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Comment #33699741
Yes, and that's why the immigrants who make it are the best and brightest. The average ones didn't cut it.
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Comment #33699733
Living in the US is a privilege not a right until you become a citizen.
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Comment #33698798
The benefits are split $200,000 for faang and -$150,000 the rest of the country though.
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Comment #33681479
> That's just not true. All but a handful of the smallest LAN parties I attended I the 90's and early 00's included console gaming. It was pretty much assumed there would be consol…
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Comment #33681461
Until you dropped your screen on the drive way into your friends house and heard the magic sound a CRT makes when it implodes.
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Comment #33681011
That's literally what it's for. Forth is the simplest language to get running on hardware which you have no idea how to program directly. Much easier than doing it for C.
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Comment #33680888
Split screen was never a part of lan parties. The reason why lan parties stopped was because it was hard to move a tower around. Even during that period it was much easier to go to…
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Comment #33678488
Intel to the German high command that allied troop strength would be severely depleted in the 1919/1920 winter.
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Comment #33677974
Just buy a keyboard ffs.
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Comment #33677735
To anyone reading: don't just be a consumer. There are enough projects made for people who just consume. Emacs is still a project run for people who make stuff with it. Please go s…
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Comment #33675855
>I'm a writer and I'm really good at punctuation and spelling, do I really need to learn how to write a good story? Vim is a text editor, emacs is a text manipulator. If you never …
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Comment #33675817
No. Vim is a text editor. Emacs is a lisp interpreter whose dialect of lisp is specialized for text manipulation. In emacs the user interface is incidental to the main goal of prog…
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Comment #33668625
Yes.
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Comment #33667816
>Every criminal we have caught was stupid, ergo all criminals are stupid. Sure thing bud.
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Comment #33667724
>Hur hur, street smarts better than smart smarts. It's a solved problem, and has been since the first bitcoin paper. That no one read that and just heard "magic internet gold I can…
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Comment #33667225
The idea that Mozilla spends 1/500th of its budget on firefox is wrong. Just look at their fillings.
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Comment #33666553
We could call that problem something fancy like the Byzantine General Problem and try and figure out ways to solve it mathematically.
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Comment #33666175
A dozen at least, yes.
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Comment #33665608
Firefox is sucking up all the donations for such browsers. So no, them dying would make a thousands flowers bloom.
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Comment #33662511
>Look Mr. Government, we're not a monopoly. We have a competitor! * *Who were funding and have neutered to the point where they've lost 90% of their market share in the last 10 yea…
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Comment #33662277
How?