twblalock

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by twblalock 8y ago
I agree, I don't know any front end devs who would choose Angular for a new project. The current choice seems to be between React and Vue.
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by twblalock 8y ago
Types make it much, much easier to write useful refactoring tools, and to verify that the tools did the right thing.
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by twblalock 8y ago
In the past few years there have been some large storms that missed Tokyo by a fairly small distance. The people who operate this system say that it would have been over capacity if those storms had hit Tokyo directly. It's an impressi
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by twblalock 8y ago
The 4-door F-150, and the Tahoe/Yukon Denali/Escalade variants, are the modern American luxury vehicles. They aren't all that much more excessive than the giant Cadillacs and Lincolns that were the standard of American luxury
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by twblalock 8y ago
It's funny, most of the Japanese sedans that sell well in America do not sell well in Japan, and some of them are not even available to buy there. They were designed for the American market. Japanese cars became bestsellers because the
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by twblalock 8y ago
> What happens if a correction happens in the SUV/Truck market that the time horizon starts to reflect sedans (again)? I guess GM and Ford would just start making sedans again? They could switch back. A lot of the crossovers are bui
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by twblalock 8y ago
Inflation, people wanting larger homes than they used to, and simple population growth are obvious factors. Another major factor is that zoning laws make it more difficult to build new housing in most cities than it used to be. Zoning restr
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by twblalock 8y ago
They aren't incompatible. The people who want houses with gardens just need to live further away from the transit stations than the people who want to live in apartments and take transit.
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by twblalock 8y ago
> The only requirement is to have proliferation of Bitcoin-fiat exchanges across the region No, that's not the only requirement. Other requirements include teaching large numbers of nontechnical people what the heck a cryptocurrency
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by twblalock 8y ago
No, it does not imply that.
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by twblalock 8y ago
While you are in an enclosed train car? Good luck getting away.
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by twblalock 8y ago
The BART police are afraid of being falsely accused even when they are in the right, because of the legacy of the Oscar Grant case, so they are overly timid about confronting criminals. The police were wrong in the Oscar Grant case, but the
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by twblalock 8y ago
I think it really boils down to American voters having lower standards and being resigned to the fact that these things happen. I don't think a single politician has lost re-election over it recently. The last time there was a signific
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by twblalock 8y ago
It happens all the time.
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by twblalock 8y ago
This is why it's hard to get support for public transit funding. People don't want to take public transit if they will fear for their lives, or be surrounded by drug addicts and mentally disturbed people yelling at and spitting on
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by twblalock 8y ago
Claiming your listing does not let you lock it in the sense you are thinking of. It's also not very difficult to claim a listing that was already claimed by somebody else -- they will get an email asking them to challenge your claim, a
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by twblalock 8y ago
Why is Sandberg getting more negative press than Zuckerberg? Because Zuckerberg's halo fell off a long time ago but people continued to believe that Sandberg was a saint until recently, and people love exposing hypocrisy.
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by twblalock 8y ago
> You might as well turn it around and ask yourself why the person with skills from a poorer place shouldn't get the higher wage. Why shouldn't that person get the higher wage? That person is also part of a society.
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by twblalock 8y ago
Especially considering Facebook is based in California, which is controlled by the Democratic party. Many people in that party blame Facebook for helping Trump win the 2016 election.
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by twblalock 8y ago
Lenovo has one of the worst laptop websites. They have 10 "series" currently on the site: the X, T, P, Yoga, A, E, L, 13, 11E, and V. Given the number of configurable options across the product line for processors, memory, hard dr
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by twblalock 8y ago
If something is true, it's true no matter who says it.
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by twblalock 8y ago
It seems like we have to do some geoengineering no matter what, because the emission cuts required to solve the problem are unattainable even if every government on the planet was trying to do its part. The current climate change problem ha
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by twblalock 8y ago
The users are not the only driver of change. Government regulation is very likely to happen at this point, in both the US and the EU.
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by twblalock 8y ago
Every source I've found says that the government delayed the evacuation by more than a day before sending in the buses. Once the buses had arrived, it took several hours to evacuate.
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by twblalock 8y ago
People would cheat by looking up the answers.
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by twblalock 8y ago
Embedded software, firmware, low-level OS components like drivers and kernels, game engines, key-value stores, databases, and the compilers/interpreters for a lot of other languages.
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by twblalock 8y ago
I had an old Saab that locked the manual gearshift in reverse when the key was removed. It seemed like it would be fairly difficult to defeat that mechanism without disassembling or destroying the entire shifter.
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by twblalock 8y ago
Traditional fluid-coupling automatics are not the only ones on the market. A lot of cars now have dual-clutch automatics, and there are others that combine a fluid coupling with a computer-controlled clutch. Fuel economy tests in many diffe
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by twblalock 8y ago
$48k per Amazon HQ job is about the the annual federal income tax of a software engineer at Amazon, and it's 4-5 years of New York state income tax. This assumes an annual total compensation somewhere around $200k. Some people will tel
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by twblalock 8y ago
> Homelessness never existed before government regulations? The context of the parent comment is high real estate prices in San Francisco, which are caused by government regulations.

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