darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
When Zuckerberg calls for more regulation, he's actually requesting regulatory capture that ensures future competitors to facebook will be fighting an uphill battle.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Surely on F-Droid there must be a contacts app that isn't spyware.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Why do you feel compelled to prove flat earthers wrong? Most of them don't even earnestly believe it, but bait people like you into bad faith arguments for sport.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Don't confuse a deficiency of a wikipedia article for the definition of that thing.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "I think DSLs are about defining a 100% textual format." That's an unjustified qualification. I could throw together a spreadsheet format that is all text. The spreadsheet GUI then becomes a advanced text editor tha
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by darkpuma 7y ago
DSLs for non-programmers are battle-proven. The author dismisses SQL with an anecdote but the simple fact of the matter is that SQL is known and used proficiently by a massive number of non-programmers to get real work done. I guarantee
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Fair enough. Both mainstream choices suck for different reasons, and all other choices suffer from not being mainstream. It's a shit situation.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Consumers are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Would you tell consumers to stop complaining about the rock?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Also tptacek: "The fact that they won't render Polanski to the US cuts against Assange's argument." Let's be real here, he never would have made it to Sweden. One way or another, Assange's fear that leaving
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by darkpuma 7y ago
>>>> Is it your belief that he would not end up in US custody? And do you think he also believes that? >>> Yes, that is my belief. I don't know what he believes. >> Well, you seem to be implying that he is be
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Yes, they did. Here is tptacek saying that Assagne was dishonest and irrational when claiming to fear extradition to America: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11043329 Go through his comment history and survey what he&#
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I pray you realize the real downside of drunk driving is the risk of killing other people, not the risk of a DUI conviction.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That's such a hassle. I only do that with movies I can't find good torrents for. (My local library has a pretty good DVD collection.)
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Ublock Origin's "zap" tool works on it, and you can make the change permanent by creating a cosmetic filter for '##.container.header_block'
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Intelligence isn't the right word. There are some sort of jobs that do select for high intelligence. Any sort of work that requires abstract reasoning and novel problem solving is going to be inaccessible to people with lower inte
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I don't think AC in the Bay Area is much colder than AC anywhere else.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
So am I...
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Will they also allow sky burial? Edit: I was being serious. I would choose a sky burial if given the option. Feeding scavenger birds is a natural and aesthetically satisfying method of corpse disposal.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "My understanding is that they always planned to have generics, they just didn't make 1.0 and now the Go community has sort of adopted the lack of them like a badge of honor." As soon as Go adopts generics the communit
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That's a relative measure, it could still be the case that the absolute risk is still quite low for each individual. It could very well be the case that the risk per individual is low enough to not cause serious rational concern, whi
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I could be wrong, but I'm under the impression that whether a plane is cramped or not is largely up to the airline not the manufacturer, since it's the airline who actually makes the decision about how many seats to cram in, and w
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The quote in question: > "The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. Th
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Trust in The New Yorker is not in question. The matter of concern is reputable news sources, of which The New Yorker is only one example of many, behaving in ways that makes it easier for fake news sites to emulate their appearance. W
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by darkpuma 7y ago
As far as phone manufacturers go? Maybe third tier.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That's not been my experience.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That's just the "print mentality" excuse. There is no good reason for a 'magazine' to not hyperlink the documents they're talking about.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "This will only remain an advantage as long as we expect messages to contain verifiable facts." In a way, many traditional reputable news organizations are guilty of perpetuating this lack of expectations among readers. I
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "The heads of major political parties get to decide what is real information and what is fake now; they don't need censorship to do this." I don't need a car to get to work. I've got a bicycle and five mi
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Multi-Account Containers is good for that.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Suspending unused tabs" I'm curious to see how aggressive this is. If it's good enough to render my tab suspender extension obsolete, that'd be fantastic.

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