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by gherkin0 11y ago
This is a weird post: it's been popping on and off the front page for me, which might have something to do with the "vouch" feature I just learned about. It seems like it's the object of a tug-of-war.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Is it really? The military has been using camo to spoof image recognition since forever. I don't think so. Camouflage has been used to hide things in the terrain for a long time, but I don't think it's ever been used
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I was curious too, and I found this post explaining it: http://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Oh, I totally agree. It's just, like most things, you can take it too far. Only sleeping 20 minutes every 4 hours for a total of 2 hours of sleep per day is too far in my book.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Even if updates were easily implemented, you still have the same problems as consumer routers: once the product is off the shelves, there's little incentive for the vendor to spend money on support to even offer updates.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I agree. This guy seems like the type to latch onto weird fitness ideas, the weirder the better, without really understanding what he's doing. His last experiment on his blog was with some system to only sleep 2 hours a day split up
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Are they ever going to go back to the island and collect more specimens for breeding (and perhaps release some captive-bread individuals to replace them)? Even though that population was probably extremely inbred there's probably stil
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by gherkin0 11y ago
But of all those that are requirements (not internet, etc.), are medium-term requirements at best, and farmers are probably in a better position to adapt to losing them than a city population is to losing its food. For instance: people onl
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> The fact that BlackBerry designed around this early on leads me to suspect (as an outside observer with an imagination) that mass metadata collection was known by folks in industry back in the 90s. Wouldn't a simpler explanation b
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by gherkin0 11y ago
There's a third option: forbid states and municipalities from offering incentives to individual organizations like this. If the company wants to move to a location (or stay at one) to be there, fine; but it shouldn't move (or stay
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Mine told me the same thing, and I listened. It turns out you can't think about numbers with a calculator.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
But they are being "awarded" [1]. So if it expires, maybe they could get it back since they're a non-profit. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom...
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I grew up there too, and I agree. If you're going to pick a Dakota for tourism, South Dakota is better.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
When I visited Japan, I saw many toilets that had a little faucet/sink built into the toilet lid, so you could wash your hands with it before it was used to fill the tank. However, I'm not sure how practical that kind of thing wou
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I agree the context is important, and it may sometimes provide reasonable justification for the police to shoot first, like if there's a crowd behind the officer. Generally, I think the officers should minimize the probability that
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by gherkin0 11y ago
But what I'm saying isn't putting their self-defense at "the very lowest priority," it's just putting it after correctly determining the suspect is an imminent mortal threat before deciding to kill them. The police
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> So, we should just hope that innocent bystanders are not hit by that first shot at police as the they hide behind their defensive positions and superior equipment? The scenario outlined did not involve an actual gun that could harm any
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I don't think that policemen's lives are "forfeit," but that it's their duty to not have self-defense as their very top priority, which entails taking risks in some situations that we wouldn't expect of oth
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> When a man being chased by police stops his car, gets out, takes cover behind the door and starts pointing something that looks remarkably like a gun at police, he should be shot. I disagree, especially in your outlined scenario, for a
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by gherkin0 11y ago
It would be more difficult and model-specific, but couldn't they attach a device to read the RAM chips directly? To perform this on most modern phones, they have to disassemble it anyway to be able to toggle the power quickly enough (
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Will it even be a thing in 20 years? I'd expect emojis to go out of style before selfies. Selfies are just a quick, easy, and ubiquitous way of getting a photo of yourself (which people have wanted since the beginning of photogra
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Add modifiers for proportions and it'll turn Unicode plaintext into a general-purpose drawing language. Not even that: it's all special-purpose stuff with narrow use cases.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Creating a "standard" text-representation UI widget and markup that works universally sounds like a much larger engineering effort compared to adding some code points to an existing standard However, it would arguably be far
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> This is a problem even when cultures discourage meanness and encourage feedback: cultures of niceness seem to have as many issues around speaking up as cultures of meanness, if not more. In some places, people are afraid to speak up be
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> I'm guessing "ordinary paper process that we've been doing since 1750 but in teh blockchainz!" Didn't the Supreme Court decisively swat down that sort of thing (i.e. "but do it on a computer" patents)
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Then how do you explain the fact that some of the most secure pieces of software ever written were written in C? (I'm thinking of, e.g., Qmail — and pretty much everything else DJB has ever written — and OpenBSD, just to name a co
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I think the idea is that any reliance on undefined behavior would blow up in your face and immediately cause a bugs, rather than working correctly with some compilers and not with others.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
My understanding is that Japan is relatively racially and culturally homogeneous, and the Japanese like it that way and don't want to change it.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Genuine question: how exactly would a foreign "internet company" "lobby the Chinese government?" Google literally had to take their ball and leave China at one point because China wouldn't compromise on a lot of th
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by gherkin0 11y ago
What's the price going to be? Will it be competitive with Arduino-compatible ESP8266 boards[1]? [1] https://www.adafruit.com/products/2471

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