ethnic_throw

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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
> There will be false positives and negatives. Lots. And as usual, the people who appear to be targetted with the laws (the four digital horsemen) will figure out simple workarounds, so the laws really only harm honest people.
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
So I take it you implicitly agree with the original article's thesis?
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
I'd be careful reading it: Kuhn is excellent at building narratives, and what is more narrative friendly than revolution? In reality science is far more messy than he acknowledges. Unfortunately while I think many of Kuhn's observ
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
> Who really wants to take a Hyperloop from Houston to Dallas? Presumably people living there, about 12 million of them. > And even if you can, then you need to rent a car just to get around, or spend several hundred dollars on Uber&#
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
Actually fingerprints are relatively easy, if painful, to change. Your point stands, of course.
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
> To me, this says more about Ars than about the (non)issue at hand - it's finally slid down to the level of a typical net publication. One swallow does not a summer make!
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
> Gibbs said in the TLS article that he did his research for an unnamed "television network." Given that Gibbs' main claim to fame before this article was a series of books about how to write and sell television screenplay
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
Well, you can, but you probably won't get any serious critique and people will dismiss you (it seems like rightfully so in this case).
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
> Sure, dlopen does tons of more stuff behind the scenes, but ultimately it is about loading bunch of bytes into memory and executing those as functions. That's pretty much mprotect, though. dlopen mostly does the other things, an
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
Agreed; grew up in the Berkshires and these were just a gimmick. I never saw them.
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
> but I think the social expectations are much clearer than when a team uses email for everything. In my experience, this is typically the expectation to respond immediately regardless of the query. Nope.
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
Wait you think email is LESS searchable than Slack?
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
> All links are curated by hand from Hacker News. My fear is that I have a different taste than you. How do you curate it?
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
Morally or nutritionally? These are two entirely different evaluations.
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
It's not clear why Google relies on demanding browsers change to provide the experience the users expect.
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
> You can have natural scrolling, an accurate reader view, a working back button and other highly performant features in a mobile-optimized HTML and CSS standard like AMP. In fact, you practically have to go out of your way to break thes
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
That's an ethical problem, which is orthogonal to the fact that this fake meat is basically a soy hot dog in terms of nutrition.
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
Is MSG considered an artificial flavoring? I was under the impression that it is both naturally occurring in biology and that its health problems are greatly over-exaggerated. Nonetheless, point taken.
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
Taxes ≠ rents.
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by ethnic_throw 9y ago
I'd hazard a guess that most people don't differentiate between race and ethnicity. I'm not sure why you'd conflate the two, to be honest—understanding your race is fairly necessary to understand how you're viewed i