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by yazan94 8y ago
Or Europeans went to Africa, Asia, and the Americas and extracted as much of the natural resources as possible at the expense of the indigenous populations and without a thought to the future sustainability of the lands. Some examples that
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by yazan94 8y ago
I totally get your point, and I wouldn't be surprised if you were correct. But at the same time, everyone who has a CC permit most likely also has a state issued ID, so it really is a moot point. from above: > The numbers you posted
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by yazan94 8y ago
At least in my state, getting a concealed carry permit requires: * birth certificate, passport, or other paperwork confirming lawful presence in the US * submitting a passport photo * have your fingerprints * notarized application And after
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by yazan94 8y ago
Are there a lot of tech jobs in western Mass? I am working in NYC and really not feeling the whole big-city vibe.
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by yazan94 8y ago
This is really interesting, but I am a bit confused on the practical implementation. How could this be used to replace real-life systems? If I understood it correctly, a potential system would be made up of lasers at the transmitters, and a
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by yazan94 8y ago
Can someone explain why someone would choose an FPGA over a standard microprocessor? What advantages could this UPDuino have over an Arduino? Also, how do ASIC's figure into this comparison? My understanding is that microprocessors exc
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by yazan94 8y ago
How long you spend in the subway is entirely based on where you live in relation to Manhattan and where your office in Manhattan is. If you live in Brooklyn or Queens, you don't have many options outside of the subway. If you live fart
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by yazan94 8y ago
Does this strike anyone else as a real-life version of Clue playing out? > Mr. Laurie killed Mr. Moriarty with (gardening tools?) at the Tea House
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by yazan94 8y ago
I think the 'crisis' can be distilled to a simple concept - with rising costs of living not many people want to invest in a degree which has relatively few options for comfortable living compared to other options. If the humanitie
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by yazan94 8y ago
How does your full time job's contract deal with side businesses? I'm always wary of starting one because my company requires a lot of paperwork and approval and running it by legal, HR, Joe Shmoe, etc. to do something on the side
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by yazan94 8y ago
Well what would you do instead? Assuming that OP will build the site for free, the shop owner still needs to pay for hosting (assume $5 droplet at Digital Ocean), domain name (assume ~$10 from Namecheap), and a payment processor (assuming P
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by yazan94 8y ago
I agree. I'm a relatively junior developer (<2 years) and was told to create a proof-of-concept UI before the web api or db were designed. When the team eventually moved to build the supporting service and db, so many headaches ensu
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by yazan94 9y ago
It seems you forgot about the little obstacle called the English Channel
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by yazan94 9y ago
> 3-4 POS is ridiculous for a small business. Why hasn’t this been solved yet? My guess is that the companies would otherwise have trouble enforcing their cuts if the customer chooses to pay when they pick up
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by yazan94 9y ago
I really want to echo the sentiment that I really hope you guys succeed. There has to be a better incarceration solution than what we have going on now. I do have a couple questions and please forgive my ignorance in the US judicial system,
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by yazan94 9y ago
> I can't claim to know Lynn's exact thoughts (Lynn being the person quoted here), but this kind of rhetoric is common among racists/xenophobes. It is also common with people who are more focused about hiring the most qual
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by yazan94 9y ago
> Wasn't Obama a "blustering populist without a shred of actual policy experience", either? And, no business experience. I think it is a stretch to say Obama didnt have a shred of policy experience[1]. Without trying to de
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by yazan94 9y ago
Agreed, though it is possible to follow along using Google Maps with some difficulty. I actually enjoyed tracking it myself to be honest. They started at Lake Athabasca, made up their way up Slave River to get to Great Slave Lake. Then they
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by yazan94 9y ago
> The article was already long enough as-is (I think it ran in the print edition, too). The fact that we know Israel did something similar to Iran's centrifuges is a bit far afield, since they have no apparent beef with Saudi chemic
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by yazan94 9y ago
Can you explain at a high level the type of work the second app you mentioned was doing? I know that multithreading actually causes slowdowns if the task each thread isn't substantial enough to offset the context-switching and if the t
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by yazan94 9y ago
> But since a million people are happy to sell their location data for movie tickets, it is a good startup idea. To say otherwise an excuse to restrict other users' freedom, a pretty bad behavior. It is a different story if they are
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by yazan94 9y ago
Well at this point, the world's main alternative's are those. We live in a world with a handful of superpowers that are able to demonstrably project power and influence, arguably mainly China, Russia, and the USA. We already don&#
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by yazan94 9y ago
>> I'm not sure what you mean by abstraction > There is no way to abstract queries over tables, joins, etc. Views allow me to re-use a particular concrete query, but I cannot parameterize a query. Not the person you replied to
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by yazan94 9y ago
I am inexperienced, so please correct me if I am wrong - but conceptually this way doesn't seem much more effective or different than UUIDs if the purpose is a non-consecutive unique identifier. Also, could you please explain what you
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by yazan94 9y ago
Maybe it is uninformed, but the media certainly doesn't help in it's coverage of nuclear disasters. Speaking as someone with very little understanding of nuclear physics and energy, how it seems like nuclear power plants are amazi
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by yazan94 9y ago
Wow, the arguments for using thin soles sounds good and I would honestly be willing to give them a shot. But those are some ugly looking shoes :)
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by yazan94 9y ago
For context, I am a good 15 years younger. I do feel that video games are a bonding experience, both online and couch-coop. I made some really amazing friends when playing an MMO game for a few years in high school/early college (Stron
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by yazan94 9y ago
What good games do you guys play, and on what systems? I grew up with a Gamecube and original XBox, and pretty any game that had a single player also had a coop version. Now on systems like the PS4, most games have strictly single-player an
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by yazan94 9y ago
> These entities don't need to be somehow (gently) "restrained", but as a civilization we need to rethink the power we've ceded to them at a very fundamental level, or we risk growing ever weaker and more dependent on

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