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by dvdhnt 9y ago
Huh, do you have a source on that statement? I'm not disagreeing with you, I actually don't know, and am always happy to learn useful facts for refactoring and improved performance :)
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
The article links to a previous article on the local impact of the campus that is also interesting: https://www.dezeen.com/2017/06/13/apple-park-new-campus-fost... Edit: clarification
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
> 1. How is this attempt different from HashCash, aside from using Monero? I've never heard of either service, so I checked out both. One big difference between the two is that I knew pretty quickly what Coinhive was and how to use
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California bans drones from delivering marijuana(theverge.com)
59 points by dvdhnt 9y ago|63 comments
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
This would be impossible. We can't accurately speculate what values will be important to future people any more than we can discern what a cow is thinking.
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
I suspect that licensing fees are to blame. Having two children, there's rarely (if ever) a time I go to the Lego section of a store and not see at least one kit for every property my children (or I) enjoy.
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An influential math text is getting a beautiful, minimalist edition(theverge.com)
24 points by dvdhnt 9y ago|4 comments
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Two-thirds of Americans approve of editing human DNA to treat disease(theverge.com)
63 points by dvdhnt 9y ago|72 comments
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
> Official statistics you’ve published put reddit at a reach of 6% of US internet users, which would be over 234 million users. The population of the U.S. is about 320 million, including children and non internet users, so how can 6% of
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
> a higher percentage of private school parents value education and are engaged in their childrens' learning It's just not true. Higher income families can afford to take more time off, especially salaried workers, and are ofte
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
> in large part motivated by religious fundamentalists seeking to replace public education with voucher-based religious schools This is preposterous. Public schools have been neutered by deep budget cuts by politicians of all parties who
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
> take a look at MITMproxy This was my first thought. I haven't taken a look yet, but I suspect that if an organization this large was doing something so nefarious, they'd encrypt/encode or otherwise mask what it is their
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
As others have said, this is not causation nor has hard evidence been provided, however, I am curious: What moral obligation does a developer have, if any, to expose this sort of "feature"? The mob came when Snowden et all exposed
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
I'm not downplaying luck's role in my life so much as I'm downplaying my role as my own worst enemy.
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
What a thoughtful contribution - it's thought provoking and adds depth to the conversation. I wish more comments did as much. You touch on an interesting topic - the point of terrorism isn't destruction, it's to inspire fear.
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
I don't think this is specific to Alaska - there's something similar going on in Siberia and other places where melting permafrost has the potential to do serious damage. There are even books (and soon at least one movie) on how r
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Ask HN: Are social and political conflicts within tech pushing you away?
4 points by dvdhnt 9y ago|1 comments
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
I really appreciate your response; you're correct. I was wrong to offer the ideal I did. I had hoped to posit that taxation is often abused, used as a tool to accomplish something other than to generally fund the government or improve
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
Nuanced like a longer sentence or nuanced like they really said "canine testicles"? /s
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
> bullshit Yep, 100%. Could you imagine doing this bs internally in the course of work? These people would be fired - their inability to deal with conflict or share the same space as people who disagree with them does little more than st
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
People need to stop being so damn lazy. Seriously - Rosa Parks didn't start a bus company when she did not like the rules on the existing bus. MLK didn't start a new religion or form a separate government to avoid oppression of ex
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
Generally, I would agree, and in the broadest sense of the terms, they are not equal. You can call anything whatever you want; you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig. England used taxation as a way to maintain control over
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
> Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour. [1] If I don't mow my lawn or pick up my garbage (labour) then my homeowners' assoc
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
I disagree and find your argument convenient. It's like saying that once you're elected to congress, you must vote along party lines no matter your personal convictions because "reasons". We see how well that's work
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
> Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics―the twentieth century
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
So, you're right - the economy is not zero sum, but the resources are. The economy is about moving them here or there. It depends on where you got those skittles? If you are increasing the skittle count by just taking from other people
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
That's not true at all. For one, you're talking about a digit currency derived from a (currently) finite resource: electricity. While you suck up electricity mining BTC, you add to the demand for said electricity. Higher demand me
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
Personally, I think it is blatantly unfair. It's like if we had a big bad of skittles and every time I took 1 skittle, you took 10 skittles.
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by dvdhnt 9y ago
Individuals haven't owned much in a very long time; we've been physical serfs living on someone else's land for even longer. You only "own" something so long as you pay taxes (aka rents) for the right to do so, othe
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Spyware backdoor prompts Google to pull 500 apps with 100m downloads(arstechnica.com)
18 points by dvdhnt 9y ago|5 comments

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