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by Mizza 7y ago
Launching in China was a stupid, shamelessly greedy and ultimately embarrassing decision to begin with, but it's good that they've changed course. To those who have been living under a rock for the past thirty years: The PRC is a
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by Mizza 7y ago
Learning how to solve a Rubik's Cube using the "beginner's method." Maybe not as valuable as you were hoping, but getting the methods down feels good and gives you a new hobby of competing against your own best times.
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by Mizza 7y ago
I think a better question would be: Would it be nefarious if the State Department asked Twitter to stay open during Pinochet's coup of Salvador Allende?
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by Mizza 7y ago
That depends on your perspective. I support the intentions of the Arab Spring, but I still think it's inherently nefarious for a private technology company to partner with the US government in order to overthrow governments. I also ser
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by Mizza 7y ago
They absolutely did - at the behest of the US State Department. Twitter was scheduled to have some planned downtime during the Egyptian Arab Spring, but they postponed it at the request of State. Evgeny talks about this.
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by Mizza 7y ago
This was talked about in the great PBS Frontline documentary about MBS: https://www.pbs.org/video/crown-prince-saudi-arabia-1jt2ey/
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by Mizza 7y ago
Does anybody remember a project called "Perspectives"? It was a Firefox plugin that would verify your certificates and handshakes were the same as the ones other users were getting. Cool idea.
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by Mizza 7y ago
Hey man, I just have to say, I've randomly stumbled onto three(!) of your projects this week and love them all! Keep it up!
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by Mizza 7y ago
But surely, we already _know_ that we'll never be able to model the universe without a law of intelligence. For instance, if you were an alien scientist on the other side of the galaxy measuring the atmospheric composition of Earth, th
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Music Composition Languages (1984)(muzines.co.uk)
1 points by Mizza 7y ago|0 comments
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by Mizza 7y ago
Extremely freaking cool. Any idea how this stuff is manufactured? Can it be produced cheaply enough to potentially replace the entire blood donation system?
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by Mizza 7y ago
Comcast have a large monopoly here, I only have one choice of high speed internet provider. They charge me $110/month. This gets me hundreds of TV channels and HBO, which I don't want and I have never used. If I buy the "inte
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by Mizza 7y ago
That's fair, I don't know of a less extreme word. I don't mean it in the way that it means in the southern US, but in the more broad sense of "trial-less mob justice action".
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by Mizza 7y ago
That's really the main point, though. People complain about "punching down" in comedy, but that's all this ever looks like to me. It's always somebody who works at Google, or Facebook, or Salesforce, or blah blah bl
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by Mizza 7y ago
It's certainly not an endorsement, just an observation. I think a lot of people, myself included, feel like the world just kind of went _crazy_ in 2016, and it hasn't been the same since. Of course, it didn't really change al
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by Mizza 7y ago
The thing that I find particularly obscene about these cyber lynchings is that the leaders are almost always the most privileged people in the entire world: youngish white college graduates who live in urban California and work for evil sur
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by Mizza 7y ago
Can anybody here with proper experience break down the "ABC" test for me? It seems to me like the "C" part (that the work is "part of a company’s regular business") applies to literally any company who would hi
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by Mizza 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-energy_with_carbon_capture... This is basically the only problem in the world that matters.
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by Mizza 7y ago
Yeah, but that syntax is: $ yes | parallel -N0 -j1 echo touch '{= $_=seq()*5 =}'.txt vs $ loop --count-by 5 -- touch $COUNT.txt UNIX is about using the right tool for the right job, not the same tool for every job. Let us remember
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by Mizza 7y ago
If you're interested, I've written a tool called `loop` which sacrifices some of the abilities of GNU Parallel for a far more intuitive interface (I think so, anyway.) You can check it out here: https://github.com&#x2F
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by Mizza 7y ago
Bandcamp if you like underground stuff. Find a genre you like, find an artist you like, find a label you like, find all the other artists on that label.
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by Mizza 7y ago
The real problem with this technique is, of course, normalizing and labeling data. I have worked on a project which has harmonized and labelled all public RNA samples: https://www.refine.bio
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by Mizza 7y ago
I think both combine to form a culture. (In your HN settings, you'll see there's the ability to see deleted posts and shadowbanned users, and if you turn that on you'll see that most posts have a load a crazy people and troll
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by Mizza 7y ago
I don't know what you mean by "suspicious." I'm part of a ton of other forums and communities, and over time almost all of them have devolved into complete and utter dogshit, just an endless stream of memes and screensho
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by Mizza 7y ago
Shout out to dang! You're doing a great job! Thank you! Strict moderation is the reason HN is the only reasonable discussion forum remaining on the internet. I wish good moderation was a skill that more people learned - would you ever
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by Mizza 7y ago
..weren't you there for the crash? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agencies_and_the... The article even spells it out - they haven't changed their business model since. Bank needs a rating on a as
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by Mizza 7y ago
Now there's an understatement. It's a completely fraudulent industry. EDIT: It's also one that's ripe for a good and proper YC-unicorn style disruption. Hit me up if interested.
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DefendTex Drone-40, a low-cost, programmable 40mm flying swarm munition(twitter.com)
3 points by Mizza 7y ago|0 comments
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by Mizza 7y ago
I love anything that creates more housing in the bay, but these are 30-year contracts! I can't even imagine getting into a 30 year contract with a company that might not exist in 30 months. What happens when the start-up goes under, or
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by Mizza 7y ago
Wild idea: I think we should turn Greenland into an into a new frontier nation with completely open borders for refugees and people who are up for the challenge of settling a new place. Sure, there's nothing there, but if you want to b

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