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by AgentME 5y ago
>Life began basically as soon as the Earth did. Note that this doesn't tell us as much as you might think about the likelihood of abiogenesis happening: we find ourselves relatively near the end of Earth's habitability before t
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by AgentME 5y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. (This isn't just some folk saying: it's a direct consequence of Bayes' theorem.) It's right to be more skeptical of a study that finds a result that doesn't have
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by AgentME 5y ago
This is funny that the "badger, badger, badger" video was their first example, because I used it as my first example the other day while arguing that old meme culture was only ever popular because early internet users were deprive
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by AgentME 5y ago
>Running your own IPFS gateway at least makes the content actually fetched from the network (internet) via IPFS while using ipfs.com/cloudflare-ipfs.com is not any different than just using a CDN (except usually you have to pay for
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by AgentME 5y ago
Union types let you accomplish very similar things to what you can do in languages that support Enums with associated values, like Rust. (See https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch06-01-defining-an-enum.html for examples of
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by AgentME 5y ago
The photons we observed from the death of the star experienced no time between coming from the star and arriving to us.
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by AgentME 5y ago
Yeah. Aren't there even known cases of journalists being tracked through hacks and killed? (Like https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/12/middleeast/khashoggi-phone-ma... .) Flawed computer code ever putting p
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by AgentME 5y ago
Did you only read the very beginning of the article? Most of the article is skeptical of the idea that there are a lot of deaths caused by cold that would be solved by rising temperatures. (And that's without even getting into that cli
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by AgentME 5y ago
I've been really itching for something that's like Redux, but works better with bundle splitting, has first-class support for entities and caching requests, and still has proper Typescript support. I'm going to be looking int
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by AgentME 5y ago
This is the most "get off my lawn" thing I've read around here in a while. I'm baffled that the author thinks there's any mystery that many users and many designers like injecting some playfulness into their work. I
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by AgentME 5y ago
Oh, I misunderstood you then. I thought you were trying to get rid of the local refcount and make the atomic one handle its job too, but what you're suggesting is a possible simplification of the logic that detects when it's time
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by AgentME 5y ago
>Edit: I probably should have explicitly noted that, as jetrink points out, the object is initialized with a atomic refcount of one (the "local refcount is nonzero" reference), and destroyed when the atomic refcount is one and
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by AgentME 5y ago
Proof-of-stake has much more ability to enact censorship resistance ( https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/06/06/the-problem-of-censorsh... ) than proof-of-work. PoW imposes huge entry barriers by restricting mining
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by AgentME 5y ago
>BTW how you reach consensus on a chain is different from how the accounts in the chain are secured. Just because all BTC nodes are burning up electricity all the time does not mean that your accounts are more/less secure. I think y
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by AgentME 5y ago
Everything you say makes sense within the context of Bitcoin's proof-of-work paradigm, that there aren't any reasonable solutions to these problems within it (there's no good way to add negative feedback to lower the hashrate
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by AgentME 5y ago
The way you picture politics as a wholly separate thing unrelated to the amount of consideration/kindness toward LGBT people or minorities is alien to me. Twenty+ years ago, being visibly gay in a workplace was much less popular, to th
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by AgentME 5y ago
This sounds like "other people have it much worse in the world, suck it up or help them instead of trying to do things you think will improve things in your own life".
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by AgentME 5y ago
"Black lives matter" is a slogan that largely refers to a desire to solve issues related to police brutality and black people. "White lives matter", as it's commonly said and understood, is merely a contrarian pushb
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by AgentME 5y ago
If advertising is responsible for actually getting them to get off their asses to take down antivax misinformation and potentially save lives, that's making advertising sound really good right now. Though that might be crediting advert
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by AgentME 5y ago
The difference is it's possible to believe that people spreading antivax misinformation are dangerous morons for objective reasons rather than just because it's a popular position.
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by AgentME 5y ago
I'm a big fan of Matrix becoming more Discord-like. I've been in many small to medium group chats and internet communities over the last decade. About everyone I know from those jumped over to Discord shortly after it came out, an
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by AgentME 5y ago
The mining pool would have to have >50% of the hashrate to pull that off indefinitely.
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by AgentME 5y ago
If the feature only tracks idleness when the user has been appropriately asked, then why care? It sounds like you're just worried instead by a potential future version that works with a completely different permission model and use-cas
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by AgentME 5y ago
Most blockchains require all nodes to process all transactions, limiting the total transaction limit of the system to the rate of the slowest node that's intended to be supported. Ethereum is working on sharding transaction data so tha
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by AgentME 5y ago
It's a shame because its pricing structure works like how many people misunderstand taxes to work. If you earn $39,990/year and then get a $30/year raise, then you'll actually be set back to $39,960/year after you p
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by AgentME 5y ago
If software developers were ever held responsible for defects in their software that lead to breaches of privacy and harm caused through those breaches, I wonder how quickly software development practices would change. Memory unsafe languag
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by AgentME 5y ago
They're currently prioritizing moving to proof-of-stake (which will end the need for ethereum mining and its high electricity usage globally) and sharding (which will solve the congestion that's causing very high transaction fees)
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by AgentME 5y ago
Ignoring tooling or pre-existing libraries (mainly because Deno is at an early stage of trying to boot a new JS/TS ecosystem), what makes Javascript that different as a language from, say Python or Ruby? Besides minor syntax difference
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by AgentME 5y ago
This is exactly how simple I want deploy configuration to be. All that's needed is the URL of the entry point. Then slightly fancier is the ability to specify a Github URL which auto-updates on pushes. All previous production deploymen
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by AgentME 5y ago
Can regular DNS records (A, AAAA) that resolve to an IP actually be used with ENS? And then are there browsers or browser plugins that support .eth as a TLD? As far as I can tell the ENS ecosystem only has IPFS (and wallet) address support.

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