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by hythloday 9y ago
Due to phonetic shifts in the programming language community, we now say that barbarians are people who say "var var var".
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by hythloday 9y ago
It's the usage that originated with Lewis H. Morgan. Engels used it in "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State", which Wikipedia has a good summary of: > Barbarism – the period during which man learns to
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by hythloday 9y ago
Even closer to home is the England/Portugal alliance, which started in 1373 and has run continuously since then.
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by hythloday 9y ago
> I can only assume that someone else was the talent at Bullfrog and Lionhead. You should look into the career of the Carter brothers (Simon and Dene).
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by hythloday 10y ago
We've thought exactly the same in the past about depression, homosexuality, unmarried mothers and outspoken women, but yes, maybe this time medicalizing something before we know much about it is the right answer and won't make us
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by hythloday 10y ago
In the literature these are called Barnum Statements (after PT Barnum, of "there's one born every minute"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect
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by hythloday 10y ago
I understood the /converse/ to be the hyponyms of x's hypernym that were not x. So "spoon's" converse are forks, knives, maybe chopsticks, etc.
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by hythloday 10y ago
Data Engineer at Thread (YC '12) here. We're a relatively small team so it's nothing terribly sophisticated - Spark jobs prep log data for a nightly model training, done with sklearn - the model is just a python pickle that g
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by hythloday 10y ago
I don't think that you literally mean literally, but an obvious difference between slavery in the United States and conscription in the United States that you can avoid the latter by permanently renouncing your citizenship.
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by hythloday 10y ago
Not a lawyer, but I imagine they have not ability to exercise the fifth amendment as it's not self-incrimination, and I believe only natural persons (i.e. not corporations) are protected by it.
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by hythloday 10y ago
You may enjoy knowing that the singular of criteria is criterion (Greek, not Latin). A criterium is a bike race, from the same root: a κριτήριον is a decision, with the same nuance of meaning as English judg(e)ment.
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by hythloday 10y ago
Neither online nor free, but the Cambridge Latin courses are justly acclaimed as classics in the Classics.
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by hythloday 10y ago
If your business model relies on you paying people less than a minimum wage, there's no particular reason that a society who's decided that's a bad idea should allow you to limit your liability to losses.
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by hythloday 10y ago
And all people on zero-hours contracts love that and all children who worked in factories were violently against being sent to school.
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by hythloday 10y ago
Not sure if you're aware but iterm2 (v3) has tmux support so you can have the benefits of both.
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RaspberryPi-powered AI beats human pilot in dogfight(europe.newsweek.com)
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by hythloday 10y ago
I would suggest that pattern matching over ADTs is what has subsumed the visitor pattern.
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by hythloday 10y ago
In the UK, both The Co-operative and John Lewis companies are cooperatives and account for over 10% of the supermarket industry. Various building societies are very similar, and the largest has 10-20% of the banking market (depending on how
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by hythloday 10y ago
> I just mean it is silly. What's your point in bringing up combinatorics then? > Imagine that you need to pick out your particular family emoji each time from all the possible combinations. Imagine using the most trivial kin
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by hythloday 10y ago
I really wonder about the combination of ignorance of Unicode, stick-in-the-mud attitude to diversity and appetite for accidental irony that makes someone write a long paragraph (570 characters - that's at least 10^170 combinations of
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by hythloday 10y ago
> up to the time when statistical significance is achieved. You generally then stop the test Just a note, don't literally do this: http://conversionxl.com/statistical-significance-does-not-eq...
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A quarter of Iceland’s cabinet members held offshore companies(panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de)
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A quarter of Iceland´s cabinet members held offshore companies(panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de)
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by hythloday 10y ago
That's also the definition of "getting better".
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by hythloday 10y ago
I think by CG you mean computer graphics? Cg was nVidia's shader language that compiled to HLSL or GLSL. Writing shaders is sometimes serious business but more often than not it's just as drudgey as writing CRUD pages.
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by hythloday 10y ago
Twitter, now, sells advertising, which is 90% of its revenue. While it was VC-funded, which is really what you should be comparing it to as it's the prevalent stage of an startup, it raised money from VC funds by hitting non-contractua
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by hythloday 10y ago
If you're comparing them to VC-funded startups, games studios run on negative profit margins until the game is released!
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by hythloday 10y ago
And yet research tells us that two fathers raise children who are as well adapted in every way as ones raised by a father and a mother, and that two mothers raise children who're better adapted. (I find it slightly hilarious that you t
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by hythloday 10y ago
Something about your last paragraph rubbed me the wrong way. Sorry. > about 10X the competition Steam added 1500 games in the first 7 months of 2015. Crunchbase had over 8000 investments in 2015. So I don't think that's true,
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by hythloday 10y ago
I was in the games industry from 1999 to 2012 (and then left to go to Twitter!) and I think his friend is absolutely right, the games industry shoots itself in the foot repeatedly by believing that it's a special snowflake full of &quo

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