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by wisty 13y ago
There's two issues here: 1. A pretty significant amount of code is PHP serving broken HTML + Javascript, stuff which favours pragmatism over purity (to the degree that even some of the most pragmatic people hate it with a passion). The
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by wisty 13y ago
It depends on the virus. Most viruses you can only get once, then you fight off the infection (according to the model, anyway). Facebook may be a little more like herpes.
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It's not totally wrong about Africa. HIV hit Africa like a sledgehammer, and stopped development cold for 20 odd years. 10 years ago, people had seen Sub Saharan Africa going backwards for a decade. Plus, that was the 20 years when eve
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Yes, but you benefit for being in the same class as other white males, who are sometimes very powerful. Because God knows powerful white males like nothing more than helping less powerful white males climb the next run on the ladder. Especi
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_aspects_of_hyperlinki... , specifically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10,_Inc._v._Amazon.com,... . Precedent suggests it's OK to make thumbnails (h
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People in China can't. They have to go through customs, which forbids taking large sums of cash. And you can't electronically move money in or out of China so easily. The banks have restrictions. There's ways around it. Suitc
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by wisty 13y ago
Unfortunately, London and Berlin are national capitals. Silicon Vally (even if you extend it to San Francisco) isn't even a state capital. National capitals have defence contracts and government IT, which so lucrative it sucks a lot of
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by wisty 13y ago
Input isn't always the bottle-neck. I think far slower than I type. Actually, a keyboard with editing commands (for cut, past, word select ... the basic VIM / emacs commands) and special keys along with a mouse and voice input co
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by wisty 13y ago
The US has 716 incarcerations per 100,000. From the list on wikipedia, that's the highest in the world. It's also roughly the same number as North Korea has (no official numbers, just estimates). So the US might not be the most h
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by wisty 13y ago
OK, but how do they know what needs to be done? A baseball coach knows if the pitcher isn't doing so well, because he's watched the games. How does a manager know if the new API is unwieldy, or if errors in one component are causi
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by wisty 13y ago
It's hard to write libraries in both versions. At the moment, Python 2 may be more productive, because it's got more libraries. But the way things are going, Python 3 will soon reach parity, and eventually take over. If that happe
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by wisty 13y ago
The haters should check out this site called "Zen Garden". It totally shows how powerful CSS is - at least on a single, static HTML page. And I'm pretty sure the approach will scale to multiple, dynamic pages, right?
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Most people will expect you to rapidly move to a higher paid position with more responsibility. If you're pitching this as a way to get your foot in the door of a company where you think you'll have a lot of potential, it makes se
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by wisty 13y ago
When you buy a 60-750k product, your time is free. The same goes if you are selling a 60-750k product. It's the difference between buying a coffee, and buying a house. You wouldn't buy or sell a house without spending a bit of tim
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by wisty 13y ago
Yes, but savers still do pretty well. QE will save the economy, but not house prices, and not the people who bought multiple leveraged IPs. Savers will still be OK (since the money multiplier will drop there won't be inflation - this c
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by wisty 13y ago
China tends to have pretty moderate high speed rail. It's cheap(ish) 200-250 mph (max speed) trains, not expensive and insanely fast maglevs (mostly). They are pretty popular though, because prices are low.
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by wisty 13y ago
I'm trying to see how changing the name will in any way change the culture. You can call gamers whatever you want. You might even be able to convince them to use a different word. But they'll still misuse the "crouch"
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by wisty 13y ago
QE fixes some problems. It makes other problems worse. If everyone has borrowed too much money, the QE can fix it. It would be better if the regulators stopped banks from being irresponsible, but it's unrealistic to expect the govern
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The CPI is meant to account for this. It's weighted, and accounts for the changing quality of goods. The weighting goes something like: Housing, Transportation, Food and Beverages, Recreation, Apparel, Medical Care, Education and Commu
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by wisty 13y ago
Many countries have seen median salaries increase. It's not really a global phenomenon.
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by wisty 13y ago
When terrorism in the big concern, droid strikes are used against real threats. General espionage is used to figure out what the real threats are. I guess they'd still be hoovering up everything they could, just in case, if it weren&#x
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by wisty 13y ago
IMO, Facebook won because it uses real names. It's a lot faster to find people (especially people you've lost touch with) when you can see their names.
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Anyone with a math or physics degree in the last 20 years should be able to learn basic programming. Of course, those are the teachers who are already in short supply.
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> For example, "Australians are upside-down". As an Australian, I don't mind it. Reddit bots which make jokes about it on every comment with the word "Australia" in it ... that's annoying (because bots wear
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by wisty 13y ago
It's mostly because human beings feel more sympathy for a single victim who they know a lot about. I think the term is "Identifiable Victim Effect".
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Apparently, the word I'm looking for is "syllogism". For example "Criminals commit crimes, buying guns is a crime, therefore all criminals buy guns".
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That's just not true. Personality traits are pretty well studies, and you don't just get monsters and the timid. There's plenty of people who mean well, and are "doers". Personality traits tend to be normally distri
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A similar quote is commonly (mis?)attributed to Rommel.
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They are raking in revenue. If they aren't making a profit, that's simply evidence that they are less efficient than socialised systems. Presumably because of moral hazards (health insurers or the government pays, not customers),
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Or the job market where he was applying simply changed. It depends on the field. For STEM jobs, a PhD may not justify the time investment, but it's better than nothing. In non-STEM fields, a PhD can actually be a disadvantage.

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