StandardFuture

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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> spoken like someone who has never actually been poor It's not even just that. It is spoken like someone who has not even been around poor people. Class segregation is a much more serious issue than simply class distinction. I wond
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> The dollar depreciates and appreciates against commodities and other currencies all the time. Bingo! But, I do not see anyone complaining about this "only benefiting the creditors". > econ 101 To be fair, I find a referenc
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
Not that my above comment was perfect, but let me attempt to be more succint. > Monetary appreciation only helps Appreciation of an asset only helps the holders of said asset. But "appreciation" is always an exchange rate. Appr
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> reduces money velocity and investment Yes, this is because of the interchangeability of the value of an asset declining and the fact that no one is buying it. No different than a stock price in free fall. Why is it in free fall? Becaus
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> I intentionally enter a large percentage of invalid data into recaptchas to spoil their dataset. So do a few others. You are easily selected out as anomalous data, just fyi. > Google Analytics is blocked by my ad blocker. Great. Are
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> app store model Yes, well we as a developer community can never let up on Apple and Google's app store models being legally reprehensible. We are quite literally the most negatively affected community by these monopolies over ge
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
Tax evasion is allowed by the people you elect, and you know it. Any unelected corporation can only be bound by the laws and system that it is a part of. If you really want to change things then start speaking out against any and all politi
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> One pedantic point Your point is not pedantic at all and in fact completely negates the other commenters counterpoint made to your initial argument. The buying power of the entity you are exchanging in has changed -- for everyone. Thi
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
Very valid points about recaptchas. Now, what does that have to do with the Go programming language that is FOSS? Or are you calling for developers to essentially put restrictive sanctions on any and all Google products/projects? And i
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
You are absolutely right! And this is why I avoid any and all software written in C due to AT&Ts prior evil monopolistic practices of the mid-20th century. /s
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
Where does the "doubling" in the title come from? I see a 10-15% increase from the article. And only when the masks are used in a specific ordering: procedure mask on face, and cloth mask over procedure mask. > wearing a proced
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
It is genuinely irksome that an entirely silly comment like this gets more attention and upvotes than numerous downvoted intellectual comments have been receiving on HN over the past year. Maybe it's just the pandemic or what not but i
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> suppression isn't always wrong. when is it correct? Who makes that judgement?
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
I thought that it would be obvious that I was referring to a community discussion with or without Google's participation. It should also be obvious that "we would never do that" does not satisfy as a reasonable conclusion to
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
Isn't that a clear cut example of Orwellian double-speak? But not to assume malevolence ... It's humorous how the aristocratic class is so much more Marie Antoinette these days.
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
Go is one of the few Google things that I will actually use and promote. I completely understand your justified fear of putting so much stake into a company owned language. It is completely reasonable. But, since Go is only indirectly benef
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
Perhaps someone misunderstood or misheard the phrase "America's First Black (belt) President".
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
This is one of those moments in history that future humans look back on and wonder how people were "so much more ignorant, stupid, gullible, corrupt, etc. than we are today". Praising yourself for things that you did not actually
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
What the theory of "Evolutionary Dynamics of Viral Attenuation" implies is that a lot more people were dying of colds when it first entered the human race. There is also mathematical evidence that compares the probabilistic error
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by StandardFuture 6y ago
Blocking two companies is not restricting trade with China. It is restricting trade with two companies. ... sigh
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by StandardFuture 6y ago
You are not even American. Please do not act like you understand the political process and it's everyday implications. This is why you have no other retort other than "XENOPHOBIA!". Grow up.
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by StandardFuture 6y ago
And here they are downvoting you simply because you offer an alternative to deriding people you disagree with. There has been a steadily increasing mentality that outright hostility is the only way of disagreeing (or conversing at all) with
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by StandardFuture 6y ago
As someone who was working in the physical engineering world when that video came out ... I am not convinced that design software specifically actually empowers engineers to be any faster at designing new and novel engineering (over pen
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by StandardFuture 6y ago
A kid who spends this much time at a computer thinking about how to break into Twitter has a good grasp of social interactions? Or, maybe Twitter just had some obvious loopholes that even a not super social-aware hacker could find and use?
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by StandardFuture 6y ago
The only reason he got caught was because he used his access to attempt a BTC scam. The likelihood that more sophisticated individuals and organizations have access to Twitter (and probably various other tech companies), and understand the
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by StandardFuture 6y ago
It seems pretty obvious to me that this is an arbitrary filtration process (no different than any other arbitrary filter) that strokes the ego and appears to be better than a random coin toss, but it really is not.
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Ask HN: Has TikTok been auto-installed on your phone?
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by StandardFuture 6y ago
Firstly, let's not fall for a false dichotomy. There is likely a simple equilibrium of review and creativity that must be maintained for an optimally healthy scientific community. Obviously, the old style of numerous-journals + publish
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by StandardFuture 6y ago
This is why science needs to get rid of "papers" and make everything a public repository of information. GitHub, etc. could be used to file "Issues" (like your anecdote) to ensure a recorded history of what the paper mig
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by StandardFuture 6y ago
Irreproducibile results should have zero place in science or academia. Hell, it has no place in politics, the media, etc. "Irreproducibile results" defeats the purpose of proving that it is not bullshit or a farce.

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