Paul-ish

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by Paul-ish 9y ago
> The die was cast around 1998, when GDP growth and electricity demand growth became "decoupled" Rather than evidence of energy efficiency, couldn't this be seen as evidence the GDP is going awry?
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Also, all growth that is not linear is exponential. Forever.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Why doesn't the "original title" rule apply here?
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
It's absurd that there isn't an option in Venmo to reject all transactions from people who aren't friends. If someone's Venmo profile is public I could send them money with the note "Drugs deal to fund terrorist act
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Could this kind of backwards compatibility really be accidental?
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Could they set up a Patreon, or is that only for individuals?
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Sounds like a service SpaceX could offer wealthy space geeks. Pay us to send your own culturally significant artifacts out of our solar system, to follow the footsteps of the voyager probes and one day encounter alien life. Then of course M
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Does anyone know how long a book (paper) would last in space?
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
This[1] was posted an hour ago. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16311632
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
What if you allowed users to curate lists of articles (maybe with options for RSS or notifications)? I think we would see lists like "Seminal papers in X area". Maybe anything that helps people find stuff that is a) good b) what t
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Perfect is the enemy of good. Snark is just bad.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
They don't confiscate the phones. They put them in a locked bag and hand the bag back to you. There are places throughout the venue that you can get the back unlocked to use your phone.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
> a) pay to open up a channel with each person you wish to use it I think you only need a path to the person you want to pay, not a direct channel. eg if Alice wants to pay Bob, and they both have a channel to Greg, then Alice can send m
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
> It is just becoming the internet equivalent of an unlimited on-demand cable channel. With no commercials. All in all, That's still an improvement over traditional cable.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
I wonder if you could order counterfeit goods in someone else's name (eg celebrity or politician) and get them disqualified from the trusted traveler program. It's not hard to get a CC with an arbitrary name.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
If a lot of places required snail mail, you could charge to send that. Offer to do digital opt out free as a sort of trial. If there aren't many snail mail opt outs, then I don't see a way to make money from it unless you have it
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
It looks like the HN title was changed. To clarify, I posted this to point out that an arbitration clause was recently added to the terms.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Maybe someone could start a service that automatically opts them out from arbitration clauses. Extra nice if it will send snail mail for the TOSes that require snail mail opt out.
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Dropbox Developer Terms and Conditions(dropbox.com)
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Couldn't law enforcement cut internet access before the raid to prevent this?
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Especially if it is the valsalva this is the problem. Large loads of snow means bigger effort, means you are more likely to valsalva.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
> Not doing the Valsalva maneuver means that you break your spine. This is only anecdote, but if I fail to do the valsalva when exercising I just don't have as much power. I haven't broken my back yet. The valsalva is useful at
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
That's pretty neat. Do you know if there is protection against rollback?
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
> It also means you don't need to trust the server to send you the correct content, since everything is automatically checked against its content hash. This is the confusing part to me. How does updating content work? Lets say I wan
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Will linux distributions automatically use this compilation option (or its analog in GCC) for packages from now until forever, even if a faster mitigation is added to CPUs?
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
WebRTC uses DTLS, not TLS, so I don't think it would be useful for determining TLS compatibility.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
This is always the proposed answer whenever someone wants to introduce X potentially insecure API. It is lazy IMO. It requires the potentially uninformed user to make a critical decision. Plus, if we introduced every insecure-but-we-prompt
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
I'm not sure users would understand what they are being asked. Plus, whenever someone wants to do something dangerous in the browser, they say "Oh, we will ask the user". If everyone got their way, users would be inundated wi
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
> Engineers started working around the ratchet by hoarding dead code and disguising it to look "not dead" so that it could be easily removed later when a few dozen kilobytes were needed. Sounds like an example of the cobra effe
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
I wonder if this change has anything to do with the median number of creators the typical Patreon users supports. A lot of angry people here sound like power users, but that might not representative of the overall userbase.

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