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by wonnage 5y ago
Yeah they supported the right-wing dictator that deposed the king who then joined Pol Pot and enabled his rebellion to succeed. And policy shifted after the 70s when they decided communism was ok, as long as you opposed the USSR. This was t
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by wonnage 5y ago
It's more that they spent the entirety of the Cold War period propping up any dictators they could find as long as they weren't communists, and it usually backfired.
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If you’re using React the same applies in the dev tools component tree - $r is the currently highlighted component.
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There’s still an important difference in that you’re yielding control explicitly by using await, instead of being preemptable everywhere. That’s good enough in most cases.
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Reminds me of this Twitter account: https://twitter.com/momv
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by wonnage 5y ago
> I had to remove headphones to check that the sound was really comming from them and not from phone I had this experience as well, I kinda liked it but suspect it will be divisive. Also if you switch positions it takes about 5-10 second
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by wonnage 5y ago
I believe this is his claim to fame https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4333656/larry-page-teases... Just a guy who's... very enthusiastic about his tech products
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by wonnage 5y ago
One thing I don't really understand about Atmos is, if you're listening through a stereo source (e.g headphones) everything has to be downmixed to two physical speakers. You can do fancy phase change psychoacoustics stuff but it&#
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by wonnage 5y ago
You are comparing the incidence of Reyes after the primary cause (aspirin use in children) was stopped, to the current incidence for paracetamol prior to any intervention?
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Government spending on social programs would be a much more straightforward way to create money, but seems politically impossible
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Housing demand has many inputs, only one of which is low interest rates. It's not like we've exhausted the economy's capacity to build... NIMBY policies and a general demographic shift towards living in cities (which may be r
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by wonnage 5y ago
Move along then, the blogpost is meant for regular humans who might actually feel outraged when their seemingly-stable employer (at least through Nov 2022) suddenly decides they don't feel like running the company anymore and burns it
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by wonnage 5y ago
I don't understand, why are you so eager to nitpick the exact manner in which some anonymous Treehouse employee gets to critique his fucking asshole of a CEO?
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by wonnage 5y ago
It's as annoying to see all these unfounded comments like yours making China some sort of omniscient bogeyman.
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It is and it's stupid that Americans insist on their companies running with unfettered access to every country like it's some unalienable right
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by wonnage 5y ago
If (as the study says) # of tests is the true correlate then 1. We need some way to compare # of tests across differently-sized codebases, i.e a percentage metric like coverage 2. The fact that correlation disappeared when controlling for a
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by wonnage 5y ago
My personal experience working on frontend is that it's often fastest to get everything looking right in the browser, and then go back and write tests. There is a ton of manual testing involved (i.e, getting UI into all its possible
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by wonnage 5y ago
Isn't this why everyone is burnt out from WFH? The desk is right there, you can sit down/strap in any time, and "leaving" work is mostly just a mental shift
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by wonnage 5y ago
You can justify any decision with "with the knowledge at the time", it's the same as "just following orders".
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TBF both meditation and yoga were ripped from religious practices and repackaged for Western consumption, and this version wins out because it helps sell pants.
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Would be money better spent on hiring people to empty the damn things
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Apple did one good thing, which is make every USB-C port have the same capabilities (charging, thunderbolt). Windows laptops, especially once you get down into the budget section, are absolutely atrocious at this, you have to read little li
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by wonnage 5y ago
Sometimes it's not a retention problem, it's that they never learned the stuff in the first place. You're pretty doomed if you fall behind in school, it's all up to some individual going above and beyond (a teacher, a fa
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by wonnage 5y ago
This is an amazingly narcissistic viewpoint: 1. You are part of the blessed 5% (how do you know?) 2. Anyone who disagrees is actively malicious (it's not all about you, man) 3. It worked for you, therefore it must work for everyone (if
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by wonnage 5y ago
It quotes a tweet comparing death rates of a single city (Los Angeles) to entire countries... Not fake, but it should be obvious that the statistics of a small geographical area might not be comparable to that of a much larger one. Just wai
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The worst is renting a condo and then something affects your unit that requires the HOA's involvement... might be faster just to move out.
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I took a look at the statistics on Wikipedia and they're pretty staggering... per-capita road accidents are roughly 1.5x the US, but per-vehicle is almost 10x. From a US perspective it would be truly insane to drive one of these on a C
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They're just not thinking big enough, the US has been creating its own strategic adversaries by selling weapons to terrorists and regretting it 20 years later for decades
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Thorium seems to be a safer technology. Also, it's a fallacy to think the CPC simply ignores popular sentiment. Fukushima had as much of an impact in China as it did in Japan - all new plants were paused ( http://edition.cnn.
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by wonnage 5y ago
> "Knowing that this is literally our co-founders' (Ben and Dan) money, and that they share it so generously, is remarkable." We've been trying to placate the working class for decades now by convincing they should fe

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