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by SolarNet 9y ago
Current and recent games. The poster is replying to games that haven't been in touched in 10+ years. Classic web games.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Because it was legal. Congress repealed the law that said those actions were illegal and so it wasn't... Checks and balances and all that: elect better representatives.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I'm quoting you... you are arguing with your own words!
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Except he implied that the link should have a significant bias. Also there is a collapse button.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
> with a link to some canonical thread about why the concept of security laws is fundamentally unjust or unwise Because not everyone agrees with that position.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Because not everyone agrees with you?
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by SolarNet 9y ago
The SEC exists to prevent fraud. It's about people having a choice between truthful investments. These companies are allowed to operate as they claim they are with relatively little oversight. What the SEC regulates is a company claimi
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Because we have never had machines capable of doing human metal labor. That is making executive decisions, displaying creativity, learning over time etc. These are fundamental human capabilities that machines are becoming capable of. It wil
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Which is why gold is actually decent, because it has real valuable uses. Not as much as say petroleum or steel, but still.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
The problem is that graphics doesn't really have a ramp up. Without bloating drivers that are already half a GB or larger, there isn't really a fix for that. Because you have to with any rendering framework: * Open a hardware co
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Well you could google it. It also has it's own wikipedia page with like a hundred entries. Maybe don't be dense.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
There were net neutrality actions before 2015, and net neutrality has applied ever since they were using phone lines for internet service (as, for example, those - phones - are where the original legislation was targeted, and where net neut
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Yea I don't have a problem with it per se, I just wish it implemented any sort of improvement to reduce the hard-drive usage. Say, integrating with the OS to read the same memory as the program will (rather than reading it 2+ times: th
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Try turning off all of the malware and search features. Windows defender will run on every file, folder, or executable you touch. Play a movie with VLC? Here let us scan VLC, every DLL it depends on, every file you have opened with it, and
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by SolarNet 9y ago
It's an operating system (pretending to be a browser).
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by SolarNet 9y ago
waits patiently for Linus to get fed up with ___ enough to write it himself dies
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by SolarNet 9y ago
It was peer-reviewed and published in a journal. You are probably thinking of the advertising whitepapers of scammy alt-coins and crypto-tokens. This is actually research.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Fraud is a criminal offense where you lie or deceive people about things. For example on contracts. Where you can end up in jail. Smart contracts don't fix this. A contract dispute is where both parties are truthful, but disagree on th
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by SolarNet 9y ago
This one is probably a bad example (there are some warning signs). But for people who don't get computers (willfully or not) it's useful to have things like this. There is a large portion of the market who is going to want things
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by SolarNet 9y ago
`Transfer` is an event, `transfer` is a function. This [0] is from TheDAO attack and is one of the (many) bugs making the attack so terrible. As for name mangling, read this [1] and see if it seems sane to you. For bonus points [2], `this.f
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by SolarNet 9y ago
> it must return the same results everywhere. We solved that for floats like 10 years ago. Let alone the fact there are better formats, like posits, or fixed point numbers, that also solve this problem very easily.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Exactly, this is a language that they want to run a new economy, not just payment processing, but banking, title transfer, legal resolutions, and the metric it was judged on was "looks like javascript" and not say: * Compiler time
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Most consumers don't use them.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Well they word it differently I'm sure.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
It is an ETH coin. Read more carefully. The whole benefit of ETH over BTC is that you can build coins inside of ETH. In this case it is basically just a colored coin, the point of which is for the people who hold them to be able make stakes
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Answering the actual question: JuliaPro is basically VisualStudio Express vs. Pro (e.g. there's a free version and then an expensive version with better integrations, better enterprise level tools, etc). JuliaRun is basically a cloud s
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by SolarNet 9y ago
His comments on Anita Sarkeesian are creepy and obsessive. Let alone the fact he blatantly and deceptively edits her videos to make his point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bVqfQvXP2o . If he's dishonest (not that h
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I'm sorry isn't this the guy that has a creepy obsession with Anita Sarkessian and that associates with ~Nazis~ anti-semitic misogynistic racists.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I think he meant in comparison to a train track breaking up with a high-speed train on it. Read the sentence more carefully as a comparison against existing train technology.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Part of the problem is they based this language off of JavaScript on purpose no less. It should be hard to make mistakes like this yet a single capitalization would change the semantic meaning enough to prevent this! Terrible design choic

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