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by excursionist 6y ago
> This is obviously the right move. Could you expand on this? Is this obviously right because it's FB being boycotted? I don't use FB - is it noticeably worse than youtube, reddit, twitter?
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by excursionist 6y ago
A lot of contractors are incorporated, so the contract is not between google and the contractor, but between google and the contractor's corp (sometimes another agency in between google and corp). So the contractor is not an employee o
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by excursionist 6y ago
Do you have a source for 'cigarettes boost T'? Is it the nicotine or some other chemical in cigarettes?
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by excursionist 7y ago
The problem is that this completely ruins any competitive FPS on console. The keyboard/mouse players have a huge advantage.
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by excursionist 7y ago
Is the Earth's magnetic field affected by its rotation speed?
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by excursionist 7y ago
What prosperity does work off-shored to 3rd world sweatshops deliver? Greater profit for a tiny fraction of the population, and increased financial insecurity for the rest? Creating a tshirt doesn't take any extra effort in the US, the
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by excursionist 7y ago
You don't need set theory for numbers, enumeration or arithmetic.
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by excursionist 7y ago
Set theory constructs the natural/ordinal numbers from it's axioms, but set theory is a man-made formal language that didn't exist until the 19th century, so talking about what comes/before after is kind of moot. https:
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by excursionist 7y ago
I assume facebook still pays for all views it counts, so there is no downside in terms of ad revenue for publishers.
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by excursionist 7y ago
I'm not sure our brains are capable of continuously learning for 1000 years without becoming useless. Also, there is a dystopian version of immortality - a tiny fraction of elites becoming immortal super-tyrants.
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by excursionist 7y ago
> it terrifies me (esp everything going wrong already in our world) that we're not being more critical and cautionary toward life-extension.... Don't worry bro, you'll die and all your fears will go away :). From a persona
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by excursionist 7y ago
> But the number of carbon atoms we release into the atmosphere as CH4 is much, much less than the number of carbon atoms we release into the atmosphere of CO2 Parent's point is that we don't actually know how much methane is r
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by excursionist 7y ago
If the company says you get unlimited pto, and actually delivers on it's promise, why couldn't you just take off for like 6 months every year? If you actually need to get approval for time off, then it's not 'unlimited&#
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by excursionist 7y ago
Maybe the revolution hasn't come for the publishers, based on ebook sales numbers, but the people I know who regularly use ereaders download most of their ebooks for free.
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by excursionist 7y ago
I see this happening pretty much every day for political news. I don't keep track of a list, but here is a recent example: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/us/politics/bernie-sander... > M
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by excursionist 7y ago
> There's even corruption in democratic governments that are directly accountable to their citizens every few years (via elections). Imagine if this kind of 'accountability' was applied to the rest of society. Oh, you robb
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by excursionist 7y ago
What? It's just a simple fact that Node, Chrome and Chromium all use V8 - which is an open source BSD licensed project.
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by excursionist 7y ago
I can listen to music when doing easy/repetitive work - it actually makes it seem less dull. When working on something hard or reading/learning something I can't listen to music.
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by excursionist 7y ago
> For frontend, you use transpilers or polyfills to smooth over the differences between browsers. You then package these up, with rollup or webpack or whatever, and deliver to the client. You still have to identify which polyfills you ne
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by excursionist 7y ago
> Various ES features will have different levels of support in different layers, and this is especially tough once you take into account the various transpilers or polyfills, and the big sticking points for me over the past two years hav
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by excursionist 7y ago
JS in Node and JS in browser is not that different. It's the same language, using the same JavaScript engine (v8 for chrome). The difference is in the APIs provided by Node vs Browser, which is pretty minor. Many popular JS libraries w
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by excursionist 7y ago
One big feature of Prolog that relies on lists are DCGs (Definite Clause Grammars)[0]. Lists are such a ubiquitous data structure that not having them in a language would just be painful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D
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by excursionist 7y ago
> Go programs have not an obvious weak point... Lack of generics is an obvious weak point in Go. > Go filled the blank of lacking of a static language which is still much flexible in the world. What makes Go more 'flexible'
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by excursionist 7y ago
Now we can install cameras to track all of the tenant's movements, and play ads on those slick little monitors installed in the beds. We've come so far.
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by excursionist 7y ago
Isn't unpaid overtime illegal?
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by excursionist 7y ago
Idioms change, java can be much less boilerplate today.
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by excursionist 7y ago
> Transparency builds trust in real life and there is nothing but transparency here. What transparency? I all see are unverifiable claims. Such claims actually make you more suspect imo. > PIA has never logged nor has KAPE. So you sa
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by excursionist 7y ago
> You can only verify. What are you talking about? Verify what?
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by excursionist 7y ago
A lot of big claims and business-y talk in this README, but overall pretty vague and ambiguous. Reading this didn't really give me an understanding of why I would use this over say hibernate or jooq.. the getting started 'hello wo
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by excursionist 7y ago
I'm talking about local street signs and documents having the local language + official federal language. The languages used on Google maps just seems to default to your local language + the country official language. That's just

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