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by tps5 10y ago
I think it comes off as a little crazy to hypothesize about these things if your level of experience is basically reading wikipedia (as mine is). I think you can gain a lot of understanding that way (plus enjoyment), but I don't think
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by tps5 10y ago
I agree. You could make the argument that pornography damages people's lives. Of course that doesn't mean the state has the right to censor it. By the same token, I wonder if an argument could be made that the availability of fr
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by tps5 10y ago
You took this completely out of context. I was responding to someone who was arguing for an objectively correct way to interpret Christian scripture that leads to a set of behaviors that defines Christianity. I agree with most of your argu
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by tps5 10y ago
If you want to define Christianity as a set of precepts derived from the teachings of Christ then you must define the teachings of Christ. This seems like an impossible task to me. Not only is there the issue of discovering what's been
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by tps5 10y ago
> Consumers have bought more than 11 million internet-connected Vizio televisions since 2010 11 million televisions. 2.2 million penalty. 20 cents per television.
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by tps5 10y ago
Sometimes "fuck" isn't emotionally charged. Sometimes it's just the more accurate term.
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by tps5 10y ago
My office is switching to an open design. And none of the people who work there are happy about it. It was decided by the folks who own the company, several thousand miles away. I think the real allure of open offices is how they look. O
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by tps5 10y ago
Build and host a web app that uses some real-time public-facing data (train positions, bus positions, satellite positions, cab fares, etc) and renders that information in a helpful way. That's how I got a job as a very junior developer
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by tps5 10y ago
Sure, you're free to offer your opinion on which factors tilted the election. But I would urge you to qualify that opinion with an introduction like "in my opinion..." I say this because, to me, it's not obvious at all
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by tps5 10y ago
What is Saudi Arabia? If we're talking about the rulers (read: the Saud family), they're certainly friendly with Israel. Both nations share a common enemy: Islamists who deny the right of Israel and Saudi Arabia to exist. Note:
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by tps5 10y ago
Yep, I read this: > Entrepreneurs (and their spouses and unmarried children under 21) who make an investment in a commercial enterprise in the United States and who plan to create or preserve ten permanent full time jobs for qualified Un
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by tps5 10y ago
First, many of the media outlets that obsessively covered Clinton's emails were explicitly pro-Clinton. That story was, like it or not, actual news on some level. As exaggerated and politicized as it got, people were interested in it
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by tps5 10y ago
> was instrumental in allowing it to come into power (in fact, crucially so). This is vague supposition. No one can quantify how much/how little Thiel had to do with Trump winning. If dollars spent on a campaign = being president,
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by tps5 10y ago
I think this is fundamentally unfair as well, but at least it tries to ensure that the applicant has an ongoing interest in the country. It's not good but it's not quite "here's a million dollars, now make me a citizen.&
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by tps5 10y ago
This just feels nasty. It feels like left-leaning media outlets (note: I'm left leaning) are scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to discredit anyone who has the gall to disagree with their narrative that Trump is a disaster (note
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by tps5 10y ago
This question exists because it's hard. One reason it's hard because the true answer is always: "because you believe that I will complete more work and therefore generate more profits than the other 8 people you interviewed,
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by tps5 10y ago
Explain to me how this line of reasoning doesn't apply to your car. Or flying in an airplane. Or doing your taxes. Or a million other things. By living in a "modern society," we're trusting in so many things that we d
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by tps5 10y ago
Did they? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair
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by tps5 10y ago
The CIA is, very specifically, not allowed to spy on American citizens.
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by tps5 10y ago
I'm not coming from C++, but my experience with Rust has been: * Read the book, got some of the concepts but most of it went over my head. * Did nothing, maybe thought about it a little bit. * Two weeks later: read the book again.
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by tps5 10y ago
Something you didn't mention is the huge amount of pressure on "junior developers" to meet requirements like "5 years of experience in X, Y, and Z." There's an arms race between hiring companies lying about the
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by tps5 10y ago
I don't think this should be downvoted, it's a valid perspective. Compile times matter. I use typescript and have it watching my files. Compilation (or transpilation, whatever you want to call it) time isn't an issue. I cou
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by tps5 10y ago
I think you're wrong here. I'm all for acknowledging and sympathizing with people who mistakenly identify this symbol as a swastika. I'm certainly not in favor of looking down on them. By all means, gently explain to them t
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by tps5 10y ago
Atom is based on sublime text. They are quite similar anyway. The differences are that sublime text is faster, less buggy, almost never crashes, can open large files without freezing, and costs 70 dollars or you get an annoying popup ever
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by tps5 10y ago
This comment is so incredibly misleading. Predator drones were new in 2001. The idea that it makes sense to directly compare drone use in the Bush administration to drone usage in the Obama administration is just wrong. Furthermore, I nev
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My understanding is this: Hooft is an "instrumentalist" as described in this article. He does not believe that quantum mechanics describes "what's really going on" and is interested in classical models that explain
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by tps5 10y ago
Yeah, in retrospect I responded without thinking. Of course the semantics of a language can impact how easy/hard it is to write a fast implementation for that language. And as far as I know, there isn't anything special about the
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by tps5 10y ago
> It is a sign of the quality of the language. No amount of money can make a square peg fit into a round hole. I think this is fundamentally wrong. I think you're confusing the language itself with how the language has been impleme
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by tps5 10y ago
No one you want to work for is going to look down on you based on where you went to school. I hesitate to give you advice since it sounds to me like you're pretty busy already.
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by tps5 10y ago
Nice article. I started using Linux (Ubuntu) last year. I was trying to get into open source software and I had a choice between a Macbook or a Dell laptop with Ubuntu on it. I was aware that Linux had a reputation of being difficult to us

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