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by Grue3 9y ago
I upvoted because Twitch is a really interesting case. The Levenshtein distance between the trademarks is closer, and Twitch is pretty much entirely focused on video, which makes it encroaching on TWiT's domain of business.
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by Grue3 9y ago
Youtube is run by idiots. What they needed is to create their own Patreon clone/gift system (like Twitch did, for example) and open it to all the users. Bang, no more ads needed! Even if big advertisers don't like some channel&#
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by Grue3 9y ago
Linode had similar specs a long time ago, hope they do another upgrade soon to get back at DA (gimme dat SSD disk space).
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Yet a lot of, say, Hawaiian words are written like that and nobody cares. Seems like Nazarbaev wants to keep the language ASCII instead of adding diacritics which would make it hard to type.
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by Grue3 9y ago
This is an argument on the level of "Mussolini made the trains run on time". Why not blame your local corrupt dictator for making life even worse than it was under Soviet rule instead?
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by Grue3 9y ago
Russian market is way smaller, and the good PR they will undoubtedly get for abandoning it will offset the losses.
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by Grue3 9y ago
Dial is a bad design for time, because most of the time people want to heat something up for a short time: 15, 30 or 60 seconds. On many microwaves this involves slightly turning a dial and then counting the required number of seconds in yo
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by Grue3 9y ago
My point is that "mute" is strictly better than "block", so there's no reason to have "block" in the first place. Even if somebody likes the misfeature of the blockee knowing they're blocked, you can
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by Grue3 9y ago
So you're saying Twitter already has a block function that actually works? Then it's all the more baffling they also have one that doesn't work, and yet is somehow more well known.
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I think the fundamental property of a block feature should be complete undetectability that the user has been blocked by the user in question. For example Usenet killfile: you never know if you're in somebody's killfile unless the
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by Grue3 9y ago
Idea: allow people to order add-ons to their monthly packages (something relatively cheap like manga, magazines, etc.). You can order it automatically from Amazon Japan with free domestic shipping. So people could get their candy + whatever
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by Grue3 9y ago
In Russia, Yandex Maps [1] and 2GIS [2] are superior to Google Maps. Particularly the latter, since they actually employ humans to collect information about businesses so they always have accurate business hours and locations (it only works
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by Grue3 9y ago
>How would you describe Mandelbrot sets without pictures? It's literally easier to describe Mandelbrot set without the picture than with it. The set of complex numbers c where recursive equation "z_n = z_(n-1)^2 + c, z_0 = 0&qu
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by Grue3 9y ago
Presumably the frequent poster will post several times about their important event, so at least one of these will get through the filter.
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I'd rather be wary of explaining mathematical concepts with pictures. Pictures are known to be highly misleading and force the reader to imagine a thing in a certain way. For example, most pictures of triangles have all 3 angles being
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by Grue3 9y ago
I would like this. Often I want to flag an article because I feel it's of poor quality, but refrain from it because the mods might think I flagged it because of some partisan reason and my flagging rights will be taken away.
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No, to both. Religion is a choice (in free countries, at least) and does not require special protection. It's no different than saying disparaging remarks about Republicans or Democrats.
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Maybe you got lucky with your ISP, or the apps learned to work around the block. My home ISP definitely blocks Line website. There are plenty of news sites reporting on the blocks, such as [1] [1] http://money.cnn.com/2017&#
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by Grue3 9y ago
Git staging area is nothing compared to Mercurial's branch/bookmark ridiculousness. And the need to use plugins for things that Git trivially supports out of the box.
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Russian government is routinely blocking other chat systems. LINE, CacaoTalk and WeChat are currently banned.
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People who never had to live under socialism think that it works. News at 11.
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by Grue3 9y ago
You shouldn't be downvoted. Tokyoites will definitely elbow you in the face during rush hour with no remorse at all. I guess getting to work on time is more important than politeness.
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No, algorithms always matter. Especially in web-development. Yes, Javascript is slow. But there's no need to make it even slower by writing O(n^2) code where O(n) suffices. You don't even need to reach large n's to feel the l
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by Grue3 9y ago
If you don't use math, it's almost certain that you're writing inefficient code. There's no way to estimate big-O complexity of the procedures you're writing without at least some math. Unfortunately these days it&#
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I have never had any trouble understanding anyone speaking Russian from any part of the country. The differences in dialects are hardly noticeable, and these days almost non-existent (probably due to Soviet standardization efforts). The mos
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>that should be rarer than one in a trillion. You're assuming that the tail of the statistics behaves like in normal distribution. In practice this is incorrect (see "black swan theory"). Various sports that employ statist
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by Grue3 9y ago
Do you think Russia enforces its laws in any special way or what? No, there are just more laws to enforce. First make everything illegal, then put anyone you don't like behind bars. Don't give your government more tools to oppress
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by Grue3 9y ago
Just a single look at the governments who actually do regulate their Internet will lead you to the same conclusion. You don't want your Internet to be like Portugal? Is China or Russia more of your taste? As someone who lives in Russia
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Interesting that a Japanese company is trying to buy Uber, when Uber doesn't even work in Japan (well, you can call Uber Black in Tokyo, but it seems that the usual ridesharing can't work under Japanese laws). The licensed taxis a
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>But on Monday morning, Post reporters saw her walking into the New York offices of Project Veritas, an organization that targets the mainstream news media and left-leaning groups. So they basically stalked her? Interesting to see how WP

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