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by viridian 9y ago
The Atlantic doesn't actually provide the second as an option without interacting with JS. There's no way for someone to subscribe if they are running ghostery+noscript like I am.
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by viridian 9y ago
Trevor. Thanks.
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by viridian 9y ago
Hey TKinNC, I'd like to ask you a private question. Could you put your contact info in your profile?
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by viridian 9y ago
If no one benefits, then it is a complete waste. If I get paid to write code that never gets used, and it takes me a week, it's a waste of hundreds of dollars of labor. The parent thread pointed out that no disabled person would ever u
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by viridian 9y ago
The problem is that business owners are now required to follow these statutes and pay money even if the labor is 100% a guaranteed waste. Having people perform labor that isn't needed and use resources like concrete just to appease the
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by viridian 9y ago
This actually isn't true. Based on the numbers we have, and have been posted in this thread this is unfair to DDG by a factor of almost 2.
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by viridian 9y ago
Does anyone actually still believe this? The idea that [journalism I agree with] is fair and [journalism I disagree with] is fake news was dead by last year. I can't think of a single general audience publication that hasn't trans
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by viridian 9y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. I don't think it's a surprise to anyone that Lyft needs money. Both Lyft and Uber are operating at a big loss, and Lyft has been bleeding drivers over to Uber for the last couple
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by viridian 9y ago
Coal unions have executed non-union shippers and started shootouts during union strikes where I'm from, back in the 30's - 70's when the town was a coal town. It's anecdotal I know, but it always colors the discussion of
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by viridian 9y ago
This reads like one of those really lazy appeals to things that happened forever ago to defend the modern organization. Republicans call themselves The party of Lincoln, Bell labs reminding people they invented the semiconductor, etc. Heark
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by viridian 9y ago
I agree, but AFAIK all those games leverage GML rather than just using the Game Maker UI. That's definitely the case for Derek Yu's games. I corrected myself in a further comment in this thread, but I meant to refer to the sort of
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by viridian 9y ago
The unity thing is sort of what I was trying to describe. Game maker is much the same, where GML functions much in the same way as C++ with a custom framework centered around entity and collision management, but most newbies won't use
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by viridian 9y ago
A-frame seems to fall into the "super easy to do something basic, but very restrictive at the upper end" category of software tooling. That said, this is still pretty cool, and I'm a fan of tools like this, Game maker, etc ex
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by viridian 9y ago
The Dems seem to have take up that role now, so I think you may be right on Obama's presidency opening up a new era of sorts wherein the minority party just tells the majority party to pound sand.
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by viridian 9y ago
As someone intimately familiar with the politics and culture of Ohio, boy howdy does this chart fuck up really badly on the edges. For instance, Guernsey and Noble counties not considering themselves Appalachian is absurd. A case could mayb
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by viridian 9y ago
I have never in my life seen this happen. Typically we use mailing distributions where I work to avoid this issue. We also can only respond to clients using specific email addresses, like the one tied to the mailbox that multiple people hav
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by viridian 9y ago
Clickbait answer: "Make a will. Pay off your credit cards. Get term life insurance if you have a family to support. Fund your 401(k) to the maximum. Fund your IRA to the maximum."
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by viridian 9y ago
>The fall of the gold standard. >The fall of Bretton-Woods. 1971, not 1973 >The repeal of Glass-Steagall. 1999, not 1973
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by viridian 9y ago
>I see lots of false equivalence arguments and (possibly fair, possibly not) If they are fair then it's just equivalence, not false equivalence. I feel like this has become the new vogue term thrown around since Charlottesville happ
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by viridian 9y ago
Don't forget disrupting pride parades. BLM really has had it out for the LGBT community in the midwest this year, for whatever reason.
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by viridian 9y ago
Let's not forget that Obama immediately used the Dallas shootings as an opportunity to aggrandize gun control at the same time. During his Paris release he also said: "We also know when people are armed with powerful weapons, unfo
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by viridian 9y ago
Typically less than a twentieth of it with most modern caffeine methods.
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by viridian 9y ago
You are being disingenuous. People celebrating violence at Berkeley and reminding Liberals that come revolution time they will be getting the bullet too, are closer to the opposite of the klansmen/neo-nazis in both extremity, and in nu
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by viridian 9y ago
>To translate this into practical language, if the Google Manifesto was correct, then you would expect to see that Google was full of mediocre female employees, who had been hired by a process biased in their favour despite being inadequ
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by viridian 9y ago
I think the bigger issue is that certain companies have near monopolies in their spaces to start with. For plebs like myself, youtube is really the only viable option I have to distribute video media if I hope to build an audience. The fact
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by viridian 9y ago
If I remember correctly, the exact same message was delivered to Jordan Peterson a couple of weeks ago or so, before he sat down with the google memo guy. He was in the middle of a bible lecture series, and Google banned his account, and se
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by viridian 9y ago
At this point SF home owners are the largest collective example of NIMBY types in history, but it also makes sense, since it's a group that tends to have the majority of their net worth tied to their own property.
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by viridian 9y ago
Interesting. I had the opposite experience and went 8/2/4 against the bot, by assuming he would mime typical human responses to my previous choices. The last 4 games isn't enough for it to start engaging in metacognition, I g
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by viridian 9y ago
Cool, thanks for that. Eric and I are both pretty big Columbus evangelists and are pretty active in the startup weekend community.
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by viridian 9y ago
I started a podcast with another Hacker News poster. We have no ads, make no money, but it's great fun just talking about big local events in Columbus Ohio, and also big tech news. It's obviously extremely niche and local, but the

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