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> What I find more interesting is that today, all our energy ultimately can be traced back to stars, even if sometimes extremely indirectly (e.g. in the case of fossil fuels or nuclear fission). But this could actually change -- if nucle
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by zachrose 9y ago
Sure. (I'm not sure about the specifics of whether everyone's wages go down or the two new electrician's can't find work, but for the purposes of an anecdote it doesn't matter.) But in the bigger picture this will b
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There are five electricians in town, they each make $40/hour. They have a hard time finding qualified apprentices. After education, there are 7 electricians. The same 5 electricians still make $40/hour, but the two new electrician
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Also similar to Michael Heizer's sculpture at LACMA, Levitated Mass [0]. [0] http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/NY-DE081_NYSCEN_G_...
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Is this not a perfect use case for a trie? Can you make a trie in Redis?
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The Internet and the crisis of epistemic authority(leiterreports.typepad.com)
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It seems like the specific details of tax evasion are new.
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It's been a while since I read it, but my takeaway was that there's a kind of tension or dilemma between classical quality and subjective quality. The example from early on is about how Pirsig sees a beer can as a perfect shim for
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by zachrose 9y ago
The trackball also fits in perfectly with the whole nostalgic vibe of this project.
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Unix philosophy also seems to assume that the users and developers of the beep software are different people with different priorities than the calendar app people. I think the crux of this discussion is whether you are in one of these camp
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I think the Unix philosophy would have you pipe those beeps to another program that does your calendar integration.
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It may be true that no state had a Black majority in the 1960s, but several states did have a Black majority until the 20th century. From Wikipedia: Three Southern states had populations that were majority black: Louisiana (until about 1890
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There's a similar anecdote out there, also involving toothpaste. In this one the toothpaste company spends millions on a new marketing campaign to sell more toothpaste and then someone suggests that they make the hole in the tube bigge
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Here's a not-even-half-baked idea I've had for a while: would it be useful to have partial application of AWS Lambdas? Such that if you don't "call" an AWS Lambda with all its "arguments" it will create a
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Some kind of virtual webpage that's delivered over video?
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Why is this downvoted? Is there a particular part or aspect of it that you've deemed not appropriate?
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Not unlike the Terminator being lowered into a vat of molten steel and using his last moment to make a thumbs up.
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How do Sherpas get around without canoes? How do Amazonians stay warm without an Igloo? I can't speak for Flow and Typescript, but I've been teaching myself Elm after a decade of JavaScript development. Elm has a very strict stati
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by zachrose 9y ago
The latest thought on this from the Elm community is that dead code elimination should be done after compilation[1] and that this should be easy[2]. I don't think the OP's main point was about file size optimization though. Elm&#x
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It's tricky because from the layperson's perspective Microsoft Windows, VxWorks, and whatever runs on a TI-86 graphic calculator could be "UNIX-like" in that they are operating systems, yet none of these things are what
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> “In the beginning, a lot of people told me not to go to the tech industry [with this product], but to go to the porn industry instead,” says Tio, who created the product for his wife during their long-distance hiatus from one another.
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This is possible if he's more popular than Clinton among voters who did not vote in the Democratic primary: Republicans, independents, etc.
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Thank you for this sharp distinction. I had forgotten the particulars about what constitutes a protected class.
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The events of the last few days and comments below have made me reconsider whether equal access should protect ideology. Protected classes have something in common, which is that they are aspects of nature and circumstance that their member
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Let's imagine there is a just future ahead. How do we get there? Suppress white supremecy from public discussion, and hope it dies out from loneliness in a few generations? Good luck with that. I want white supremacism die out, not whi
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by zachrose 9y ago
Correct. To be clear I'm talking about what Airbnb should do not strictly what the law says they must do. I'm not sure that Airbnb is violating the civil rights act, but at the least it's an instructive framework for comparis
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I too am interested in this hinge of the issue, but I don't see any compelling argument (in the link or anywhere else) that Airbnb rentals are unique from motels. For one, the renter's end of the transaction is basically the same.
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There is a place for boycott and a place for civil rights. Much of the 1964 Civil Rights Act focused on ensuring equal access to public accommodations. Is Airbnb a public accommodation? Absolutely. Is equal access protective of ideology? I&
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But what about Betty Joe with the Unix book in Wayne's World 2?
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I wish I had a fusion reactor that worked as well as my desktop Linux computer. Far from perfect, but it's still a net positive.

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