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by wtbob 11y ago
> The pop-up message may be direct, but is it not attacking any minorities, genders or sexual preferences. How is that relevant to anything ? Something can be bad without attacking minorities, genders, sexual preferences, Packer fans o
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by wtbob 11y ago
FWIW, this would be a literal s-expression translation: (mrow (mi x) (mo =) (mfrac (mrow (mo -) (mi b) (mo ±) (sqrt (mrow (mi b) (msup (mi 2)) (mo -) (mi 4ac)))) (mrow (mi 2a
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> My only (dietary) vices are coffee and the odd glass of wine (both very much man made). I don't think I'd consider either of those man-made in the sense of being heavily processed: coffee is simply roasted coffee beans with h
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by wtbob 11y ago
> Bizarrely, I misread it as an overcomplicated ASCII art divider. No worries! > Strict mode then gives you slightly better protection than in many otherwise more robust languages (Python and Ruby, for example). I really dislike that
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> You can declare variables separately, if you want. The issue is that 'fop = 1' is not an error (outside of strict mode), even when I mean 'foo = 1.' Automatically creating variables makes what could be compile-time
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> I would place Signal in the same tier as WhatsApp here (Tier 2). They both upload your contacts to an intermediate server that gives you their public key, which you can optionally verify afterwards. The last time this came up, inspired
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by wtbob 11y ago
moxie's stuff is great (I use it), but it's not ideal. Among the issues is that it essentially ignores some hard problems like identity (or seems to): AFAICT everything is keyed off of phone numbers; if I control a number then I
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> One solution is to give everyone parental leave As a single guy, I love this, since it penalises folks in relationships, since they might someday take parental leave but I'll be in the office day-in and day-out.
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by wtbob 11y ago
Yet another reason not to start a business in San Francisco. If the city wants new parents to have 6 weeks' leave, then it should pay that, not require businesses to pay for it. As it is, it's an unfunded mandate (and, really, a
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by wtbob 11y ago
> > [1] In the US, pediatricians recommend only nursing for the first 6 months > That's what maternity/paternity leave is supposed to be for. And of course choosing to take that leave is choosing to abandon the startup.
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by wtbob 11y ago
> How much did Pfizer pay in US taxes between 2010 and 2012? Zero. What was Apple's US tax rate in 2014? 3.7%. That would be because Pfizer legally had no profits. Apple has a 15-39% tax rate (almost certainly closer to the latter)
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by wtbob 11y ago
> JavaScript is actually an incredibly flexible and effective language. == vs === No integers. Assignment is declaration. Prototypes. Curly brackets & semicolons. Semicolon insertion. It may be flexible (in the sense that an Alfa Ro
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> Or, of course, just don't... I think that's really the takeaway here. Bytes and bytes of JavaScript, slower rendering time, and for what? Just say no!
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> The root causes are probably unrelated. But how easy is to obtain a gun definitely correlates with relative increase in muggings with a gun. That's true. I also think that it's likely that a gun is a better defence against m
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> if I can't get a job, I am by definition a useless, surplus person No, because you are a unique human being with your own unique value (yes, just like every other human being). Those aren't empty words: you're worth so
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It's entirely possible to be paid above minimum wage and require food stamps, since minimum wage applies to everyone , to include minors and dependent spouses. Increases to the minimum wage have had a brutal effect on black and youth
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> Bloodbathing raccoons, highly intelligent animals, just because one is too lazy to implement simple solutions to coexist! I don't think I want to coexist with something which carries deadly diseases and is violent. Alternatively,
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That seems very, very dangerous to me. I think GitHub needs to preserve the ability for anyone to fork a project.
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> Proselinter looks pretty cool, it is python and can be installed with pip as a command-line tool. Doesn't need Emacs! True enough, but everything's better with emacs!
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If there's a problem with raccoons, why not just turn to mankind's tried-and-true friend in dealing with animals: dogs? I imagine a medium-sized pair of dogs could make pretty quick work of most raccoons. And folks like dogs i
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Ninety-nine years later and no-one's rebuilt the railroad? That seems wasteful.
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> It's like the $10,000 dollar hammer, but this is far worse. > With the hammer, government apologists claimed it was to "secretly move money for DoD"... which really means it was the DoD and military just giving themse
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Some might say that the practice of allowing brutal murderers and rapists to live out their lives and die in peace is totally abhorrent and has no place in any liberal society. It's almost as though different rational people of good wi
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> You know, there is a reason people went to the press -- it's because when they followed the official route they were ignored, threatened and had the full force of the US government turned against them. They were not ignored; their
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> it became clear early on there is a whole very naive narritive [sic] justifying US foreign policy in that part of the world. I think that was obvious at least when Mr. Bush was talking about how freedom was the desire of every human h
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I'll give him credit for carrying out his oath and getting his book reviewed, as well as for not blabbing about the classified portions. That alone marks him as a hell of a lot more mature than the numerous folks one reads of in the p
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I use the web browser version. Some years I've had to change my user-agent header, but I've always managed to successfully submit my federal & state returns.
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I've been running TurboTax on Linux for over a decade now …
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> So, with all of these factors at play and more changes to come, is there anyone out there who's doing clear and simple design well? > Mayden had an answer pretty quickly: Tesla. I don't think one can really say that the ma
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My emacs binds the arrow keys to move by character and alt+arrow to move by word. But M-f, C-f, C-M-f (and ditto for -b, -n & -p) are a pretty powerful command language for dealing with text & code. You're right that syntax ma

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