chris_mc

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by chris_mc 7y ago
You just sprayed links all over, expecting me to fish through that data? From what I can tell, your data shows mediocre growth that has barely kept pace with inflation. Half the links you show are for "median" values, which will
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by chris_mc 7y ago
>under Obama the middle class gained significant wealth https://www.huffpost.com/entry/middle-class-charts_n_6507506 Check out these charts and tell me you're not full of shit. Edit: it took me 30 seconds of go
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by chris_mc 7y ago
>diversity of scientific, not cultural views Your cultural views can affect your scientific work. The imagination of children in America vs. China is different, people have different dreams and experiences, etc. I am constantly baffled b
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by chris_mc 7y ago
I normally use "git push --fo<TAB>" or "git push --fo<UP ARROW>" in zsh, but after seeing the switch option "--force-with-lease" pop up each time I've memorized it now. I let my CLI do the work
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by chris_mc 7y ago
Several sites do that now, it's annoying and you sometimes cannot even get back to the previous article. I like to read the text on my screen near the top of my browser, so I scroll constantly as I read, and for these sites I continual
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by chris_mc 7y ago
I don't get the "extra letters" argument as a Computer Scientist. Most of my time is spent figuring out what I'm going to do before I type anything, whether that's research, staring at code for hours to see how it w
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by chris_mc 7y ago
I use `--force-with-lease` instead of `--force` or `-f` because it ensures that if someone happened to push before me it would fail and I could manage that manually. Even on branches that no one "should" be touching other than me,
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by chris_mc 7y ago
It's on mobile. I haven't tested it much, but I'm really not interested in doing so. I only keep Google Maps because my wife and I like to share locations, which I am trying to do via some direct method between our phones eve
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by chris_mc 7y ago
Yep, Google Maps still shows my home and work locations on the Commute tab from before I disabled almost everything in my Google account, but won't let me change the work address since we moved locations. So I guess when I change house
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by chris_mc 7y ago
Well that's terrifying, I am glad they have stopped that sort of thing!
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by chris_mc 7y ago
How else do you ship it? Radioactive materials count as pretty much anything irradiated, so for a Navy nuclear plant (something they transport on trains that is radioactive) that's every pipe, valve, and metal fitting from the primary
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by chris_mc 7y ago
Looking sketchy isn't great when you're trying to make a security product, FYI. Maybe get your ducks in a row first, then announce.
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by chris_mc 7y ago
I don't care about the elites, I care about people who are not well known who get exposed due to this technology, or who's endangered because their stalker who happened on their nude stolen photos can now track them in real time.
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by chris_mc 7y ago
My big question with face rec is this: what happens when the tech is so good that people can find out the identity of someone whose "special" photos were stolen or shared on the internet? That's going to be a huge deal and wi
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by chris_mc 7y ago
I assure you, bothering someone like this when they are trying to get through their day is not hilarious to that person. Not only did your friend act like an ass and part illegally or over the time limit, but they then risked possibly runni
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by chris_mc 7y ago
Yes, humiliating other people is hilarious...
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by chris_mc 7y ago
Are we just making China the Boogeyman now on hacker news? I'm not trying to be a whataboutist, but literally everything China is doing had been done for decades by everyone else capable of doing that thing. Why are we suddenly up in a
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by chris_mc 7y ago
My kids will have their mother's name as their last name, so what do they do, use their father's, uh, bachelor name?
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by chris_mc 7y ago
So everyone start putting the content of that repo (I am sure someone forked it) in every one of your repos, especially ones other people use, and see how GitHub reacts.
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by chris_mc 7y ago
>Militant leftists wanting to outlaw certain speech Uhh, Mozilla didn't outlaw anything. Do you want to force Mozilla to put that extension on their site against their free speech rights? The only thing guaranteed by the first amend
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by chris_mc 7y ago
It's not the side they are on, right or left, it's the violent and hateful rhetoric they use.
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by chris_mc 7y ago
They won't change anything while they spend the next 10 years in legal maneuvers to draw out the case, then, probably after they've made another billion euros on other shitty, dangerous products, they will settle out of court for
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by chris_mc 7y ago
Do people from the South (that aren't a part of traditionally discriminated groups) get discriminated against actively because of their birthplace? Does Joe Redneck lose jobs because he was born in Georgia rather than California? What
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by chris_mc 7y ago
In 10 million years, why would we remember about any of these libraries they want to launch if we forgot the other knowledge? It's like dropping a well-protected USB with all our knowledge in the ocean with no method to locate it later
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by chris_mc 7y ago
bumper, hood, radiator, connecting parts, paint matching on a 7 year old car, etc. Not a big deal, I just wanted to tell people my story so people realize even doing it in a parking lot or neighborhood can probably kill if it is possible
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by chris_mc 7y ago
Yes their watch was okay but their software sucked. I think it's more likely China has spies within Huawei rather than Huawei being a literal intelligence operation. American engineers generally balk at inserting backdoors, why wouldn&
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by chris_mc 7y ago
I was driving about 3mph in traffic texting my wife and did 3500 dollars damage to my car. I'm glad I learned my lesson the easy way instead of killing someone. Don't text and drive no matter what, it's easy to pull over if
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by chris_mc 7y ago
I guess this is "Red Scare 2.0"? Is it? I'm not sure whether to worry about China or not, I feel like all my worry is driven by the political forces in the USA and Europe rather than facts. It seems so one-sided that "Ch
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by chris_mc 7y ago
>something like 80% of men that are becoming disenfranchised Are you arguing men have a right to sex? Disenfranchisement is the taking away of rights, that's it's definition. If not, you should be more careful using that phra
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by chris_mc 7y ago
>“There needs to be a balance” Sure, so then since the pendulum has been on one side (polluting the world with fossil fuels) for so long, let's swing it over, in order to be "balanced", and ban/eliminate fossil fuels

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