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by killedbydeath 9y ago
Interesting approach. Maybe that should be the "real SLA" number: 99% = 100x refund, 99.99% = 10000x refund.
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by killedbydeath 9y ago
Poland has 30x the population and likely 30x the number of immigrants to the UK.
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by killedbydeath 9y ago
Poker is a niche hobby, not some metaphor of competition in life. That picture says more about poker as a way to spend time than about competing. You might as well show pictures from a fly-fishing competition. I don't play poker, yet I
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by killedbydeath 9y ago
Are women not taught to compete? I do not remember girls being any less competitive (in school, in sports, etc.) Almost everyone wants to stand out and be better than others in some aspects and is proud when they can achieve that. Life is v
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by killedbydeath 9y ago
For crypto/security people on this thread, what encryption could app developers use to wrap their API call so that the least amount of information is leaked to this kind of man-in-the-middle services? I.e, is it possible to: 1) hide
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by killedbydeath 9y ago
You can go really deep down the rabbit hole of seat knowledge with Seatguru, but it's quite time consuming. Their flight search is reasonable, and probably many people who care about seats do use them. But the majority probably does no
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by killedbydeath 9y ago
May be the first step of regulation should be requiring some standard disclosures around seat sizes, etc. If kayak or some other comparison engine showed that you would are getting 2 extra inches for the $40 more when flying Virgin instead
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by killedbydeath 9y ago
It's not obvious that speaking second language better will come out at the expense of English. I grew up bilingual and was at the top of my class for my second language compared to monolingual natives. There are whole countries of bili
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by killedbydeath 9y ago
2020 election will be Larry Page running against Mark Zuckerberg
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by killedbydeath 9y ago
I almost bought their stuff once. The bottle looked nice, and I was looking for mayo. I was not looking to experiment, so buying their stuff would a a case of me buying something because it pretends to be something else. I want things to be
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by killedbydeath 9y ago
Come on, is respecting US laws on US soil really that much to ask without the fear of alienating Turkey? There need to be boundaries, even if you care very much about diplomacy.
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by killedbydeath 9y ago
But why? Animals eat animals, and death is just part of life. Should humans really need to transcend what has been part of our nature for so long because we developed empathy for animals or should we stay close to what we have been all this
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by killedbydeath 9y ago
I am amazed by the "lost his wife" part. What did she say in her wedding vows, "I take you as a husband from this day forward and until our combined income falls below 75% of the average income over the previous 3 years"
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by killedbydeath 9y ago
Well in many big cities nobody expects to be able to sit on a subway train anytime during peak hours. Where I lived, seats were mostly for seniors, children, people with disabilities. That's just what mass transit looks like in a busy
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by killedbydeath 9y ago
Well that's a lot of data you have there. I did some GLM analysis and clearly weight is correlated with gender. Let me go tell some journalists.
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by killedbydeath 9y ago
There is a large difference in effort needed for being good at spelling and for becoming the best in the world. Not a perfect analogy but you wouldn't call competitive eating a very useful skill just because eating is useful. Also, as
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by killedbydeath 10y ago
You are misunderstanding. Bluetooth pairing is not foreplay, it's real sex.
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by killedbydeath 10y ago
Sorry but that narrative has a basis in reality. Islam was started with the goal of expansion and that has not changed enough. Every territory taken over by Muslim rulers underwent subtle or not so subtle islamization. I was born on the Eas
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by killedbydeath 10y ago
People die of cancer if they don't die of something more treatable before that so lower cancer contribution may be not for a good reason.
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by killedbydeath 10y ago
I am puzzled what you consider being sexist here. It's just consented sex between adults, no need to feel sorry for anyone. Both men and women who have had many partners often get cynical about that and I have heard this kind of langua
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by killedbydeath 10y ago
Words mean different things depending on the context. And analogy and hyperbole are valid tools for expressing ideas. Now "lynching" would definitely be a bad analogy and way too much hyperbole, but "mccarthyism" was app
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by killedbydeath 10y ago
I don't think the definition of "McCarthyism" is as narrow as you define it. I used that word because I though the analogy was appropriate and illustrated well what I was trying to express. Accepted definitions do not tie it
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by killedbydeath 10y ago
We should value tolerance towards minority (in our circles) opinions. Unless you believe half of the country are bigots, you would conclude many people who voted for Trump did so reluctantly and despite all the stupid things he said, and no
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by killedbydeath 10y ago
Left-wing mccarthyism is as bad as right-wing mccarthyism. People should be able to support one of the two candidates without having to stand up to so much shaming in SV circles. Given the binary choice there may be multiple reasons to pick
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by killedbydeath 10y ago
Not necessarily. For example, Erdogan is currently more popular among Turks in Germany than in Turkey, 60% vs 50%[ http://www.dw.com/en/i-stand-behind-erdogan-an-afternoon-in-... ].
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by killedbydeath 12y ago
Is "your" side US-born developers? I was born outside and was able to immigrate to the US on H1B. For the last few years it is very hard for my friends to do the same. I wish they were given the opportunity. In no way they are inf
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by killedbydeath 13y ago
Yes indeed. I always recommend doing the opposite in C++ projects: use reference counting and not use exceptions.
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by killedbydeath 13y ago
Memory management in C++ is not tedious at all (with implicit reference counting).
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by killedbydeath 13y ago
move fast, brake often
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by killedbydeath 13y ago
I also miss this feature however there are options: a) for small and mid-sized tables you can use a SELECT + conditional INSERT or UPDATE or INSERT-on-exception-UPDATE works b) write-heavy tables are worth being rearchitected to be INSERT-o

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