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by colemannugent 7y ago
Seconding this, the buttons are way too tiny. On mobile they are almost impossible to hit on smaller text settings.
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by colemannugent 8y ago
The libertarian argument against government breaking up monopolies is pretty simple, we believe that most monopolies were created by the government in the first place. Here are some pretty standard arguments: https://mises.org&#x
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> Whether its American Conservatives or UK Remainers, much of the political spectrum has an inability to consider the other side's opinion I would caution the author against merely dismissing this behavior as a defect in their thin
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by colemannugent 8y ago
While I have no doubt that you of all people could do DNS right, it seems a bit like scope creep IMO. I'm very excited about sr.ht, but also worried that it might be too much to execute all at once. That being said, DNS records in Git
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> It is democracy itself they [The Republican Party] are opposed to, and will continue to amass power until bloodshed forces change. So in your opinion, the solution to Republicans subverting democracy isn't well considered democra
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> Make it illegal to put DRM on hardware for anti-competitive purposes. Can anyone give an example of DRM that isn't anti-competitive?
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by colemannugent 8y ago
I don't think so, FTA: "“I read it as the ability to reset to factory settings,” Nathan Proctor, head of consumer rights group US PIRG’s right to repair efforts, told me in an email. Although you could make an argument that the
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by colemannugent 8y ago
They want to increase the "feature" surface area as that increases sales. Eventually this will become a big enough problem that cars will come with a security rating just like the safety ratings they come with today. Most people w
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> This is point of governments. To change the incentives for individuals so markets optimize for global good. This is not a hard concept. Huh, this whole time I thought the point of governments was to protect individual rights. TIL &#x2
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> You have it exactly backwards. Whoops! You're exactly correct. Issuing more bonds increases the risk of the issuer not being able to repay the debt and thus the debtors will demand higher rates to offset this increased risk. Alth
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> interest rates are set by the market Aye, mostly. It's important to remember that the Federal Govt. has the ability to manipulate the money supply by printing money and the ability to nearly indefinitely borrow whenever they get
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by colemannugent 8y ago
The Fed manipulates interest rates in an attempt to stabilize the economy. The strategy goes something like this: slowly raise interest rates while the economy is humming along, and when a downturn comes along they quickly lower them in an
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by colemannugent 8y ago
I love these kinds of puzzles. Can't wait for the write-up of the solution.
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by colemannugent 8y ago
Education doesn't have as much effect as you might think. It seems that nutrition has a very significant effect on IQ: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0191886990...
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by colemannugent 8y ago
Here's one such list for anyone interested: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
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by colemannugent 8y ago
I subscribed about two months ago after seeing this on /r/sysadmin. I got my first issue, but I still haven't got my Yubikey :( I have a feeling that they might be waiting on a huge order of the branded Yubikeys to arrive.
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by colemannugent 8y ago
I also agree that current budget allocations are insane. Maybe if we stopped fighting so many wars we could make more progress here at home. Another assumption that you make is that the problem with the US education system is a lack of fund
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> Literally everyone. and > Imagine the tax income down the line... are contradictory. A better argument would be: "Increased education and welfare spending leads to more productivity and the added cost is offset by the increas
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by colemannugent 8y ago
> ...make healthcare and education free-or-nearly-so... Free for who?
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by colemannugent 8y ago
See FDR's "court packing plan": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Procedures_Reform_Bil...
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by colemannugent 8y ago
I can't remember another particular instance, but there have been several times where something interesting linked on HN will have another piece of interesting content related to it which will then also be posted here. It is kind of un
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by colemannugent 8y ago
I don't want to put words in openbasic's mouth, but here I go anyway: > what definition of "free" you're using here Free as in relatively unencumbered by government regulation. I think it's fair to say base
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by colemannugent 8y ago
On a related note, does anyone have a good recommendation for a lightweight analytics solution? I've looked at Piwik/Matomo and it looks pretty good. I've also been looking at NGINX Amplify, but that is more web server metric
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by colemannugent 8y ago
Surprised nobody's mentioned this yet: The most common form of ID in the US is a driver's license. To get one you need to meet a bunch of requirements and then take a driving test at a local branch of the Department of Motor Vehic
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by colemannugent 8y ago
At some point won't you run into IP issues with the ARM SoC? Plus how would you deal with things like power analysis attacks that require modifying hardware to fully mitigate?
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by colemannugent 8y ago
How about a video of Obama saying there was no tampering? https://www.nbcnews.com/video/obama-no-technical-tampering-w...
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by colemannugent 8y ago
I see this argument made quite frequently online and I don't get it. Isn't it obvious that more people think the state should prioritize preventing murders over helping people raise their children? Isn't the debate over the b
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by colemannugent 8y ago
I should clarify: I have seen the planets before, but I can't remember being able to see this much detail without a telescope or binoculars. Jupiter and Venus look like regular, although very bright, stars. Mars is currently a very vis
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by colemannugent 8y ago
Being able to see the red of Mars at night is strange. Since I (and probably most of us on HN) live in the worst area for light pollution it's not too often you can see other planets like this unaided.
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by colemannugent 8y ago
Memory seems rather like a multi-tier cache hierarchy to me. You can only really keep something like seven objects in your mind at once, and everything else seems to be pushed to slower sections of your memory. Within this analogy cache evi

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