abiox

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by abiox 8y ago
given that the person who died had nothing to do with anything, it's almost certainly the case that there was ZERO corroborating on-site evidence that a highly dangerous situation was actually unfolding.
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by abiox 8y ago
sure, and they didn't reach everyone either.
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by abiox 8y ago
> If I sign up for a new credit card I won't come across the interest rate at all until I get to the fine-print legal contract. my experience has been different (in TX, USA). having modestly improved my credit score (at least, i ass
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by abiox 8y ago
they aren't exclusive notions. and everyone is learning just how much "honesty" is a red herring.
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by abiox 8y ago
> if that was the crux of the issue, the ruling would be "stop making policy statements on twitter." i don't think that sort of thing is within the purview of the court. > The vast majority of US citizens don't use
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by abiox 8y ago
fast(er) is relative. and _not_ doing a thing is often faster than doing a thing.
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by abiox 8y ago
well, "biochemical processes" isn't exactly simple. :P
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by abiox 8y ago
not all democrats are progressive. or, perhaps more to the point, not all democrats are non-reactionary.
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by abiox 8y ago
> But still, downvotes = disagreement, I thought HN would be better than that. downvotes can also be for perceiving questions as posed in bad faith, non-sequiturs, being reductive, rude comments, etc.
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by abiox 8y ago
> Downvoted for asking a simple question this seems a bit reductive. sometimes people asking leading questions that are a bit... let's say tired, aren't all that interesting. if there is a point to be made, they should just ma
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by abiox 8y ago
> Time to abolish prisons now.. is that what you are trying to say? i'm not quite sure how "abolishing prisons" is suggested by what they posted. what leads you to that?
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by abiox 8y ago
what makes you feel that way?
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by abiox 8y ago
yep. for the briefest moment i thought this was oracle's OPA being open-sourced.
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by abiox 8y ago
> Does that merit financial compensation? to me, this seems like the wrong question. in a broad sense, it makes more sense to ask how harsh the penalty should be. generally, for actions like this, the penalty is expressed as a monetary
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by abiox 8y ago
> Feeling harmed and actually being harmed are different things. this seems almost non-sequitur. either way, it is the court's purpose to ascertain harm and any consequent penalties (if any).
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by abiox 8y ago
> The net effect of your means of conversation isn't a more cogent conversation. Instead, by causing everyone to over-specify their statements you force conversation with you to be only for the things that can be fully specified for
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by abiox 8y ago
> JasonParser you had me actually looking for something called JasonParser for a few moments. :P
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by abiox 8y ago
> Sure, Go isn't parsing and interpreting its files at runtime afaik, referring to something as "native code" just indicates it isn't compiled to/executing as bytecode. not anything to do with gc, runtime, etc.
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by abiox 8y ago
> dining nightmare bad food? :)
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by abiox 8y ago
> Russia that doesn't give a f$#k about Wikipedia nor USA elections why do you feel this is the case? that would actually be very strange if true.
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by abiox 8y ago
i do agree that it makes sense to use the stdlib where possible. however i am a bit wary... my first "real" (but small) project in go was to process some xml. turns out the stdlib parser doesn't handle self-closing tags very
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by abiox 8y ago
webassembly has vastly improved performance in a variety of situations.
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by abiox 8y ago
i'm sorry but i don't quite follow what you're trying to say.
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by abiox 8y ago
does this account for inflation?
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by abiox 8y ago
i found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photometric_parallax_method > The photometric parallax method is a method of data analysis used in astronomy that uses the colours and apparent brightnesses of stars to in
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by abiox 8y ago
> The reaction to this law in the US is rather funny because the rest of the world has been dealing with strange US laws for decades on the web... finally something bites the other direction and people freak out. i'm quite positive
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by abiox 8y ago
you seem to suggest that you can (for example) sell/distribute canadian alcohol in saudi arabia, even though it's illegal there. do you really think that's accurate? every country has the right to enforce it's own laws
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by abiox 8y ago
> if somebody's business model is destroyed because it is now too expensive to collect information that you don't need to do the job how could you "not need" data if the loss "destroyed" the business model?
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by abiox 8y ago
well, technically there is a textual format for webassembly... :P
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by abiox 8y ago
> It's pretty close to a knockdown argument against someone whose position is US government policy is to imprison black people on account of their ethnicity. it's not, not even slightly, as far as i can tell. what makes you fe

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