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901.
by eloisius 5y ago
I’ve occasionally wondered why the responsibility to mitigate abuse can’t be pushed all the way out to edge nodes (individual ISPs and data centers) instead of relying on centralized abuse prevention. I imagine this does happen for certain
902.
by eloisius 5y ago
I have no doubts about front-running, but that would still mean they need suckers that have access to exchanges in order to liquidate their positions.
903.
by eloisius 5y ago
Who are they liquidating their positions to if they are shutting off access to exchanges? Every seller needs a buyer.
904.
by eloisius 5y ago
Nah that’s exactly how the alignment did occur. Spaces would be mixed with tabs to align things with 4 spaces aligning to each tab. Since I don’t like to view 3 virtuously splits I don’t like all the wasted indentation space and I view tabs
905.
by eloisius 5y ago
In theory I agree, but having recently worked in a code base that used tabs, it was painfully obviously that some devs displayed them as 4 spaces and some as 2 because they would visually align things for their editor’s configuration. It wa
906.
by eloisius 5y ago
Sounds like you’ve got the commitment to learn it. Are you self-studying, in class, studying in your home country or in a Chinese-speaking country? I spend 3 hours per day in class, 5 days a week. We learn about 10 new words and about 2-3 n
907.
by eloisius 5y ago
I’m about a year in studying Mandarin and feel the same way. All the “exotic” features people say make it hard to learn, like tones and writing characters, aren’t that hard to remember and use. English let’s us have a lot of flexibility whe
908.
by eloisius 5y ago
These are valid points, but in non-perf benchmark terms, what is the benefit to rendering before fonts load? I have never appreciated getting to read for a couple of seconds before the screen repaints and I lose where I was and just start o
909.
by eloisius 5y ago
Lazy? People who think this way? Mother Nature? Claiming to command the sea? I’m just talking about SEO spam.
910.
by eloisius 5y ago
I almost never even register the knowledge box at the top because I don’t _just_ want the answer, I also want at least a little context and chance to vet the credibility of the answer. In this case it says appropriate internal temperatures
911.
by eloisius 5y ago
Probably not as lucrative as targeting Americans. I’ve noticed a nice side affect of living in Taiwan to be that there is generally less trash to sift through when looking for this kind of stuff. Spammers just don’t target us as much.
912.
by eloisius 5y ago
Lately I’ve been wondering if a niche search engine popular with hackers and not the general public could run circles around Google search results just because scammers and content farms wouldn’t be incentivized to game it like they are Goo
913.
by eloisius 5y ago
While I think it’s incorrect to assume PDFs cannot be exploited, I’m using computer viruses as a metaphor. What if a legit chemistry paper was tampered with such that the procedure creates and explosively releases a nerve agent and a cheap
914.
by eloisius 5y ago
What prevents metaphorical Trojan-infected copies of Photoshop from ending up in a science piracy site?
915.
by eloisius 6y ago
Particularly helpful for quickly appending something to a file name mv something{,.old}
916.
by eloisius 6y ago
Not sure how this would actually work. You usually have hundreds of matches and few substantial conversations per every sexual encounter. I feel like the signal to noise ratio would make it impractical to get tested every time anyone I ever
917.
by eloisius 6y ago
Anecdotally, I eat 3 meals, about the same as anyone, but I’m probably less prone to diseases of affluence than I would be if I drove everywhere. I’d wager that most Americans have a couple hundred extra daily calories in their budget that
918.
by eloisius 6y ago
Maybe it’s the aggregate cynicism of seeing all that “progress” amount to little else than hype, shifting market share from older giants in every sector to new exciting new startups that almost immediately become just as bad as the old gian
919.
by eloisius 6y ago
> you are only on this planet for so long and waisting these hours making it look like you are doing work pails in comparison to actually making any impact on the people At least you acknowledge the finite nature of life, but it seems li
920.
by eloisius 6y ago
Keep in mind that regardless of who was in power, style of government, and everything else, Japan and China have antagonized each other for about 800 years. Japan is a net importer of food and raw materials. Taiwan sits in the middle of imp
921.
by eloisius 6y ago
> Couldn't you compare that to deciding between colleges? They all presumably will teach you information that is true Not even close. No one expects their college to impart infallible, ultimate, eternal truth. You expect to be train
922.
by eloisius 6y ago
I agree with this sentiment. Even if you manage to get to bed at an early time, it seems like the modern workplace still doesn’t reward deep focus. It rewards frequent context switching, being constantly available to answer pings in slack,
923.
by eloisius 6y ago
Evergreen is a Taiwanese conglomerate that owns several freighters (along with an airline, hotels, god knows what else)
924.
by eloisius 6y ago
I’ll add that the metro is efficient and clean by international standards, in case any readers think there was an implied “...for South America” at the end of that. It was cleaner, better maintained and more accessible to people with disabi
925.
by eloisius 6y ago
It might also explain why I loved being in a wood shop so much as a kid. Something about the warm, sweet smell of wood smoke when the friction from a saw caused it to heat up was so relaxing.
926.
by eloisius 6y ago
They do but then the companies pay it forward to their customers. There’s a whole list of itemized fees on a cellular bill. Those aren’t collected “for” the government. The company is just itemizing it for you, probably so that they can neg
927.
by eloisius 6y ago
At the risk of taking this thread further off-topic from OP, I just want to point out that in the two posts you've made here, you've provided a timely example of exactly what I described: you made vague references to 'credibl
928.
by eloisius 6y ago
I cringe when I think about how I used to seriously consider nootropic drugs while consistently staying up past midnight and hitting snooze and begrudgingly dragging myself from my bed after ~6 hours of sleep.
929.
by eloisius 6y ago
I reread what you posted a couple of times, and I still have no idea what your point is. Vaccines are or are not harmful? If they are harmful, would you assert any specific claims and provide evidence please?
930.
by eloisius 6y ago
When I said "every one of _them_" I was referring to every one of them that you have met. Not implying that you meant all of them in existence. I'm surprised by your experience, because growing up in an Evangelical community

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