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by ebcode 10y ago
bear in mind this paper is now owned by jeff bezos, and the actual results are still not in yet edit: bozos -> bezos
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by ebcode 10y ago
I had the same reaction to this comment as you. He says to "beware the educated idiot", then goes on to describe someone who is the opposite of that. I think we were both expecting an example of an "educated idiot". Ma
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by ebcode 10y ago
I was in a discussion with someone here about Trump and "hate speech", and I'm curious if anyone can actually point to anything that Trump has said on record that would qualify as "hate speech" under US law. Also,
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by ebcode 10y ago
Dude. Look at the caption underneath those screenshots. They say, "A screenshot of the phishing email received by ..." The fact that Google actually sends out emails that look like that is what makes the phishing attack so effec
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by ebcode 10y ago
No, the screen w/ "Google stopped this sign in attempt" is not from Google. Presumably the "Change Password" link pointed to a server controlled by the phishers.
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by ebcode 10y ago
I want to know if our own star is also sending out these "peculiar periodic spectral modulations"??? If our own star is doing this as well, it could indicate that our solar system is a part of some type of "network", an
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by ebcode 10y ago
Thanks! I was imagining a star suddenly going dim and staying that way . This does not appear to be that.
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by ebcode 10y ago
Any chance you can point to the research on that?
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by ebcode 10y ago
Of course he doesn't say that. Or at least he hasn't yet (that we know of). I can see that my definition of "hate speech" is much, much broader than yours, however. So it will only be a time-sink for us to try to come
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by ebcode 10y ago
Anger is an emotion I try to avoid entirely. If I could only choose one word to describe my feelings toward Hitler, it would be "pity". I'm not saying anger is never warranted, but holding onto those feelings and acting on t
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by ebcode 10y ago
Fair enough, but that only goes so far. The usefulness of language depends on there being commonly held definitions between the speakers. If I said, "your definition of 'broom' can differ from mine", things would start
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by ebcode 10y ago
>Trump is an ideological figure with very few actual political views. His popularity is due almost entirely to his cultivation of American hate. I think this is spot on. If someone says something hateful, and I retweet it, am I not also
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by ebcode 10y ago
I just recently went through an RSI flare-up and had to do something urgently, so here's what I did. I immediately went and bought a replacement mouse, with a trackball. Because it was my right hand/wrist that was experiencing t
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by ebcode 10y ago
Don't bet on it.
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by ebcode 10y ago
Wow. Even HN is trying to bury this.
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by ebcode 10y ago
>USA might be a democracy but there is no power in the hands of the people anymore. Question: How can we (I live in the US) still be a democracy if there is no power in the hands of the people? I think either the US has slowly become an
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by ebcode 10y ago
Right. Trump hasn't attacked Assange personally . If I had read a news article alleging that HRC had said, "Can't we just drone this guy?" about me , I would be pretty terrified to leave my flat as well. Even more s
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by ebcode 10y ago
Trump hasn't made "jokes" about droning him. [1] Secondly, and with a little more convoluted reasoning: it seems to be a truism that Republican/Conservative presidencies are harder economically for people living in pover
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by ebcode 10y ago
1. Howard Roarke (The Fountainhead) 1943 Novel 2. Stanley Kowalski (A Streetcar Named Desire) 1947 Play Just two that spring to mind. I'm sure a diligent person could find plenty of other examples of rapist protagonists in 20th centur
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by ebcode 10y ago
Yeah, I get your point about the hivemind, but I think it's less damaging to see downvoting as being about the comment , not the person . iow, don't take it personally.
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by ebcode 10y ago
The "entrance fee" in this case would be: understanding promises. When you introduce a new feature into a language, my assumption is that a "less-experienced dev", by definition, would not have experience using promises
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by ebcode 10y ago
Having seen that the $99 price point was too high, is one of your goals still "supercomputing for everyone"? Or has that dream been dashed?
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by ebcode 10y ago
John Holland is always worth watching, and not very many people have seen this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_u_d-KLEsE#t=1183.549186
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by ebcode 10y ago
I think you misinterpreted the comparison. It's not /. to YC, but /. to HN
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by ebcode 10y ago
> People are exploring ideas like 'stop paying taxes' because there are no other options available to them except civil disobedience. Stopping paying taxes is a form of civil disobedience. eg, https://en.wikipedia.or
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by ebcode 10y ago
Have you found Scratch yet? https://scratch.mit.edu/
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by ebcode 10y ago
I don't disagree w/ your attidude towards the LOC metric, and I especially like your idea in the footnotes about each line of code being a tax on future programmers who have to read the code. I'm afraid that the code example
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by ebcode 10y ago
>Homogenous, largely white, largely male, largely safe people are not going to detect the problems the author appears to be implying are going untreated. What you said was both racist and sexist. You're saying that a group of peopl
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by ebcode 10y ago
On the contrary, if you know that modern cars are overly-complicated, you can choose to not buy one, and instead buy something more like a 1984 volkswagen bug.
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by ebcode 10y ago
Internet is a private good => private corporation claims general regulatory powers over what goes through the Internet. Thank you?

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