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by hurin 11y ago
> It's not up to me to decide, nor does my income-level have anything to do with the validity of my arguments. You simply have to answer "is this person better off with this thing X". By your logic of: better off == &quot
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by hurin 11y ago
> They're not mutually exclusive, to be honest. You can make a profit AND help the target group. Additionally I hope you're honest as well, Exactly - and talking about the app "helping the needy" is especially dishon
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by hurin 11y ago
> ANYTHING that helps get rid of those scum is a huge improvement. And these guys are truly crusaders for the working-class poor that are going to fix the system? Or they are just going to cash in on updating payday-loans to the 21st cen
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by hurin 11y ago
Yes, because the fascinating thing about earning near minimum-wage in the US is that there is a new app to help you budget. But I guess you can believe that if it helps you sustain the tech-companies selling apps are doing great things for
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by hurin 11y ago
The article author obviously is astro-turfing for the company and if people want to link infomercials passing for journalism I can have an opinion on that. (I agree that I did not phrase my first comment well and it makes it sound like I im
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by hurin 11y ago
Thank you for double posting the infomercial for an app ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9460628 ) within a mere 6 hours of it's last appearance. (HN really should have a built in filter for this). Also a big thank
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by hurin 11y ago
I like how someone struggling to make it on an unpredictable $700-90 a week turns into an advertisement for an app.
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by hurin 11y ago
The author wrote a blogpost about it: http://antirez.com/news/88
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by hurin 11y ago
> But you can just add more drones. 2 people planting 36k trees per day is no small feat. According to GP: >> Chinese mainland reforestation programme plan was 4 mln ha/year 20 years ago. >> So, drones can plant, say pin
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by hurin 11y ago
> The patent appears to be about selecting a network carrier using a bidding process. The device can choose a network based on price and quality of service. What prior art is there for this? It's a common-knowledge approach in gener
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by hurin 11y ago
> The ransomware developers could use public-key cryptography by generating a local session key to encrypt the victim's files, and then encrypting a copy of that key with the developers' public key. The paid ransomware service
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by hurin 11y ago
Found her code here: https://github.com/zhangtiff/startup edit, Here is the generator: https://github.com/zhangtiff/startup/blob/master/js/generato...
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by hurin 11y ago
> Strawman. Substance abuse? No. Addictions? Absolutely. That's simply not how addiction is defined e.g.: "Addiction is a state characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli, despite adverse consequences"
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by hurin 11y ago
> Where are you getting this from? Withdrawal syndrome is a minor component in any real addition and is nothing without craving for the substance which is not present with SSRIs. As someone who has experienced both reasonably severe SSRI
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by hurin 11y ago
> that doesn't mean that drugs which decrease reuptake/increase (by proxy) serotonin levels won't improve mood. It also doesn't mean that these mood improvements are actually useful for treating depression. (For examp
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by hurin 11y ago
> The only time I've ever seen it become difficult is when either the conditional or result expressions get hairy or depend on undescriptive variable names. It's definitely possibly to write obfuscated ridiculous code without t
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by hurin 11y ago
> alias fix-permissions="chmod -R 777 /" function sudo if not test (count $argv) -gt 3 command sudo $argv; return; end if not contains $argv[4] "/" (ls / | awk '{print &quo
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by hurin 11y ago
> Many people have this weird aversion to doing basic sysadmin stuff with Linux. What makes it weird is that it's really simple. Often easier than figuring out another deploy system. While I agree with the articles main points - the
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by hurin 11y ago
> The former, hence the phrase "in total", and the number 12 instead of 1. It wasn't very clear. >> You mean the Easy++ problem? The solution isn't very different from the solution to Easy (i.e. the original pro
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by hurin 11y ago
> It's probably due to the reckless behaviour of early users that LSD got such a bad rap and banned so hard. Not that they should have had to been responsible -- they shouldn't be blamed for stupid government actions -- it&#x27
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by hurin 11y ago
The most amazing thing is that no one along the chain of escalation this must have passed (e.g. the teacher, the vice principal, the superintendent, the officer that arrived for the call, the sheriff, the prosecutor) - took a minute to stop
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by hurin 11y ago
>> “I reserve the right to flip the light on or off between interrogations up to 12 times in total.” > The wording is very careful :-) Do you mean he can flip the switch 12 times in total between all interrogations ? Or that betwe
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by hurin 11y ago
I know the original problem. I'm curious how he obtains a deterministic solution for the version where the warden can switch the light-bulb state at random (excerpt below). “I reserve the right to flip the light on or off between inte
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by hurin 11y ago
Is there a link for a solution to your variant (of the prisoners and lightbulb problem)?
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by hurin 11y ago
Yes, I should qualify my experience somewhat - I don't think I learned any math till around grade 6 (btw the town I lived in had the second highest expenditure per student in State - this is not just a underfunded school system problem
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by hurin 11y ago
I just googled "Математика. Учебник для 11 класса" and browsed through the index for a few books released within the last 5-10 years. From the look it's about same level as AP Calculus AB.
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by hurin 11y ago
Maybe you are thinking of Soviet Russia. As far as I've heard of late the quality of education in Russia has fallen a lot, not to mention bribery, corruption etc. As for the US - yes it is somewhat astonishing, it's probably on a
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by hurin 11y ago
(1994) tag?
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by hurin 11y ago
You could replace rm with an alias to small script, e.g. mv to ~/.trash rather than deleting the target. The trash can be auto-cleared based on space constraints or after a certain time.
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by hurin 11y ago
> Why hadn't it? I mean, not only doesn't it posses a drop of intelligence, there isn't even something similar that does. If you were an intelligent fungus (on a planet without humans) and could express similar thoughts, y

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