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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
"this review shows that the 16-core 2950X compiles Chromium faster than the 32-core 2990WX, presumably this means something other than the thread count becomes a bottleneck after 16 threads" The article mentions that, due to the d
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
Interesting take, since the BJP comes from the RSS who modeled themselves after the Italian fascists, to enact anti-minorities views, which themselves come from the British: the empire relied on the good old "divide to rule" schem
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
You're not providing a lot of details. What registrar did you use? Did you opt in with the anonymity/privacy most of them offer? Because if you don't anyone can get your info from a simple whois lookup.
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
Good. Anything that rattles Red Emperor Xi is a good thing.
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
The article is from 2014. Maybe put the year in the title?
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
Meanwhile, Hong Kong and Tokyo have higher population density, and they're not as noisy. These cities have 2 things in common: first, they have top notch public transportation (especially HK. If you have tried the MTR, Elon Musk's
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
>> "Even if these immigrants end up to be net tax payers after all the costs of feeding, housing, integrating these people" So, I don't know how immigration works on your planet, but here in the real world immigrants do
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
To be fair, "SV culture" != "SV location".
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
As much as I would like to see more competition in that space, on the topic of search Google is still head and shoulders above the rest as soon as you leave mainstream queries. I regularly try out DDG or Bing to see if they are closer to fi
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
Based on observed uprising or civil wars [1], to have one of those you need (1) stark mass poverty that borders on famine, i.e. people really scrapping by, and (2) Youth! It's much much easier for a younger population to revolt. And,
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
Can you tell us where in the linked article the author shows "how much they hate their country"? Please provide actual examples.
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
"Read This Before You Spend $19 On Bulletproof Coffee Beans": https://www.fastcompany.com/3041352/read-this-before-you-spe...
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
Unrelated to tech or entrepreneurship, but the great Russian filmmaker Tarkovsky published a book with that kind of title before his untimely death. Tarkovsky may or may not be your cup of tea, but he is remembered for his unique and intric
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
Random remarks: * You have no moral obligation to release something as open source. * Open sourcing a project is not free. It's work. You have to manage maintenance/releases/contributions/etc, in a way that will match yo
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
On a side note: if you're in the EU, have you checked Vox News' GDPR notification? If you click 'No' it brings you to a choose-your-own-adventure style 'info' page where, once you reach the 'correct'
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
Reminds me of Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained , where he also tears down the common perception of 'subconscious' thoughts. Not the most easy/didactic book (and certainly not the most humble of titles) but worth
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
If you're into Historical novels, there are two books that take place during the Avignon papacy: The Dream of Scipio (Iain Pears) and the series The Accursed Kings (Maurice Druon). The first one is quite well written (being a Iain
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
>> That's why Ada is slowly dying and I'm not sure the good folks at AdaCore really get it. I made the same complaint in a previous "someone just rediscovered Ada" quarterly thread, and an Adacore dev replied that
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
Ha, I had the same problem on a Lenovo phone, except I knew it was not a VLC issue because the process-kill would happen with any app I would leave running in the background. The most annoying part was that even after tweaking the battery&#
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
Huawei have a rep for being IP thieves. They once were sued by Cisco for having software so "accidentally" similar, it had the same bugs ... https://www.cnet.com/news/huawei-admits-to-a-little-copying/
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
"Then again, sometimes ideas simply stick with you and resurface unknowingly. I have no doubt that every author has inadvertently thought of an idea that was actually something they read about years ago" This. Especially on topics
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
Fun fact: Picasso never said that. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
>> You will never see Western journalists go after their own surveillance state The Guardian and The Intercept both did exactly that (which is why you know about the Cisco/NSA thing by the way). I believe French and German newspa
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
As @jacquesm noted, you kind of picked the wrong target there. But to get to the root of your argument: accepting copying as normal does not mean "no innovation", but "different innovation". Does that mean ground-breakin
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
It should be noted that the concept of originality and its associated "mighty pioneer Vs lowly copiers" mindset is mainly a Western cultural artifact. For example in China during most of its history if you wanted to become, say, a
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
> Because we don't have a national healthcare system. Why? Because people vote against it. Most Americans have supported some form of public healthcare for most (but not all) years for about two decades (scroll to end of article for
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
Except not that long ago the Iranians DID revolt, following a sham election where the reformists/progressives should have won. They got into the streets. And then they got shot. You seem to be living in a phantasy world where subjects
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
>> [T]he greatest country the world has ever seen Something tells me you have not seen (let alone lived in) that many countries. If you had, you'd know different societies have different ups and downs. Some countries have more ta
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
ZTE objectively got punished with a lot less than what was meant. They got away with a lot, while the US chickened out. And EU companies will lose a lot more than a billion (caused by the US breaking an international treaty).
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by Hasknewbie 8y ago
Exactly this. It's insane that the US is threatening EU companies for (currently, legally) doing business in Iran, while at the same time letting ZTE get away with, well, having done the same thing (except illegally, when the sanctions

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