Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Is this a paid advertisement or an organic article? Is there any way to tell with such things, in general? I am wary of reading a "submarine" and not knowing it: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html There&#x27
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
It's nice to read an article that's balanced and does not try to hype everything up, like so much modern media is doing today. Nice find.
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> [Diablo 3] game has sold over 30 million copies, and the console releases and post-real-money-auction-house balance changes have supposedly made the game great Diablo 3 is an excellent game on both PC and Console. The balance changes t
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Are you prepared to explain this content and defend its meaning and sensibility? Please do not argue that I'm being unfair unless you are. If you think it makes sense, and I'm misreading, then I'd challenge you to pick a para
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Your original posts were clever and almost fun (still inappropriate for HN), but this is neither. Please stop.
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> Server load balancing is a dynamic process which may actually induces vulnerabilities to distributed denial of service attacks, whether or not the maintenance occurs regularly. Especially dangerous DDoS is statistically timed to gain r
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> "They chose to make these statements in public that weren’t accurate," Wyden added. "They could have declined to answer the question in an open hearing. They have declined to answer questions in an open hearing before. A
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
I thought that Snowden stated that he's not going to leak anything further? He handed it off to the journalists and he's done. I remember this being part of his conditions for asylum in Russia, but I could be mistaken. I wouldn&#x
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
See "The Submarine" http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html > "Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in Februar
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
It's very odd to think about how software development in one place costs a different amount than another place, when it doesn't really concern the place at all. All supply and demand, I suppose, but it's just weird to think a
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> 1 / (sqrt(2) (sqrt(3) - 1)) I don't mean in any way to demean their research, but I think your exhaustive search could build up formulas in exactly that form and iterate on them. It starts with a valid pentagon. Then it permu
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
You could at least ask the student how much time they took actively working on the exam, less the part where they fell asleep, and compare that to the time limit.
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> I urge everyone in power regarding this issue to think this through -- and then, make your simple compiler which we can build into a trusted component FREE, or, if you don't, sometime in the next few years something else which is
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
There is another way to look at this. The city serves two populations: people who currently live in a city, and people who would like to immigrate to the city. As a resident of a growing city, I find it somewhat puzzling and inconvenient th
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Uber drivers can see where you are as part of evaluating your ride request. Consequently, though your ride request might be offered to several drivers before being accepted, you are not likely to be assigned a driver who cancels later becau
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Recently discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9909429 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=143725996614627&w=2
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> Right now - you have to manually [...] scale the ASG. You have to manually scale the AutoScaling Group, you say? :-) More seriously, what's the barrier to configuring the ASG to grow and shrink automatically?
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
What are the reasons why CVS is still in use?
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Physics, that is to say natural philosophy :-) E.g., Newton's "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" (Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica)
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
At what point do you have to stop the experiment because the species has become too smart? A human-level intelligence that can make arguments in its own defense has a good likelihood of being recognized as having rights by a court.
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
>> "How in the world does Huffman think using something so vague as an actual punishable rule will turn out well?" > Because it is the only tenable position. Is it not tenable to avoid taking a specific position as a web
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
This Reddit comment (from the thread being linked to but not easy to see, at the time I write this) catalogs the various public statements that staff have made over time about Reddit being a place for free speech on the web: https:/&#
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Ad blockers are more sophisticated than that these days, or at least support features that are. For example, they can hide a specific DOM element on a web page within a larger page according to its path or other characterization. I don&#x27
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Submarine advertising? http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html "Swarovski, who celebrates its 120-year anniversary this year, is a steward of a centuries-old Bohemian tradition, making use of natural resources in the
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
It's not as simple as that. I'm a moderator on several subreddits and, via moderator mail and private messages, monitored events during the shutdown. The impression that I got from speaking to other moderators and users of diverse
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Are you serious? I think you might be watching too much TV :-) Killing him would accomplish no objective that the government cares enough about at this point to risk the massive backlash that would occur. Sure, the government wants to punis
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
I have been in a theater when someone yelled fire. Most people ignored the person yelling fire, and looked around for fire and smoke. They took the absence of those things, and the fact that the person was a teenager, as indications that th
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Fair point. However, how do we know if that's better or not? Perhaps it's better for those who remain rational during a crisis to accumulate more wealth by enabling them to place bets opposite the stampede. When the next crisis ha
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Limitations on short selling always concern and perplex me. Why is that a good idea? Isn't that preventing the market from properly adjusting to whatever circumstances have occurred, or new information that has arrived? Limitations lik
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
It's more complicated than that. Part of the problem is that it's difficult to predict how a variety of complex situations will turn out in court. With strongly opinionated licenses like AGPLv3, it's difficult to know if you&

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