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   by api 10y ago

   Cheap prices for the customer equal low pay and bad working conditions for the producer. Same is true of Wal-Mart... look into all those Chinese mega-factories where all that stuff is produced. It's one of the core paradoxes of economi
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   by api 10y ago

   Governments seem to think 1984 is an instruction manual so this is not uncommon.
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   by api 10y ago

   TDCS seems like using a sledgehammer to tune a piano.
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   by api 10y ago

   Everything you can do in Python you can do in assembly language.
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   by api 10y ago

   These frameworks are all so different it renders these results pretty moot. Vanillaja is fastest but it doesn't offer half of what React or Angular do.
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   by api 10y ago

   I didn't know about this phenomenon. I assume these are weak and transient, but I still had to wonder if they could have any utility for propulsion around the solar system. Could you electromagnetically "grab" such a thing?
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   ZeroTier 6PLANE addressing for Docker IPv6 backplane networks(zerotier.com)

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   by api 10y ago

   I'm not a fan of that quote. It's actually quite common for the gate's purpose to have been forgotten or for the gate to be some pathological emergent side effect of something else. Not everything is necessary or rational. In
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   by api 10y ago

   You could put this in a positive light: there is so much demand for their product they can't make enough.
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    by api 10y ago

    Neoliberalism is also allowing authoritarian states to export authoritarianism via cheap near slave labor.
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    by api 10y ago

    Modern economy is inflationary. No growth equals shrinking.
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    by api 10y ago

    That's not ironic inversion of meaning. That's straight up deception.
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    by api 10y ago

    Artists and musicians can get away with invoking (haha) such names for effect. But tech despite its abandonment of the suit is still pretty straight laced and Ivy League at heart and interfaces with a high corporate and financial world that
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    by api 10y ago

    There's been a rule: encryption must have terrible UX. Most encryption stuff even has awful UX by command line Linux hacker standards. Now we have an effort otherwise but... cannot... resist... doing... something... to make it unfriend
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    by api 10y ago

    Yes, especially since car ownership is optional in NYC.
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    by api 10y ago

    Hmm... so effectively Android is no longer open.
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    by api 10y ago

    Cyanogen?
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    by api 10y ago

    I remember that quote too, and the key take aways always seemed like: in science you always learn something . Taking the EMDrive as an example -- we have measurements that contradict current theory, so we are either going to discover new p
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    by api 10y ago

    Setting up commercial ventures based on speculative hypotheses is what a large chunk of Hacker News does for a living.
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    by api 10y ago

    > I really appreciate the "well, let's just try it" approach. That's called "science." :)
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    by api 10y ago

    0 == true is also used in C error return values, where nonzero means "false" as in "did not succeed." So it's not without precedent. It's not a terrible idea. In most types of computing there's often only
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    by api 10y ago

    Interesting take: technical obscurantism as a kind of "captcha." I'm jumping through the hoops of "Debianizing" something now, and I have to say the Debian project uses similar techniques to limit participation to t
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    by api 10y ago

    That's like saying a snowmobile is a horse on skis. This is more like a total re-implementation of computing based on a functional model and a re-implementation of networking based on a feudal/federated shared/distributed&#x2
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    by api 10y ago

    This is pretty awesome. Even though we don't use AWS much due to lack of IPv6 support, we've wanted to have a giant bottomless FS for various purposes. It'd be easy to set that up in here and export it over a virtual network.
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    by api 10y ago

    It's more mobile phones than the Internet. I'm expecting a backlash.
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    by api 10y ago

    Designer/developer of ZeroTier here. :) Yes, our goals are much broader than VPN. You can think of ZeroTier as a virtual smart switch built on a P2P network; a "smart switch for Earth." We want to totally abstract away the ph
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    by api 10y ago

    Fixed. That was a typo/thinko.
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    by api 10y ago

    The rule is: never compress something secret together with something potentially attacker-influenced. If the attacker can influence the traffic, they can potentially gather information about the secret by examining the effect of differing t
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    by api 10y ago

    To what extent is sustained exponential growth a sign of product market fit? And do you view it as binary? Also what are your thoughts about the long term viability of this approach to building companies? As someone with a bit of a machine
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    by api 10y ago

    I've never thought of pitching like this. Demoing, yes, but pitching investors with a live coding demo? Wow. Definitely going to dig up some of Twilio's demo videos and study them.