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Capitalism + welfare does not equal socialism.

> Netflix (the provider of digital movies and TV shows with a subscription) Netflix started 20 years ago by mailing rented movies to people, a business they still engage in with mi…

I have one too. The drawing/writing is pretty great, though once it's transferred back to a PC, the resolution seems kind of poor. Not too bad, but I'd like it to be smoother. The …

youtube-dl this and tell me if you see an ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpZ0TGjbWE I just tried and I saw one

> Even as a moderately experienced Emacs user I found the defaults overwhelming. I agree. There is a lot of "magic" going on, and it doesn't help that Spacemacs is a lot slower and…

> people aren't going to fiddle too much with the small device on their wrist when they can pull a phone out of their pocket Definitely. The jump from dumbphone to smartphone was p…

> One could argue that the national forests and parks can be a new home for these animals if we stop messing with them. I should certainly hope not. It would be a very poor decisio…

That's a cool idea. Do you have your file posted anywhere? If not I may cook something up on my own, I'm curious to try it out.

I have a lot of friends from high school who seem to fit that description

Fantasque has been a favorite of mine for a long time. It's playful, but not a novelty font, and very readable in my opinion.

It is an unfortunate name. I don't know why, given how inclusive the Rust community usually is and how eager they were to remove master/slave terminology, that they would choose to…

I sort of agree. On the one hand, an approximate answer is fine for this use-case (especially when you can look down 2 inches and see the full context in the Wikipedia result witho…

I took a look at your blog from another post of yours (fascinating stuff, based on what I can tell from Google Translate, at least). Any chance you were secretly penalized because …

Well I feel cheated, as an introvert that never stayed in touch with anyone from college and who went into a wildly divergent field from my major. I didn't experience either of the…

We just had an election where millions of people had a huge impact on the Republican party by rejecting the candidate selected by the establishment (Jeb) and overwhelmingly preferr…

> BTW, is it offensive to use the word Jew? If so, how should I have called them? This is one of those things where the delivery matters more than the word. It's fine in this conte…

> Kind of a sharp contrast to the ThinkPad overnight shipping, same-day repair, overnight return shipping experience. And an even sharper contrast to the ThinkPad onsite service ;)…

And along the same lines, in Italian a sandwich is a panino . In English we call a specific type of sandwich a panini (or, "a sandwiches").

This is a great resource that helped me for learning Dijkstra's algorithm and A* when I was learning about graphs in general, not just for game programming.

Agreed. That said, I'd gladly read a book based on that premise.

Do you have a local butcher? Whole Foods has nice meat, but I've always gotten better from a butcher shop (though I generally only go there when, as you said, the meat is the featu…

> Email sucks in a lot of ways I guess the real question is "How feasible is it to remove or change the things that suck about email while keeping and possibly enhancing the good p…

More like: And mathematicians's work is derivative of pharmaceutical companies that produce amphetamines And pharmaceutical companies that produce amphetamines are derivative of ch…

> Open, highly discoverable I made a post under eggy's comment that kind of touched on this, but I don't think Smalltalk (Pharo, at least) is particularly discoverable. It seems li…

> I really like the Smalltalk environments, but I have never done anything but play around in them Every now and then (usually when I see a post on HN about Smalltalk or Pharo in p…