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by creato 6y ago
I actually do believe the gist of that, though I do agree there's a bit of spin. Do you think this guy would have acted anything remotely like this by himself? That doesn't change the fact that he and others like him committed a c
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by creato 6y ago
I think you are being a bit harsh, his apology seems sincere and says a lot more than that. Don't get me wrong, that doesn't begin to make up for his criminal behavior and I hope he is prosecuted for it. But we shouldn't make
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by creato 6y ago
Do you really think this is vetted? There's no way this guy has actually tested all of these things. He's just reading Amazon reviews instead of you.
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by creato 6y ago
It also looks like this version is using an algorithm that none of the others use: it precomputes the distance pairs for all bodies. Some of the others precompute the vectors between the pairs, but that's not the expensive part of comp
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by creato 6y ago
What is the real honest use case for affiliate links? It basically seems like a way for Amazon and other affiliate program operators to deniably outsource black hat SEO. Not that this particular site is using black hat SEO (as far as I can
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by creato 6y ago
Come on, are we being serious here? "Developing a groundbreaking new style of vaccination" requires far, far more support than just a salary. UBI/social safety nets are totally irrelevant here.
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by creato 6y ago
I would be shocked if those two programs performed the same. C and Rust are using the same compiler backend, better aliasing information probably isn't going to make that big of a difference. Are you sure the rust performance data is
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by creato 6y ago
> Loeb explains that the sun's gravitational force would cause a natural object to move faster as it approaches, and eventually push the object back, causing it to move slower as it moves away. Loeb points out that this didn't
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by creato 6y ago
This kind of garbage is why open source software can't compete with the likes of Google. I started out reading this comment chain thinking "great, I'm going to try maps.me". 10 seconds later, I've learned I can&#x27
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by creato 6y ago
I think there are more differences than militaries between states and what is essentially kickstarter.
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by creato 6y ago
> Search warrants are not intended to be difficult to obtain, but there must be some reasonable basis for the search. A close associate of the person in question with information regarding illicit activity on the property in question is
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by creato 6y ago
> The major important players (Apple, Amazon, MS, Goog) want to go ARM and then maybe RISC-V for their own strategic reasons anyway. Source? I don't think they care, I think they just don't want to be beholden to a single suppl
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by creato 6y ago
I don't think anyone that has commented so far (or the article itself) really understands how problematic it really is. I don't either for sure, but it's a few 10s(?) of kgs of heavy metal. It's probably going to act lik
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by creato 6y ago
If google were to downrank pinterest, it would seem very similar to the foundem case: https://www.ft.com/content/88f26f10-5d3a-11e9-939a-341f5ada9...
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by creato 6y ago
I think they can't do anything about it. Regulators and lawmakers in the US and EU would be very receptive to complaints from pinterest if google were to act somehow.
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by creato 6y ago
> I think this is more of a matter of scale, like in your ISP and datacenter example, social media could be counted in on that too due to the sheer size of it and influence it can have on people. It's not about scale, it's abou
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by creato 6y ago
> As of right now all the posts on /r/all not right leaning. That's a pretty funny way to say "all but one or two posts out of 25 are not related to politics at all". Unless you consider things like wearing masks
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by creato 6y ago
I get that there are philosophical issues with AMP and respect and agree with many of those, but I don't understand how people claim with a straight face that it's worse from an end user perspective. Even setting aside load speed,
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by creato 6y ago
It's funny how two of the most common bandwagon posts you can see on HN and other programming venues is: * C++ is a terrible bloated language that no one should use. * The power of modern computers is wasted on lazy software engineers
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by creato 6y ago
But this sounds like a technical limitation that makes sense? This entire comment chain is mostly people interpreting the lawsuit as claiming this was a deliberate artificial delay for business reasons and getting outraged about that, not a
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by creato 6y ago
CERN invented the text format of a webpage. I think that is roughly 0% of the R&D required to make the internet work as we know it today. This is like me developing a text rendering app on my laptop and claiming credit for the work of h
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by creato 6y ago
What does this have to do with this incident? Do you think attackers having to scan 10 or more open source repo hosts for leaks is impractical? If so, maybe that's a worse situation? After all, if it's harder for attackers to scan
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by creato 6y ago
This has several factors that lead people to make such comments: Tech nerds like to describe things as boring, obvious, and easy to do, it makes them feel smart. Certain politics lead people to assume that government is incompetent and ther
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by creato 6y ago
Nothing in the parent post claims it was "engineered in a lab". Being accidentally released from a lab is not inconsistent with being "natural born". I think this is still highly unlikely, but it is annoying seeing peopl
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by creato 6y ago
Farms are only getting a small fraction of the price of food ( https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/price-spreads-from-fa... ). When you combine this factor with your stat, it doesn't seem like subsidies are a sig
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by creato 6y ago
It sounds like it should be buried because it's clickbait headline generating fluff that only would get attention because of where the authors come from. And I say that after reading a summary that sounds like the authors had a positiv
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by creato 6y ago
I don't think the approval process is being used to enforce rigor in general, the (claimed) problem is the paper lacks rigor specifically in regards to claims about google's behavior. Publishing a paper with a lack of rigor about
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by creato 6y ago
> Apple's involvement was particularly egregious: they threatened to destroy adobe with spurious patent litigation unless they participated. My impression (from the emails that were quoted in the news at the time) was that Steve Job
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by creato 6y ago
But the context of this thread is that it is being done with soldered RAM. I don't know how much that matters, just pointing out that you are taking the conversation in a circle.
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by creato 6y ago
> The vast majority of lithium batteries are in landfills, compressed between all our other garbage because maybe 2% of people on the planet properly dispose of e-waste. Is this representative of small electronics and not vehicles? It wi

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