aikah

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by aikah 5y ago
> We already allow people to do blowjobs for a living, it just has to be pornography instead of prostitution. Why is it OK in one case, but not the other? Says you, who's we?
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by aikah 5y ago
> Anyone can sell a proof of ownership of the Mona Lisa, too. That doesn't mean that the proof of ownership in the Louvre is worthless. Except that there is only one Mona Lisa, the painting. There can be as many NFT of Mona Lisa as
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by aikah 5y ago
> NFTs are functionally-identical to owning a print with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist, I'd say. No, you don't have to own/create a piece of art to make an NFT of a piece of art at first place.
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by aikah 5y ago
> I'm not sure I follow you. According to ERC-721 spec, there is a token owner, and it is assigned to a blockchain address. Signing a message with that address proves you own it. If the source code of the smart contract shows that n
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by aikah 5y ago
It's a scam, no more, no less. Just like ICOs. People poured billions in ICOs a few years ago because of FOMO, the only people that got rich is the ones that did the coin offering.
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by aikah 5y ago
> All work is exploitative and the more so when the potential supply is larger than the demand. Look at the wages of office cleaners and supermarket shelf fillers. There is a difference between doing blowjobs for a "living" and
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by aikah 5y ago
> TFA is about Sweden. GP is comparing the misogyny of "expecting men to pay for dates" to the misogyny of Swedish persecution of sex work. There is no misogyny in cracking down on prostitution. The amount of trafficked women f
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by aikah 5y ago
> We expect men to pay for dates. Where are you from? This is not true everywhere. > We expect men to be the primary breadwinner in a marriage. In a mysoginistic vision of marriage in your culture, maybe. It's fine if you see mar
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by aikah 5y ago
> but it’s a failure in the sense of that it remains a programmers idea of what an UI should be Exactly, but that was also the problem with Blender for 15 years too. Developers should have enough humility to let the UX design to designer
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by aikah 5y ago
Nah, I never used any of these addons although I know what they do, so they are far from essential. I use "Sverchock" for procedural modelling and "Animation Nodes" for procedural animation on the other hand both are fre
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by aikah 5y ago
> Because HTML elements are forever while js modal libraries change yearly. It’s best for browsers to wait a few years and if there is one thing that has consistently been used and will be forever, then add it. The details element is a
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by aikah 5y ago
I love Cycles but they need to fix Eevee (still no support for particle input for instance, forced to use animation nodes for that). I never use Cycles in production because it's too slow (by design since it's PBR), unless I can&#
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by aikah 5y ago
Because Typescript was designed to be a tool to write Javascript with type annotations at first place and nothing else.
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by aikah 5y ago
It was pretty smooth actually, and I'm on a Intel N5000 with 4 gigs of RAM. Not sure it uses WebGL or CSS, but the performances are rather good.
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by aikah 5y ago
It's nice and creative, and that's what matters, people remember these web experience, that's why Flash was popular back then, it was all about impact, when today, the great majority of websites slap the exact same (bootstrap
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by aikah 5y ago
Often the worth of a language comes from its ecosystem. Node.js for now has perhaps the biggest ecosystem in history of computer languages and since Javascript is supported natively by browsers, well it makes the number of developers knowin
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by aikah 5y ago
> What kind of improvement will this bring to the seasoned nodejs dev, that it will leverage the learning effort? Not much right now, aside from 'native' Typescript support and not relying on NPM hell for everything. But as th
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by aikah 6y ago
> It is very confusing that equality in JavaScript is not transitive: https://imgur.com/5pFXFbR . There are 2 types of equality in JS, shallow (==) and 'strict' (===). It's fine because JS is a dynamic, we
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by aikah 6y ago
JS does have BigInts though https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by aikah 6y ago
> When you run a k8s cluster on an auto scaling nodepool on a cloud provider, is that considered serverless? 'Serverless' is about billing model therefore purely a marketing concern. It's the very definition of a buzzword
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by aikah 6y ago
I guess it's about "value". If people can get working Apple devices for cheap, why would they bother paying them new? But also I wonder, in what state where the devices Apple sent for "recycling" if they were still
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by aikah 6y ago
> It's facile and wrong to think of Oxycontin as an unmitigated evil in society. What about all the people who were diagnosed with terminal cancer and were suffering from unimaginable pain? It doesn't matter if you will get a
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by aikah 6y ago
Swartz participated in the creation of RSS spec, not JSON AFAIK. He was also involved in the development of reddit.
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by aikah 6y ago
inoreader right now the free version. Although you can't delete RSS entries which is annoying, only mark them as read. But I'm building my own product soon because I see quite a few UI flaws with inoreader.
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by aikah 6y ago
i believe it's 100% digital. There was a similar system on the OP-1 which emulated a tape
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Supercell ordered to pay $8.5M for infringing Gree's patents(gamesindustry.biz)
3 points by aikah 6y ago|0 comments
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by aikah 6y ago
> A lot of people here seem to knock PDF, but I love it. People will disabilities that rely on screen-readers don't love it. There is no such a problem with HTML/CSS which should be the norm for internet documents. > With P
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by aikah 6y ago
Nice, we need more of these "real world expenses" posts on HN. I wonder how much it would cost to run the same app powered with Java. More? or Less?
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by aikah 6y ago
> You may not use videos on our Products to create a music listening experience So basically if you are a DJ you cannot broadcast a mix session on Facebook or even broadcast a live performance of your own music under threat of being remo
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by aikah 6y ago
Google and Microsoft? You want to look good after all the stuff you pulled lately? Hire MDN maintainers and host MDN. Easy karma.

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