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by unit91 9y ago
> William Shakespeare Presumably, later in life he went by "Bill".
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Do you Scottish actually say the "pal" in "principal" as it's written? I.e., "PRINCE-i-pal"?
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I always feel weird correctly mispronouncing (?) words I know are imported, for example "Einstein" instead of "Einshtein". While you could get away with "Einshtein", though most folks would think you're pe
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> How many times do you see a dialog box and click "yes" without even reading it? A simple fix would be to use a tried and true method that's been effective for decades. Have different popups that read Type "REAL WO
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> Atom doesn't use 80MB, it uses 800MB. Meanwhile, my very well kitted-out MacVim is currently cruising along at 35.9MB.
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You nailed it for the devs but you gotta' say it to people who would pay for it too. Decentralized GitHub would synergistically leverage our existing cloud infrastructure to provide unprecedented collaboration that is open, robust, eff
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I see the downvotes, but genetics isn't my thing. Can somebody in the know explain what the error is? Thanks.
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Stallman and Facebook/YouTube have very different goals. Stallman wants free software, Facebook and YouTube want to make money. Facebook and YouTube are happy to push their political views, so long as the consequences don't inter
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What if they need to go to the bathroom?
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Here's one where an armrest of a chair was swabbed at the police station. https://www.policeone.com/legal/articles/8691418-How-surrept...
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> it'd feel lightning fast compared to what we have now I disagree with this completely. So much of what JS does is increase the (perceived) speed and sanity of the user experience. For example, in a scriptless world, your HN up
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Sadly their pitch is probably about right these days.
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It seems like your statement was also a motte and bailey. With a softball statement that bad journalism is bad (non-controversial), you'd have us believe our whole economic system is also bad (highly controversial).
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> What do you do all [day(?)] when you’re dead? Glorify God.
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I wouldn't try to sell you on it. Languages are tools, so your question is like asking "can anyone sell me on why I should use a flashlight instead of a cheese grater?" I don't know, because I don't know what you&
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Theologians distinguish between God's decretive will and God's permissive will. The decretive will is God's decree that something come about, the permissive will is His allowing something to come about in the created order.
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Technically the same, just with different start dates. But there's a catch: suppose your fiscal year starts Oct 1st, and you request help on August 15th. The answer is often "we're at the end of the fiscal year, but we hav
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Man I wish I could upvote this twice! Since I can't, I'll register my hearty agreement with text.
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> Should your job really come before family I'm always nervous when I see phrasing like this because it all depends on what you mean by "come before". For example, I would love to spend 40+ more hours per week with my fam
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> After all, if your spouse is your best friend, then whom do you complain to your spouse about? Absolutely no one. I've been married for 11 years. My wife isn't perfect of course, but she's still pretty fantastic. She i
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> Not being in poverty doesn't mean much if you still don't hold any social or political power. Really? So if you can't have power, why bother not being poor? Having been below the poverty line and risen above it, this s
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Same experience with Overstock when I bought a table. Three months and several frustrations later, I got the table and they offered me a 10% discount on my next furniture order. Needless to say, I'll never shop there again. However,
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I don't see how this can work in anything but a commuter-centric car. Want to drive from LA to SF or from Austin to Tulsa? Too bad. Want to drive an electric, loaded pickup from Austin to Dallas? Also not going to happen. Unless th
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Versus what? The European view that children are the State's property? Surely that can't be better than letting parents raise their kids according to their best judgment.
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What?! Surely this can't be possible. We already have an Affordable Care Act...
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Former PS3-controller-controlled weapon operator here. I don't think this is accurate at all, for two reasons: 1. The more technology involved, the more audio/video/telemetry is recorded and stored. If we shot somebody, the
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US too, though not the expensive, well-known ones. I flew an experimental drone for the USAF a few years back and we used PS3 controllers.
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> When you have one eye on the goal, you only have one eye on the path. > Objectives can, ironically, be obstacles to innovation and creativity. This, like much of the Zen worldview, is self-refuting. If objectives can be obstacles t
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In the US, a combination of personal information is taken by most as proof that you are who you claim to be. If you know enough of someone else's information, you can steal money rather easily. We need a better identity solution, but
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If you're dating and you die in combat, your girlfriend gets nothing. If you're married and you die, your wife gets $550k, assuming you've filled out the right paperwork. For a lot of people that's a good incentive.

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