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by guidovranken 5y ago
With regards to timezones, there are a bunch of software companies which are completely remote and global which operate fine. If employees have a fair amount of autonomy and/or work with their local teams, and have sync calls during mu
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by guidovranken 5y ago
That is a gross medical crime.
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by guidovranken 5y ago
All the criticism on Bitcoin would be a lot more reasonable if banks weren't increasingly unbanking dissidents (and central banks weren't printing civilization into poverty). The window of acceptable speech is only going to narrow
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Bank cancels account of feminist organisation critical of trans ideology(twitter.com)
8 points by guidovranken 5y ago|3 comments
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by guidovranken 5y ago
You can try Reddit r/AskDocs/. Usually actual (confirmed) physicians respond. It's worth a shot.
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by guidovranken 5y ago
It's a great question, and I don't know the answer. A browser is a very complex application which requires many FTEs and millions of dollars to develop and maintain. Donation models don't work well for open source, there&#x27
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by guidovranken 5y ago
> your worth is determined mostly by whether someone gives you a chance, which depends on your skin color, location, and last name, aka luck. Nonsense. If you can code, you can start next week. You can set up a website and start selling
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by guidovranken 5y ago
The west is the ultimate emperor without clothes. 80 years of muh human rights and Nie Wieder and erecting countless institutions and artworks in its spirit, but when push really comes to shove, it's all revealed to be a Potemkin villa
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by guidovranken 5y ago
This also applies to C++ <locale> functions, like std::isspace. Another fun one: With FD_CLR, FD_ISSET, FD_SET you can corrupt memory by merely passing a socket descriptor that is not 0..1024. Pass a negative integer for some undefine
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by guidovranken 5y ago
One of the reasons I don't always read the articles and go straight to the comments is because clicking on a link may result in an ungodly amount of cookie popups and autoplay video's exploding in my face whereas the HN comments a
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by guidovranken 5y ago
There's a video of Peter Thiel from last year where he states that Satoshi attended the Financial Cryptography conference in Anguilla in Feb. 2000. This possibly points to Ian Grigg. I'm inclined to think Thiel has better intel th
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by guidovranken 5y ago
Nice. The Hacker News archive contains a wealth of great information. I've previously performed similar extractions like OP but with grep and SQL. I've also looked for people who have accurately predicted the stock market (I did i
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by guidovranken 5y ago
- Tor has done more harm than good for human rights - Alcohol does not make people more aggressive to a large extent. In the vast majority of clubs/festivals almost everybody is inebriated but violence is fairly rare (in my experience)
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by guidovranken 5y ago
I'd love to read a balanced biography on Thiel but unfortunately this sounds like it's just more slandering and activism. Thiel isn't necessarily a good person in the sense that he'd readily share his sandwich with you i
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by guidovranken 5y ago
This isn't just selection bias. At this point you can buy random crypto/stocks/real estate almost blindly and just hold onto it and see its value appreciate more every day. There are occasional dips but on average there'
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by guidovranken 5y ago
At least the last times I checked, the WikiData SPARQL server was extremely slow, frequently timing out.
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by guidovranken 5y ago
Google BigQuery has the full database, updated daily.
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by guidovranken 5y ago
> It's not hard at all to write an emulator if you're not picky about performance. I'd argue writing an emulator is actually quite difficult. Due to the avalanche effect, slight errors in your emulation won't cause th
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by guidovranken 5y ago
I'm fine with that if it happens in a free market under informed consent and for curing real diseases. But big pharma, big media, big tech, government and law enforcement acting in complete lockstep to forcibly inject experimental vacc
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by guidovranken 5y ago
You can take all the shots you want but you'll never be able to move forward with your life.
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by guidovranken 5y ago
(Intentionally crafted) large metadata in a video file (which can be very large anyway, so 2GB extra doesn't stand out). A string field in a (machine-generated) JSON/XML dataset. And like tomohawk says, lack of a mechanism that pr
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by guidovranken 5y ago
snprintf works most of the time but it can fail, and people almost never check the return value. For example it will always fail if you attempt to print a string >= 2GB. If that happens the output buffer may remain uninitialized (depends
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by guidovranken 5y ago
I understand that they base their research on CVE data because it offers normalized quantifiers of severity and scope, but in my experience vendors by and large don't bother with CVE's for API bugs even when the affected primitive
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by guidovranken 5y ago
I think there will be a great new way of search and content discovery. Google (as a search engine) is well beyond its prime, it's all spam from page 3 onward. It's still the same system as 20 years ago except with more spam. I thi
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by guidovranken 5y ago
First hit on Google for '"indian reservation" pycon' points to a Reddit page which points to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfe5M_zG2s , which must be it
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by guidovranken 5y ago
Site is down, archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210602080638/https://sigops.or... What stands out to me: - "Mercurial cores are extremely rare" but "we observe on the order of a
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by guidovranken 6y ago
There's a place for being patient and lenient, but HackerOne consistently seems to not shut down malfunctioning programs that never pay rewards and flat out stop talking to you, yet continue to collect bugs. Such a relationship is comm
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by guidovranken 6y ago
OpenSSL had and has a few core developers from Britain who have made significant contributions to the project. Though there are forks and alternative TLS libraries, most websites in the world probably run on OpenSSL.
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by guidovranken 6y ago
Ironic that these far-left "death to amerikkka" hackers are ensuring Twitter retains its de facto monopoly in the microblogging sphere and making its US billionaires even richer.
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by guidovranken 6y ago
Woke culture is an abhorrent movement that combines the coercive dynamics of Marxism with the racism of national socialism. It's not about removing racism, it's about consolidating power by forcing everyone into compliance. Actual

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