Longlius

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by Longlius 4y ago
It's not merely expectations but intergenerational poverty. I get that you think that you came from a less privileged background than your in-laws and in some respects that's true, but even being able to immigrate to the US indica
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by Longlius 4y ago
Fiber is easy to run in rural areas. In most cases you're negotiating with maybe a tenth as many property owners as if you were running it in the city. And that makes the cost lower and the bureaucratic process smoother.
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by Longlius 4y ago
Too many foreign dramas tbh. Don't get me wrong, I don't object to their existence on the platform and even watch a lot of them. But if your goal is to retain US subscribers, it's absolutely the wrong play to spend so much of
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by Longlius 5y ago
As a general rule, terminal emulators are a class of software I don't trust without access to source code.
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by Longlius 5y ago
No. I don't use Windows. Or OS X.
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by Longlius 5y ago
>Our ever-increasing population Even the most optimistic projections put the world population peaking well before 2100. Growth has slowed considerably and will likely continue to slow even more as worldwide economic malaise puts further
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by Longlius 5y ago
There were a lot of women on IRC back in the day and it wasn't just hobbyists. Almost every web forum had an associated IRC channel and forum users would congregate there. Depending on what the forum was about, you'd often see mor
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by Longlius 5y ago
Why should anyone be denied access to banking? In our modern world, banking is about as essential as food. Would you deny someone food because of their political beliefs?
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by Longlius 5y ago
My problems are twofold: 1) This exacerbates brain-drain from the developing world, creating problems down the line that the developed world will have to reckon with. 2) There are already many university graduates in the US who have trouble
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by Longlius 5y ago
No, I actually really would. I grew up with the uncensored internet and it was, on the whole, less abusive and manipulative than today's internet culture.
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by Longlius 6y ago
The west had superscalar computers around a decade later but superscalar designs didn't make their way into ICs until the 90s for the simple reason that chip fabrication technologies simply weren't there for making high-density IC
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by Longlius 6y ago
Germany continues its war on the self-employed.
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by Longlius 6y ago
1) Russia and Iran enjoy a very close relationship. 2) Russia uses its propaganda apparatus to undermine any sanctions regimen used by the liberal west against illiberal powers in its circle of allies. 3) Russia's propaganda apparatus
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by Longlius 6y ago
I think the problem is more that certain influential technologists have failed to heed the warnings of dissenters in their own field. There have been large bodies of work from technologists critical of the creeping technological panopticon
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by Longlius 6y ago
Most old video game consoles render games internally in 240p and then blank every other scan line. On CRTs, this effect works since the missing lines blend together with the filled in lines but modern TVs will often try to use video process
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by Longlius 6y ago
It's more that the cable line was connected to the home's ground plate which the neutral was also tied to (neutral is tied to ground so it can discharge excess current in the home's electrical system during thunderstorms or p
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by Longlius 6y ago
Any signatory to the Wassenaar Arrangement, which includes the entirety of North America, Europe (including Russia), Australia, India, and Pacific Asia (minus China) must consider cryptographic technologies to be munitions for the purposes
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by Longlius 6y ago
Continue digging that antitrust grave, Google.
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by Longlius 6y ago
Yes, they provide such useful services as underpaying authors, ensuring that authors get as little control over their creative output as possible, and bullying authors into changing their work to fit pet ideological crusades. Maybe smaller
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by Longlius 7y ago
Ongoing support for the Turkish market. Technical support staff who can speak Turkish, documentation in the Turkish language, and a team of developers to handle Turkish-specific i18n bugs. None of these are 'incremental' costs.
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by Longlius 7y ago
Or rather, the cost of providing Android and supporting the Turkish market outweighs the money they can make now that their search engine is no longer allowed exclusive billing on Android phones. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised i
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by Longlius 7y ago
Terraforming a chunk of land like the Russian east to turn it into productive farmland is possible (Brazil did something similar), but it's expensive, time-consuming, and temporary. China and Russia actually have a somewhat-standoffish
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by Longlius 7y ago
The free-trade consensus has been dead for a while. We're only just starting to see the effects now because of how slow global politics moves. I figured the end was nigh when bipartisan efforts killed both the TPP and the TTIP. The pol
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by Longlius 7y ago
Switch games have been dumpable for a while and it's immediately apparent when looking at the internals: https://twitter.com/noteinso/status/1154809291641151488?s=09
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by Longlius 7y ago
The US grants permanent residency to roughly a million people a year already. In the past we accepted anyone who would come because so few people were willing to come. Now too many people want to come, so the selection process has to become
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by Longlius 9y ago
Yes. Natural gas plants drop emissions by 50-60% compared to a comparable coal plant.
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by Longlius 14y ago
"You can code now shut-up about it already. You are a great developer and I am a great businessman; I have my skills and you have yours (well actually I now have yours to some extent)." Really? I don't think so. HN isn't populated exclusive
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by Longlius 14y ago
The Linux Standard Base keeps most of the system structure and ABI consistent across distributions, which means that binaries are trivial to move among them.