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by api 11y ago
Most of the things he whines about apply to all dynamic languages, since you can't catch API drift bugs except at runtime.
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by api 11y ago
McDonalds contains objectively less nutrition than better foods, as well as objectively more addictive and potentially harmful additives (sugar, etc.). Today's stamped-out low-effort all-sounds-the-same pop contains objectively less no
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by api 11y ago
Wow... they really shrank the size of a data center! Of course I know what this actually means: your phone is now an even dumber dumb terminal for accessing the cloud. I personally gave up when I saw no references at all to encryption, secu
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by api 11y ago
so if i rite like this my riting stile is no diffrent r better than urz, rite?!? lol
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by api 11y ago
A more luxury version of this is what I've long suspected the Virgin Galactic project to be: suborbital flights around the world. I've long thought it to be a stealth suborbital spaceplane effort that would add a very expensive bu
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by api 11y ago
The US was less centralized than the USSR, but not by as large of a margin as most think. It's always -- even going back to the days of Manifest Destiny and such -- been a planned economy where major economic moves and expansions are d
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by api 11y ago
That's a valid point so I gave you a compensatory upvote. It would depend a lot on the nature of the economy in such a world and how these hypothetical beings got and maintained their wealth. At the risk of totally derailing into sci-f
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by api 11y ago
Sounds like broken freemium: margins too low to sustain, price too much of a leap.
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by api 11y ago
I should have been more precise: right-libertarian and Reagan-style economic libertarian politics. I would still say though that libertarians of the more independent type have been played as political tools to push for one-sided policies th
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by api 11y ago
Those policies are an example of the wealthy using the government as a tool to extract rent, hence my comment about unilateral disarmament. While couched in liberal or eco-whatever rhetoric, make no mistake about it: SF's NIMBY policie
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by api 11y ago
I somewhat agree with Graham: economic inequality is not intrinsically the problem and startups are not the problem. The problem IMHO is rent and profiteering off taxpayer subsidies, both of which more or less force me to pay tribute to the
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by api 11y ago
Equity crowdfunding is now "live," or getting there. This will bring more money in at the seed stage. I wonder how this will affect the larger ecosystem? Seems like we might see a shift away from a few "unicorns" to an e
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by api 11y ago
Law enforcement officers and researchers could file for their case to be dismissed by providing evidence of their reason for accessing the material. This is an argument for privacy around criminal charges since even being charged with CP
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by api 11y ago
I don't have a huge problem with this. The site was clearly only for child porn, so signing up is equivalent to, say, willingly trying to hire a hit man or plotting a robbery. I actually think this is a good example of digital police w
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by api 11y ago
> What really sticks out to me is the brain damage-like effects of the disease Absolutely... there's an incoherence to true (not armchair diagnosed) schizophrenia. The mind falls apart. Traditional shamans and modern ones like McK
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by api 11y ago
Most Linux distros have a mothership in the form of the package repositories and the signing keys thereof. Doing without would require a more decentralized system that would be harder to engineer, unless you want to go back to the days when
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by api 11y ago
I love McKenna's raps but I really disagree with him here. I doubt he had much experience with actual schizophrenia, which is horrific and debilitating, and I doubt shamans present or past actually had it. Psychedelic drugs induce a su
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by api 11y ago
Heh. I had lots of experiences like yours up there. People noticeably changed their demeanor when they found out I was from Kentucky and Ohio, grew up on food stamps, and went to a medium sized Midwestern school. I once had someone actually
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by api 11y ago
I've lived in both Boston and California. All of what I'm about to say comes from the small sample size that is personal experience and therefore YMMV, but this is my observation. The most important difference between Boston (and
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by api 11y ago
Heh... this is pretty close to the Wheelie Boy from William Gibson's recent novel The Peripheral .
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by api 11y ago
Now consider that IPv4 + NAT + NAT traversal is essentially a crap version of IPv4+ that uses UDP port numbers to achieve an unstable, unreliable 16 bit extension to the IPv4 address space. Of course because these port numbers are ephemeral
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Privileged Ports Cause Climate Change(adamierymenko.com)
2 points by api 11y ago|0 comments
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by api 11y ago
So we're reinventing init/systemd with giant pseudo-binaries in the form of containers, because this time we'll get it right.
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by api 11y ago
Religion and ideological herd behaviors are a core part of human nature. You can't expect these to magically vanish just because people have abandoned belief in supernatural deities and magic. Those are just one form of it. Religion is
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by api 11y ago
This drives a long cycle of AI booms and AI winters. Right now we seem to be in another boom. When the limits of deep learning and other new techniques become apparent, we'll be back in another AI winter.
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by api 11y ago
I've been getting a kick out of the flat Earth thing. I've figured it as a "guerrilla ontology" or "alternate reality" prank in the tradition of Robert Anton Wilson, the Church of the Subgenus, the Incunabula P
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by api 11y ago
Super nice, yes, but not essential. Everything essential is more expensive, often by quite a margin. Housing is insane.
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by api 11y ago
HN's mods need to be able to merge the comment sections of dupe articles.
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by api 11y ago
Where is this efficiency and net gain of which you speak? Real estate, food, energy, health care, education, and other necessities are getting more expensive, often dramatically so and sometimes at rates far beyond inflation. If this is an
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GoCryptFS: encrypting FUSE filesystem in Go(github.com)
19 points by api 11y ago|1 comments

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