RingwormOne

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by RingwormOne 9y ago
How revolutionary was this when published?
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
It's maintaining all the infrastructure required to manage a large dev team.
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
Glad he is speaking up about this. Unfortunately the business model of the companies mentioned depends on their showing you what they think will keep you engaged. They necessarily have to curate what you see.
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The Migration Period(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by RingwormOne 9y ago|0 comments
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The Pylos Combat Agate(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by RingwormOne 9y ago|0 comments
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
I don't have much sympathy for the lecturer because it's probably safe to bet she has made a conscious decision to maintain her homeless lifestyle. I find it very hard to believe that someone with a PhD could not find extra work,
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Ask HN: What's the best server language for high frequency database read/writes
1 points by RingwormOne 9y ago|0 comments
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
I actually did read the article. The article mentions one or two examples of mentally typical people who are homeless. Ok. I've dealt with many many more than that who are most certainly not University lecturers.
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
What jobs are they working? How many jobs have they had in the past year? I can only speak to my own experience with the homeless I've come in contact with. Most are mentally ill or are struggling with drug addiction. Sure some of them
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
This is one of those common sense things that just hasn't been done yet. No good reason why. Email your congressman.
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
This is not a result of prohibitive housing prices or anything like that. Through my work in the homeless community I've seen and heard first hand that chronic homelessness is almost always a result of mental illness and/or drug u
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
I'd like to see successful rain/night/snow/road construction/fog condition tests before I get in one
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
Agreed. Occam's razor is well applied here. Everyone else is investing in tech to get rich, I see no reason to suppose card carrying capitalist Saudi's wouldn't be driven by the allure of profit as well.
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
Well the US has around 320 million people, Asia has over 3 billion, so...
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
Be careful, you're rejecting the rule of law if you advocate for legal repercussions. What you judge to be immoral may not be judged to be immoral by others. When outrage of the masses is the sufficient condition for legal punishment,
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
But they are doing what's best for them without breaking the law. You cannot reasonably expect anything more from any actor in a society. In personal relationships we expect more (lying is legal but frowned upon), or else we break off
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
Don't fault corporations for exploiting legal loopholes to save money... They optimize what they must optimize as operating businesses, and if we the citizens want to compel them to do something we must pass the laws necessary to do so
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
What applications does decentralized consensus enable creation of, aside from cryptocurrencies, that are infeasible to make with a database?
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Ask HN: What does a blockchain give you that a database doesn't?
6 points by RingwormOne 9y ago|7 comments
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Ask HN: Is VR considered a commercial failure yet?
3 points by RingwormOne 9y ago|2 comments
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
So you care about diversity in the color of someone's skin but not in what really defines them as a person? Or you think skin color defines people? And that all white people are pretty much the same? You're showing yourself to be
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
I'm glad you asked! Diversity in musical tastes, religious and political ideology and affiliation, food preference (because new cuisine is always great to discover), experiences as a result of living in a primarily rural vs urban setti
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
Again, it seems you're assuming that just because someone is "white" and not rich/poor they're the same as other "white", not rich/poor people. That's offensive and naive.
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
You only care about diversity involving people from socioeconomic or racial groups associated with poverty or historical oppression. That ignores so many other kinds of diversity in the world. Your definition is far too exclusive and narrow
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Defending Legal Immigration with Tech(theverge.com)
1 points by RingwormOne 9y ago|0 comments
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
And I'm happy to see someone from Iowa posting here. If someone from a different minority group posted here I would be happy as well. There are many ways to be diverse.
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The Geeks Who Saved Usenet (2002)(salon.com)
1 points by RingwormOne 9y ago|0 comments
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
You're really grabbing on to race and socioeconomic status to justify ignoring the fact that that person is not representative of most of the folks here. See? We can both play these games.
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Ask HN: When will we reach the limits of scientific or industrial progress?
9 points by RingwormOne 9y ago|6 comments
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by RingwormOne 9y ago
False. The lawyers are there to protect the company.

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