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by alistproducer2 7y ago
I put stuff like this up there with the "debate" over plastic straw bans: just fodder for industries to use in muddying the waters until the last minute. With climate change, it's clear we're past the point of no return,
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
This was bound to happen. For the life of me, I cannot understand how things have gone this long without even a whiff of regulation. This is what you're going to get when u let a market be the wild west for a decade.
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
I've cut Google out in all areas except where the product is, IMO, best-in-class: search, Android, YouTube, and g-board. I think most people believe they don't have anything to hide, which is why, even when confronted with the ext
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
The 2.2 specs are better, with exception of RAM which is equivalent. I've never had any performance issues surfing, watching videos, or using apps. I couldn't recommend this phone enough. The review over at ars was good and that&#
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
I recently bought a Nokia 2.2, which in in the Android One program. Two main reasons: a removable battery and OS updates for two years and security for 3. At this point, there's very little difference between the hardware of flagships
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
Google Graham Hancock. He does a bunch of research concerning ice age civilizations I'm the Americas. Really interested work.
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
I guess it depends on what you're using your VPN for, but I prefer to run my own VPN on a vps. I use vultr and pay $5/mo. I also get to host a collabra server for my nextcloud setup on the same server so it just makes economic sen
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
Nope. There's no single algorithm that will lead to General intelligence. As long as the apex of our ML techniques is parameter optimization via gradient decent, there will be no critical mass point. Currently, it's possible for s
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
A gigantic "no thanks" to vhemt.org. Thanks for the recommendation on the book. I'm gonna pick that up.
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
To reframe the common argument against banning guns: when u ban encryption, only criminals, computer geeks, and mathematicians will have encryption.
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
May I ask, how much time have you spent I'm China?
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
As long as the code isn't abstracted more han 1 or two layers deep, it's commented in places where the control flow isn't that intuitive, and follows best practices for whatever the kids of languages is, it doesn't matte
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
Social media is a cancer on humanity. It is not benign, as many people still assume. Almost every time the medium is studied, the results show it makes people less happy, susceptible to propaganda, and generally shittier people. I've g
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
Tcl TV's can send the sound over WiFi to a phone. I can listen to TV via my phone, hear clearly, and nobody farther than 5 feet can hear a thing. It's a solved problem.
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
Thanks
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
Thanks for the advice
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
This was a great read and got me interested in learning more about the Sikh religion. Does anyone have some advice for a westerner interested in starting to learn about the religion?
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
Am I supposed to celebrate the spending of untold billions on an unnecessary weapon of death while my Bridges and roads crumble, my health care system sucks and absolutely nothing is being done about, or to prepare for, climate change?? I&#
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
We're not talking decades so I don't think he was being unreasonable. Most people would expect a product that has been kept in a box in climate controlled conditions to, you know, not fall apart after a couple years. Get off your
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
Was rv'ing in utah and Google maps tried to take me through some field via a dirt road in the middle of the night.
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
Shoes were never engineered to be collectables. After a couple years the glue fails and your "investment" is worthless. I had a friend who was really into this and he had a huge collection. Needless to say he was pretty pissed whe
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by alistproducer2 7y ago
I have two. The main reason I love them is I can leave them on all the time using very little power. Our would be surprised how much u can supercharge your home network by having always-on Linux boxes on it. One runs nextcloud and serves as
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Ask HN: Any embedded devs/hardware folks looking for a side project?
2 points by alistproducer2 8y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: How much time do you spend on the “New” page?
16 points by alistproducer2 8y ago|10 comments
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by alistproducer2 8y ago
I hesitate to spend time refuting you because it's pretty clear you don't have a great grasp of the pros and construction of cryptography-systems, but here goes... >Elections should be independently administered The key word is
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by alistproducer2 8y ago
Lots of ways. The votes are tabulated by a computer as they come in so results are instant. The totals cannot be changed or otherwise tampered with. There are no conflicts of interest in administering the election like what happen in Georgi
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by alistproducer2 8y ago
So you don't think this system provides any unique capabilities? I'm not aware of any other way to do some of the things proposed in the paper.
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by alistproducer2 8y ago
I'm surprised there isn't a discussion of the Goodenough lithium glass battery [0]. The fact that I haven't read about replication or a failure to replicate is really weird to me given how world-changing such a technology wou
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by alistproducer2 8y ago
It seems pretty solid but I'm skeptical that you could ever get regular ppl to be able to use and understand a crypto-system like this.
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HyveMind: Election Infrastructure on the Blockchain [pdf](freepdfhosting.com)
9 points by alistproducer2 8y ago|15 comments

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