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An even simpler example is page-based navigation. Can't register UI hits while pages are animating in and out.
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Isn't 'never' an oversimplification? Sometimes there is a feedback loop between UI effects and user input, or the user input changes the way the UI registers hits, which means subsequent input depends on complete processing o
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Ok. So think about what that actually means. You get a payment from the government for $1000 once a month. Then they take $2000 in taxes from your paycheck once a month. Net, you paid $1000 in taxes. For you, it is indistinghuisable from a
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I keep telling people I want a Viking funeral. And not one of those silly, historically accurate ship burials. I want to be pushed out to sea in a longship with a sword laid across my chest, with an expert longbowman to set me on fire with
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In practical terms in the US, nearly any time someone uses that phrase, they are an attorney. From context, OP is probably neither a prosecutor nor a criminal defense attorney, because they would likely mention that given its relevance. Tec
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Well this study hasn't definitively isolated pesticides as a cause, but it did successfully eliminate a large number of alternative explanations, making agricultural pesticides a likely contributor. Whether consumer pesticides contribu
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Well, you're not giving UBI to everyone. Just the people who don't earn more than UBI level. For everyone else, UBI becomes like the standard deduction under the current US system.
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Seriously. Contracts. I inherited a relatively substantial C# WCF business line app with a large number of classes each with many nullable properties. The null handling was awful, but there were too many classes to easily refactor to apply
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Not OP but one use case is charitable grants. I made an app for a homeless agency my girlfriend used to work at for automatically filling out PDFs. They spent an inordinate amount of time filling out grant application PDFs, most of which re
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Many aspects of the law are algorithmic. Even though there is no one, settled formal definition for algorithm, statutory and common law meet many informal definitions. Laws usually lay out an ordered, (theoretically) unambiguous set of step
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I wish more people saw it this way. My family calls me 'the dog whisperer' because I've always had a good touch with dogs. It's nothing special really, just that I treat training like a fun mutual game. It's like a
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>why the coal and nuclear industries haven't been promoting electric vehicles more vigorously to drive demand for electricity Well, on the coal side, they can hardly maintain that coal isn't bad for the environment whilst simul
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>It's why cadavers are still used to teach medical students. And even practicing surgeons. Cadaver studies are hugely important for training surgeons how to implant new or new-to-the-surgeon medical devices.
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Yeah, I know, but unfortunately Cicero didn't have too much to say about GAAP.
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Quis audiet ipsos auditores?
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Well, I guess the sticking point is that no one has found a better way to measure loan risk. If they had, lenders would work with the agency that more accurately assesses their risk because otherwise they are leaving money on the table by n
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>This equivocation between consciousness and meta-consciousness is so widespread that a plethora of books, which are seemingly dedicated to the project of "explaining consciousness", instead spend their entire contents explaini
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It's probably also worth comparing to the cost of a bespoke solution. If it takes two engineers six months to design and test, you'll have spent more on their salaries alone than on your projected lifetime buy (which itself doesn&
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You're referring to the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (OGCA). https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/public-records-a... The Official Code of Georgia is available online for free. However, the
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>the lawyers who managed the case (sometimes for years!) take most of the payout This meme is part of the problem. The lawyers take maybe a third of the settlement, after bearing most of the costs of litigation themselves, which they wou
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I resent the implication that I got personally nasty at any point in this discussion.
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I think the reason this is all coming to a head now is that it's harder to hide your opinions, or rather it's easier to unintentionally air them to a broader audience than you might prefer. Social media makes it too easy to inadve
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Having moved from the liberal coasts to Texas, I can tell you that you're right about the opposite experience happening too, and you definitely don't have to go looking for it.
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>When people are ignorant about a subject because they don't have the relevant personal experience they don't have anything to contribute to the conversation so they should just listen Well this is exactly the problem. You&#x27
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>arguments based on identity aren't ad-hominem Well here's the problem. Arguments that discredit another perspective based on the identity of who is making it are ad hominem. Arguments about the discursive process itself that a
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Are you... are you trying to prove his point? >Holy narratives batman Postmodern narrative analysis as gloss. >you have ulterior motives for being so disingenuous Straight into the ad hominem. >when people who have secure livelihoo
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Apple customers have a choice. Which is why I'm typing this from my brand new Galaxy instead of an iPhone.
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I wonder if this is a hangover from the recession. Hiring managers expectations have been anchored to market conditions that simply don't exist anymore but which lasted so long that no one in hiring recognizes the issue.
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Have you tried putting together an abbreviated version of your work on github? I've had success with toy utility apps to demonstrate my coding style and basic competencies because I am in a very similar position. Generally I've fo
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>First off, the conservative/libertarian discourse is not "childish" or "uninformed." Libertarian thought has been in development for centuries beginning with classical liberalism. The length of time that a schoo

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