thomasfoster96

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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
I find it odd that someone who was writing a paragraph about sexism in tech (or any industry) wouldn’t be aware of the negative connotation - but your explanation could be right.
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
Given the author appears to be female, I suspect the irony is entirely on purpose.
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Top secret Australian government documents found in second hand furniture store(abc.net.au)
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
The syntactic complexity of line 18 isn’t really the issue (in fact, it shouldn’t really require a deep understanding of JS syntax), it’s the meaningless single-letter variable names.
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Stephen Colbert’s Cyborgasm: Home Edition [video](youtube.com)
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Quantum Physicist Michelle Yvonne Simmons Named 2018 Australian of the Year(abc.net.au)
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
Huh? Why would you expect your accent to be more American if you grew up in a Commonwealth county?
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
> What good is a computer that you can’t type on. One spec of dust or one crumb and your keyboard is done. My space bar sometimes inserts two spaces and sometimes inserts spaces between letters. Is there a laptop where this isn’t a pro
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
Well if you’re calculating “the average American”, you have to include drug-addicted Americans.
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
You find a rather common spelling mistake (which has been fixed) “credibility-undercutting” and “cringeworthy”? It seems like you are holding blog posts that have made it to the first page of Hacker News to a ridiculously high standard.
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Coinbase down(status.coinbase.com)
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
You’re probably right in general re: negative gearing on rents (I’ve edited my comment).
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
Variations of this headline have been running for years now, so I don’t really think this one is going to be any more accurate regarding timing than any of the other predictions. There seems to be an un-ending political will-power (from bot
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Stephen Colbert’s ‘Go Fund Yourself’ [video](youtube.com)
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Living stromatolites found in south-west Tasmania(media.utas.edu.au)
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
> Tunnels are more important than Uber or self driving cars > “Without tunnels we’ll be in traffic hell forever” -Elon Musk Public transport solves all the problems tunnels solve as well. Tunnels don’t change the fact that cars (self-
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
Well in most federations, until there’s a constitutional change.
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
A sign of a healthy capitalist society for some maybe, but not a healthy society in general.
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
> >Except a) the federal government actually doesn’t really interfere much with governance at all >You’re not serious are you. The OP was certainly underestimating the influence the US federal government (and federal governments ar
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
It would be possible to do, but it hasn’t been proposed as an ECMAScript feature nor do I know of any plugins that implement it, so you’d have to write the plugin yourself.
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
> They're more centrist than 'liberal' despite the name. Most liberal parties around the world are more or less centrist. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
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2017 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis(en.wikipedia.org)
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
Wait, it isn’t pronounced ‘cog’?
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
That’s true.
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
> "a very un-intuitive interpretation of the question" is often part of the game on QI. Hence my clarification that this was despite it being the nature of the show. The question about “who was the first president of the United
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
> I'm a committed capitalist AND green and they is no political party aligned to that. The Greens have an unofficial right faction (pro-capitalism, pro-green). Most of the recent Greens internal tension has been between this faction
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
Do you have any links to the party? I’ve never really got the impression that Sustainable Australia (or any of its previous incarnations) was really anything more than an anti-population growth single issue party.
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
They still run Senate candidates (in Victoria at least) but as independents because they lost party status. Not sure if they can be resurrected though - I think their good people all went to Labor and the Greens.
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by thomasfoster96 9y ago
QI did end up having quite a lot of rather dubious facts in the end (or at the very least, a lot of the answers given as correct on the show required a very unintuitive interpretation of the question, despite the nature of the show). But gi
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Analytics in the AFL – The Most Data Rich Sport on Earth (2016)(sports.vice.com)
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