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by afiler 6y ago
When you say it's "obvious why this happens" are you referring to racism or something else?
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by afiler 6y ago
So you'd rather be dead than poor? If you find yourself taking this thought seriously and you're in the US, you can call 1-800-273-8255. Please take care.
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by afiler 6y ago
Again, with "quality" versus "quantity" it sounds like you're saying that there could be a lower quantity of people (some people die) in order to increase the quality of life for others.
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by afiler 6y ago
"Is life worth living if you're destitute and living in poverty or emotional turmoil?" It sounds like you're saying you think maybe poor people should just die.
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by afiler 7y ago
"The activity was sanctioned because of the oversight" seems to work for me with both meanings of 'oversight'
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by afiler 7y ago
That was a separate news story from a couple weeks ago. "Late Upper Paleolithic occupation at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago" "The stemmed projectile points closely resemble those found in Upper Paleolithic Jap
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by afiler 8y ago
The US also broke up Ma Bell in 1956, forcing the spinoff of Bell Canada and Caribbean operations, and before that in 1925, breaking off other international operations into ITT.
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by afiler 8y ago
I think that's called interacting with people over the normal course of business, and isn't something that's thought of as requiring specific targeted effort.
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by afiler 8y ago
Even during the cold war, Americans did business with Russia. No large computers or munitions, but Americans still ate Russian caviar. There was this call to boycott it at the same time as the Moscow olympics, but I don't think anyone
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by afiler 8y ago
[2015]
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by afiler 9y ago
Even on El Capitan, I was able to unlock with "root" on my first try. From there, I could add a new admin user. This seems... not good.
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by afiler 9y ago
In the late 90s, my high school used a system called NovaNET, which was based on PLATO. It was used for individual learning, special education, etc. I learned a bit of Russian with it, other kids did remedial math and English, and some just
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by afiler 10y ago
EBCDIC seems elegant in its own way: http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/cardint.htm (scroll down) -- apparently it's descended from IBM punch card formats. The discontinuity in the alphabet seems inconvenient for sorti
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by afiler 10y ago
«“It’s an epic act of generosity and altruism,” says Don Bacigalupi, the museum effort’s president. “George Lucas, as with any person of great resources and great success, could choose to do whatever he wants to do with his resources, and h
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Steve Jobs on why Xerox failed(youtube.com)
3 points by afiler 10y ago|0 comments
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by afiler 12y ago
I have a tool to make this text, though I'll admit I never even thought about decomposing inputs like ü and then recomposing them after Fraktur-izing. http://mar.cx/unicate/ or https://github.com/a
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by afiler 12y ago
103 years ago, the UK government nationalized the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Telephone_Company . Within two years of that, the US justice department managed to extract from AT&T the https://en
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by afiler 12y ago
It seems ever-so-slightly ironic that support for exotic architectures is considered a plus in this case, while support for exotic architectures is being ripped out of the OpenSSL/LibreSSL codebase. (Though probably not deeply ironic,
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by afiler 12y ago
This video with Rowan Atkinson contains all sorts of bad truck-related naming ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R5tUc1S3cc
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by afiler 12y ago
Selective enforcement can be a big problem in lots of areas, especially anywhere where race or class come into play. The flipside is that if people gradually move into parking overnight in industrial areas, and nobody there cares, then home
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by afiler 12y ago
This is by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis , who's done some amazing documentary work in the past, asking a lot of "big questions" like this.
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by afiler 13y ago
One of D's improvements upon C/C++ is its ability to enforce "deep const-ness".
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by afiler 13y ago
"Would you prefer to not have the choice to have access to this feature, and prevent others from having it too?" Yes, I would prefer that. LinkedIn has not shown itself to be a particularly good or careful actor in the past, and n
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by afiler 13y ago
OK, this turned out to be not that hard, just completely unfamiliar for me (having last used Tomcat in 2002). apt-get install tomcat7 tomcat7-admin; sudo $EDITOR /etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml # add user with role manager-gui
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by afiler 13y ago
I'll eventually try it out, but I have absolutely no idea how to go from this .war file to a running web server. (I see some .war files actually have a web server built in so you can just to java -jar, but not this one.)
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Show HN: "type safety" for Ruby 2.1.0(github.com)
6 points by afiler 13y ago|0 comments
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by afiler 13y ago
Is it open-source?
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by afiler 13y ago
The __builtin_types_compatible_p technique used here would be a great complement to http://libcello.org/ seen on HN a few days ago.
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by afiler 14y ago
Since this page is already full of weird unicode stuff, I may as well show off this fun tool that I wrote. 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠, 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑎 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑒 6.0 𝑓𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑. 𝔼𝕧𝕖𝕟 𝕗𝕖𝕨𝕖𝕣 𝕗𝕠
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by afiler 14y ago
When Doug Engelbart presented the Mother of All Demos back in 1968, he introduced both the mouse and the chorded keyboard, yet the chorded keyboard never caught on. And in 1968, the mouse was a new competitor to the light pen, which had bee

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