pharrlax

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by pharrlax 9y ago
"Seem skeezier"? We're talking about serial stalking, harassment, and sexual assault with multiple victims. Unless there are major facts we don't yet know, what Sacca did, even if part of a "pattern", pales in
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by pharrlax 9y ago
He touched someone's face once like eight years ago "in a way that made her feel uncomfortable". A stupid, asshole, casually sexist move? Yup. Worthy of being raked over the coals despite bending over backwards to make amends
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by pharrlax 9y ago
>If regular, predictable events are covered, it is not insurance. Regular, predictable events are not insurable. The problem in the U.S. is that we have this bizarre system where hospitals charge exorbitant prices and then insurers haggl
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by pharrlax 9y ago
I'm 1.5 years out of a coding bootcamp I paid about $12,000 for. At a 17% rate, I would have paid $11,500 already, and would be on track to pay $22,950 more if I stay at my current job for 1.5 more years with no salary increases (I exp
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by pharrlax 9y ago
I think that's a joke. Actual code output probably wouldn't feature syntax highlighting
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by pharrlax 9y ago
That's fair. Any official statement by a corporation is total horseshit 100% of the time. Corporations literally exist only to protect and grow their bottom line, and are engineered to reflexively throw everything else under the bus--e
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by pharrlax 9y ago
>US voters are apparently OK with this US voters are impotent. Millions are about to be kicked off Medicare and Medicaid because of the signature of a man who repeatedly pledged over and over again that he would not ever cut them. Politi
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by pharrlax 9y ago
>The doctor wanted to prescribe an appetite enhancing drug but my father explained he can not simply gain weight by eating more. It's as if his digestive system is already at a maximum threshold. It's more likely that his weigh
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Ethnocentrism is a hell of a drug
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by pharrlax 9y ago
>that companies, corporations, organisations use it to market and advertise themselves, for free. Another phenomenon I've been seeing more of is a company that gets in early to a niche gaining control of the subreddit around that ni
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by pharrlax 9y ago
I'm sure people have wondered this about the written word, higher education, etc. over the years, and society has adapted just fine every time. If anything, there is now no end to the threads that can be pulled in pursuit of curiosity
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Graduated coding bootcamp 2.5 years ago. Currently on my 2nd developer job, making 750% of my pre-bootcamp salary. Most of my classmates continued on to do development professionally. Most commonly focused on Node and frontend JS frameworks
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by pharrlax 9y ago
>enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State Not well-read on the case law here, but are you sure signing a non-binding pledge qualifies under this section? I would assume it underwent basic vetting by constitutional law exper
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Are you really trying to say there's no argument to be made that SPA + prerendering is a design pattern with advantages over flat html, even for static content? Obviously there are disadvantages as well, but it's a tradeoff, and i
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Also, vast majority of users will have a cached copy of jQuery from Google CDN already. Now bundling it with the rest of your JS, that's indeed a mistake.
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Because we generally recognize that feudalism is bad, and therefore society becoming more feudalismesque is also bad?
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Incremental !== bad
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by pharrlax 9y ago
I'm constantly amused, when I see articles like this, that I've yet to see any application of AI as impressive as Akinator, and it's been around for a full decade.
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by pharrlax 9y ago
You know what they say about the candle that burns twice as bright, though
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Early in the Obama administration, when he hadn't taken much of a position on NN and nominated (then-)suspected ISP opponent Wheeler to chair the FCC, I think you'd be right. But folks are informed enough on this issue now that ev
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by pharrlax 9y ago
The obvious response to his comment on the Title I vs. Title II definitions is that he ignores the word "capability". Of course ISPs offer a "capability" to do things like electronic publishing. I'm using that capab
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by pharrlax 9y ago
>It doesn't offer any value to the consumer (at least Tobacco offers some temporary pleasure), it must be taxed harshly. I'm quite sure I've received value from browsing ad-supported news outlets and using other ad-support
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Started with WSJ but lots of other outlets pitched in.
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by pharrlax 9y ago
This is what I think, too. The Trump administration might be prone to racist paranoia panics but I don't see what objective this ban accomplishes unless there's some sort of legitimate intel.
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by pharrlax 9y ago
That's an inevitability at this point.
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by pharrlax 9y ago
This is the problem with the iPad, on a fundamental level, for me. It's not a laptop, because it's missing crucial laptop features (ability to do work on it). And it's not a phone because it's missing crucial phone featu
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by pharrlax 9y ago
>You know what? I'm starting to get excited for the walled garden to get more walls. Yep. What developer types don't like to admit is that for the average user, who doesn't use the features excluded by the walled garden an
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by pharrlax 9y ago
I'm pretty sure they knew there would be a flood of opposition, and they left it insecure intentionally, in order to delegitimize the overwhelming consensus by lumping genuine filings in with spam filings and declaring the entire proce
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by pharrlax 9y ago
You can mess with it quite a bit by making different expressions and looking different directions. Though I'm guessing it gets a lot more accurate when it can take and average multiple shots.
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Robinhood is an exception because their business is holding funds. When you hold funds, you can make interest off them. I guess the better way to say it is "when you drop the profit you receive from a product to zero".

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