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by al2o3cr 4y ago
So here's the question: is this bullshit? Here's the answer: no
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Despicable fucking parasites: the "service" is literally generating fake user interactions to fool spam filters.
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Does /dev/null support sharding? :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdnDXsqiPYo#t=2m13s
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Because it turns out that "rub some AI on it, then MAGIC HAPPPENS" doesn't work in anything besides TED talks and marketing pitches.
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Blocking doesn't help much when they're forging the phone number. I've even gotten spam calls with MY number as the caller ID! The telecoms know who's PAYING for these calls to be connected and SMSes to be delivered - th
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The museum should counter-offer Mr. Rolfe a billion dollars if he can prove how HE thinks it was made. And let's be real about this: they could produce an exact replica and his reply
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Alternate title: "How I deliberately messed up and why it's definitely everyone else's fault"
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
What's the business model? A "traditional finance" version of this would likely be aiming to get lots of transactions it could extract a couple basis points out of, but that seems impossible with a p2p architecture. All those
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Now with ChiselStrike™ you can rediscover the First Law of Distributed Objects 3x faster than the competition!
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
There’s true evil in the world. Truly despicable sins. Calibrate your outrage towards that. Holy whataboutism, Batman. Funny how "focus on true evil in the world" doesn't apply to stanning rich weirdos on HN...
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Can't wait for the corresponding report on employers that have decided to "coast" with their salary adjustments and not just hand out free money to everybody. /s Of course that sounds silly - just as silly as this pearl-
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
How do you explain the phenomenon, the very existence of iPhone users who want sideloading? Some people just enjoy complaining about stuff? You'd think that an article with that many words about how important sideloadin
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
I skimmed the first ~150 pages of that and I'd say it's exactly as cranky as you'd think for a 400-page-long self-published book about science. Real equations are introduced without defining any terms or notation and then qui
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
LOL at the two sources of actual quantitative data in the article not having data past 1950 or for the entire twentieth century
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
FWIW, it's possible to bit-bang DVI at 640x480 on the 2040. Takes about half of the available resources: https://github.com/Wren6991/PicoDVI
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Even at the level of "make a startup to solve a problem", there are assumptions: * other people have the problem * the problem is worth paying money to fix * the problem is actually solved by the offered solution * the solution ca
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Re: the example - an "agency of one" having a $1m year on $2499/mo plans means 400 client-months, or more than 33 clients a month every month. "Unlimited requests" for 33 simultaneous clients seems... unreasonable
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
I'd be curious how many of those derive from NT's VMS roots - for instance: http://lxmi.mi.infn.it/~calcolo/OpenVMS/ssb71/6346/6346p004....
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
On the one hand it sucks, but on the other hand a content farm shouldn't be worth $100m.
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Say you like a certain sound in a song and would like to use it as a starting point for your own sound patch. As a bonus, you might be the Lucky Winner of a copyright suit that eventually establishes a whole new area of ca
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
I always wonder if when people like you make a comment if you actually look at figures or just go with your gut because you don't like something. I'm guessing the latter. On the other hand, I don't wond
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Two thoughts: * you didn't specify anything the app *should* do besides "CRUD". You'll get better answers if you can say more about your needs and goals. * some of the given requirements are mutually contradictory - &quo
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
This is a commercial product so it's not _quite_ what you asked for, but the production volume is pretty low (100s) and the implementation is literally an FPGA dev board mounted to the back of the interface panel. https://in
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
Who's "we" here? https://www.brianstorti.com/vim-registers/
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
At a minimum, you'd need a US agent - note the specific callout at the end of the first section: https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-2-part-m-chapter-...
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
But generally speaking, the economic value of someone is roughly reflected by the best wage that they could find on the market. So sex work is the most valuable occupation for most people? Seems like Parrhesia would agree,
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
The interface may look cluttered: the landing page jams in 150 buttons and a local-news ticker Apps like this aren't new - huge chunks of the business world have been running on Visual Basic / Delphi / etc mon
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
What browser are you using? I streamed from the URL in the post for 5+ minutes from both Safari and Chrome and didn't seen any skips.
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
"What if Mr. Ponzi has discovered a totally new way to invest?"
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by al2o3cr 5y ago
There's nothing specifically about caching in the Books API ToS (compared to, say, the Maps API which has restrictions) so it's likely covered by the general policy: https://developers.google.com/terms#e_prohibitio

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