though those institutions certainly p
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by spiralx 9y ago
> And yet all implementations of communism has failed so does this mean technical progress eventually leads to societal failure? Only if you believe that once an attempt at something has failed, all future attempts will also fail. > A
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by spiralx 9y ago
Is there any actual evidence for this claim though?
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by spiralx 9y ago
Processes discard messages that they aren't interested in, that doesn't mean another process isn't.
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by spiralx 9y ago
Have non-religious social outlets ever existed in any great numbers though? I can't think of any widespread institutions that provided community other than sheer physical proximity, which itself would largely be a 1:1 relationship with
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by spiralx 9y ago
It was through taking speed at parties that eventually led to my diagnosis - it ended up being something I did almost exclusively not at parties and for the purpose of getting things done, because it just didn't give me the same high f
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by spiralx 9y ago
> I get your sentiment. I can say Adderall has helped me so much that I could get teary eyed. But thats only because I am too lazy and lack the willpower to discipline myself naturally. Have you been diagnosed with ADHD? Do you even beli
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by spiralx 9y ago
> I'm sorry, but every time I read shit like this I have to wonder if I'm reading from some big pharma social media bot. Assuming the worst of posters is definitely against the site rules, and just rude in general. As someone w
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by spiralx 9y ago
There's also the full SPDX spec here: https://spdx.org/ which as the GP says is the source of license codes used by Debian, as well as the license field in NPM's package.json. https://spdx.org/lice
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by spiralx 9y ago
Your gut contains the second largest collection of neurons in your body, and has a large influence on our behaviour... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-second-brain/
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by spiralx 9y ago
Usable land is not the same as arable land - the soil in these regions is not capable of supporting anything like modern agriculture, and wouldn't be for centuries. Soil is an incredibly complex mixture of stuff, and takes a long time
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by spiralx 9y ago
The user style I've made for HN reduces the level of greying out considerably - dead comments are only 50% black instead of 14% black for instance. https://userstyles.org/styles/156181/hacker-news-improved-re.
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by spiralx 9y ago
That's still the equivalent of 2.3 million people, more than the population of a third of the countries in the world.
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by spiralx 9y ago
I look forward to that glorious day when Bitcoin, now mature, has crushed the global financial system and established a new era of whale dominance. I'm just not sure that I have enough years left in me to wait until the impossible futu
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by spiralx 9y ago
The TPP contained provisions for ensuring worker's rights, including the right to unionise (chapter 19), along with environmental standards (chapter 20) and mechanisms to increase transparency and fight corruption (chapter 26). All of
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by spiralx 9y ago
On my OnePlus 5T the standard sort() was twice as fast as the radix sort for the UInt8 array, but it was only 30% slower for the Float64 and regular arrays, whereas sort() was hundreds of times slower - strange...
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by spiralx 9y ago
I call it "evidence based government" to match evidence-based medicine. But it is one of the things I'd most like to see happen, because the real world seems like far too small an influence on politics nowadays.

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