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by Thorentis 7y ago
My comment wasn't a justification of allowing taxis to use those lanes, I was just pointing out how well they worked anecdotally. I think the transit lanes can be used by buses, taxis, chauffeured cars, etc. Mainly for politicians&#x2F
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by Thorentis 7y ago
The thing I hate about buses in many cities is that they take longer than driving to get somewhere. I think if this can be changed, more people will use them. Cities like Sydney get it right, by having dedicated express lanes on many highwa
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by Thorentis 7y ago
Just wait until somebody think it's a good idea to declare war, based on the advice of an AI. That scares me more than anything. Or launching nuclear weapons based on the advice of AI (or allowing AI to control them altogether). All ou
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by Thorentis 7y ago
Is this article just complaining that nobody on HN noticed the fact that Apple used Web Components, and somebody should have because it's a big deal?
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by Thorentis 7y ago
> the processor instruction set supported recursion I think that's one of the most interesting parts. It would be interesting to see this implemented in a more general processor's instruction set (like x86). I wonder how much p
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by Thorentis 7y ago
> Software isn’t property It's intellectual property. So, yes you can apply property rights to it. But you can certainly argue that freely available software is better than privately owned and controlled software.
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by Thorentis 7y ago
Port to Hugo? Many people over there love minimalist themes too. I personally think Hugo will overtake Jekyll in terms of popularity for static site generation. But I love the theme, well done!
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by Thorentis 7y ago
Scare mongering or accurate prediction of the future? Who even knows. The fact is, house prices are only high if there are people willing to buy them. Rents are only high if there are people able to pay them. Retirement funds are only valua
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by Thorentis 7y ago
Bingo. You think the government will standby and watch the world economy collapse because some investment bank won't cancel their debt, or uphold our end of the deal to mutually cancel debt? Send in military, seize all assets, wipe the
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by Thorentis 7y ago
No it doesn't. What fixes this, is realising that debt is artificial and an economy of the future needs to realise tangible goods have more value. Why should a country have to borrow money to provide food stamps for people? Just provid
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by Thorentis 7y ago
If we reach the point where global stability depends on whether or not debt by almost every first world country can be paid or not, we will be in a situation where we have to evaluate whether or not keeping that debt around is worth the ris
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by Thorentis 7y ago
Uh, just have a single input source button that cycles through them. No need for an OSD menu, and usable for any number of inputs.
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by Thorentis 7y ago
The other bleaker outcome is that anybody who doesn't support the needs of the 0.01% will just be wiped out since they no longer serve a purpose. Think about it: sweatshops will be replaced by robots, menial healthcare tasks performed
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by Thorentis 7y ago
Yep, this is a fascinating (and scary) thing to think about. What will happen to a society where every single person has their basic needs met by some form of automation, and nobody needs to work? I would say most first world countries are
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by Thorentis 7y ago
The Wall Street Journal and Twitter are not equivalent. Due to the monopoly of control on social media right now, companies like Facebook, Twitter, et. al. are the new public spaces. Due to their unique position as monopolies over the popul
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by Thorentis 7y ago
> no one is preventing you from standing in a public place Social media is now the equivalent of standing in a public place. Times have changed. The town crier that used to tell people that latest headline? That's now the Facebook n
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by Thorentis 7y ago
No, they aren't equating mass shooting and political candidates. They are responding to the assertion that political ideology isn't a protected class. If you want to defend the 1st amendment rights of companies to choose their cus
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by Thorentis 7y ago
> During that interval, something might happen. The user might receive a warning that a factual claim in her post had been disputed by leading fact-checkers. Nope, nope, nope. And therein lies the problem. I'm all for time delays to
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by Thorentis 7y ago
How does this differ from other URL shorteners?
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by Thorentis 7y ago
sigh While I'm not surprised, I'm certainly disappointed. I bought a Galaxy S9+ with a curved screen a couple months after it came out. Seeing my friends' S8 curved screens was enough to convince me to buy one. They look gr
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by Thorentis 7y ago
Sure, that makes sense in a specific way - perhaps if you were deciding which language to use for a particular project. You'd look at which libraries it offers, which features you will be making the most use of etc. But in this case, i
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by Thorentis 7y ago
This is a pretty silly comparison to be honest. Why would you choose an example for which a library exists in Python that can already do most of the work for you? Sure, it might be the most "Pythonic" thing to do (importing a libr
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by Thorentis 7y ago
Sure, one could make that argument. But suggesting that we are close to creating a general intelligence on-par with humans is entirely unfounded. Even if we assume that the only thing differentiating humans from other forms of intelligence