IncRnd

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by IncRnd 4y ago
You're confusing felonies, misdemeanors, and non-criminal infractions.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> This conversation went on a tangent. The discussion was to answer, "And why is everything just so slow!" > The web has a reputation for being slow, thanks to a traditional lack of GPU acceleration as well as 25 years of le
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by IncRnd 4y ago
That's a distinction without a difference. Running JS is slower than native. The user of JS cares about the real world speed of emulating a quadra machine, which is shown as very slow at this webpage.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
That's the legal reason but not the business reason, which is the actual driver and what causes the legality to occur.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
It's created with javascript in the browser, which is not efficient.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Despite how any of us want things to be, this was the printed statement from Wyoming BLM. [1] Presumably, these hunters already knew this. What does the law say with regard to corner crossing? There is no specific state or federal
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> This is so obviously a place where existing laws around easements should apply that it's laughable that it's made it this far. Someone can't block your access to your house by buying up your neighbors properties. Despite
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by IncRnd 4y ago
The article doesn't say that the ticketing officer was in the other two groups of officers. So, it's not clear that your assumption is correct. First, the local game warden arrived with *two sheriff's deputies.* ...
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> Why not? The profession went from writing machine code by hand to auditing "auto-generated" machine code from assembly. A compiler determistically creates assembly through a set of rules not through AI. You absolu
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> Let’s say it can simulate theory of computation better than 99% of the population and can very capably synthesize and infer from any text based sources. I think that would shake the world, and it wouldn’t even need to be near AGI. The
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> EDIT: Wow. OK, I guess I'm the only one in the world who's ever seen that happen. It happens regularly in larger companies. Most patents that I have also have others on them, because secondary people had to approve my applica
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by IncRnd 4y ago
One person's bloat is another person's feature. I know people who do absolutely everything inside emacs.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
I'm not sure that is correct. Tiktok is called douyin in China. When I just went to douyin.com, the first douyin was entitled "the role I play in your life is too vague." That douyin showed a beautiful women eating yogurt as
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by IncRnd 4y ago
This is not about IT or device security, otherwise no non-work related apps would be allowed on work devices.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Why don't we want Ayn Rands around here? Where I live that's exactly what we have. We have a number of privately owned tag agencies that handle most requests which don't require an in-person visit to the DMV (like a new photo
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by IncRnd 4y ago
For each hundred million people, your 1-2 hours pear year is 100,000,000 to 200,000,000 hours per year.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
You (but not many other people) can purchase liquor and sex, but you can't go to a grocery store the next morning and buy coffee for your hangover. You can't replace your totaled car that was lost during your escapades, either.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> Here is a valid use-case for crypto (Monero): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31996612 The very first comment on that use case is, "Please allow me to offer you a free rsync.net account, in perpetuity, for th
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by IncRnd 4y ago
You're pushing a fake, invented history. Electric cars existed in the 1830's - about 200 years ago and 52 prior to gasoline powered cars. Electric cars were supplanted by gasoline powered cars. It's NOT that they just haven&#
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by IncRnd 4y ago
None of that actually applies to this discussion, which is about crypto not being money. The example given for crypto being money was a website that listed things that are not goods and services people use to live their lives. The goods tha
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by IncRnd 4y ago
No, it's not just "in Egypt". That's completely wrong.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Of course Amazon accepts cash. Cash on Delivery is one way. [1] Other ways are listed on Amazon's webpage entitled "Shop on Amazon, pay in cash". [2] Also, Amazon has teamed up with Western Union for your cash oriented shopp
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by IncRnd 4y ago
A crypto exchange or vpn is not quite the same as a store that sells goods like groceries, clothes or electronics or services like a lawyer's time, a doctor's visit or a haircut. I don't see any mainstream websites listed on
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by IncRnd 4y ago
No. Not everything is a ponzi to a degree. It is a specific sort of scam. A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud where the earnings paid to earlier investors come from the funds of more recent investors.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
October 4, 2020, Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24680109
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> And yes, many people just don't want to pay for the game or console, and there's nothing wrong with that. I suppose that will work out for people until they too become successful, and people start to steal from them.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
It was not a third hand story (US intel official claimed direct knowledge), reporters are not second hand (they interpret, contextualize, and synthesize) and editors are not third party (they are an integral part of the news proc
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by IncRnd 4y ago
The people in that Slack thread, except for the reporter James LaPorta, exhibited an incredible amount of willful ignorance that bordered on stupidity. The original statement was vague and did not name a source. It held the pretense of a so
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> They did it with good intentions and there is no indication they misused the data. There is a very old proverb from Abbot Bernard of Clairvauxin in the 1100s that is still applicable today, "The road to hell is paved with good int
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> Also, here's a free pet peeve: it's only a graveyard if it's next to a church. You're welcome! That's not correct. A graveyard primarily means a cemetary next to a church, but this is not exclusive. A graveyard

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