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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
Your first sentence is valid. I wished the opposition was better, so that we have real representation. The current opposition parties are fragmented, and worse, seem very reactionary. Unfortunately with Singapore's aging population it
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Your statement would have been true for every election other than the last. In the last election the opposition parties fielded candidates in all but one of the constituencies. The 70% popular vote in what is the most hotly contested electi
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Roy Ngerng? He wasn't posting 'questions' to his blog - he was posting cringeworthy conspiracy theories that were provably false. Granted I don't think he should have been sued - that just legitimizes him and made him ou
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> I have never heard a single Singaporean show strong confidence or trust in their government In the last general election the ruling People's Action Party was voted in with a 70% popular vote. > and the lack of free speech is no
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One of the first thing you learn in microeconomics 101 is that demand forms a curve - there will always be people who are extracting more value (and thus willing to pay more) for something, and people who don't (and thus don't buy
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This is an extremely popular narrative that seems to pop up every time a Stack Exchange post geta onto the HN or proggit front page. The problem with this narrative is that it is almost never substantiated. So instead, let me posit an alter
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Oh, I agree that this is really cool in terms of aesthetics. I'm pointing out that the grandparent's comment about this being minimalistic, and comparing it to real weather apps as being absurd. If you're building a toy proje
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ASCII art is not scalable when you mix it with text like on this site since scaling the art will also make the text unreadably small. Screen readers depends on the semantics as defined in HTML to recognize what to read. In this case when yo
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I would go out on a limb and say yes. Any website designed with screen reader accessibility in mind would work with Lynx, which is a more capable browser than screen readers.
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On Android the browser renders the page at full width, making the icon and text unreadablely small. You can zoom in, but that shouldn't be necessary in the first place if the site was responsive. Bootstrap's screens reader only cl
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Sorry, I meant cruft - autocorrect didn't recognize the word and corrected it to 'craft'. And the same control extends to users on the Web at the very least. Userstyles/scripts and extensions can modify websites, giving
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Try looking at the source of the page. There's no way in hell anyone would call that "just" the data necessary to convey the information. The site is also unusable on mobile, because ASCII art unlike proper semantic HTML is n
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Actually, zero profit is guaranteed only if the market exhibits perfect competition or monopolistic competition. Those that are not (which the wireline business should be in, given its very high barrier to entry and low number of competitor
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Well, the blog post presupposes you can get remote code execution on the WordPress server. There's very little you can do to secure yourself if the opponent already has RCE, because at that point the attacker has at least as much privi
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A CMS would need to send email so that it can reset passwords, just as an example. Again, as the parent has said, the failing here is not that the CMS is provided with email credentials - that's very common for all but the simplest CMS
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Modern iOS should support flexbox, which should get you what you want with a few lines of CSS. http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox
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It's mainly due to the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic (aka unique prime factorization) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_arithme...
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Adobe Flash is a browser plugin. Chrome is a browser. How are they unrelated?
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Because a human brain is not field programmable, and improving cognitive ability isn't as simple as plugging in another stick of RAM. The worry about AI is the bootstrap scenario, where an AI gains sufficient intelligence to modify and
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You forgot your [1] URL
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Barbie's Got a New Body – Inside the Biggest Change in Barbie’s 57-year History(time.com)
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I've managed to get Let's Encrypt working on a shared hosting environment using letsencrypt-nosudo in less than half an hour from the time I started cloning the repo to finally pasting the cert into cPanel. And every step in that
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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
For PHP there is PHP Debug Bar - http://phpdebugbar.com/ , although if you're using a framework you'd want to find the fork with the bindings. I'm using the one for Laravel and it's pretty good https:&#x
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The urban, infrastructural geography of ‘the cloud’(medium.com)
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Huh, I was expecting MutationObserver[1] (which is the 'proper' way to do this, by the way). Not sure about the performance though - MutationObserver probably comes with more overhead. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org
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Human beings evolved senses to perceive food which will aid in the individual's survival on the plains of the African savannah. There's no reason to believe that food perceived to be flavorful necessarily contains the correct nutr
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Except he never provides any proof that any of the chemicals named are harmful in any way. His claims are 1. Juice produced at industrial scale are loaded with sugar and are less nutritious than actual fruits (true, but also true of any j
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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
Basically, http://www.eros-os.org/essays/capintro.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security
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The department pretending to run North Korea(bbc.com)
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Sorry to be pedantic but I presume you're not a native English speaker? 'Joyable' is not an English word, but rather the name of a startup company[1]. Perhaps you're looking for 'joyful'. 'Checkout' w

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