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by z3c0 4y ago
I think this is the best explanation for its popularity. Sure, it runs slow, but it's very fast to write. The latter is usually more important in the world of business, for better or worse.
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by z3c0 4y ago
"Fucking" is the only English "infix" that I know of, where it can be inserted inside of words like "abso-fucking-lutely". The only other is "freaking", which is a just euphemism for the former. Edit:
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by z3c0 4y ago
I do, and I have. That said, the extremely-predictable "what-about-western-media" tu quoque that occurs anytime someone leverages a criticism towards any Second World nations is as tired of a counter-propaganda strategy as the p
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by z3c0 4y ago
Not really. It's a common strategy called "controlling the narrative" and it has been in play since the early days of public relations and propaganda, largely considered to be pioneered by Ivy Lee[1]. Regardless, I only posed
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by z3c0 4y ago
Yes. If this wasn't state-driven, it'd be a somewhat-humorous prank. If it is state-driven, it becomes a situation straight from 1984, where the protagonist's job is quite literally to rewrite history.
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by z3c0 4y ago
“I wish,” Talaat now said, “that you would get the American life-insurance companies to send us a complete list of their Armenian policy holders. They are practically all dead now and have left no heirs to collect the money. It of cour
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by z3c0 4y ago
How does getting it insured guarantee that the money will make it to its destination? That's only to get it back in the instance of theft. Anyone who's ever had family or friends in third-world countries can tell you firsthand tha
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by z3c0 4y ago
only ideas are copyrightable
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by z3c0 4y ago
A lot of comments here keep drawing parallels to writing as for why this is right or wrong, but I think a more apt comparison would be music, where components like riffs or rhythms can be reused to make something wholly different. Many a mu
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by z3c0 4y ago
Indeed, it seems like we'd be hopping out of distributed frying pans into a centralized fire.
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by z3c0 4y ago
I'll add that the basis of the wording of the 13th amendment was to sweeten the deal for southern states. They had a lot of black people in prison already (and then some), and did not like the idea of undergoing reconstruction without
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by z3c0 4y ago
Its short interest has increased by almost 200% since April, now at about 20% of the float. So now that there's a lot of money riding on people hating Coinbase, I expect we'll continue seeing more articles like this.
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by z3c0 4y ago
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions". Obviously someone who intends to do harm is worse than someone who doesn't, but hopefully , you realize that people can do bad things unintentionally, and that outcomes are j
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by z3c0 4y ago
Title: "DuckDuckGo in hot water over hidden tracking agreement with Microsoft"
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by z3c0 4y ago
Personally, I don't care if they feel awkward, nor do I care to be perceived as loyal in matters of business. The awkward exchange wouldn't need to happen if they ensured that they're employees felt taken care of. You shouldn
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by z3c0 4y ago
As fun as the campaign was, I really can't imagine Gears without the multiplayer. The default deathmatch was extremely intense, given that it was elimination (no respawns) and everybody went for the shotgun insta-kill. Death was always
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by z3c0 4y ago
Do not quit, but do start interviewing. Once you get a better offer in hand, present it to your boss. If they refuse to match (or outbid) for you, then take the competing offer.
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by z3c0 4y ago
The distinction is "institutional racism" vs "personal racism". Is it possible that nobody had deliberate malicious intent in this matter? Completely. But what "institutional racism" deals with is if one race i
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by z3c0 4y ago
The "definitions" section is pretty interesting. Firstly, all of the different definitions maintain that a mass shooting must occur in one location. I'm guessing a roving gunman would be more of a "shooting spree".
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by z3c0 4y ago
Decorators are one of those language features that I want to use more of, but every time I attempt to, I realize that what I'm doing could be achieved more easily another way.
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by z3c0 4y ago
Honestly, quite a bit, as it's very "microservice-y". However, a great deal of the components utilize the .NET stack.
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by z3c0 4y ago
As far as millenials go, it may be many peoples' first experience with a handheld computer. I remember being enraptured by all the silly peripherals for the GBC that turned it into more than a game console, like the camera or the print
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by z3c0 4y ago
Mouse jigglers are quite liberating.
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by z3c0 4y ago
They do exist already, just not as widespread as I imagine the author is hoping to see. I work for one of the only software vendors in the space. One place where I've seen an expert system excel greatly is in automated billing resoluti
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by z3c0 4y ago
I'm sure that framing your comment as a narrative is due more to pretension, but part of me wants to see it as a brilliant stroke of irony. I mean, sure, you're grossly mischaracterizing her quote, but at least it's presented
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by z3c0 4y ago
> Unpacking doesn't let you specify default values if cardinality doesn't match, nor can you extract dictionaries by keys. I'm a bit confused by this one, but maybe I'm misunderstanding. Does this not accomplish what
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by z3c0 4y ago
Great article. I use unpacking regularly for a lot of the reasons given, as it helps ensure data is in its expected shape. However, I never knew of "star assignment" eg first, second, *others = some_tuple I've opted fo
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by z3c0 4y ago
This is great, thank you
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by z3c0 4y ago
Or a bot on /r/SubredditSimulator. Used to be one of my favorite subs, but it appears to be dead now. https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/
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by z3c0 4y ago
Was that retroactively applied? Because my music from pre-2009 remained DRM'd, but maybe I just needed to re-download them. On top of that, it was all AAC, and I regularly had to convert the files to be usable anywhere but Apple's

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