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Unfortunately, the hard part of every subsequent interview with other employers is "So what happened at company X? You were fired, right?" I've been through what the author is desc…

A classic response to this is "Did anybody consider the economic impact on ferriers when the demand for horses goes down?" And yeah, there are people projecting such impacts, but o…

If you say so. I've been glued to that sub for months, and it's still filled with anti-trump messages, pro hillary, pro bernie stories.

> First, the language was not designed to do what people are trying to use it for Against this point: Few languages are used for what they were designed for. Java was designed as a…

That may have been an argument in setting the date, but Disney was the real driver of it. The reason it's 70 years after the death of the creator is because Mickey Mouse was in dan…

> This is not the case for the Chernobyl area or Fukushima. This place is lost and cannot be used by humans for a long time. This cannot not happen when using coal power plants. Wr…

As a consequence of the Centralia incident[1], a portion of Pennsylvania, USA has been rendered practically uninhabitable since 1963. The fire may continue burning for up to two hu…

Exactly my thoughts. The headline "Boeing vows to beat Musk to Mars" literally translates to "Elon Musk wins". His whole goal in founding SpaceX was to foster competition in the st…

Having worked in childcare / early childhood education, I've seen it a lot. Kids younger than about 5 or 6 don't care. The boys love to play dressup and the girls love the sandbox …

Usually wrought iron, not cast iron. I have a blacksmith friend who made a large amount of iron nails when he was starting the trade, since it was good practice. He still makes the…

I use baking soda. On old batteries there's sometimes a little bit of acid leaking out around the terminals, and the base counteracts it. It's also a great abrasive, and washes awa…

Well, since you're asking for anecdotal evidence... Lemon juice has a pH of about 2, while most colas are more Alkaline at around 2.5. My mom eats lemons raw nearly every day. Some…

It doesn't. They need a constant stream of new data for their business model to work. Thus, they benefit from continuously collecting data on users.

You could set such a thing up yourself. It's basically a trust. Put your money in the index fund, and have a process to automatically withdraw the safe amount and donate it. Now bu…

How does this sort of tech handle large scale use? Living in an apartment where all but one corner is in range of 60+ traditional access points has been a huge pain for my connecti…

I'm not really arguing one way or the other, just pointing out that they're functionally equivalent. It's two different maps keying to the same set of frequencies. The BASE12 syste…

As a percussionist, yes, musical notation is used for drums. However, it ends up looking rather like a step sequencer with some standard notational effects (staccato/legato, rests …

Db would be 01. Dbb would be 00. (or 11 and 10 for the octave) The point ajuc is making is that the flat-sharp accidentals aren't used or needed at all if you just assign numbers t…

The phrase "Youtube Community" does not bring positive images to mind when I hear it.

The study that suggested (not proven) that was found to have some flaws: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463053

Many Prisoners are used as a source of virtually free labor already. Unfortunately this is being done as exploitation, without regard to how it may help or harm the prisoners used.…

> "Facebook is for the pleasure and benefit of the whole world, myself included, on a number of levels." Wrong. Facebook is for making money. If providing users with pleasure or be…

He is fond of saying "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." I've seen a quote attributed to him along the lines of "Cyberpunk as a genre died out bec…

I'm using an apple "magic mouse" right now, and while yes, it is capable of right clicking, the surface is still a single piece. This causes more than a few misclicks for me. A mou…

It depends on the philosophy that guides the emulation author. For example, the creator of bsnes believes in accuracy over everything. He's proud that his emulator will show the sa…