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by vacri 9y ago
There really isn't that much difference between US free speech and other western democracies' free speech, despite the first amendment. Yes, it's a little better if it makes it to court, but compared to something like what&#x
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by vacri 9y ago
There's always something happening 'a few years from now'. The two you mentioned were bigger than the usual doomsday prophecies. In the early 90s, hanging on the wall of my mother's shop was a map of the new coastline of
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by vacri 9y ago
> Of course, the labels were not so clear at his time. This is understating the issue quite a bit. Don't forget that the point of science is to test things in a robust manner, which at this point in time has been done for the th
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by vacri 9y ago
Microsoft puts ads into Windows 10. With ads comes tracking.
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by vacri 9y ago
I was pointing out a curious typo :)
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by vacri 9y ago
Yes, any analogy will break down if you chase it to the fringes, but in this case, the central core of the analogy doesn't work. That makes it a bad analogy - you may as well just explain what's going on directly. Or spend the tri
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by vacri 9y ago
> That's why Spanish is actually spoken by more people than English. Spanish has more native speakers than English, but when you include people using secondary languages, there are more English speakers in total than any other lan
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by vacri 9y ago
I've been learning Mandarin for about a year... and I find it much easier to read with spaces. Maybe once you're fluent it's easier, but as a learner the spaces are really helpful. Another confusing item in learning the langu
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by vacri 9y ago
> "words" will be written in ... katana Vicious :)
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by vacri 9y ago
I'd like to see the proportions of college-educated folks that could write it before and after the advent of the internet/commonly-used chinese keyboarding; were people better at it before the era of 'select the desired chara
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by vacri 9y ago
> it's that they can't remember the character at all I can guarantee you that each of those students would recognise the character if they saw it, they just can't generate it correctly from scratch.
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by vacri 9y ago
> For example, a customer may arrive and observe that the barber is cutting hair, so he goes to the waiting room. While he is on his way, the barber finishes the haircut he is doing and goes to check the waiting room. Since there is no
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by vacri 9y ago
> I understand how this whole idea got started — customers are the lifeblood of any business. And keeping communication lines open between customers and the entire team is definitely important. ^^ This right here is one example of the
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by vacri 9y ago
As someone who's worked a lot in support and has been out of it for a while now, this article utterly misses the point and reeks of whining and excuse-making. Anyone who's spent time in the support trenches knows that the rest of
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by vacri 9y ago
I was also thinking that those numbers are really weird, for a company which does infrastructure(fileservers)-in-the-cloud. Obviously some devs doing software for various platforms, business-side folks and so forth. But 1500:12 is a really
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by vacri 9y ago
Curiously, the US Army will take you at 17 (with parental consent). So you're old enough to decide to die for your country, but not old enough to decide to have sex with someone who's 23.
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by vacri 9y ago
Because a Japanese woman could never type on a Chinese typewriter?
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by vacri 9y ago
Far from all artifacts held by the English were stolen. Plenty were bought. Yes, things like keeping the Parthenon marbles are bullshit, but that doesn't mean that everything originating from outside the British isles was stolen.
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by vacri 9y ago
I wish that AWS would settle on a standard timezone (preferably UTC). Troubleshooting the fallout had me mentally converting their PDT status pages with console graphs in both UTC and 'local browser' time[1]. All for a region loca
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by vacri 9y ago
So British people want better things than American people? BBC quality vs American? The networks aren't in business to give people what they want. They're in business to make money, and doing what sells easily is the usual way to
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by vacri 9y ago
There is also the inbuilt variable $SECONDS, which seconds since the instance of bash was started. Makes it really easy to do 'time elapsed' at the end of a bash script. $ echo $SECONDS 83783 $ echo $SECONDS 8378
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by vacri 9y ago
My guess is that it's about the tax authorities accusing Amazon yesterday of failing to co-operate fully in tackling a multibillion-pound fraud that is putting scores of small British companies out of business.
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by vacri 9y ago
Everything I skimmed talked about them as libertarians, and keep coming back to the same two articles as source material which describe libertarianism as a starting feature. I didn't get a sense that they were for strong welfare and pu
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by vacri 9y ago
> The stereotypical Gray Tribe position is, "This government program is poorly-run; let's debug it" Just skimming google for Gray Tribe stuff and seeing that it's basically another name for 'libertarian tech wo
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by vacri 9y ago
> When you pipe it through cat (so it can't detect a tty), the columns don't even line up. Weird. At first I thought it might be due to tabs, but it appears to be using spaces.
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by vacri 9y ago
It's really weird that you've been on the site for 10 years and only just now decided to bust forth with a handful of comments of this low quality.
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> I've said this before, but technology progress is the reason women now work outside the home. Not societal progress. This is a false dichotomy.
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by vacri 9y ago
> You could argue the mouse is slower. I'm not sure if this actually holds up to empirical measurement It is slower, and does hold up to empirical measurement. Yes, if you want 'ease of onboarding', then vim is not for y
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> even something seemingly simple like syntax highlighting can be surprisingly complex I was troubleshooting something with a colleague who was using Atom, and every time he opened a new file, it'd take somewhere between 1 and 2 s
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> I copy my ~/.emacs.d to a server I think if you work on servers a lot, then it's a major advantage to use something like emacs or vim, because your editing environment is 'just there'. But heaps of developers rare

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