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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:42PM (#21403112)
> and yet he's generally leaning left of course

Words clearly do not have meanings anymore

Re:Twitter to ban political advertising on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:41PM (#21403105)
Telling the government "I know you've told me to take it down, but we specifically designed it in such a way that we can't take it down" sounds like an incredibly good legal strategy that will definitely not backfire.
I didn't mean it like that.
Re:Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:24PM (#21393506)
I used Nim for a few projects. My best description is that it's fun, but everything feels kinda off when writing stuff.
Re:AirPods Pro on Monday October 28, 2019 @01:12PM (#21379020)
I disagree; this website is awful. If you hijack the scroll event to do something like this, instead of just... letting me scroll, you're very much going to hell.
Let us assume that a situation that will never happen will happen. Suddenly, everything is bad! Therefore you are all filthy virtue signallers.
> My bet is whoever figures out a carbon capture -> green oil solution is in for big wins.

Otherwise known as a tree

Re:Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think on Saturday October 26, 2019 @04:21PM (#21365944)
> by saying that, yes, in fact a Dutchman is worth 11x a Nigerian.

I'm pretty sure economists actually genuinely believe this statement.

Re:Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:38PM (#21365063)
Everything is only going to get worse
Re:Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:07PM (#21364846)
Opened the article expecting it to be a more abstract cost. Turns out it's about economics. Christ alive.

"Yeah, billions are gonna die, but what really matters is my house prices are gonna go down."

> you’re comparing a highly homogeneous culture

Are you talking about a different Switzerland than everyone else? A country literally made out of three different cultures (French Swiss, German Swiss and Italian Swiss)?

Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation
/mu:sul/
Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:08PM (#21277045)
Didn't realise cash was suddenly outlawed
Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:24PM (#21275106)
Or, reworded: "Please put 300 weasel words to sneak it past the Civility Detector 3000"
> Assume you need 2,500 calories/day

Well, your first mistake is there

Re:What men eat and drink may affect their babies’ health on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:02PM (#21255208)
> Something that has been mushed up from its original form to the point of being unrecognizable

Sauces are the enemy!

Re:Show HN: Bel on Sunday October 13, 2019 @04:27PM (#21242739)
> that all other things being equal, the debuggability of a language, and the pleasure one feels in using it, will be inversely proportional to the length of programs written in it.

Busting a gigantic nut when I see a blank file

Re:I tried to hack my insomnia on Friday October 11, 2019 @10:04AM (#21224460)
> I did that last night, got tired and went to bed around 10pm. And then I woke up at 1am. Now that it's approaching 6, I'm getting tired. But this happens to me occasionally and I know from past experience that my two options are:

This is how your sleep schedule is naturally designed to work. Sleep for a bit, wake up, sleep again.

Re:Function Currying in Go on Friday October 11, 2019 @08:39AM (#21223724)
In 3 months time: Off-topic: I see 'dev.to' and I don't tap because I can't face the pop-ups and nag modal. Sad to think, at one time Medium used to be the cleanest reading experience.
Re:Function Currying in Go on Friday October 11, 2019 @08:38AM (#21223717)
Ah yes, the Go mantra. Make your code as dumb and long as possible.
Re:Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood on Thursday October 10, 2019 @09:58AM (#21214546)
I eat every 20 hours or so nowadays, I think that qualifies as "intermittent starvation" for people here. I still feel like shit.
Re:Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood on Thursday October 10, 2019 @09:57AM (#21214528)
> still good to teach them their importance and that they should eat some things even though they don’t taste good

I remember my parents trying this on me one night until I vomited their mank vegetables all over the dinner table. Never again.

Re:No Radical Changes in GNU Project on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:00PM (#21205964)
Love too be friends with a war criminal and mass murderer.
Re:Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @11:04PM (#21199610)
Nothing. We're fucked. The world will die in the pursuit of expanding growth and profit.
Dying from air pollution to own the citylab writers
Re:Void Linux (musl) on the Huawei MateBook X Pro on Sunday October 06, 2019 @10:31AM (#21172253)
It's cheaper. I don't care about the ethics. Steal away!
Re:Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency on Friday October 04, 2019 @09:30PM (#21163269)
If your bank provides an API, sure.
Re:Pricing niche products on Friday October 04, 2019 @10:42AM (#21158189)
Whereas I own a £1 keyboard and I prefer it vastly more than any mechanical KB I had before.
Re:Auto-Antonyms on Thursday October 03, 2019 @01:11PM (#21149270)
It's been fully co-opted everywhere except in the headspace of internet prescriptivists.

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