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by grondilu 9y ago
> What's outrageous is that you'd rather see those people die. That's the alternative. You're not supposed to save lives at any cost. Not if that means you'd associate with or reward crime. That's why you
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> Amsterdam, 1985, the government supplied methadone using an old city bus they transformed into a drug dispensary, they even supplied clean needles for free. In the documentary I was mentioning (sorry, can't find a link or remember
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by grondilu 9y ago
This article changed my view on the subject a bit. Lately, I had been watching various documentaries and YouTube videos about the opioid crisis in the USA and Canada. Often, the public policy seemed absurd to me, as it was just as if the f
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https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Java-We...
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This is probably hand-waving but : instead of implementing threads directly into the WebAssembly language, would it make sense to compile a known micro-kernel to WebAssembly and then compile the C standard library (which, IIRC, implements t
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> They do mention consumers "worry about the safety of tap water after the high-profile contamination in Flint", so I am guessing people are a bit unwilling to take someone's word on "perfectly potable water" wit
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Couldn't they research and study people who already don't work for a living? I mean those who already own capital and don't expect the government to steal some for them? That would sure be cheaper.
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> We tentatively plan to randomly select 3,000 individuals across two US states to participate in the study: 1,000 will receive $1,000 per month for up to 5 years, and 2,000 will receive $50 per month and serve as a control group for com
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> You think there's a large amount of potential drug users who will suddenly start abusing as soon as drugs are legalised? The opiod crisis already is quite severe. And yet most opioids are illegal. I doubt making them legal will
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Imagine a old dam. It's in poor condition, with cracks here and there, letting some water through. Its maintenance is extremely expensive and seemingly useless, since for ever crack that is fixed, a new one appears. Now some guy show
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Because it's much more important for a fly not be swatted than for a large animal to swat it.
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Never heard of it. Definitely intriguing. Thanks.
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Question: I started a JS project lately, I tried to write it as modernly as possible (using as many ES6 features[1] as I could), and yet I stumbled on difficulties that I blame to the lack of type system and polymorphism. I'm consideri
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That made me wonder how bats see water surfaces. Though I suppose not seeing them is less of a problem since they're not vertical :P
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I had hard times reading this (about 10 times slower than normal text). What does that say about me?
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> The reality is I have yet to see a single app making use of WASM on the web. IMHO a spectacular example is stockfish on lichess.org. On some browsers, like Chrome and Firefox IIRC, it is still slower than PNACL or asm.js, but on Micro
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> but with no access to the DOM There will be access to the DOM, but even without it, WebAssembly is still useful. You compile libraries that are performance sensitive, you use them from you JS code, and voilà, you have the best of both
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> but isn't wasm something that is supposed to be compiled into native binary? No, it compiles into a binary code of its own. That gives it near-native speed, but it's no "hardware-binary" code.
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The author mentions WebAssembly, yet writes at the end : " and a security model that allows us to forget that we run thousands and thousands of untrusted scripts every day." WebAssembly is designed to run in a sandbox. I suppose
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Show HN: Clifford.js, a JavaScript geometric algebra libray(grondilu.github.io)
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> Well, how many years ahead are you willing to worry? 10? 100? Let me reverse the question : how many years ahead is enough for you not to worry ? A million years? Fifty billions? Do you worry about the ultimate fate of the universe
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In the long term, we're all dead. Call me selfish, but I personally don't worry about the future of humanity in thousands of years. I'm sure most people don't either. A kid born in the year 10,000 is a stranger to me.
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> if you insulate the radiator perfectly. I don't quite understand what that means. If your radiator is supposed to radiate away the surrounding heat, shouldn't it on the contrary be connected as much as possible to the envir
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It's part of a goal I have to port my Perl 6 geometric algebra library to javascript.
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Show HN: Rewriting algebra.js in ES6 (WIP)(github.com)
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> I would be interested if anyone knows about the connection between information theoretic entropy and physical entropy. I'm pretty sure they're the same, with minor differences in notation and units, unless of course I misunde
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As someone who owns stocks of Google and Amazon, I'd like to compare the effect the title of this article had on me, to what a woman would feel if she stumbled upon an article titled "We need to legalize rape : here is why."
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It's not so much what whales eat that matters, rather than how they eat it. The size difference between a whale and a krill is so big that for all intents and purposes, whales feed much more like a cow than a lion. They're brow
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Didn't we know that already? I mean, the evolution of Cetacea is fairly well understood by now. We know they all derive from a terrestrial small carnivorous artiodactyle. And all descendants had sharp teeth until relatively recently.
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I don't know. Consider Personal navigation assistants[1]. I totally feel like I've put my brain in storage when I use those things, yet I kind of like it. It's relaxing. We'll be to machines what horses are to their r

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