Grustaf

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by Grustaf 5y ago
> Gjøvik’s latest charge alleges that Tim Cook’s anti-leaking memo might violate US labor law. In September, the CEO sent a note to all Apple employees saying that “people who leak confidential information do not belong” at Apple. Is The
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by Grustaf 5y ago
The comment you're replying to says "using company resources", those are the operative words here.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
> Editing text configuration files, wrangling with file systems, memory layouts and protection, hardware drivers, even patching binary executables with hex editors sometimes! These are terrible things to have to spend time on. This comme
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Assuming this is true. What is the benefit to society or individual of blue collar workers owning computers in order to do online banking? Seems like a great benefit that they don’t have to deal with all the unnecessary complexity. Being fo
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by Grustaf 5y ago
What category used to have a computer 10 years ago but doesn't now?
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by Grustaf 5y ago
> Learning something for work isn't the same as having one at home that you can play with growing up Before you said we were talking about society. Society doesn't care about people's hobbies. > That is a good point, ad
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by Grustaf 5y ago
> every office worker needs to know how to use a computer Exactly, so more people than ever know how to use computers.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
All adults learn to use Word, Excel or whatever they may need for work, I'm sure they are not hampered in this by not having used computers when young. I mean, what's the societal benefit from young people "knowing how to use
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by Grustaf 5y ago
If that would be considered an issue, it would be the least worrying thing about smartphone addiction. Even if you would want your kids to grow up to become developers, there's no reason why they'd have to "learn computers&qu
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by Grustaf 5y ago
The problem here wasn't that they worked for both sides but that they didn't disclose it.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I'm sure they did tell the opioid makers though.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
NFTs are all about owning, in fact they are more about owning than almost anything on earth. The ONLY advantage you get from owning an NFT is the knowledge that you own it. Everyone, owner or not, can enjoy looking at the jpeg in the same w
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by Grustaf 5y ago
As stupid as it is, what you describe IS exactly "baseball cards in the blockchain", because each individual card/nft can only be owned by one person at a time. The difference with baseball cards (apart from not being physica
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I watched the path counting one and I want my time refunded please. It had nothing to do with linear algebra. Nothing to do with quantum physics either, except that they used bracket notation for some inexplicable reason. What am I missing?
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Can't we just be honest about it and say that NFTs are highly priced for exactly the same reason "tokens" were a few years ago? Or indeed dot com before that. Mundane things become valuable when you link them to something new
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by Grustaf 5y ago
If they weren't on the blockchain they would just be jpgs. Nobody would pay 100 k for a jpeg of an ape.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
This touches upon the main issue with NFTs and tokens in general, that they always have to rely on a centralised authority to connect them to the real world, and except when it comes to derivatives on crypto assets, that real world connecti
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Why would "supporting the artist" be relevant at all? Apart from NFTs whose smart contract gives the minter a share of resales, I have never heard anyone say that. And definitely not in relation to the $90 profit.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
This is partly true, but you are missing one important aspect: While ownership can be enforced equally well with NFTs and baseball cards, the crucial difference is that with physical cards, owners have a unique way of experiencing the card.
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> Surely the baseball card’s value does not come from the fact that you can hold a piece of cardboard in your hand. That is definitely part of it. We are physical beings, you can't pretend like physical existence is irrelevant.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Linear algebra is incredibly useful, basically for anything you might want to do, differential equations is pretty far down the list of applications I would think of. But calculus is also very very useful, and probably easier to understand,
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Of course, but there are plenty of linear operators, that property alone doesn't define it.
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Yeah, but will they even make a profit on those? I mean presumably people who just want a normal processor would prefer to get it from a more well known shop, so they can't even charge market price for them. Plus their "normal&quo
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Does anyone know what they did with the "losing" chips, the ones they bought that didn't turn out to be positive outliers? Seems very tricky to get this financially viable, since 90% of chips will just be average. At least I
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by Grustaf 5y ago
The concept of an additive zero is built into what it means to be a vector space though.
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Both calculus and linear algebra are fundamental for further studies, but I'm not sure linear algebra is more approachable? I personally find geometry and algebra more interesting, but it seems to me that derivatives are more fundament
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The US government is quite happy to start wars all across the world, obviously they are not above leaning on the media to get their point across.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I think a big part of vaccine resistance is because of the insane levels of propaganda and censorship. Anyone who is even slightly suspicious of authorities will be much more hesitant to take a vaccine when any criticism of it is effectivel
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Sorry, but what is the answer? I still don't get it.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Because people are ideologues, especially on HN.

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