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by 08-15 8y ago
What's a desktop and what does it mean to share it? My applications share an X11 display, and if I'm not mistaken, they are pretty well isolated from each other. (Are you referring to MicroSoft Windows[TM] by any chance? Yeah, t
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by 08-15 8y ago
After reading that article I want to use PGP just so I never run the risk of interacting with people like Moxie.
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by 08-15 8y ago
Care to explain? I mean, in principle. I distrust Signal Desktop, whether it's built on Chrome or on Electron, because either of those "platforms" are more complex than my OS (Debian GNU/Linux). But you seem to be mak
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by 08-15 8y ago
I believe parent was asking for secure software written in JS. I'm curious, too. (And examples of insecure software written in C suprise no one, do they?)
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by 08-15 9y ago
But why is anyone cheerleading for this pointless technology? Why bother with capturing a trace gas from the atmosphere? It seems to me that stranded clean energy would be better spent making ammonia. We've been making ammonia from a
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by 08-15 10y ago
> your account has been using HN primarily to comment on political and ideological controversies There is no need to comment if I agree, is there? But it's your site, I'm not going to tell you how to run it.
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by 08-15 10y ago
> blah... diversity... blah... brogrammers... blah The usual drivel, but there is one interesting question hidden in there: This company ditched the whiteboard and replaced it with "job talks". Does that work? Apparently it
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by 08-15 10y ago
Because if you give children a set of toys that includes both cars and dolls, the girls tend to play with dolls and the boys tend to play with cars. Many boys play with both---they use the cars to run over the dolls. And that happens even
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by 08-15 10y ago
Why did Waymo sue Uber? They should have sued Levandowski---he copied (no, he didn't steal!) the files in question, after all.
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by 08-15 10y ago
> Uber has the authority to say to its employees, "If you have anything at home you bring it in here Wait, what? In the opinion of the court, a company has the authority to demand that their employee hands over the contents of his
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by 08-15 10y ago
> changed the word "surgeon" to "nurse" But that's not surprising at all, is it? The verb "to nurse" means "to breastfeed", and it's damn near impossible to associate a man with that wor
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by 08-15 10y ago
What am I accusing the author of? An attention-grabbing headline, a long-winded unreadable article that refuses to get to the point, and an opening example that is implicitly interpreted as showing bias when it could show any number of thi
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by 08-15 10y ago
Here's an old riddle. Say "silk" five times in quick succession. Now spell "silk". What does the cow drink? A surprising majority of people says "milk", when the correct answer is "water". Th
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by 08-15 10y ago
> ...thus its ills can safely be attributed to capitalism. I don't think Graeber is trying to say that. The word "capitalism" shows up exactly once: > In capitalism, this is exactly what is not supposed to happen. [...
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by 08-15 10y ago
This is almost right, but still manages to be dangerously wrong. Frustose and glucose are very different, one never gets converted to the other. All cells can and will take up and metabolize glucose, but only the liver can import and metab
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by 08-15 10y ago
> Soy has carbs, chicken doesn't. Soy protein doesn't have carbs, though. I also wonder where the DNA ends up when the soy protein is extracted. DNA is naturally bound to proteins, amnd I don't know if that bond is brok
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by 08-15 10y ago
A friend of mine was denied entry into the US after having travelled there a few times. Since there was no return flight the same day, and the airport was closing overnight, he had to spend the night in a cage (they call it detention cente
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by 08-15 10y ago
Yes. Because white is a color, an caucasian is a race.
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by 08-15 10y ago
> reinterpretation of race In other words "making up shit". It's time to stop listening to this bullshit.
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by 08-15 10y ago
> I think it makes sense to get better at solar Then why don't you "get better at solar" and become rich in the process? What did you say, it's too hard, practically impossible? Yeah, life's a bitch, isn't
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by 08-15 10y ago
> Your brain is not a perfectly precise or reliable organ, but it's taken you this far. ...and it took only four billion years of evolution. (Or maybe 100 million years of mammalian evolution, or 20 of primate evolution, or 200 tho
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> is the probability vanishingly close to 2? It is. Here's how it clicked for me: Forget about Thursday; someone tells you "I have two kids, at least one of which is a boy who is special ". Now you get these cases for t
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Just one . Please name just one . No, it's not carbon dioxide. Last time I heard similar bullshit, the guy, when pressed, named "amino acids". Which is not a waste product, it's raw material. If you can't name
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by 08-15 10y ago
> created by your body when it can't get rid of some dangerous metabolic products immediately Such as? Please name just one such metabolic product, otherwise this is just pseudo-scientific bullshit. (Extra points for a link to a pa
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by 08-15 10y ago
http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/_/ldpath.html > The original Macintosh software had applications which were one file... UNIX/Linux never got this organized. In Unix, you link at install time. A lot o
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by 08-15 10y ago
I wonder if placing a cookie on my computer without prior written consent constitutes "unauthorized access". Class action anyone?
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by 08-15 10y ago
The fee goes to the state, not to the victims. Therefore, it's statism. Nobody knows what would have happened in a "purely anarcho capitalist society" for lack of experimental data. (That's assuming the study is even c
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by 08-15 10y ago
What, are you saying they didn't link to a scientific source at all?! I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you! The point was that this is bullshit precisely because it pretends to link to a scientific source, but doesn't. Sure,
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by 08-15 10y ago
> Why are these compounds hazardous? > - Harmful biological effects in the human body, like hormone-mimic activity. Can you provide some evidence for that claim? I know that perfluoro compounds degrade very slowly and accumulate in f
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by 08-15 10y ago
Nice, an article that links to sources in the prrimary scientific literature! Let's see, the link text says "potent immunotoxicants", that's probably a study about the effects of PFAS on the immune system. But no, it&#

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