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by EMM_386 5y ago
> Classes in JavaScript are just sugar around functional closures. One of the key red flags I look for in articles like this are whenever the "overhead" of classes is mentioned, such as with "there’s no need to allocate sp
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> More straightforward, easier to understand? I guess it's subjective? Defintiely not obvious to me, but I do come from an OO background. I had the exact same reaction to this code block. Using componentDidMount() made it clear wha
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by EMM_386 5y ago
Keep in mind, without the full details we don't know what the case was. It's entirely possible he was fit for discharge and had a totally unrelated stroke. But I would agree the facts as presented don't look great.
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> I'm still holding out with Firefox I have been using Firefox since the Pheonix/Firebird days where you download it and unzipped it to a folder. I left a few months ago because I just couldn't get the performance where I
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> Like a painting, in a plane like this, everything "just is". Immutable. Confusing to me. I'll admit, I'll never understand the full meaning of something that exists outside time. Correct, that's my initial comm
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> The interesting thing is everything is required as it happened for the universe to become conscious in the form of humans. Not necessarily. Anthropic Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
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by EMM_386 5y ago
You really need to shake this strong tie you have with the word "god" and human religion. Einstein believed in god. That's the lower-case "g" god. You wouldn't see him at church on Sunday, because he wasn&#x2
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> Because, thinking the existing of subjective experience that is any way special is just societal programming that claims that humans are special and important in the universe. This has absolutely nothing to do with humans, or even this
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by EMM_386 5y ago
And not just use a screen snipping tool? Not sure I get it.
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> I cannot believe how many people are in the comments above defending this. Likely some of the same HN crowd who hang out in the same bubble with the founders and VCs who backed this. I know what site I'm on and who funded this. I
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by EMM_386 5y ago
Absolute madness. CEO left feedback here: https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/q7mice/a_ne...
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> Also, not particles, but fields, actually. Why are there fields? It's turtles all the way down, and it fundamentally comes down to "why something rather than nothing"? Nothing has no potential to create anything because
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by EMM_386 5y ago
Had a little too much of human religion? Me too. I went through this same phase, at one point I declared myself an atheist, mostly because it was an easy way to give the middle finger to my Catholic childhood indoctrination. But then I dec
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> who created god That is why whatever that "thing" is, that's full-stop. That's why we refer to it as god. It requires no explanation, it must be. It's sort of like asking "why do we have something inste
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by EMM_386 5y ago
I am extremely scientific and I believe in god. Not quite Spinoza's, more of a pantheistic view. If you think about it, the universe is conscious, because our conscious minds are part of it. And it's learning about itself.
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by EMM_386 5y ago
Oh it's rigged alright. How do you think we got that miraculous bounce post-Covid? The Federal Reserve had to step in with ~$8 trillion and start buying stocks. Two Fed presidents had to step down recently due to their stock holdings
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by EMM_386 5y ago
VS Code is an amazing piece of technology, despite all the "Electron hate" (although changing to WebView2). I recently commented on it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28556588 Microsoft engineers are to
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> I don't think this is cut and dry. Either consciousness is some sort of a a metaphysical process we haven't figured out (or simply won't be able to), or our minds are clearly part of the universe. You can do things to t
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by EMM_386 5y ago
It's important that minds (our consciousness) can be easily thought of as not part of the universe, but of course they are. Billions of minds on this planet alone (and rapidly increasing), all firmly part of the universe. So is the uni
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> Let’s say they have a team of 6 engineers tasked with this. They are a trillion dollar company. They can have as many engineers as they'd like.
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> My guess would be, that MSRC and Apple's equivalent have an OKR about keeping bounties under a certain level. Security is seen as a cost centre by most companies, and what do "well run" companies do with cost centres...
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> All this is too suspicious for me. I returned the drone for obvious reasons but millions of people are already buying into the ecosystem. We're way past the point of no return with all of this. At some point you just have to acce
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> It's downright dystopian. It sure is. No stopping it now though. I'm old enough to remember being able to go to someone's place and expect privacy. These days literally anything can have an HD cam. Not great for parano
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by EMM_386 5y ago
I just helped someone remove the built-in Chinese malware from a US Government provided phone. It's insane. https://blog.malwarebytes.com/android/2020/07/we-found-yet-a...
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> Governments have the ability to isolate, mitigate and mobilize a response. Only so much, and New Zealand is clearly an outlier. Has their response to this been an A+? Without a doubt. But I'd need some hard evidence this stance w
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> Yes absolutely it's incredibly relevant if world-crippling viruses are being engineered in labs, and should be a topic for public policy discussion. The problem here is that countries can wrap this research under the banner of &qu
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> This is entirely a failure of government. The origin is for all intents and purposes irrelevant. Whos government? This is a global issue. It doesn't care about governments.
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> All of this focus on the point of origin is misplaced. What matters is how we respond to them. We won't be around to respond to them when the next engineered one is potentially much worse. This is an enormously dangerous global i
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> Peace can only exist when a powerful entity enforces it. We have this. Certain civilizations can wipe us out at the push of a button. The players who aren't in that same realm have to hope those that are do the right thing. Fight
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by EMM_386 5y ago
> What does peace look like to you? Do people just stop fighting and start loving their neighbours? It would look a lot more like regional conflicts without $1 billion each fighter jets. Iron Dome, drones and other technology prove this

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