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macromagnon

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    I could tell in edge that right side was muted based on the icon next to the address bar and noticed you could use arrows to move one by one so just pressed left 25 times.

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    Comment #46964278

    School calculus is hated because it's typically taught with epsilon delta proofs which is a formalism that happened later in the history of calculus. It's not that intuitive for be…

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    Comment #42974800

    A lot of artists are under a 360 deal and they take a cut of everything, so that might not always be true.

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    Comment #39530297

    The increase in temperature is just one of the issues. It has probably been mainly publicized as it's an easy "key performance indicator" to get the point across/that can be succin…

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    Comment #39455494

    There's a conflict of interest on the part of car manufacturers, if insurance just pays out and they get to do another sale, they're happy that your car got stolen. Also, I agree w…

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    Comment #39404255

    Nothing happens to random people with no power, but if a legitimate threat to the status quo appeared, I don't think it would end up so peaceful.

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    Comment #39403230

    Where can I get more information on this? Wasn't fukushima total disaster in that it was badly maintained and in a bad location? These two pre-conditions don't seem to apply to the…

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    Comment #39399539

    Exactly, we're already breathing all kinds of dangerous substances from multiple sources, why add another one. Honestly, since they banned indoor smoking and having people smoke 9m…

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    Comment #39399474

    If you actually really only smoke 10 cigs a year, which I'd be impressed by, you should get into nice cigars.

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    Comment #37761696

    It seems obvious to me that meeting any of the conditions disqualifies you. The points needed to satisfy one of the clauses goes down as the "seriousness" of the crime goes up. If …

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    Comment #37184629

    I still remember when notes/certificates to allow stacking any items came out but you could only do one inventory at a time at an npc. Eventually (not sure how long after) you coul…

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    Comment #36700927

    Individual Contributor.

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    Comment #35823218

    If you like capitalism so much, then an artist having their income more clearly directly proportional to their output than some ceo definitely deserves a greater % of the profit. A…

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    Comment #31941102

    They're only operating from 10pm to 5am so one would expect them to at least update off hours.

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    Comment #29930890

    I have interviews lined up with google and coinbase which both are going to ask leet code style questions. I'm going to go through it just for the promise of more $. Even if it is …

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    Comment #29494168

    Android has the concept of an Intent[0] which are basically a category of apps that can fulfill a functionality like sending an email, browsing the internet, or dialing a number, e…

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    Comment #29345112

    Is it that hard to remember a bash for loop? for i in $(seq 1 10) do echo $i done Then you can just replace new lines with ; if writing a one liner. for i in $(seq 1 10); do echo $…

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    Comment #29248446

    Transportation accounts for 14% of total greenhouse gas emissions [1] and that includes rail/air/marine travel so it doesn't seem to be as simple as getting people out of their car…

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    Comment #29037010

    From one perspective, mathematics is the study of the methods of reasoning on abstract concepts. Theorems follow from any set of axioms that do not lead to any contradiction. In ph…

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    Comment #28136788

    I don't really like ORM's (or even java) but if I'd have to write code to model a typical user/product/subscription system I'd rather use hibernate with some annotations than deali…

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    Comment #27509495

    I doubt you can say some 'one' made the world this way. The present day is the result of historical, economical, scientific, etc. processes that are only partly known by few people…

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    Comment #27389561

    Can you expand a bit on how Greek helps? Are you talking about Ancient Greek? I know a few latin derived languages but I never taught about the relation to computer languages.

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    Comment #27058036

    Most of the best players in the world end up playing in the mlb so it kind of makes sense.

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    Comment #26685647

    I like bash because it's easy to connect different data together. I can output a column from a sql query to a file and easily write a for loop that goes over the data and use it. I…