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by wmil 11y ago
It can happen in a few languages, but PHP is notably more aggressive in trying to convert to int. Actually a common way to grief new websites is to try to register '0' as a username. `if (string)` is a common way to check for nul
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by wmil 11y ago
One theory is that the US is big on white, mild tasting food because people had to purchase a lot of food from strangers. There were frequently no deep family roots in most cities. White mild foods (mayo, white bread) can't hide spoili
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by wmil 12y ago
Open an incognito window and google the article title. Usually cookies and referrers trip the paywall.
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by wmil 12y ago
The problem with supporting a "mixture of incomes" is that some people end up paying a small fraction of the price for equivalent real estate. That doesn't square well with some people's values.
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by wmil 12y ago
Lumping both cities together as "warm-weather" seems lazy. Miami is hotter in January than San Fran ever is.
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by wmil 12y ago
Who says they didn't? Perhaps their families used to have more hungry nights.
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by wmil 12y ago
I can't believe I never thought of typing f🚢 instead of friendship before reading this.
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by wmil 12y ago
Sadly constructing new public transit that isn't wheelchair accessible is impossible in 2015.
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by wmil 12y ago
This is a big issue in the US and it actually goes back to the Warren court. They issued a long series of rulings making it difficult to prosecute cases, without worrying about the consequences. By the 70s crime had skyrocketed and it was c
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by wmil 12y ago
Most people assume that, and most sci-fi reinforces that opinion. But a generic Thermos is a vacuum flask. Space is an incredible insulator. The only way to cool things is to radiate heat.
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by wmil 12y ago
The problem with parking spots is that with single occupancy vehicles you're allocating 170 sq feet per customer for a few dollars. That's a terrible deal given real estate prices downtown. Also very few people are going to drive
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by wmil 12y ago
Rental discrimination laws very strict, someone would probably try to sue you.
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by wmil 12y ago
Not really. The property quoted in the article was purchased in 1974 and California brought in strict limits on property tax increases in 1978. So the property taxes are probably trivial. The house acts as an investment with high returns
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by wmil 12y ago
What's far more interesting is that that will result in massive numbers of unemployed non-citizen farm workers right after Obama grants them work permits by executive order. And that's going to happen right before the 2016 preside
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by wmil 12y ago
I think the important lesson is that if the prosecutor is being overzealous and you're a sympathetic defendant then you shouldn't be afraid to ignore gag orders and take your case to the press. Lawyers are usually against it. Thi
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by wmil 12y ago
I actually found one from memory and verified it on netflix: X-Files Season 05 Episode 11 - Kill Switch (14:20) (when the laser blows up the shipping container) I'm pretty sure they also used it in "The Phantom (1996 film)" w
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by wmil 12y ago
> The "demand" (number of disputes) increases with the number of interactions, which is roughly the square of the number of people (each pair is another potential dispute). It wouldn't actually be a square of the populatio
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by wmil 12y ago
I've never actually noticed the Whilhelm Scream during a movie. I know it's common but it just doesn't register while I'm watching. However there's one sound effect that always stands out. The cube fire sound from
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by wmil 12y ago
Marc Rich ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich ) is a precedent for pardoning someone who's been indicted but won't return to the US for a trial.
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by wmil 12y ago
They might have signed an agreement restricting "lowest advertised price". They're pretty common.
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by wmil 12y ago
It depends what you mean by code snob... I've had a dev replace large section of my code with "cleaner" code that didn't work in all cases, comment out the failing tests, then push that. Some people are convinced that ma
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by wmil 12y ago
Do you have specifics? Any that aren't mentioned on this wikipedia page? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communitie...
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by wmil 12y ago
Not even remotely the same thing. Those are cases of the police failing to investigate and file charges. The Assange case is about the enforcement of valid judicial warrants. The police don't have the same discretion.
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by wmil 12y ago
> This kind of performance wouldn't be put on, at this expense, if a random alleged-rapist took shelter in an embassy. The police would leave them to it, and act when they had intelligence that they'd slipped out. An embassy wo
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Ask HN: Recovery of blacked out text
5 points by wmil 12y ago|1 comments
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by wmil 12y ago
My favorite part of this article (and in general discussions about SF) is that asking the homeless to move to Oakland is considered so inhumane it's unmentionable.
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by wmil 12y ago
The site isn't worth much if advertisers don't want to be associated with the content.
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by wmil 12y ago
Ruby has never been popular outside of Rails.
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by wmil 12y ago
It's also useful for bypassing currency controls. Some countries have an official exchange rate, but a very different black market exchange rate. In Venezuela , local bitcoin sites are selling BTC for the equivalent of over $6000USD at
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by wmil 12y ago
You actually can take them to court over false notices. But that takes time and money most projects don't have. If Github has the cash sitting around they could sick their lawyers on them for some laughs.

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