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by tharne 5y ago
> This is important for understanding how gerrymandered a district is. That's a bit circular. One of the main reasons that districts are so easy to gerrymander is precisely because there is so much rich census data that can be used
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by tharne 5y ago
The Census has really lost the thread. The original mission was simply to do a headcount to determine how many representatives and electoral votes each state was entitled to. One thing that annoyed me in particular was their creepy obsessio
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by tharne 5y ago
I ditched my smartphone about 8 months ago. There are certainly some inconveniences, but overall the switch has dramatically improved my quality of life. Smartphones are, by design, a thieves of life.
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by tharne 5y ago
In 2019 the Chinese covered up the early spread of COVID then later repeatedly stonewalled anyone doing serious research into the disease's origin. By letting COVID spread for months unchecked the Chinese effectively ensured that there
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by tharne 5y ago
It may have been. I've heard the same joke about Mormons as well.
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by tharne 5y ago
Wow, after reading that review, I definitely do not blame you. That review is very misleading at best.
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by tharne 5y ago
This sounds like a case of misguided expectations. I like the framework laptop, but it's still very early days and there are bound to be some growing pains along the way. This would be like getting upset that the pinephone, as cool as
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by tharne 5y ago
There were a lot of muslim students where I went to college. There was an ongoing joke that went something like: "Why do you always invite at least two muslims to your apartment? Because if you only invite one, they'll drink all y
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by tharne 5y ago
They lost me at the first use of the word "problematic". If you see that word early on in an article you can be fairly certain that nothing original or particularly insightful is going to follow.
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by tharne 5y ago
For whatever reason, it's become acceptable on the left to be anti-Semitic so long as you sanitize it by wrapping it in anti-Israel sentiment. It reminds of how the right used rationalize anti-gay sentiment by saying "Oh, we don&#
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by tharne 5y ago
> Yeah, imagine the craziness of making materials like this accessible to users of the most widely used language. One of the reasons it was originally written for scheme is that scheme has a small core, simple syntax and can very easily
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by tharne 5y ago
> The dose makes the poison Exactly. The concept of dose-dependency is one of those things that earlier generations had an intuitive understanding of, but something we have an increasingly fragile grip on in the modern era.
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> It’s always seemed silly that just the right amount of poison is good somehow Why is it silly? A lot of things are dose dependent. A small amount of tylenol makes you head feel better. A lot of tylenol kills you. Lifting weights is ve
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by tharne 5y ago
I think doom is really good for inspiration. I used it for a while and it gave me a lot of good ideas on the kinds of things I could do with emacs and elisp. I now use my own much simpler config, but I've borrowed heavily from the th
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by tharne 5y ago
Don't worry, in 5-10 years it will be good for you again. I still remember being lectured in school on the food pyramid and the importance of getting your 8-10 servings of grains a day.
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by tharne 5y ago
Has anyone at Sysytem76 ever explained the genesis of this awful name? I really like Pop!_OS, but the name is just terrible.
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by tharne 5y ago
I wish we'd take cyber attacks from the Russians and Chinese as seriously as we take pranks done by kids and bored teenagers.
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by tharne 5y ago
> I'll also note that there was one kid who always knew the firewall's password, within a few days of it changing. Never did figure out how that kid knew it so rapidly. $20 says that kid installed a keystroke logger.
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by tharne 5y ago
> Because telling adolescents that they aren't allowed to learn about something has an astounding success rate. It's got an amazing success rate; at motivating them to learn the exact thing you don't want them to.
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by tharne 5y ago
My guess is that a great many of these stories are true. I've seen more than one instance at large companies where a job either was, or easily could be, mostly replaced by a series of Excel Macros.
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by tharne 5y ago
It does seem sometimes that a lot of folks use C for philosophical rather than practical reasons. That being said, I love seeing a push for simple stacks like this.
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by tharne 5y ago
Or you could just use a pen and a piece of paper.
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by tharne 5y ago
Emacs with vim keybindings. A lot of folks say the emacs or vim won't make you a better developer. I disagree - if you're a newer developer, then using either of these editors will make you a better developer; I'll explain
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by tharne 5y ago
Don't overthink this one. Go online and make a note of job postings that seem interesting and desirable to you. Then, note the kinds of things they ask for and focus on those. Re: how important stacks and specialization is, that really
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by tharne 5y ago
+1 on Mr. Money Mustache. They guy comes off as a know-it-all and kind of a jerk, but he knows his stuff. The Mr. Money Mustache blog did more to help me build a healthy relationship with money than absolutely anything else I've read o
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by tharne 5y ago
A couple of things to look at here. Full disclosure, I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, just some things to think about as you search for a lawyer. 1. Lawyers are not typically required to make a workers comp claim. Filing
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by tharne 5y ago
>> Democrats make up less than half of votes I was referring to registered democrats, as I believe was the article. Regarding Medicare for all, those numbers are misleading. It has 70% of support until you get into the actual detail
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by tharne 5y ago
^ This comment sums up my feelings on the Biden presidency almost to the letter.
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You're both right. "Unaffiliated" votes are the single largest voting block in the U.S. However, the vast majority of unaffiliated votes reliably vote for the same party in each election, so while they are officially independ
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by tharne 5y ago
Bernie Sanders won't get a serious chance to debate because his platform appeals to a small minority of Americans and most folks don't want he's selling. Democrats make up less than half of votes and progressives are a minori

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