PostOnce

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by PostOnce 8y ago
Well, we are literally fighting Iranian nuclear weapons with computer viruses.
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Well, the neighbor beats his wife, so I might as well beat mine. What kind of logic is that? We don't necessarily need to match lock-step with terrible regimes to ensure our own security, and our own security is the only argument for m
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by PostOnce 8y ago
earlier this week, an article was posted to hn about IQ scores having fallen since the 70s, at https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-06-iq-scores-1970s.html one key takeaway: A British team recently found IQ score result
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by PostOnce 8y ago
So Facebook gets to make the rules? The law changes whenever we feel like it should, that's how democracy works. You say why should the laws change and why shouldn't we individually decide whether or not to play ball? For one thin
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by PostOnce 8y ago
We (society) made the rules, and we can change them. We have the power to make laws dictating how Facebook can use the data, regardless of what the contract says, regardless of their current "obligations", and regardless of how &q
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by PostOnce 8y ago
or that you aren't drunk, had your phone weakly secured and accessed by someone else (passed out and they used your fingerprint or something), or probably a number of other possibilities
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Are you aware that Flask exists for Python? I might take that bet about no one being able to go quicker than a Rails dev.
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by PostOnce 8y ago
I love this particular type of software, I have been considering doing the same in python/urwid, but I have had trouble thinking up which modules would be useful and/or interesting. I would welcome suggestions of similar software,
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Just a tip, nice hair, clothes and confidence go a long, long way. Male attractiveness is influenced in a large way by status/power/wealth, which clothes are indicative of. You'll notice your interactions change, because the
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by PostOnce 8y ago
The article, however, is about minke whales, even the photo's caption is "Japan's whaling fleet killed 333 minke whales in the South Ocean last year, including 122 pregnant females."
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by PostOnce 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_minke_whale Minke Whales are "Least Concern" status, not endangered at all -- so that must not be it.
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by PostOnce 8y ago
How did it come to pass that only whales are untouchable among animals? In various countries, dogs, cows, pigs, and horses are seen in different lights. Why do we care so much about whales and not the above? Why isn't it like the other
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Well, that sounds interesting. Any implementation details? 20 years ago video streaming wasn't so trivial -- realmedia? And a satellite modem (or more than one, how fast was a satellite connection then?)
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by PostOnce 8y ago
there were a few exceptions in the early days when they first had their own consoles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.#Ports and of course before they had consoles: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by PostOnce 8y ago
but now we have half a dozen comments including the original sarcastic one that add nothing, when everyone could have inferred all of this from the grandparent "we should pick up some benefits from routing through europe" comment.
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Fortunately we recorded everything you've ever said, so we'll just check these Alexa logs and figure it out...
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by PostOnce 8y ago
What do you mean? You're the one who suggsted them. https://blog.ycombinator.com/rigetti-computing-yc-s14-raises... it's a YC company, with a lot of nontrivial press: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech
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by PostOnce 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigetti_Computing If quantum computing happens, I wonder how long it will take the workforce and tools to develop -- it took some time for classical computers to get good tooling and a dec
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by PostOnce 8y ago
This is absolutely the kind of totally pointless, already-solved, software-only non-product that causes no measurable change in the world that I was talking about. I'm not saying software can't have an impact, it absolutely can, a
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by PostOnce 8y ago
HHMI is a good one that I forgot about. For the reader's convenience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes_Medical_Institut... Howard Hughes really was Tony Stark -- he also invented the hospital bed? Of co
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Ask HN: Companies or startups that are *actually* changing the world?
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by PostOnce 8y ago
> If you dont like it leave people start leaving > wait! dont leave! We're gonna jack up the renounce-your-citizenship fee by thousands of dollars! actually happened already.
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by PostOnce 8y ago
"imagine the PR problems if X" worked prior to snowden, but now it seems no one cares. If we don't care that they're spying on us all, why would we care about the reason behind the spying? Your argument is very logical
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Here's a description from wikipedia: The book's title comes from the fact that the Atari 2600, initially branded the VCS (Video Computer System), did not have a video frame buffer, and required the programmers to write each line o
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Hey, it's the founder of indiehackers. When I first saw indiehackers, I was in love with it. The execution was fantastic. You did a great job. Then it got bought, and changed. Now it's forum-first, interviews second, and half of t
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by PostOnce 8y ago
This appears to be an ad for some new cryptocurrency McAfee is trying to market. Something sensational so people will look, only to read about the altcoin or whatever.
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Sure, if you can handle the heat from the GPL Police. I'm not entirely convinced open source licenses are a better idea than just making all open source public domain, with no restrictions at all.
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Oh no what will the poor most valuable company in the world do if we violate their made-up rules? It's an existential crisis, isn't it? Why should software have a EULA and not a screwdriver or a tractor or a pair of socks? &quot
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by PostOnce 8y ago
(based on my very small amount of knowledge) -- the LIDAR in the recent SpotMini video looks high res/high quality -- would a cheap one mean mis-stepping on stairs? I imagine problems of quality abound for less than several thousand
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by PostOnce 8y ago
By selling them to institutions, with support, rather than people, but also because it's decent. Cheaper robots are all jerky and jittery and slow and have no other sensors/cameras and no decent software interface (that I have see

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