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by wostusername 7y ago
Thanks! Didn't realize that existed.
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by wostusername 7y ago
Replying to this so I can find this later.
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by wostusername 7y ago
I ran Privacy Badger for a while, but I have never actually seen it do anything. Not sure I messed up something, or if it was due to me already having an aggressive block list on uBlock Origin that left PB with nothing to do.
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by wostusername 7y ago
No pre-election analysis had Trump at 0%. Unlikely outcomes happen. If I put two blue marbles and one red marble in a bag and ask you to blindly draw one, you probably won't be too shocked if you end up drawing the red one. Yet if it h
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by wostusername 7y ago
There are two different processes here: the DMCA and ContentID. If YouTube receives a DMCA request it will take the video down immediately (in accordance to the law). However, you can counter the DMCA claim at which point the other party ha
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by wostusername 7y ago
It might not be farfetched, but we shouldn't jump to conclusions without proof. People essentially claimed he was bought and paid for by Verizon since the day he took office, before he even had a chance to do anything. All because of w
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by wostusername 7y ago
>Ajit Pai, for example, famously worked for Verizon before government. Pai worked at Verizon for two years between 2001 and 2003. He was appointed as FCC member in 2012. How much loyalty do you have to a job you held for two years, nine
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by wostusername 7y ago
Google does not have the power to determine if something is fair use or not, that is up to the courts. You might think something is fair use, and I might disagree. We are supposed to go to court and have a trial to determine which one of us
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by wostusername 7y ago
I think the attraction for writers were network effects. It's kind of like YouTube for text content. Recently, I watched a video about the game Crokinole on YouTube. Afterwards I got a bunch of suggested videos: other videos about Crok
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by wostusername 7y ago
In Haskell you usually use `otherwise` for the last guard clause, like so: f x | x < 0 = ... | otherwise = ... It took me a while to realize that `otherwise` isn't a keyword or bit of syntax. It's just a
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by wostusername 7y ago
This honestly reads as "working as intended" to me. No side can become the tyrant and get everything it wants and screw the other ~50%.
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by wostusername 7y ago
Not him, but IIRC back when Steam Spy was a thing it discovered that most accounts on Steam only have one game on it. Usually Dota 2 or CS:GO. That makes sense to some extent since Dota 2 is free and CS:GO is often on sale and a lot of peop
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by wostusername 7y ago
Not a lawyer, but my understanding is that this is dependent on if you are in a community property state or not. In a community property state (Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin) all
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by wostusername 7y ago
My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing exc
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by wostusername 7y ago
Since everything in physics tells us that FTL travel is impossible (as far as I am aware), then when a civilization detects signs from another civilization in another solar system it knows that 1) that civilization was advanced enough to pr
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by wostusername 7y ago
Sounds like what Yik Yak tried to do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak
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by wostusername 7y ago
Yes, but if you watch the news that fact is never reported. Instead you get story after story of robbery, murder, assault ...etc. TV news stations care about ratings, papers care about circulation. Fear stories keep people watching/rea
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by wostusername 7y ago
What you are describing has only been my experience in suburbia. Major cities are a lot more walkable as far as getting to a grocery store or convenience shop or whatever. I'm currently in Chicago and the entire city has a grid layout,
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by wostusername 7y ago
> If we were not on an anonymous website, we would probably not start the conversation with “I disagree.”. I do that in in-person conversations all the time. Although I'm probably more blunt than most.
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by wostusername 7y ago
I've copied lines from a shell script into a makefile and it copied the leading spaces as well. I didn't really think about it and when I ran make I got a bunch of weird errors. I figured out what the problem was pretty much immed
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by wostusername 7y ago
Been a while since I've done Haskell, but the essential breakdown as I understand it is this: At lowest level you have the Control.Concurrent primitives: forkIO and MVar. forkIO allows you to spin up new Haskell threads (not OS threads
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by wostusername 7y ago
>The first example is missing the scope brackets likely enclosing the expressions Sure, but so is the Clojure one. So I guess it's more like: fun bar () { let x = 5, y = 10 foo(x,y) } vs (def
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by wostusername 7y ago
>(print "foo") vs print("foo"). same same. If you look at things other than function calls, it starts to look different: let x = 5, y = 10 foo(x,y) vs (let [x 5 y 10] (foo x
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by wostusername 7y ago
>If they were, would the denominator always be 100 or 1000? The numerator and denominator get automatically reduced to lowest terms (just like you learned in elementary school, so 15/100 becomes 3/20) internally by every implem
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by wostusername 7y ago
>An alternative to live meetings is to move any procedures involving the full House to a web-based medium, similar to HN. Can't wait for $PARTY party to yell "Conspiracy!" when their comments aren't showing up on the
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by wostusername 7y ago
You don't necessarily need something more powerful than Yacc. I think the point was that you can encode errors directly into your grammar. So for some language with semicolon statement separators you can do something like this: P
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by wostusername 7y ago
I must have missed the issue where Batman leaves a burning cross on Mr Freeze's yard.
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by wostusername 7y ago
I think what the other poster was trying to say is that in the US defamation law treats public figures and non-public figures (and confusingly "limited purpose public figures") differently. The standard of "actual malice&quot
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by wostusername 7y ago
Been a while since I've done Lisp seriously, but I don't believe that's possible, at least in Common Lisp (SBCL). While if responds to symbol function: * (symbol-function 'if) #<CLOSURE (:SPECIAL IF) {1000C5084B
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by wostusername 7y ago
Conditionals are not functions in Lisp. They are 'special forms' since they have to control the evaluation of their arguments and functions always evaluate all their arguments. So, if you want to translate a lisp into another lang

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