PhineasRex

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by PhineasRex 4y ago
Congress did pass a law decades ago allowing federal prosecutors to face civil suits for cases like this but the Supreme Court subsequently just said nah, prosecutors are exempt from the law while performing their job.
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by PhineasRex 4y ago
All decentralized domain systems by definition do not address universality and thus require a change in user behavior. The core idea is a return to pre-internet naming where "Sal's Pizza" refers to a different establishment i
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by PhineasRex 4y ago
As long as you don't mind the astronomical operating cost once such a system reaches the scale of DNS, sure.
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by PhineasRex 4y ago
Unfortunately enforcement mechanisms for rental law in NYC are virtually non-existent so AirBNB and like are still rampant.
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by PhineasRex 4y ago
The problem is right there in the title: Global Housing Market . The commodification of housing has been disastrous. The cost to develop new housing and the length of time it takes has means market manipulation is always going to be an eas
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by PhineasRex 4y ago
The dynamic typing example doesn't have anything to do with dynamic typing and is in fact already a feature of some statically-typed programming languages.
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by PhineasRex 4y ago
You wouldn't schedule downtime for the middle of the day. You schedule downtime during your period of least usage.
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by PhineasRex 4y ago
An extra nine lines and extra runtime complexity just to avoid putting it in a comment.
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by PhineasRex 4y ago
This is a great example of why documentation is important though. If that comment had documented why 75 had been removed and what the impact of that was you would know how to address this situation. In fact, even the fact that the comment i
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by PhineasRex 4y ago
It's very odd that you would group Hellen Keller in with facilitated communication. Keller communicated with many people without Anne Sullivan's help and was the author of many works. There are even videos of her on YouTube speaki
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by PhineasRex 4y ago
There is no bound on n, it always searches to INT_MAX regardless of n.
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by PhineasRex 4y ago
If you do any non-trivial devops works on cloud providers it's immediately obvious why this is nonsensical. Let's take the most basic example: auto-generated ids. Many resources in AWS, GCS, etc have auto generated ids (just use t
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by PhineasRex 4y ago
This configuration is for streets without enough room for a dedicated bike lane. An edge-lane road is as wide as a standard two-way with no bike lane.
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by PhineasRex 4y ago
It's been a while since we reinvented the wheel, hasn't it.
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by PhineasRex 5y ago
I've had the opposite experience living in Brooklyn and traveling to Europe. Saying I was from New York was boring but—Brooklyn being in vogue at the time—I quickly learned to be more specific and found lots of fast friends wanting to
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by PhineasRex 5y ago
I had a Game Gear growing up and 3 hours is way more battery life than I ever got out of that thing. 1 hour is more in-line with my experience.
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by PhineasRex 5y ago
The strike price is now higher than the sale price for most employees and former employees so practically they cannot sell.
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by PhineasRex 5y ago
This doesn't inhherently have anything to do with inheritance. Delegation is the compositional solution to this problem and some languages do have built in sugar for that. It usually looks something like: class F150(@delegate pri
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by PhineasRex 5y ago
To be fair, that's really more of a python-specific deficiency than a general problem with significant whitespace. Haskell for example interprets further-indented lines as a continuation of the current expression, only ending the expre
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by PhineasRex 5y ago
You might want to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_bear_attacks_in_... then. Note that the bear article is limited by region and only to fatal attacks because a list of broad in scope as the wolf att
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by PhineasRex 5y ago
As of 3.0 you can apparently run docker-compose directly against podman in daemon mode (thought I haven't tried it).
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by PhineasRex 5y ago
"I'm out of town this weekend, you can use my apartment" does not grant somebody unlimited permission to use your apartment. The supreme court is working backwards from their conclusion here.
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by PhineasRex 5y ago
Switzerland has heavy restrictions on owning ammunition, it is not comparable to the US
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by PhineasRex 5y ago
This is exactly the case where you don't need a library. This is a single function (or two) and you can easily translate an existing code example into the language you're using in a few minutes and be done with it.
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by PhineasRex 5y ago
This is not true. When the smallpox vaccine was being rolled out many restaurants, social clubs, and other places of congregation required proof of vaccination.
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by PhineasRex 5y ago
It's not true. He got 50.8% of the vote. Even if you just look at the first round of IRV he got 35% of first-choice votes ( https://ballotpedia.org/District_Attorney_election_in_San_Fr... )
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by PhineasRex 5y ago
If you really want to know look know further than Cuomo's mismanagement of the governor's office ( https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/andrew-cuomo-miscond... )
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by PhineasRex 5y ago
Those things were deadlocked by his office . The legislature had tried legalizing weird years ago, for example. His office is notoriously dysfunctional and only gets around to doing anything when he needs a political win.
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by PhineasRex 5y ago
Acquisitions mostly. They've gotten into trouble with the state over their acquisition of TWC when they failed to uphold the conditions of the merger which required them to improve and expand service.
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by PhineasRex 5y ago
That's 100% bullshit. Google made AMP to lock media companies into their ad network. All AMP pages have to use their ad network exclusively. If they wanted to penalize slow sites they could have… penalized slow sites. There are numerou

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