precisioncoder

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by precisioncoder 13y ago
That's the wonderful and horrible thing about the US. There are a myriad of high risk high reward options like credit cards and student debt. For some people they pay off, for others they end up drowning in debt. There are some wond
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US tech firms and the debate over H1-B Visas(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by precisioncoder 13y ago|0 comments
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
I love this system. Halifax, NS had an amazing culture of that when I was in my late teens early twenties I furnished all my apartments with street finds/repairs. Sadly the city is going through gentrification and they're starti
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
I agree. Sometimes there are real consequences to showing up at a protest and a mask is necessary. At any time the protest could turn violent and you've gone from being a legal protester to a 10 year prison sentence in a second through
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Wearing a mask at an illegal protest is now a crime in Canada(cbc.ca)
40 points by precisioncoder 13y ago|23 comments
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Thanks, misread that
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
That would be awesome since it would mean there would be tons of consumer pressure to increase upload/download speeds and hopefully get ISPs upgrading service.
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
I've heard that what you say above is possible with the right third party apps but after trying it out I decided that it's Vista 2.0. Vista had good things going for it but they were cancelled out by the annoying features. IMO wi
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Heh, so you're saying the US is too big to fail? Maybe it should be split up into smaller countries to avoid future problems of that sort...
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I read it as serious, but that's the lovely thing about art, everyone can have a different interpretation.
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
"And that was it. I could do that much — but that was all. I was hopeless. My brain simply doesn’t work in a way that allows me to write code. So saying that if I’d spent ten thousand hours talking to Rax, I would be a successful computer p
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Marissa Mayer has done one thing very very well. She's changing Yahoo's image. I see Yahoo consistently in the news, and am actually interested in what it's doing. It feels interesting. Beforehand I mostly thought of them as an outdated
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
http://xkcd.com/164/ As an extra note if we manage to make large portions of this planet unlivable then maybe through trying to alter them to be livable again we'll unlock techniques that we could use on other planets to make them livable
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Not according to the HDI, on the inequality-adjusted HDI it's not even in the top ten. Not in the top ten for literacy rates. Not in the top 5 for GDP/Capita. I'm sure there are tons of other metrics as where they fail as well, those were
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Do a few google searches and you'll see a broad range of newspapers cited as the best in the world. Search in a few different languages and you'll get an even wider variety. My search brought up The London Times as a contender for prestige
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
I agree with the spirit of your post, and agree that that should be our aspiration. The reality of it can be far different. There have been cases where geeks are being discriminated against for their appearance and social habits in the com
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Not to mention they will tell their friends and family constantly about the cool new thing they found. Also when people consider a new service who do they ask? Usually the hacker in the social group/family
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Same with me, I internally cheered when I saw the post, then internally booed when it asked for facebook. My facebook hovers at around 50 people who are all close friends or family.
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
I feel like people are missing the point about the "fake geek" meme. If a bunch of football players were strutting around in batman costumes at conventions I feel like the same ire would be directed at them. Geeks are (or were) mostly out
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Debatable. It would be better to say the most respected newspaper in the USA. The US has a tendency to refer to their best as the best in the world. I found it really interesting when I was watching "How I met your mother" how often they
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Thanks for that. I'm not a US citizen and was always curious why it was called the Miranda warning. I just read about the case on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_v._Arizona
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
In the right circumstances I would as well. I meant to simply point out the general idea that substituting man for woman will imply if it's sexist or not. In the article it also does not mention whether or not she was ever planning to go
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Yeah it's one of those things that is really counterintuitive, probably because we tend to underestimate inflation. I thought the opposite as well until I ran across an article a little while back.
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Minor nitpick. Video game consoles and games are equal price or cheaper than old ones when adjusted for inflation. Here are a couple articles I found to support that. http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/706637/video-game-infl... http
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
If a man was planning to work for just 6 months to fill a gap before he started a job he was looking forward to would you hire him?
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Karma is mostly understood to mean "cause and effect". Not "do bad things and you will be punished by the universe". A famous buddhist teacher once was asked why a man had been hit by a car. He answered "He wasn't looking where he was go
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Interesting, please expand on that. You say that I invalidated my argument but provided no explanation for why.
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Designer News
1 points by precisioncoder 13y ago|1 comments
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
Everything is free if you have no intention of using it. I simply expanded on one possible use case for the usage of said "free" air.
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by precisioncoder 13y ago
I love being a software engineer, but I would quit in a second to become a crew member under Han Solo on the Millenium Falcon. Until that opportunity shows up software developer is one of the best jobs on the planet. Go work physical labo

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