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by telchar 6y ago
Oh yeah, that's some pretty clear obfuscation. It sounds like a PITA to work with code like that.
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by telchar 6y ago
To be fair, your first link doesn't say that vegerable oils are bad for you. It just says that the Omega-6 fatty acids in them, if not balanced out by additional Omega-3s from other sources, cause health problems. So vegetable oils are
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by telchar 6y ago
I'm curious, how would they obfuscate code and how could you tell?
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by telchar 6y ago
I'll admit this article describes a much less bad system than what I envision when someone mentions compressed air energy storage. On a side note, I wonder what the state of research is on reducing the embodied energy in li-ion battery
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by telchar 6y ago
They need to be made out of something unless you like a very open plan. In the past they might have been made from wattle and daub, or you could use studs, paper, whatever you want since they're not structural.
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by telchar 6y ago
If you want to name a country that has rule of law, in your opinion, it works make your point stronger. The US isn't a particularly good example of the rule of law right now, true, but I think you would be hard pressed to come up with
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by telchar 6y ago
In this case, those in the US most alarmed by Russian interference in the US election are mostly the same people who oppose US interference in foreign elections too. The people who supported the invasion of Iraq, for example, are mostly hap
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by telchar 6y ago
"The principle with which we are now dealing is that one which is called Expediency. The usage of this word has been corrupted and perverted and has gradually come to the point where, separating moral rectitude from expediency, it is a
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by telchar 6y ago
As an aside, you're using the word 'populism' like it is the same thing as demagoguery. Populism isn't always dishonest and anti-intellectual, just like elitism (its antipode) isn't always honest and benign. I think
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by telchar 6y ago
That doesn't really help much. Most enthusiast subreddits are full of posts that are just "look at my [basic standard hobby gear] picture". Even those places are overrun with this.
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by telchar 6y ago
In spirit-of-the-law terms (maybe letter of the law too), I'd argue that privacy policy is not a contract. A contract requires a meeting of minds. It's well-known that privacy policies are rarely read and to most people, incompreh
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by telchar 6y ago
If companies expected and wanted users to be informed, the standard "we've updated our privacy policy" would be accompanied with a detailed list of changes or some sort of friendly marked-up change log. I have never seen anyt
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I'm Mad as Hell About Square's Shady Automatic Emails(wired.com)
5 points by telchar 6y ago|0 comments
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by telchar 6y ago
I recently went to a woodworking show in the mid-Atlantic region. There were some masters there teaching classes who seemed very concerned about traditional woodworking skills dying out - from the average age of attendees I can see why - an
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by telchar 6y ago
I think the depth is inversely proportional to the utility of search - the better I can search for the combination of features, price, etc that I need the less deep the shelf gets. The endless generic white-labeled junk plus poor metadata r
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by telchar 6y ago
You seem to be very low on your Ebola numbers[0]. Is that based on a super-strict definition of "confirmed"? [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28755033
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by telchar 6y ago
In my experience, it's easy to think one has understanding without actually understanding. The process of applying that tentative understanding to a problem to test it is essential to figuring out what the flaws are in the tentative un
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by telchar 7y ago
A study linked last time this came up on HN indicated most of the particulate pollution is "resuspension", or previously generated particles kicked up by the car passing. It makes sense to consider in some cases but I think it&#x2
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by telchar 7y ago
I paid a little extra (~$600) for a foam mattress manufactured in California. I figured there is a lower chance of harmful offgassing than the cheaper Chinese mattresses like Zinus. I don't have any way to test that though.
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by telchar 7y ago
Vote for the candidate who doesn't make you seriously question whether there will be another election in 4 years?
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by telchar 7y ago
Bad analogy. Data science isn't manual labor. Ask yourself, does an artisan woodworker want the shop to buy a CNC mill that they'll be obliged to use to justify its cost, knowing that they can be replaced more easily as a machine
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by telchar 7y ago
It's hard to appreciate the scale in person too, it doesn't look real (I was there). Like the other poster said, it's surreal. But the sonic booms help remind you the boosters are large and moving very fast.
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by telchar 7y ago
The Orbital Index (orbitalindex.com), highlighting interesting developments in space.
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by telchar 7y ago
Freshwater animals aren't really relevant since they aren't going to do any good for life in the ocean if the animals that evolved for PH of 8.1 can't survive due to decreasing alkalinity. If the ocean life can't adapt i
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by telchar 7y ago
That's one of the reason people hate taxis, and why people jumped to Uber instead. Who's to stop the driver from taking the long route, and how am I supposed to compare options if I don't know how much it will cost? Pull out
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by telchar 7y ago
Does the law say you can't do upfront pricing? Surely the company could just eat the difference in the situation you raise? To me this seems to be Uber's way of passing on any extra cost and risk to customers rather than risk any
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by telchar 7y ago
That's what makes PhD work a good example I think, because a low-paid job that can be quite abusive describes apprenticeship very well. It's Inherently reflective of the quality of the master. If the master is an abusive drunk, th
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by telchar 7y ago
An e-bike would go a long way to materialize the convenience promised by biking. Prices are coming down quite a bit as well. Maybe look into that, they're fun too.
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by telchar 7y ago
Parking lots at the border is, in my opinion, much better than parking garages in the center. At least that way the city streets won't be clogged by people coming from out of town. After they get to the city they don't need the ca
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by telchar 7y ago
You're talking out of both sides of your mouth here. You say that kitchens and bathrooms are the "big cost items" yet here you say that omitting or scaling them back doesn't save much. How can both things be true?

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