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by gtf21 7y ago
Not really. "Pro-life" isn't a very accurate statement as the definition of "life" is not agreed. "Pro-choice" is accurate, as it denotes a position which is in favour of giving women the choice to abort,
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by gtf21 7y ago
Inasmuch as a the millions of sperm/eggs that don't make it is a human being, it doesn't really have any human characteristics yet.
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by gtf21 7y ago
Ugh this happens to me all the time, but on the other hand I'll sometimes be scrolling through a pdf with my trackpad, but typing in a pane on the left, so I do find it quite useful to have that split between kb/pointer focus.
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DNA and Surveillance Capitalism(gtf.io)
4 points by gtf21 8y ago|0 comments
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by gtf21 8y ago
When my PTR died, I thought I'd really struggle without it. I used to evangelise the idea of it, claiming the convenience of on-wrist notifications, fitness tracking, my diary to hand (I have a very busy diary), etc.. I realised a coup
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by gtf21 8y ago
Pebble smart-watches. I had them from the original kickstarter, and eventually had a Pebble Time Round which I loved. Whilst I now would never buy a smartwatch, I think that theirs were by far the best. Slimline, with a great UI, and nice f
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by gtf21 8y ago
These were certainly not the symbols we were taught at university (and that I've seen in most mathematics texts). We used: ∧ conjunction ∨ disjunction ⇒ implication ¬ negation ⇔ equivalence (bi-implication) ⊂, ⊃ &c. were for sets.
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by gtf21 8y ago
I have been wondering about this too. I'm pretty attached to my 2014 MBP (running macOS) but dislike the latest line of Macs (and want to have a linux laptop). I've been looking mostly at the new Dell XPS 13 range as they look rea
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by gtf21 8y ago
I really like my Patagonia Black Hole (25L) [1]. It's pretty robust, looks nice, and fits everything I need quite easily. I have used it for sport but it's really poorly suites for it as the back is not very aerated and it doesn&#
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Content, Creativity, and Monetisation in the Modern Internet (2018)(gtf.io)
1 points by gtf21 8y ago|0 comments
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by gtf21 8y ago
This is not really the point, the point is that the page loads anyway, without the AMP scripts so there's really no excuse for having an 8s delay. I don't want this google stuff on every web page I visit, and frankly it's unn
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by gtf21 8y ago
This is why I have µMatrix -- it's amazing just how many unnecessary requests it has blocked. I am constantly amazed at just how bloated (and carelessly built) websites have become.
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by gtf21 8y ago
I don't remember it being milliseconds, but it definitely didn't take _this_ long, especially not if I had had the same connection speed I have now.
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by gtf21 8y ago
This sort of assumes that (a) the only possible system is surveillance capitalism (I have no problem unblocking advertisers on sites which don't track me e.g. DuckDuckGo, I also have no problem paying for things directly -- in fact, I
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by gtf21 8y ago
µMatrix blocks everything that's not from the primary domain unless I tell it otherwise, which is sometimes annoying, but on the other hand lets me cut out loads of crap (hello AMP-project).
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by gtf21 8y ago
> IMHO, it's not at all unreasonable to block stuff from domains you don't trust, especially domains controlled by large surveillance corporations. The web should be more resilient. AMP makes it brittle. My thoughts exactly, th
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Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everything slower?
378 points by gtf21 8y ago|182 comments
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by gtf21 8y ago
Like many others, I'm not sure DO's USP is being at the cutting edge. I like them because I get a decent amount of control, I have found their support to be quite responsive, and their products have always been very stable for me.
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by gtf21 8y ago
I use iwantmyname.com because I find their DNS configuration really simple compared to other registrars I have used. DigitalOcean for hosting, and as a business we use Cloudflare for DNS, but personally I just use the iwantmyname tools.
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by gtf21 8y ago
I tried a lot of podcasting apps after Instacast died and PocketCasts was so far ahead of the competition (and Instacast) that I fell in love with it (and now many of my friends have it as well). It has almost everything I want in a podca
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by gtf21 8y ago
Of the things to learn when one is starting out, I would not put code modularisation and toolchains at the top of my list (especially for something so small). Additionally, this runs in Node, so you don't need to compile the source fil
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Show HN: Simple markov-based text generator in python (uses Hamlet)(github.com)
1 points by gtf21 8y ago|0 comments
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by gtf21 8y ago
I can't fix it, but we shouldn't excuse its unpleasant sides.
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by gtf21 8y ago
I'm not sure that they should _accept_ it. The fact that it happens to other people doesn't make it any more acceptable. Saying "they tuned in because your profile picture shows cleavage" implicitly places some blame on
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Ask HN: Static site hosting with Google Auth
3 points by gtf21 8y ago|0 comments
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by gtf21 9y ago
+1 for pinboard.in I have been using it for years and all my bookmarks are private. I love that it is very minimal, with exactly the features I need, and doesn't tie me to a browser. It has an API, plenty of apps and browser plugins, a
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by gtf21 9y ago
John Gray wrote a fairly scathing review in the NS: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/02/unenlight...
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by gtf21 9y ago
While that's surprising, that doesn't quite contradict my point: a firearm has greater leverage. The main point is that while almost everyone will agree that murder of humans is undesirable, not everyone will agree that abortion i
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by gtf21 9y ago
This is true, but I think there are two factors which qualify this argument: 1) leverage / scale (a person with a gun can kill more people in a shorter space of time) 2) it is contended whether or not this is killing someone, whereas n
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by gtf21 9y ago
I was wondering if the slippery-slope argument really held. There's a fairly simply public-interest argument that could be made against gun ownership (see: dead schoolchildren all over the US), and this argument has been successful in

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