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by zeveb 8y ago
> If anything, it was considerably worse prior to 2016. I would have been seriously surprised if CBP cared about who donated to Democratic candidates — but then, the IRS under Mr. Obama did attack Republican groups, with very few neg
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by zeveb 8y ago
I would never, ever install a mobile app from the State on my primary phone account. That just seems like asking for trouble.
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by zeveb 8y ago
Past Senate and current Presidential candidate Robert Francis O'Rourke felt a need to apologise for his adolescent fiction, which he posted online. You might be surprised what you posted back then. I know that when I've gone bac
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by zeveb 8y ago
They're free to do business with whomever they wish to, of course, but this seems an odd choice.
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Wish Lenovo could match up with form factor and screen quality. Come on over to the Linux side of the house! Between system76, ZaReason, Purism & Dell, there are some great options for a developer laptop. And you get to customise
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by zeveb 8y ago
> I still don't know the best way to monitor and alert users for large distributed systems. I'd imagine that this is somewhere statistical process control would apply: if you're dealing with a system in which errors are ex
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by zeveb 8y ago
> waitress, stewardess, actress, governess, baxter I use all of those other than baxter! Seems only polite; I'd be offended were I an actress and others called me an actor.
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A Lost Treasure of Xanadu(habitatchronicles.com)
2 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
How so? When I glanced over it it looked trustworthy enough.
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by zeveb 8y ago
Alternatively, if you're programming and you want a structured data format, use S-expressions! They are basically tailor-made for exactly this problem. (gitlab:assets:compile #%dedicate-no-docs-pull-cache-job (image
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by zeveb 8y ago
Unlike learning a language, blindness is not something which can be overcome with education.
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by zeveb 8y ago
In fairness, the continental United States are over 195 times the size of Switzerland.
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by zeveb 8y ago
> return/if/while/break/continue actually work in Hylang. Common Lisp doesn't have these. It has all of them! Return: CL-USER> (defun foo () (return-from foo 1) 2) → FOO CL-USER> (foo) → 1
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by zeveb 8y ago
So very true. I loved, loved Google Inbox. Knowing that it was on the way out, I chose not to install it on my latest phone. Gmail is a pale imitation: busy, full of ads (granted, this is how Google makes its money), just no good anymo
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Procedural content generation: creating a universe(blog.rabidgremlin.com)
2 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
> Any heavy-right-wing and/or ultra-nationalistic or xenophobic ideology is at its core anti-individualistic anti-"people who develop their minds along their own tracks separate from society". Any totalitarian ideology i
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by zeveb 8y ago
> I really believe the AirPods are an amazing New platform. Headphones have existed since 1919. The Sony Walkman was released in 1979. > I think people are far more on the go lately and so the AirPods are a perfect way to consume con
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by zeveb 8y ago
It's all about conspicuous consumption. AirPods are not a lot less conspicuous than the long earlobes of the Dayaks[0] (nor in my opinion a lot less ugly), but in order for them to fulfill their signalling function they must be cons
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A journey from Python to Go(medium.com)
10 points by zeveb 8y ago|3 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
Of course, his opponent was objectively unqualified for every conceivable post but had the opportunity to be elected president of the U.S. merely because of her husband's name. America's in a lot of trouble. 2020 is going to make
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The future of streaming is the cable bundle(vox.com)
3 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
It's gone up & down a few times; I really hope that it hasn't gone for good.
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A Minecraft-Like Engine, Written in Common Lisp(github.com)
3 points by zeveb 8y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 8y ago
> They called themselves Romans until the very end And to this day the Turks call the Greeks in Turkey Romans.
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by zeveb 8y ago
Yes, because that's the land's actual value. This is why land-value taxes are unpopular: small landowners (e.g. Mom & Dad) want to be able to hold onto their small single-family homes instead of being forced to sell to a devel
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by zeveb 8y ago
Sure, but you also have to weigh that against what it takes to pay people to develop the wrong architecture at the wrong time, and the opportunity cost to the company as a whole to be saddled with those bad decisions. That's not t
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by zeveb 8y ago
That is, indeed, a beautiful piece of writing, but this bit here got me to thinking: > You are here for her. She is his mother. Does it really make sense that the person whose job is operating on physical trauma victims is also the per
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by zeveb 8y ago
Yeah, that's an excellent — and modern — guide.
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by zeveb 8y ago
Abstinence is also an extremely good way to prevent contracting STDs. Imperfect, of course (there's still the risk of rape, and of bloodborne contagion), but remarkably good. Abstinence is probably even less culturally acceptable than
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by zeveb 8y ago
The bondsman charges you a fee to lend you the money to pay the bail; if you pay the bail yourself you get it back regardless. You're not forced to use a bondsman, only if you cannot put together bail yourself. There's a decent

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