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by Beldin 7y ago
HN is a form of social media, though: users submit content, comment on content and each other, and can upvote content and comments.
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by Beldin 7y ago
> I pretty much only use Facebook. After the timer is up that’s it for the day. Any reasonable definition of social media would include any site whose main content is user-contributed, and allows users to comment and vote on content an
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by Beldin 7y ago
> There's nothing I can do about Google/FB/whatever, so why even think about it. Actually, of all the stuff going on in the world, this is the one thing where you have an actual degree of control that matters. Sure, one
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by Beldin 7y ago
From a comment deleted as i was writing this: > 3) this predicts missing masses in specific places Not quite... It predicts that either 1. the observations were incomplete (so, not enough data was fed into the model, hence the model&#
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by Beldin 7y ago
Thanks! As someone who lurks here much, much more than commenting, I wasn't aware that the interface would change over 500 karma. This does put the discussion in a different light (not to mention helps avoids me making comments that do
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by Beldin 7y ago
So don't install the plugin and you're good to go. Or were you considering some scenario where someone gets to decide when other people can press play, pause or fast-forward? That is a feature I'm not interested in. Give me a
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by Beldin 7y ago
Same here: i was wondering if he had implemented some autobots in the kids programming language Scratch. Because that would seriously be awesome.
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by Beldin 7y ago
Advertisements have side effects, such as bringing lightning or hiding ugliness. Don't confuse the side effect for the desired effect: if advertisers found out how to make ads cheaper workout reducing their effectiveness, but at the e
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by Beldin 7y ago
I'd call that a worm, not a virus. The main distinction being that a worm propagates all by itself, while a virus requires some user action.
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by Beldin 7y ago
Papers, please , and that dragon, cancer are both types of games that did not exist before. Probably there's a few more indie games that I am not aware of. If you want to stick to mainstream games only, even then there is real innov
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by Beldin 7y ago
From Wikipedia: [MUD1] became the first Internet multiplayer online role-playing game in 1980, when the university connected its internal network to ARPANet. Which dates that particular piece of prior art to 1980 or later. [MUD1] https:&
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by Beldin 7y ago
Alan Turing was a scientist, played a part in helping end WWII and ... wasn't treated kindly (I'll leave it at that). Perhaps in the 50s there was more respect for authority figures than there is nowadays. I strongly doubt there w
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by Beldin 7y ago
In Europe , tipping is not necessary to make a living wage. Yet tipping is still quite common. But it's more in the nature of rounding up than the US' approach. those parts that I've been to or lived in.
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by Beldin 7y ago
Which would be a factor if the sole reason for picking a particular restaurant is lowest price. That's virtually never - if it is, go home and cook. It's cheaper. The whole tipping system is insane: I'll allow you to provide
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by Beldin 7y ago
Top posting is orthogonal to the email's format. I've received plenty of top posts in plain text way back when. Not doing top posting literally has confused recipients of my mails (almost all instances). So now I'm a top post
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by Beldin 7y ago
I question why Windows continues to need increasingly demanding and intrusive anti-malware when Mac and Linux get along just fine without it. If nothing else (and there is), mac and linux need anti-malware to make sure they will never spr
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by Beldin 7y ago
Remark that that past evolution (of niche formats) does not bode well for the future of streaming video. Case in point: I expect ads to arrive (within a decade) to streaming videos, much like they did for cable. (Cable's main advantage
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by Beldin 7y ago
What happens in case you have swap space and run out of memory?
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by Beldin 7y ago
The webserver listening on localhost:19421 should [...] set a[n] Access-Control-Allow-Origin header with the value https://zoom.us . This will ensure that only Javascript running on the zoom.us domain can talk to the localhost w
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by Beldin 7y ago
> ^ This No. Privacy is not about your right to hide. It is about another's access to info about you, i.e. consent. "If you've got nothing to hide" is pure misdirection. It doesn't matter one bit why I won&#x27
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by Beldin 7y ago
Note: Privacy is about consent, not about hiding.
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by Beldin 7y ago
Portland's mass transit is a joke (I can bike downtown end-to-end faster than MAX can crawl through it) and so people have no choice but to drive. Or, obviously, bike. It's typically easier to park a bike than a car - it takes
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by Beldin 7y ago
For bikes (bicycles) I'd say it depends. For daily commutes and leisure trips, you can't beat Gazelle. But then again, maybe you're thinking of racing bikes and using bikes for sports.
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by Beldin 7y ago
Not a fan of having malware on my computer. Not a fan of being tracked and my information sold to the highest bidder. Interestingly enough, everything in my place is paid for. So it seems i am a fan of paying for things. Just not for the a
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by Beldin 7y ago
> their prerogative Thus any business decision isn't a problem? Depends on your definition of "problem"... and thus your definition of who should care: - legally (government): any business devising that comply with law
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by Beldin 7y ago
Advertisements eat resources while loading and once that is done they do not keep refreshing themselves to eat more resources. That is no longer true - on several sites (eg. Ars Technica), ads are loaded and refreshed after a short period
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by Beldin 7y ago
Ubuntu 16.04 is still receiving updates - unlike typical Android phones from the same era. While you might not get the latest kernel with it, as far as I can tell, there is nothing in its package manager that doesn't run on hardware fr
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by Beldin 7y ago
the benefits of static seem awfully abstract at the end of the day. If you want me to buy it, please show me an authoring experience I actually want to live in. Authoring is about input to the system, static is about how the contents is g
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by Beldin 7y ago
In my (anecdotal) experience in both attending and teaching classes (/presentations), richer ways to convey information incite the audience to switch off and undergo/experience the "class". You whip out a blackboard &amp
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by Beldin 7y ago
But one time the battery died while the landlord was out of town, which meant I couldn’t get in my building for hours until his friend was able to find and bring over the physical key backup. Why not get your phone charged somewhere? Neig

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