im3w1l

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   by im3w1l 6y ago

   No, having an arbitrarily complex dictionary or compressor is not counted as cheating. The model is basically that you are allowed to grab as many harddrives as you want before going out into the wilderness. From then on all your news arriv
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   by im3w1l 6y ago

   I think it's sad that this article is being flagged. It is pretty divisive, but it was also a perspective I haven't heard before about who the Appstore hurts.
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   by im3w1l 6y ago

   A way I could see it work is that you get a series of (randomly generated) statements about who you are. You then go through them, and either say "yes that's me" or "no that doesn't fit". This exercise helps yo
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   by im3w1l 6y ago

   Can such assurances really be trusted?
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   by im3w1l 6y ago

   There have been way too many scandals around supplement purity for me to buy into his narrative. Like if someone told me a given brand of fish oil supplements contained 10% of the stated dose, was rancid and full of heavy metals I wouldn&#x
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   by im3w1l 6y ago

   It doesn't. And I finally took the time to test it; git does the wrong thing. Idk if it's display only (in which case I guess a 99.99% solution is fine), or if it's actually used somehow say when applying a patch, in which ca
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   by im3w1l 6y ago

   So uhm, what happens if someone puts class Datasette: in a multiline string?
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   by im3w1l 6y ago

   So if glass slows the signal down, would it be possible to use a hollow fiber?
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   by im3w1l 6y ago

   I'm not really knowledgeable so excuse me if I have a misunderstanding as I try to reason about this from a different perspective. When you have an object with static electricity and put it in contact with a different object, there wil
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    I see that as a story about how subjective comparisons are non-transitive, i.e. x > y > z > x.
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    You said it's famous for its views, but I bet the view sucks when it's so foggy you can't see the trail.
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    Previously discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553794 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523246 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523379
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    I think a better way is to say that 500 millimort + 500 millimort = 1000 millimort like normallly. And then say that you can't add millimorts of successive events to get the millimorts of the sequence.
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    No it's not just the ad-supported parts. App stores, patreon and paypal are cutting people off even though it's based on taking a percentage rather than ads.
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    The American electoral system leads to a two-party system, it's not a written down rule, but it's an emergent feature. So it seems that the internet economy leads to One Opinion. The side who manages to get sufficiently many compa
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    Whether it's overkill or not depends on the effort of using one. If they get ever more convenient the balance will shift.
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    I don't have answers to your questions, but I can offer one piece of advice. The program is compressed with UPX, and you must decompress it before you decompile it.
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    > A lot of my work is creative in nature and forcing the creative process when you’re blocked is not always a good use of time. Yeah I gotta agree with this. Sometimes it's like you are trying to walk through a wall and it's ju
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    What I expect them to do is leave automation & api as they are, and only change what happens when you use github web ui. But you never know I guess.
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    Agreed. And I just want to clarify: I don't think there are any bad guys here. Just a dysfunctional system.
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    It's a consequence of three things: 1. Facts can't be copyrighted. 2. Continuous publishing. 3. Google and Facebook cause a large preference for free content. If you do great journalistic work and try to charge for it, moments lat
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    A union-like organization could allow workers to pool money to fight these fights.
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    Fetal hemoglobin binds stronger to oxygen than normal hemoglobin, so that a fetus can "steal" oxygen from its mother's blood. But if the mother has been crispred to also have fetal hemoglobin, then this won't work right?
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    What's wrong with xml + zip?
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    According to wiktionary entry on Yea. From Middle English ye, ȝea, ya, ȝa, from Old English ġēa, iā (“yea, yes”), from Proto-Germanic ja (“yes, thus, so”), from Proto-Indo-European yē (“already”) Wiktionary about yes says From Middle Engl
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    How do you know it's not competitors putting the product in their descriptions enough times that it will count as generic so they can rank above? I mean you can solve that too I'm sure, but it starts becoming more complicated than
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    Imagine you have a pool of candidates. One has a proven track record. Five are equally good as him but lack the track record. Four are duds. Lacking domain knowledge yourself you can't tell the good from the duds, so you go with the gu
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    And gradually you learn to stop pushing the button. Then when you are in a new neighbourhood you wonder why the green never comes. That's learned helplessness. You have been taught that any control was illusory and that nothing you do
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    > The complaint is explicitly about providing a tool to work around technical restrictions, That's their legal argument. Doesn't mean that's their actual grievance.
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    by im3w1l 6y ago

    While it is a marketing piece trying to boost their funnel, it does provide value for HN readers too.