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by disc 7y ago
It's possible that some (many?) programmers enjoy a Ruby-like syntax?
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by disc 7y ago
I wouldn't either but now that I have one one my desk, nightstand, and coffee table; I could never go back.
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by disc 8y ago
That's a bit relativistic; no? How could something that dies at a mere gram of arsenic have survived for so long?
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by disc 9y ago
Honest question, do you think a 2x factor of error is all that significant? Maybe it's just my EE background (where everything is measured in logs) but anything within an order of magnitude seems accurate enough for me.
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by disc 9y ago
Do you have any links I could peruse that explain how UBI would flatten the demand curve, rather than just shifting it?
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by disc 9y ago
> No, pitbulls are not sweet. Pitbulls are unpredictable monsters. Do you have any direct experience with a well-loved, housebroken pitbull? In all my experiences with the breed, the only thing they're aggressive about is snuggling.
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by disc 9y ago
Is the system setup to value them with money? Can a parent walk into a school and agree to higher property taxes if their kid is placed in a specific teacher's classroom?
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by disc 9y ago
Perhaps it's possible that digital marketing is not all that effective for commodity items? I admit to having brand preferences for laundry detergent and garbage bags, though I like to believe (perhaps wishfully) they are a result of f
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by disc 9y ago
I've contemplated using a service like this to lighten the junk mail, but how do you 'shut off' mail service at your physical mailbox?
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by disc 10y ago
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish[1] Microsoft? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
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by disc 10y ago
Agreed, though it wasn't very long ago that growth was valued much higher than profitability. Maybe our opinion is (slowly) evolving? Perhaps growth-by-all-means is a perfectly valid play in an extremely network-effected market, while
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by disc 10y ago
Congrats on finding on a solution that works for your body. For me, I find eating keto gives me more even energy, allows me to sleep better, keeps me from feeling hungry, and I also lose weight. Humans are pretty diverse; perhaps certain e
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by disc 10y ago
Absolutely this. All comp evaluations should start from what you could reasonably expect (salary + annualized stock) at a public company. Startup comp is a little different; salary + the value of equity at (a reasonable) exit (but derated
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by disc 10y ago
Wouldn't a much more natural unit for angular measurements be 1/(2*pi)? That way angular measurements are represented as their fraction of a circle (which is pretty easy to visualize; 180 degrees becomes 1/2.)
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by disc 10y ago
And your refute is an appeal to the masses or an appeal to authority depending on your tastes. Many intelligent people believe in conservative/libertarian ideals. When considering solutions to tough problems, why exclude any class of
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by disc 11y ago
> radio is a shitty channel through which to market your podcast Maybe I'm just not the average NPR listener, but any time I have terrestrial radio playing, I'm highly subject to interruptions (eg., the end of my drive, a meeti
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by disc 11y ago
Not to say your analysis is flawed, but SFPUC rounds everyone's water usage to the nearest 'unit' (748 gallons) meaning that anyone who uses less than 748 gallons/month is paying at least €8.05/kiloliter (based on m
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by disc 11y ago
Does anyone know if there is a PAC aligned around technology-savy candidates? Seems like something the EFF should be involved in.
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by disc 12y ago
Both this and all the railgun technology the Navy has been developing. Undoubtedly part of the reason the new Zumwalt class destroyers are electric drive.
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by disc 12y ago
There is probably some merit in the season model that American television takes. "I'm going to release 12/18/24/whatever episodes over the next six/eight/twelve months" is probably more sustainable t
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by disc 13y ago
> You left a free lunch on the table. You appear to be discrediting opportunity costs (could those 30 minutes of researching brackets be better spent doing something practical?) and privacy costs (I'm sure Buffet's entries requ
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by disc 13y ago
In fairness, don't most situations in life?
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by disc 13y ago
This looks like it work great for optimizing/consolidating personal cards, but one advantage Coin offers is the flexibility of charging normal purchases to a business account. I'm not sure how Wallaby could discriminate if my res
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by disc 13y ago
Modern warships are designed for EMP threats. It's mentioned in MIL-STD-464.
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by disc 13y ago
As I understand it, the DAPs run LynxOS, while the TSCEI networking and processing is done in Red Hat.
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by disc 13y ago
I like seeing new players in this space. I think there's a lot of potential for small-group or 1-on-1 mentoring to help fill the "intermediate but beyond tutorials" space. Kind of like golf, or surfing lessons, only perhaps
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by disc 13y ago
I think this use-case has a lot of potential. As someone who's past tutorials, yet not quite confident enough to seek employment with my hobby language, I'd love some small-group or individual pairing experience (sort of like golf
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by disc 13y ago
I switched to Dvorak 11+ years when I was in college and had a lot of time to kill. I think your spoken language fluency analogy is pretty accurate; I imagine I'll always retain a bit of my 'native' qwerty muscle-memory, but
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by disc 13y ago
Just to give you one user's perspective (which honestly, by virtue of being a HN reader probably represents a very small fraction of general users); anytime I see a service that requests I login via FB or Google, I assume you're trying to m
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by disc 13y ago
When your job is to get people to pay attention to you, why would categorize anything as less than the most important? Crowd-sourcing the importance might be better, but that brings us right back to a HN/reddit solution.

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