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by hydrox24 4y ago
> Rust's flight irreparably damaged the reputation of the Soviet military. This enabled Gorbachev to remove many of the strongest opponents to his reforms. Minister of Defence Sergei Sokolov and the head of the Soviet Air Defence Fo
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by hydrox24 4y ago
Australia's CSIRO has a setup out at Boorowa[0] doing this kind of work. They're doing a lot of traditional research into monitoring and modelling technology, but also doing some neat digital twin style projects. [0]: https:&#x2F
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by hydrox24 4y ago
> Much faster than gathering a bunch of drunk member of Commons together and letting them boo each other while some chap screams "orduh". ;P I know this is tongue-in-cheek, but it's worth noting that the Parliament has alm
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by hydrox24 5y ago
If you're looking for an open-source replacement, I have been really impressed with Syncthing. It is decentralised (and directly device-to-device), but if you can afford the space on your phone or an always-on computer at home, it is b
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by hydrox24 5y ago
I believe this is the paper referenced[0]. [0]: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xlm-a0036577.pdf
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by hydrox24 5y ago
Have previous protocols (TCP, UDP, etc) been in widespread use before their respective RFCs? The QUIC Wikipedia page[0] makes it sound like a substantial amount of traffic, due largely to Facebook, Google, and the Google Chrome browser, use
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by hydrox24 5y ago
> Australia NEVER moves first on these things. I think it is uncommon for Australia to move first, but we do move first sometimes. I thought the recent news revenue-sharing laws[0] are an example of that. > They want EU or US to make
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by hydrox24 6y ago
> but what about previews for things like ebooks or PDFs MuPDF is a great FOSS application and my go-to PDF reader. It lacks fancy annotation, and doesn't even have great text selection and copy/paste, but it is really fast, an
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by hydrox24 6y ago
> > Finally, because Linux is a ubiquitous server operating system, its security is under constant attack, and Linux desktop users benefit from fixes to the vulnerabilities. > Attacking servers is harder and probably may give you b
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by hydrox24 6y ago
> New Zealand's largest newspaper is deeply conflicted. With the World Cup underway in Brazil, should The New Zealand Herald refer to the "global round-ball game" as "soccer" or "football"? The question
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by hydrox24 7y ago
> Maybe it "feels good", but it's just too slow. The speed of product delivery is a combination of how quickly you can make it, but also how quickly you can deliver it. 3D printing loses on production speed, but wins on de
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by hydrox24 7y ago
> We find that polarization has increased the most among the groups least likely to use the Internet and social media. This could imply dominant second-order effects. Traditional media has changed its content & form radically in resp
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by hydrox24 7y ago
Google almost certainly can, but probably has no incentive to do it for whatever reason.
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by hydrox24 7y ago
I've found this to be the right thing to do for several reasons. 1. Music does not improve my concentration in the long term. It will help for a few hours and then make it harder to focus after that. 2. Headphones make me less approach
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by hydrox24 7y ago
You just download the HTML file and open it to 'run' it. Then, once you've made changes, use your browsers "save as" feature to save a copy. Everything is in browser. Other options do things like public hosting. Per
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by hydrox24 7y ago
> The lack of any legal route to assisted dying is also a problem. Euthenasia is a contentious topic, rightly so in my opinion, and is a seperate issue to regaining a balanced view of how and if we should treat the seriously ill when the
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by hydrox24 7y ago
It's late, but perhaps its worth changing this link to point to the original article from the Atlantic?[0] [0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/12/why-c...
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by hydrox24 7y ago
> the majority of users don't use spacebar for scrolling in 2019 Like halal food, or kosher food in New York, it's not about how many people use a browser feature. It's about how much they care.
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by hydrox24 7y ago
Is the article you are talking about "What Putin Really Wants" by Julia Ioffe[0]? It was published in January 2018. It doesn't have the USB key story you're talking about though. [0]: https://www.theatlantic.c
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by hydrox24 7y ago
That's absolutely true. But I think it's worth noting just how often polite acts are specifically for making others feel good. The two things are meant to be fundamentally linked.
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by hydrox24 7y ago
> Even the simple act of two people wanting to go through the same door at the same time is an impossible conundrum. I believe that the optimal solution to this problem is to offer, and then if there is a counter-offer, take it. If the o
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by hydrox24 7y ago
Area of mainland USA = 2.96M sq mi. Area of mainland Australia = 2.93M sq mi. I think this is the apples to apples comparison. Don't include Alaska or Tasmania, or Hawaii, which tend not to be what people are thinking of.
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by hydrox24 7y ago
> I honestly havn't figured out why these issues get such unanimous support by the political class. I think its because too few Australians care enough for this to matter to politicians and the parties, who respond to incentives lik
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by hydrox24 7y ago
Popper's Paradox of Tolerance is an investigation of moral axioms, or principles. It is not Science. So it's okay that it can't be falsified.
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by hydrox24 7y ago
> I see a lot of long form articles here without any comments and I wonder, are they upvoted by bots? The Hacker News ranking algorithm penalises lots of comments. Posts stay near the top precisely because they do not have comments.
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by hydrox24 7y ago
I'm not sure we have any reason to believe this. There are two reasons given: 1. families had fewer kids after the 2008 recession. 2. Alternative forms of education. The latter will be good news, if it does displaced old colleges. The
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by hydrox24 7y ago
Look into the argument between Robert Nozick and Jeremy Waldron over historical justice. Waldron tries to solve the problem that you and your parent comment are laying out by changing the basis of property rights from the Lockean idea (we m
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by hydrox24 7y ago
> It's quite funny how are some people manipulated to think that society and especially education is somehow biased against minorities or women when opposite is true I think you have misunderstood the parent, who is asserting that t
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by hydrox24 7y ago
>How does this make 2nd place after 9 minutes? 12 points in ~10 minutes with only two comments yields a high position.
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by hydrox24 7y ago
> It is worth noting that Russia’s most recent winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Svetlana Alexievich, also produced literary works that were purely factual. Alexievich won with "Secondhand Time"[0], which I absolutely l

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