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by weeksie 8y ago
100% I often wonder if the trans-rights movement is stuck in this kind of rhetorical cul-de-sac because the gay rights movement leaned so hard on "born this way" to make its case. That made sense because it moved the discussion aw
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I find apple music's recommendations better than Spotify's.
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Spare me the j-school varsity social criticism takes, especially if they’re gonna go after that kind of language play without even referencing Armando Ianucci.
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It's funny because few things make me seethe like someone talking to me in this way during a high stress moment. The artifice is transparent and if the conversation is tense the tone is quite easy to read as condescension. I'm har
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No, because many of those companies are bought before they can hit an inflection point and become dangerous to an incumbent.
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Sure but the large firms can borrow so cheaply that it makes it easier for them to buy promising startups. Making the startup ecosystem into an R&D arm of a few big companies. That's bad for innovation overall and our economy in th
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These days when everything can live in RAM, just focus on writing a good, durable transaction log and use an in-memory data structure. That way you won't waste all your time re-implementing a B-tree and can focus instead on the query e
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Theory is too kind a word for this stuff. It's theory like critical theory is theory. Sure, there have been massive changes in social organization that have accompanied changes in media. That doesn't say much though. Those changes
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This is a long, well thought out just-so story with graphs that ends concluding that the world is in chaos because there are more media channels than there used to be. Which is maybe true for some value of "true", but this is larg
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Yeah, if we collectively stopped using barbarian toilets and got with the bidet program already this would be a non-issue.
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I have the Breville Barista Express and it takes like a minute to warm up and has a fantastic grinder built in, as well as a steamer for those who are into that sort of thing. And that's at a lot lower price point than £600, I think
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Degustibus non est ... and all but I will never understand the American preference for drip coffee. I say that as someone who drank press or drip exclusively until I lived overseas for several years and my Americano became an espresso at th
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I'd love to see an example of the language, I kept reading (the story is great) but it felt like we got left hanging without any code snippets to put it all in, uh, context I guess.
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1. There were plenty of screeching YIMBYs, particularly the ones who showed up at community board meetings. 2. The 1990s were literally decades ago 3. Sarah Roosevelt is across the Bowery + a block. 4. I sure hope they do a decent job on th
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That's the fault of the developer not being clear about what was going to happen to the Elizabeth Street Garden. Not to mention the screeching YIMBY side of the equation pretending that opposition to the project was just because a bunc
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This makes me wistful for the 00s and Ruby back when people like _why were around doing fun, weird stuff that felt more like art than engineering. Of course much of that is mixed up in my own early 20s and Ruby as the first language I truly
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I'm not sure that having someone to care for would inhibit thinking of your life in five year chunks. Mobility? Definitely. But not everybody has the same situation, I'm surely lucky because I don't have those kinds of obliga
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I think we should be doing a ton of research on the health implications of marijuana use. However, I don't think that should affect legality other than, perhaps, regulations on distribution. Legalization didn't happen on the back
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Maybe because I'm from an isolated part of the US where the initial leap to leave was easy but I've never had compunctions about picking up and starting a new life somewhere. I left Alaska when I was 17, moved back, then again whe
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Totally. The first time I was in India was 2006 and the second was in 2016. Talk about a different experience. I mean, India is still India but having that map and actual internet access, no matter how intermittent made a lot of difference.
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I didn't "neglect" that, I'm well aware Lynch distanced himself from the movie and that doesn't have anything to do with whether or not I enjoyed it. I'm not convinced deconstruction is always useful but I do t
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Fair.
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I've always held that the David Lynch version of Dune was an underrated masterpiece. Tastes vary, but the film was visually stunning and I can't think of another director from the time that would have done justice to the novel. Ob
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Fix the high price of housing. Expensive places push more people into homelessness. Sure, services are still needed but by fixing housing you'll make the biggest dent and do good for the most people. We need to upzone the near ring sub
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The city wants to develop a new business district in LIC.
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I second that recommendation about the Lua source code. Back in the 00s I built a kiosk management system in Lua, C, and C++ and it was a delightful language to work with and I found myself reading through the sourcecode a fair bit, always
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Some faves for story development: * Secrets of Story by Matt Bird * Anatomy of Story by John Truby * Breakout Novelist by Donald Maass * Self Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King Enjoy!
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Pull request reviews are for merges into production, (or staging depending on your QA process) but you should always have a develop branch you can thrash on in the case that you are pushing a feature that is being worked on by another team
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I can't think of a specific ref off the top of my head but there are great books out there. Also, I used dialog as an example but what makes a story addictive is the act of filling in the blanks. You can do that with emotional transiti
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Plot structures are tools. All else being equal it's a good idea to pick a plot that's as simple as possible and hang the interesting stuff off that. The classic mistake of beginning writers is to go for complexity in plot and the

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