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by abtinf 7y ago
Keybase. I really wish they would get their act together and let me pay them for the service.
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by abtinf 7y ago
By this standard, people who have not had experience or learning in a given domain are just as qualified in that domain as those who have. It is a rejection of all knowledge.
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by abtinf 7y ago
> Not having children doesn't mean you're not allowed to criticize parents for poor behaviour. That is exactly what it means. People without children have absolutely no idea what they are talking about and have no means of acqu
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by abtinf 7y ago
And convenience. And warmth. And AC. And comfort. Unless your goal is to exercise, a car is almost always better in every dimension.
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by abtinf 7y ago
Thanks, this is much more clear.
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by abtinf 7y ago
Can someone explain the difference between warp and warp+? I’ve read the blog and the App Store description, both of which completely fail to identify the difference.
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A Cosmology for a Different Computer Universe(journals.tdl.org)
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by abtinf 7y ago
If someone is irrational or malevolent, the only legitimate strategy is to not engage. Attempting to produce an irrefutable argument or use a strategy to bypass their dishonesty is futile and damages your own standing. Stated much more arti
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by abtinf 7y ago
If government is so accountable, why are there only three credit rating agencies? Why does equifax still exist? Government created this oligopoly and won’t let any new players into the market.
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by abtinf 7y ago
By this standard, Jeffrey Epstein is innocent since he died before any trial started and Nixon was innocent since he wasn’t removed from office.
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by abtinf 7y ago
Trump revoking security clearances for nakedly partisan purposes. That isn’t a use of the OPM data, but what it enables. It is easy to imagine a future administration blacklisting political opponents from obtaining mortgages.
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by abtinf 7y ago
The IRS has done this exact thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
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by abtinf 7y ago
What a bizarre interpretation of my comment.
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by abtinf 7y ago
If the scope of work document is invalid, then the current charges are the least of the involved party’s concerns: the document is proof of conspiracy to commit federal felonies. Many of the pentesting actions would violate hacking laws. Th
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A Message to García (1898)(historymatters.gmu.edu)
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by abtinf 7y ago
In the spirit of being helpful: “ignored” implies you knew the meaning and intentionally did not address it. I think you meant “I was unaware of this meaning” or “I didn’t know that.”
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by abtinf 7y ago
FYI, the price needs to be updated in the text of this page: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217665398-Backi...
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by abtinf 7y ago
Virtually every sentence of your comment demonstrates snobby ignorance. You treat your erroneous assumptions as fact and build a house of cards on top.
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by abtinf 7y ago
Mainframes are a category of their own and IBM is the last company in the category. Mainframes have spectacular capabilities, like running a compute on multiple CPUs in multiple data centers to ensure integrity and survivability built in so
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by abtinf 7y ago
Would it be possible to shift/autotune the painful range to a different range, to preserve input while reducing pain?
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by abtinf 7y ago
I wouldn't think this would affect it at all. Any serious manufacturing operation will be moving freight, which isn't at issue here.
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by abtinf 7y ago
What is the hidden premise that precludes the alternative conclusion—that “pure mathematical objects” ought to be patentable?
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by abtinf 7y ago
You provided an opinion, but no reasoning or evidence. Could you help us by explaining how you came to your view?
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by abtinf 7y ago
I agree that the purpose has changed. DNS is identity. Almost every source of internet identity is either in DNS or is, at root, based on DNS. The only exceptions I can think of are PGP keys and blockchain, and they struggle with workable t
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by abtinf 7y ago
I hadn’t thought of this before, but I think you are onto something critical about Go. In a different life, I worked deep in C# and the bowels of the CLR. New versions of C# were both exciting (woo, LINQ, anonymous things, lambdas, and a do
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by abtinf 7y ago
Did you just compare a Bluetooth connection to a self-driving car?
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by abtinf 7y ago
Is that anything more than a rumor yet?
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by abtinf 7y ago
I also dislike the keyboards, but it’s not quite enough to prevent me from buying one. The real showstopper is that the keyboard is an almost certain failure point and fixing it means a multi-week wait. Losing my primary machine for such a
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by abtinf 7y ago
Here is the definition of trademark infringement directly from USPTO [1]: "Trademark infringement is the unauthorized use of a trademark or service mark on or in connection with goods and/or services in a manner that is likely to
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by abtinf 7y ago
As long as HN has effective vote ring detection, I don’t see any issue with directly posting links. The crowd helps us here and paternalistic rules can only prevent it from functioning correctly. If the post is good, it will move up. If not

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