Uhuhreally

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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
I would pay for an iOS app that I could point at a graph I've drawn and get back an SVG together with a data structure representing the graph
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
this reminds me of that time blowhard Richard Dawkins disected an animal (can't remember which) and proceeded to bang on about how stupid the vagus nerve is, wandering all over the place as it does for no apparent reason. People used t
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
would you prefer that he hid his light under a bushel ?
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
IDK but I know for a fact that I can comment with the same message in different ways and get upvoted or downvoted accordingly just by wording the the comment differently
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
No. It's because some people lie and cheat and exploit other people.
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
what then is the optimum level of inequality ? What if 1 person owned all the money and everybody else worked for the promise of money ? Would that be enough inequality ?
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
because spacetime is curved by mass the matter in the centres of the Earth and Sun computes at a slower rate than matter at their surfaces so that from our point of view the centres of the Earth and Sun are younger because their clocks have
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
as RedLetterMedia says: they're not movies, they're theme park rides
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
There exists a way to convert CO2 into high-capacity batteries but nobody's looking for it because they think the only way to make batteries is with Lithium
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Ask HN: How do I minimize money to China?
11 points by Uhuhreally 7y ago|8 comments
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
sorry is this real ? It read as satire
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
The one that gets me is "feel free to <do this thing I am actually commanding you to do>"
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
"when you beat me I feel pain...I don't like to feel pain, perhaps you could stop beating me" "I enjoy inflicting pain...your pain makes me happy...perhaps you could continue feeling the pain I inflict on you"
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
this is probably flawed logic but how are things today different from say 4000 years ago in a city where the ruler might employ local people known to have a good memory for faces to provide their services ?
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
"it sends your very complete fingerprint to google on its very first launch" sorry could you explain in more detail please ?
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
they do both already
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
Although motorcycling is very dangerous, I don't think riders should be forced to wear anything. Instead I think the manatory training should go to a much more advanced level before you can go on the road.
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
I would like to see a ban on all ads. I am sick of them. I resent with all my heart that wherever I go I'm bombared with propaganda for products. Nobody should have the right to hijack other peoples attention.
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
given that the left visual field of both eyes is connected to the right hemisphere and the right visual field of both eyes is connected to the left hemisphere, I wonder about the claim that each eye scans a separate page. It doesn't ma
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
can't believe Apple can't do its own manufacturing in USA or Europe
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
they incorrectly said they were comparing Clojure with Racket when in fact the example they gave was verbose Clojurescript
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
Actual comparison with Clojure: (require [clojure.data.json :as json]) (defn xform [s] (-> s json/read-str (update "foo" + 2) json/write-str)) Your example is Clojurescript wi
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
that doesn't make it right. Be kind to the bees
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
it's true that each of us usually lives in a story and we all live in a collective delusion. But. We all know the feeling in our own lives of suddenly waking up getting real.
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
yes but I got the feeling the grandparent was confused so I tried to clarify that the only reason for the verbosity is interop - the Clojure code is much more concise than the Java - the interop code is like listening to a speech being tran
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
In Clojure that's: (map (fn [x] (* 2 x)) [1 1 2 3 5]) => (2 2 4 6 10)
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
you'd use Clojure not Java for an example like the above
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
Jira is the passive aggressive student fridge note system of communication
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
oh this one. "X isn't as bad as Y (where Y is worse) therefore X is OK, deal with it" X and Y are completely unconnected and X is still bad and should be fixed. Imagine if you went to the doctor with a fractured ankle and the
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by Uhuhreally 7y ago
couldn't agree more

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