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by fao_ 6y ago
Read the code? There's a view of the layout of the code here and a simple description of what each part does: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md I just typed 'type parsing&#
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by fao_ 6y ago
> The web is there to provide functionality and satisfy business needs. lol Remember when the web was for people to communicate? Not just to 'satisfy business needs'?
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by fao_ 6y ago
> You're way off the mark with your examples. More appropriate ones would be military weapons, multi-level marketing, payday loan firms with ridiculous interest rates, scummy advertisement firms. Agreed. Modern economics encourages
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by fao_ 6y ago
> After the layoffs in 2015, even though the team shrunk, Gumroad itself continued to grow. Hmmmm. Sounds weird that there were layoffs given that you could clearly afford to keep the employees? The company itself was raking in more each
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by fao_ 6y ago
Would it be possible for you to do a writeup on what you found that might be transferrable?
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by fao_ 6y ago
> Systemd's "start everything at once, let the dependencies sort out automatically" is a major regression for server systems. With sysv-init you could just pick the right ordering and be done, everything was stable for eve
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Additionally I feel it worthwhile to note that my original comment was intended to be examples of pseudo-rationalism i.e: * Yudkowsky using a fundamentally flawed argument to state and defend the idea that pure utilitarianist mathematics in
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by fao_ 6y ago
Can you go ahead and reread the comment of mine that you are arguing against? I think you're generalizing an argument that wasn't intended to be so. Here it is for ease: > Or the creator of Roko's Baselisk openly stating r
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by fao_ 6y ago
Also, if it can happen by accident then I don't really think it should be called "porting". You don't find that a linux-centric malware has "accidentally" "ported" itself to windows, likewise Intel by
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by fao_ 6y ago
It feels like most of the Founder-type people are taking a break from what they usually do at work -- which probably includes checking hacker news. So it's left room for the more interesting things to surface over the "What happen
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by fao_ 6y ago
> The numbers are actually related to the mystery variables that the American astronomer and the planetary scientist Segan referred to in his Cosmos miniseries in which he discussed the Drake equation. Typo: Segan :)
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by fao_ 6y ago
Did you actually go and read his tweets, or are you arguing on principle with no knowledge of what I am talking about?
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by fao_ 6y ago
> I Am Not A Lawyer, but "a curated collection of units-of-art" seems like a very reasonable thing to protect access to I'm going to need a citation on playlists specifically being protected under copyright. I'm not s
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by fao_ 6y ago
I wasn't aware that playlists can be copyrighted. And what's the difference between someone mechanically scraping playlists (because, quite frankly, spotify alter their playlists all the time -- I've experienced this with the
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by fao_ 6y ago
Holy shit, this talk is amazing. Thank you!!
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by fao_ 6y ago
I... what? So you think Spotify was justified to stop people from... copying playlists? ?? what????
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by fao_ 6y ago
This is good but it didn't seem to pick up on my constant listening to the Native Tongues group or artists like Del the Funky Homosapien and Queen Lahtifah
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by fao_ 6y ago
Ah, so yet another comment that could have been avoiding by reading the article and not just the headline? :) Remember when hacker news had people on it who did such things :) Because I don't :)
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by fao_ 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain
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by fao_ 6y ago
I listened to over 500 totally different genres on spotify lately, it's not difficult, it just means you have to do slightly more work than blindly listening to whatever spotify shoves you? The trick is to pick a specific genre of musi
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by fao_ 6y ago
Weirdly, I keep getting books I like in the search. It would be nice if I could add more than three authors because my reading is already extremely diverse, like music listening there is very little that I dislike (According to spotify, I l
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by fao_ 6y ago
> The author goes to great pains to use words other than cause: "connection" "link" etc. From the article: > The cumulative evidence was enough for the venerable New England Journal of Medicine to publish an editor
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by fao_ 6y ago
Yeah, I forgot the proper word for reverse-transcription. Regardless, my actual point which you ignored was: Voices.com: 300 words - From $250 Bunny Studio: 500 words - From $151 Poise: 500 words - From $11 Why
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by fao_ 6y ago
It's amazing that part of their advertising is that they are offering the ability to hire people for transcription of text to audio for even less than competing services. Why... would anyone work for them when they could work for other
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by fao_ 6y ago
Exactly. A perhaps pertinent point here is that Mao's revolution in China had less than 3% of the working class people behind it, by their own polling (Mentioned in Tony Cliff's works on marxists.org). A revolution can be led by a
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by fao_ 6y ago
Indeed, reading their post history shows this, however: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24878130
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by fao_ 6y ago
While you were downvoted for being negative about this and your style of message, I think there is a kernel of truth, and I don't think we should be so eager to dismiss the experiences of people who have actually worked at a place, ver
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by fao_ 6y ago
From https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio... When does the right to erasure not apply? The right to erasure does not apply if processing is necessary for one of the following reasons: to e
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by fao_ 6y ago
It loads in two seconds, so I hope this was ironic. Also, plain html is almost always going to be smaller than an image file.
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by fao_ 6y ago
You might love doom emacs. I've used emacs for 8 years and switched in July, and I can see myself using this for the next 10 years. I tried Spacemacs, and the vim integration was so sloppy that the first time I tried to install a singl

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