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Location: Damascus, Oregon (Near Portland) Remote: Yes, Preferred Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Full Stack Web, C#, Typescript/Javascript, Ruby, python, sql, nodejs, Angula…

Well, libertarians are not running things. So the government will not be leaving you alone of its own accord.

It stands for "Social Justice Warriors". This originally meant someone standing up for minorities and the disadvantaged, but the term has been twisted into a derogatory insult for …

Youtube/facebook won't throw you in jail for creating a competitor. The government will usually take exception to you trying to start your own government on their land.

Well, the difference is still there. You can switch to a different social network without too much difficulty (you miss out on that platform, but that's as far as the cost goes); Y…

Do you have a source for your claims?

There's a good flag to make "Read data from all websites" more reasonable. chrome://flags/#extension-active-script-permission It requires a "deliberate, explicit user action" to ru…

You can definitely write to the windows file system from WSL, so long as you don't need admin privileges to do it. I use it at work and 99% of the files I edit are in a windows con…

Why is social pressure necessarily feminine and violence necessarily masculine?

Hard to say currently, as my phone broke about a month ago and I intentionally didn't order a new one until just recently. I'm also just bad at quantifying anything as a whole. I g…

I experience self control issues on a fairly regular basis. Computer, phone, daydreams, etc. I'm just recently keeping bad sleep habits at bay (usually, still occasionally let the …

Does it matter if the house in seattle is cooler if you're never going to be able to buy it?

That very much depends on whether the complexity increases intelligence/comprehension or whether it is merely increased complexity.

I had to reread it a few times to parse it. Its result of "adding" the uppercase of 1 that should be 11, not the uppercase itself. In other words, the result of "makeUppercase" sho…

TypeScript is, strictly, a superset of javascript. You probably could "jump directly to TypeScript" but you would not be able to "skip learning JavaScript" as TypeScript is based o…

If you read the very next paragraph, you'll note that they meant that nobody can now know the total costs beforehand . I.e., the total costs often include events that they are unab…

Well, its not like building tiny homes are going to make most people who would normally purchase a normal/large size home switch to a tiny home. It would probably net increase the …

Does webpack work for node.js code? I was under the impression that webpack was specifically for front end code.

I've heard that its intended to be the ASCII code for "*" which represents a wildcard (i.e., anything). Is that what you had in mind or do you have different interpretations?

I disagree. Its referring to a very specific kind of white man who tends to flock to these things like moths to a flame and very much does try to reframe things to make white men l…

HN isn't just silicon valley folks