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by abtinf 3y ago
App launch is a unique situation: you can only do it once. As such, pre-launch advertising is always unproven. You would have to have high confidence in the integrity of the ad network. Since online advertising is essentially untrusted, w
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by abtinf 3y ago
It’s the foundation of a lot more than just physics. It’s absolutely crucial to economics and business, and it is a travesty that it isn’t a required part of lower division curriculum. You cannot grasp micro/macro/applied/bus
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by abtinf 3y ago
The reason to learn calculus is because, as soon as you grasp it, you will start to see it everywhere.
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by abtinf 3y ago
For the same reason that phone books cannot have copyright.
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I think understanding that “relation” means the relationships of attributes to a primary key is a crucial, foundational concept. Without it, you can’t properly understand a concept like normalization, why it arises, and when it applies. You
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by abtinf 3y ago
If we shift the context just a little bit, everyone would ridicule this kind of abstinence-only approach.
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by abtinf 3y ago
If by "better" you mean "more profitable search engine, the user be damned", then sure. As a user, I've found Kagi is much better than free search engines. With DuckDuckGo, I often found myself reverting to Google
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by abtinf 3y ago
“Arises” and “comes from” betray a crucial error. Our rights do not come from the constitution; the constitution merely recognizes our rights.
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by abtinf 3y ago
Why is that relevant?
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by abtinf 3y ago
Of course one can advocate for violence without participating in it directly. For example, you could call for a riot. Or for the death of someone directly. No reasonable person would confuse “the traitor should get the death penalty” with “
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by abtinf 3y ago
You don’t think there is a difference between the state killing someone and a vigilante killing someone?
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by abtinf 3y ago
Calling for someone to be shot is a call for violence. Calling for a trigger to be pulled is not. The death penalty is a legal ruling that is often not even the final decision.
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by abtinf 3y ago
Strictly speaking, I think calling for the death penalty is advocating for a legal ruling. The violence following such a ruling is a second-order consequence.
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Turns out it wasn’t enough. What we were just barely starting to grasp then was that, among the “other users” we need to be protected from, were the software vendors themselves. In other words, I am not a single user; the combination of me
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by abtinf 3y ago
Deciding to not risk operating at a loss is a “stunt”?
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by abtinf 3y ago
Seems like a textbook example of price controls causing a shortage and subsidies causing excess consumption.
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by abtinf 3y ago
Could you expand on how it changed your life?
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by abtinf 3y ago
Two relations with a one-to-one relationship implies identical primary keys. Most implementations default to creating an index on the primary key. In this case, the premium user table only needs the user id primary key/surrogate key be
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by abtinf 3y ago
> paying-user table index-free Presumably, that means they created a new table intended to be straight-joined back to the user table. No need to search a column.
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The Only Macro Equation You Need to Know(monetary-metals.com)
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by abtinf 3y ago
I generally agree when it comes to standalone software, but not for libraries. SQLite is both. Setting a compiler flag is reasonable for the common case where it is included as a header file in a C/C++ application. It is certainly inco
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by abtinf 3y ago
Is there something special about ALTER DDLs that make it impossible to store them and play them back along with CREATE DDls to derive the final schema?
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by abtinf 3y ago
Serious question: what is the evidence that type 2 diabetes is caused by diet? I’ve seen this assertion made universally, but never any explanation of its scientific root.
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by abtinf 3y ago
Please don’t do this here. From the guidelines: > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.
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by abtinf 3y ago
You dropped the context of the discussion. We aren’t talking about machines, but humans. That is a different usage of the word “difficulty”, meaning something requiring more work to achieve an outcome, but that is not the relevant meaning
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by abtinf 3y ago
Note that “mission” in the parent comment likely refers the practice of certain Christian sects that send out evangelists to proselytize in another geographic area. It probably is not referring to CIA operations. (Posting this because there
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by abtinf 3y ago
In English, the math jargon term “simplifies to” means roughly “is equivalent to this less complex form”. It does not connote difficulty.
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by abtinf 4y ago
It’s like Xerox PARC all over again.
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by abtinf 4y ago
Why is it desirable for art to have "authenticity and realism"? Nowadays, those terms are just code for the malevolent and disturbed world view of some creators. I prefer art that depicts life as it could and ought to be.
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by abtinf 4y ago
Highly recommend Mr. Sunshine on Netflix. IMHO, the best TV show I've ever seen. Full of characters pursuing romantic values ("romantic" here meaning values that earnest individuals should pursue) and understandable conflic

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