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by indy 3y ago
Unfortunately the people on HackerNews tend to be hostile towards Bitcoin so you probably shouldn't expect a very constructive set of comments here. (learning to ignore these people was the most financially rewarding thing I've do
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by indy 3y ago
If you want to enforce an ideology upon the public just cloak it with terms like "safety" and "diversity"
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It's a combination of both, the Red Bull has been the most aerodynamically sophisticated car on the grid for a couple of seasons now, but then again I don't think many drivers would have been as successful as Max was last season
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I'm not pretending that Nintendo is the justice system, although I will admit that the US legal system does confuse me! The point was that if you have deeper pockets than your opponent then you're able to leverage the legal system
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by indy 3y ago
"and for what?", the what is to send a message to everyone not to screw around with Nintendo. Whether that's morally right is another question.
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Love that video, his passion for the art form really comes through.
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by indy 3y ago
Mark J. Ferrari was incredible at utilising palette cycling: http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/
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by indy 3y ago
The mask slipped when you wrote that last sentence.
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by indy 3y ago
why the sarcasm tag? laying off some Google engineers (and a lot of Google managers, ethicists, trust and safety employees, HR etc) would actually be good for both Google's share price and their products
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by indy 3y ago
That's an Asian person
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MSVC PDBs Are Filled with Stale Debug Info(computerenhance.com)
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by indy 3y ago
Wait until the film you want to watch no longer exists. Instead you'll stream a version that meets the restrictions of the day. Perhaps the soundtrack has been changed due to licensing issues, or entire scenes have been deleted for bei
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by indy 3y ago
"To throw around some numbers: about 220 petagrams (gigatonnes) of carbon dioxide will be released into the atmosphere this year; around 3% from burning fossil fuels; 44% from the ocean surface; and 53% from the land" Does the 3%
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by indy 3y ago
No
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by indy 3y ago
I use Kiwi Browser, it's based on Chrome but allows you to install extensions like uBlock
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by indy 3y ago
It's a reference to Norm Macdonald
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by indy 3y ago
If only we had a source of energy that didn't rely on fossil fuels and didn't contribute to climate change.
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by indy 3y ago
Yes, that sounds like a much better explanation
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by indy 3y ago
Perhaps you're still generating the same amount of ideas it's just that you're brain is better at filtering out the bad/impractical ones at an early stage? The obvious downside being that maybe some of the assumptions yo
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by indy 3y ago
Isn't this what Google have started to do internally? Take already working systems and rewrite them. Goes to show that if you have a money fountain then your business decisions can be indistinguishable from satire and you'll still
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by indy 3y ago
That was going to be my comment as well.
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by indy 3y ago
Prioritising how good the screenshots look on lists of "top 10 examples of minimalistic design" over usefulness to the user.
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by indy 3y ago
1. Efficient use of server hardware. I'm cheap and use a low-spec server 2. Code re-use between client and server. I have some application logic that can run on the server and on the client via WASM compilation
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by indy 3y ago
Surprising that at the point when it crossed 100mb there was no-one on the team who raised any concerns. Perhaps this was a case of boiling the frog?
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by indy 3y ago
The last two decades were a world of low interest rates where people worked in offices and lived in expensive, high density flats. If commercial real estate has already peaked I wonder what the next two decades of development in London will
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by indy 3y ago
Asking obvious mid questions is one thing, but Lex often interjects with his own mid opinions. Or he takes what could have been an interesting line of questioning and diverts it to banal cod-philosophy often using words like 'beautiful
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by indy 3y ago
His guests are often so interesting that it's worth persevering through Lex's un-profound musings. (Every time he uses the word 'beautiful' or 'love' it reminds me of a pretentious teenager who lacks life exper
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by indy 3y ago
The 1070 hit a great sweet spot yet it seems crazy that 7 years later it's still a pretty respectable graphics card.
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PHP: A one-man band trying to play a song while being attacked by an angry goose.
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by indy 3y ago
Truly terrible APIs never originate from one mind. Instead they're the result of a whole bureaucracy of people each of whom have to inject their own particular requirements, coding preferences and "what if in the future..." g

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