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by duggan 9y ago
I read the series as a twelve or thirteen year old and loved it, but when I tried rereading it a few years ago I came to the same conclusion. As mentioned in another comment, it began as a serialized work, and it never really escapes Asimov
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by duggan 9y ago
I think it's pretty reasonable to read the parent as making a general assertion about subscription models from a consumer's perspective, particularly as they began their comment with, "as a consumer" rather than "as
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by duggan 9y ago
Not exactly; example.com and .org are reserved in RFC 2606[1]. 1.1.1.1 is not listed in the special use RFC[2], it's just an address previously unused by APNIC. [1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606 [2]: https
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by duggan 9y ago
The logic would presumably be that using a significantly larger missile constitutes escalation rather than retaliation. Which begets escalation, which begets mutually assured destruction. Game theory, rather than rhetoric.
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by duggan 9y ago
Looks like they're still waiting on the results[1]. [1]: https://twitter.com/MadeInSpace/status/958730115353137152
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by duggan 9y ago
No need for the snark, I was just curious as to whether the meaning had shifted.
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by duggan 9y ago
Since this is an article about language usage, can you explain to me what "TFA" means to you? I've seen in pop up increasingly on HN, and as far as I've always known it was a contraction of RTFA (from RTFM) and thus not
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by duggan 9y ago
An excellent point, had totally forgotten :)
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by duggan 9y ago
The emphasis would be incorrect if the term were reversed - RankBrain is a Brain for Ranking like PageRank is a Rank for Pages. No doubt there is someone in Google, however, who has a project for ranking AIs called BrainRank for their own a
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by duggan 9y ago
Perhaps it was left out in editing, or is made in Ullman's recently published book Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology .
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by duggan 9y ago
I've always been under the impression that the dismissal of the "myth of the 10x programmer" was more about its use as a general hiring filter rather than whether there exist prolific programmers (examples of whom seem readil
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by duggan 9y ago
Common in Britain and Ireland, at least - in context it just seemed like it might be a variation on the same idiom!
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by duggan 9y ago
> Waves and spirals Like "swings and roundabouts"? I've never come across this variation.
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by duggan 9y ago
Ok I think that's a reasonable position to have. However, giving back to a professional community seems like it would run on a different set of fundamentals to giving back to a social community. Could one not equally apply the argument
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by duggan 9y ago
Some folks have more spare money than spare time. If you've got the spare time, cool, if you've got the spare money, cool. What's the issue here?
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by duggan 9y ago
Some sort of lease arrangement stipulation on the vehicle with Uber for people who didn’t own / couldn’t afford a car?
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by duggan 9y ago
Capacity provisioning was the most annoying aspect of using DynamoDB when I last worked with it, but in the last couple of months they've added autoscaling[1] which would seem to address that major bugbear (with the caveat that I haven
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by duggan 9y ago
I’ve been using MiniHack[1] for iPhone for a year or two; great way of interacting with HN (can vote, comment, etc). [1]: https://itunes.apple.com/th/app/minihack-hacker-news-client/...
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by duggan 9y ago
You too! The reason that I said I'd like to see where it's written into statute is that I can't think of a reason why it would be legal. It sounds like driver folklore rather than law. Having a speed limit that can be exceede
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by duggan 9y ago
I'd like to see where that's written into a statute book; doesn't sound correct.
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by duggan 9y ago
I'm not a mathematician, but I think the joke is that you can't infer a meaningful average from a power law.
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Hanging S3 downloads(snellman.net)
235 points by duggan 9y ago|37 comments
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by duggan 9y ago
You will note the robustness principle applies to "code that sends commands or data to other machines", not people.
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by duggan 9y ago
You'd have to wonder though if this is perhaps scoffing at the notion of an airline industry at the time the Wright brothers are showing off their first aircraft. Getting from "man powered craft that can stay in the air for 30 sec
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by duggan 10y ago
> Denial, including of the emerging prospect of societal collapse itself, will be widespread, as will rejection of evidence-based fact. I want to take this seriously, but I'm dubious of any argument that uses doubt of its veracity a
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How I Made My Own iPhone – In China [video](youtube.com)
40 points by duggan 10y ago|2 comments
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by duggan 10y ago
Always made use of SSL, VPNs, and SSH proxies on the off-chance, but didn't realize how simple wifi attacks might be[1]. Feel like I should have known this already - thanks for the illumination! [1]: https://security.stackex
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by duggan 10y ago
It's never occurred to me to turn off WiFi for any reason short of debugging; can you explain why someone would regularly disable it?
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by duggan 10y ago
In '09, sure. That was the golden era of random apps filling in gaps in the core product, like Twitpic, etc.
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This Is the Hollowed-Out World That Outrage Culture Has Created (2016)(observer.com)
5 points by duggan 10y ago|0 comments

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