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by svieira 6y ago
I think of the face of the guy in Star Trek 4 ... "Transparent JPEG?" "That's the ticket laddie!"
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by svieira 6y ago
:shrug: Make of it what you will, I'm just providing my personal experience. I was celibate/nofap for 25 years (now married for 10).
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by svieira 6y ago
The funny thing is, if you hold the line longer (months) and have something else to pour yourself into the restlessness decreases and you're left with _focus_.
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by svieira 6y ago
I think the point the parent is trying to make is that saying that "participation of women in the workplace" isn't a directly-correlated metric for the "how happy / empowered / established / productive are
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by svieira 6y ago
Precisely - I'm not anti-union, but I've seen the worst of unions (where they become boss #2 instead of being the collective voice of the worker). Anyone planning on starting a union should look at cases where unions _failed_ and
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by svieira 6y ago
Having gone without insurance coverage, I have heard phrases like "our standard 85% discount" when notifying that I am paying cash instead of using insurance. (That said, I've also only received 30% discounts, so don't
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by svieira 6y ago
This "implicit coloring" is what's talked about in _Unyielding_ [1], which is the "explicit color is good" counterpoint to _What Color is Your Function?_ (though Unyielding predates WCIYF by about a year). [1]: htt
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by svieira 6y ago
Context: Changing location was a way of message passing (just change the hash) before `postMessage` was widely available. Also, sometimes you are managing a widget embedded in a page which is embedded in your application. That said, this i
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by svieira 6y ago
> 33 greasers There's a Liberty Ship that sails out of Baltimore at times [1] and if you go down into the engine room you can meet (or could 3 years ago) a greaser who sailed with these ships during WW II. They were the last mass-p
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by svieira 6y ago
There's an old apocryphal story about the Chinese and the Japanese duking it out in the prelude to WWII that applies here, but there's also a poem far closer: > That though all lances split on you, > All swords be heaved i
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by svieira 6y ago
And we still haven't won
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by svieira 6y ago
There is actually a Stage 1 proposal that introduces an expression that does _exactly_ that (because it's not as easy as just making `const x = for(let i of foo) { yield i; };` parse.) https://github.com/tc39/propo
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by svieira 6y ago
The Armenian Genocide comes to mind. You also couldn't prove that Uyghurs are being subject to anything out-of-the-ordinary in Chinese courts right now. I'm not saying that that's what we're dealing with here, but sayin
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by svieira 6y ago
_Orthodoxy_ is his account for how he came to Christianity by constructing his own philosophy because it turned out that his philosophy was an ad hoc, informally-specified implementation of half of Christianity's philosophy ... so, &qu
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by svieira 6y ago
Until the alternatives are de-listed from search because "they contain disinformation" and the alternative search engines are de-listed and black-holed at the DNS resolver level for the same reasons.
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by svieira 6y ago
Start with G. K. Chesterton's _Orthodoxy_ - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16769 It is not an overview of philosophy, but it is one person's account of how he found one and it touches on a lot of questions
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by svieira 6y ago
What is the difference between call/cc and delimited continuations?
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by svieira 6y ago
A couple of excellent articles on the different ways of thinking about the choice (of when to yield) vs. color (virality of choice) problem: * Choice is bad: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-
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by svieira 6y ago
Which means that as a scientist (aka natural philosopher) one must take _as a given_ that: * Happenings that are observed in the external world are related (cause and effect exist) * The principle of sufficient reason applies to all effects
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by svieira 6y ago
Correction - the local system means that when the local system fails _for years on end_ then the remote part of society needs to step in to support those who are starving locally. But this is true, no matter how high you push things. If s
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by svieira 6y ago
There's also Ernst Götsch down in Brazil and Joel Salatin in the Eastern Seaboard.
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by svieira 6y ago
Saying "there is no God" instead of "I don't know whether or not God exists" presumes a certain understanding of cause and effect, of being and essence, of meaning and purpose. After all, the atheist says "the
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by svieira 6y ago
> Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live w
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by svieira 6y ago
TL;DW - parts of Sapper may be in a future version of Svelte, but looking to add support for mixed static and dynamic pages and improving development speed to change by using Snowpack.
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by svieira 6y ago
Oh, this isn't running on JavaScript - this is running on TypeScript's _typer_! ... which is implemented in JavaScript ... er ... don't know if that changes your desires to use this in PRODUCTION.
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by svieira 6y ago
In TS 4.1+ there _is_ an option for strict array access called `noUncheckedIndexedAccess` [1] [1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescr...
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by svieira 6y ago
Her #2 is critical - people have needs now and you're in community with them now. Don't leave for tomorrow the good put before you to do today.
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by svieira 6y ago
Once you get to Java 11+ you get `var`, so you can spell it `var me = new Person()`.
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by svieira 6y ago
And there we come down to the root of the issue - you define marriage as "a state-sponsored contractual arrangement between (at the moment) two natural persons". I define marriage as "a union of a man and a woman that establ
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by svieira 6y ago
> Human rights don't depend on how many people support them. This is _absolutely_ true! However, the con 50% in this argument argued that "marriage as the union of M persons who X each other" (the pro side doesn't agr

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