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by zyxley 10y ago
If you want to work in HTML5, Electron or Cordova can both take you pretty far. http://electron.atom.io https://cordova.apache.org This won't work for all apps, but (for example) a lot of simple mobile apps use
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To a lot of people in big cities, seeing the stars at all is totally alien. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/04/local/la-me-light-po... (see the bit near the bottom)
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The "as their next purchase" part of that option seems like it would seriously distort the results. I'm sure plenty of those people were thinking "I don't think I'd trust a self-driving car that came out today,
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It seems like you're trying to say "if it happened to me, my memory would be better, and it's their fault if their memory is poor". That's insulting at best to the many, many people in the criminal justice system wh
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by zyxley 10y ago
On that note, I recommend This War Of Mine for a game that's all about war but not at all about glamorizing it.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Let people opt in to the court system You can't "opt in" to a system that exerts coercive power (in the dictionary-definition sense) over everyone in a jurisdiction. You are already in. The system will not let you out, b
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> My opinion is that you should be allowed to opt out of the uncertainty of human law and accept that the code will decide exclusively. This will literally never happen, as it's the prerogative of the state to decide that circumstan
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by zyxley 10y ago
The code of a smart contract will never be "the law of the land", because thousands of years worth of precedent in the legal systems of every country in the world give leeway to override the terms of contracts to satisfy other leg
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It's not particularly healthy food, but saying "it's not food" is anti-scientific gibberish.
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There's a fairly big one near where I live that allows people to reserve bits of it for small community events during the week, as well as scheduling amateur or semi-professional musicians to do low-key live performances each weekend.
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> Murphy beds seem like a fun idea, but unless you're entertaining guests you'll end up just leaving it down during the day (if you're like me, that is..) You then come home to what is essentially a bedroom. That's ex
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> In France, the organic law does have constitutional force and thus overrules statutes. This may be a shocking revelation to you, but countries that aren't France aren't France.
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"Radical" doesn't seem like the right word. "Radical" political movements usually have some understanding of the realities of the day and want to change them, while the whole sovereign citizen thing is more like a h
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> I'd much prefer a generous but structured policy. Same here. If I have X weeks of paid vacation, I know I can take X weeks of vacation. If I have 'unlimited vacation', I know I can take... some amount, I guess... but I h
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by zyxley 10y ago
Sounds like there's now a market in Oklahoma for cards that are debit-only and will automatically reject all credit transactions.
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That's a good example of both crowd generosity and crowd stupidity: everybody joined in on trying to lift the bus instead of just making the bus driver reverse off the guy who was trapped.
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by zyxley 10y ago
Coordinated control of traffic lights isn't cheap. Some quick googling says $250K to $500K per signal[1] when done from scratch. [1]: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Operations/Traffic/signals.htm
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> I expected more skulls and crossbones. "Sweet, it's like some secret pirate tomb! Maybe they buried some treasure here!"
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But there's a programming environment out there that a lot of "non-programmers" use all the time and use to make some very complex applications. It's called Excel.
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I'm sure they do, somewhere that nobody actually driving on one of the streets in question will ever see it. > "But the plans were on display..." > "On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find the
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by zyxley 10y ago
gofmt comes to mind here. It renders the particulars of what you do while writing a non-issue by taking any valid Go input and producing a "canonical" final formatted version.
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The difference is that police, at least in theory, do not default to "kill any males 16 or older in the target area".
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by zyxley 10y ago
Wikis in general will be a part of human culture until, more or less, the end of time... but Wikipedia specifically feels like it's already begun a slow decline of bikeshedding, endless reverts, and territory claims by predatory editor
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What's your opinion on robot vacuums?
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> ISPs who host spammers That would be all of them . No ISP wants to support spammers, but without Jetsons robots to individually vet every single customer, having to deal with some is inevitable.
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Since at least the 40s, the advice of the US Forest Service has been to travel downhill, remaining in place if injured or there's nowhere further downhill to go: http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/s
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This kind of thing is why a visual marker - orange reflector tape, sidewalk chalk, whatever - should be a part of any serious hiker's kit. Going off trail at all? Leave a nice obvious path back to it.
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> The United States is the only place I have seen where people invest a considerable amount of time and resources just to put people from minor groups or specific genders in pedestals just to please other people. It's not "just
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> Are they a poor source (honestly don't know)? Extremely. Breitbart regularly publicizes stories that are misleading at best or just flat out wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitbart_News_Network#Notable.

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