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by zzleeper 10y ago
I would argue that it is consistent now. At the lowest level, you have commonmark. Then, you have extensions at the top, such as GFM. If Pandoc/Github/Reddit/SO/kramdown switch, that accounts for almost all front- and ba
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by zzleeper 10y ago
The article says it was carfentanyl, not even that high in the list
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by zzleeper 10y ago
In your opinion, what are the pain points of KDE? For me, my biggest beef with Unity was a death from a thousand papercuts. EG: i wanted to open a file in a program and had to navigate to the location, and couldn't just copy the fold
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by zzleeper 10y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted. I used Ubuntu as my main OS in 11-12 and tried it again a month ago and am regretting it (the UI has a lot of weird bugs; heck I couldn't believe I would have missed Windows Explorer).
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by zzleeper 10y ago
I was on the same boat. Made the switch, and this weekend I'm sadly going back. Ubuntu's UI is just a mangled mess full of bugs. I lost so much fighting against stupid UI choices that I realized I was wasting way more time than if
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Also, unless a migrant stays in the US forever, they won't receive the benefits of their social security contributions. EG: I pay 6.2*2=12.4% as social security, but unless I contribute for at least 10 years, those contributions are lo
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by zzleeper 10y ago
They are also competing with other countries that might be better equipped to produce those goods (e.g. Chile might have cheaper labor, and better water/soil/climate) for some types of fruits. Without subsidies or this cheap labor
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by zzleeper 10y ago
> Quadratic probing is used because it's very effective for unsuccessful lookups IS it really that good? If you end up having to probe a lot with linear probing, it is likely you have a bad hash function, which is the same reason yo
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Has anyone implemented them in production? I read their paper a while ago, but thought that the dual methods they showed might have practical limitations (like insane cache misses, compared to more standard methods)
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by zzleeper 10y ago
1) The relevant metric is net income not revenue (that's what at stake for them) 2) Those figures are worldwide, not just for Mexico. That said, I wouldn't be surprised it's not Coke and Pepsi directly behind the spying, but
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by zzleeper 10y ago
"Yes Trump is stirring the pot a bit maybe to play Russia against China. Maybe it's to get Europe to spend a little more on NATO" I don't know in what world do you live, but you are just giving him too much credibility.
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Wait wait.. Russia plainly invaded two of its neighbors, and annexes part of them. Is that just "behaving badly" in your book?
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Hell, even in academia people hate it =\
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by zzleeper 10y ago
In case the author reads this: I can't read well with that font, unless I zoom in all the way. Doesn't happen with anything else (Win10, 14in laptop, Chrome)
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by zzleeper 10y ago
> Their lobbyists claim there is a “talent shortage” among Americans and thus that the industry needs more of such work visas. This is patently false There is no way SV would have grown to what it is now without foreign talent. So the sh
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by zzleeper 10y ago
It would be good to know the chances for that. I'm guessing most of the other participants at each round were men, so they must have been pretty low...
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Because by now it's well known that many billionaires are using NZ as their backup in case TSHTF. And that's way more likely than him suddely developing affection for a random country across the ocean.
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by zzleeper 10y ago
I agree that ultimately the forum reflects the joint will of both YC the company and its users. For instance, a bird-watching forum might have a a strict ban on anything not related to birds, while the YC ban on politics is softer. What I d
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Do you really believe what you posted? If tomorrow he says something to disprove one of your points, you will further twist your argument to somehow appears as if he is still doing the right thing. I don't think anyone but yourself c
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by zzleeper 10y ago
From news.istambulcombinator.com.tr , circa 2012 : >Respectfully, can we maintain the ban on political articles on Istambul Hacker News? Sure, we can close our ears, and also we can argue that here we only discuss tech all the time. But
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by zzleeper 10y ago
I feel like in your book, having an ID is a bad thing. You would be surprised that this is a very American thing (and which surprised me a lot when I first learned it); no foreigner thinks like that (bar people that don't want to be fo
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Are you implying that asking for SSN was being racist against white people? More likely than not, they just wanted everyone to have a SSN so they required it for kids. But non-residents cannot have SSNs (even if legally there), so they ha
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by zzleeper 10y ago
There is a very aggressive set of users that keep flagging politics here. At this point I don't know if they are Trump supporters, or if they just hate anything but tech on HN.
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by zzleeper 10y ago
I saw your last submission ( https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e... ) and thought it was quite interesting (being from a South American country, that m.o. is quite standard). My guess, followin
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Can you really stay out of politics? Ten years from now, what if Spolski is in jail and SO closed down. Then what?
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Are you using py3 exclusive features? If you are not, then you are not really using python 3 (tuple unpacking, etc.) If you want to do both, then you need pasteurize, and end up with a travis mess: https://github.com/sergioc
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by zzleeper 10y ago
About PyPI, it is a bit messy. I backported a py3 project to use py2 (on behalf of a few users) and it was a real pain in the ass to have a wheel that allowed for both versions. I ended up having a py3 build on github, and using a TravisC
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by zzleeper 10y ago
In my opinion/experience, there are some important hidden costs of staying in py2: 1) Hard-to-read or quirky code. Unicode handling, args, harder unpacking, etc. The more time it passes, the more updates py3 gets, and the more outdat
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by zzleeper 10y ago
My oldest cc is 6 years old (non-american), and I really want to close it. Do you have any idea of its effect ob my FICO? (You mentioned "age for 10 years", what does that mean?) :)
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Sorry, being an owner of the 2015 version, I don't know what the fuck are you talking about: - The brick is tiny. Sure, not as tiny as the 50 gram mac one, but is very small compared to most laptop bricks. - It's huge? Some peope

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