ivanca

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by ivanca 11y ago
The fb like button came from a hackathon and now is without doubt the backbone of our society.
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by ivanca 11y ago
You can create an space/room that family can't enter (at office hours), or if you want an easier route just work from a coffee shop near you.
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by ivanca 11y ago
What are the things you can't do with ST? You can actually use the C bindings of python and do anything C can do... which is pretty much anything.
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by ivanca 11y ago
>People really need to shift their focus on what actually is wrong with this world but as always the tiny smudge of dog shit on the sole of your shoe is an easier target than the huge crap pile down the street. You see, when US tried to
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by ivanca 11y ago
Well, something more nefarious is already possible with a bit of money. Someone could hide a few armed drones set to wake up 100 years from now, setted up to shoot everyone they find. The perfect crime in the sense that police can't ca
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by ivanca 11y ago
So, if set up a fashion magazine and then I fill it with ads, I'm in the fashion magazines business, or in the ads business? If someone asks, which of the 2 answers would be more helpful to them?
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by ivanca 11y ago
Nope. You don't say "Steven Spielberg is in the cinema popcorn-and-soda business", he is in the movie bussines. Yup don't say "Taylor Swift is in the online concert tickets business", she is in the music busin
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by ivanca 11y ago
Reddit has so many users that it always has to behave as the most common lowest denominator dictates, to survive this that CLD has to stay away from your subreddit, consciously ("I understand I'm not smart enough to talk here &quo
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by ivanca 11y ago
The brain. It's probably the most complex machine in the universe. If someday we could make artificial grey matter, or neurons, it would change everything. For AI, for health, for everything.
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by ivanca 11y ago
Many people who have access to internet is still in extreme poverty. There is no clear map from being poor-with-internet-to-middle-income. I know this to be true because I know some of them, they use Facebook to gossip and YouTube to listen
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by ivanca 11y ago
All the eavesdropping is completely dumb, even the less technical of all terrorists can just change a word for another and all your billion dollar security goes to the dump. Example: when they talked personally they agreed girl=bomb Their t
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by ivanca 11y ago
If you create a bomb that can destroy the universe, are you really gonna blame who pulls the trigger? Scale.
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by ivanca 11y ago
No. First of all Unity doesn't use JavaScript, it is a proprietary language called UnityScript that barely resembles JavaScript. Second, Im talking about the hundreds of tested possible compossibilities of the game you envisioned, rega
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by ivanca 11y ago
I did, it is so abstract to pretend you can do better that there is no way to discern. He didn't even mention "unity" in his post, thats just ridiculous in 2016, but yeah, keep down voting, your implementation of 2d graphics,
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by ivanca 11y ago
TL;DR Many people is making money doing Unity games, so I ignore it exists - for $1500 - and I go the hipster way and create my own hundreds of memory corruption bugs myself.
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by ivanca 11y ago
Well, for one, it is ubiquitous, you can ask for task in NYC or SF without paying fly tickets or waiting for it to land.
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by ivanca 11y ago
So, televangelist can claim that you need to send a "seed" (money) to get good fortune and get away with it making millions from the most gullible people around, but a brain-training app is penalized for deceptive ads? Shit doesn
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by ivanca 11y ago
All religion orgs are considered non-profit; the funny thing is that "religion" is purposefully vaguely defined by the IRS, related: Jhon Oliver televangelist bit https://youtu.be/7y1xJAVZxXg Organized religions i
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by ivanca 11y ago
This opens an interesting question, what if we could slightly modify plastic to make it more useful to other species, maybe beavers, maybe bees, maybe ants, maybe woodpeckers, maybe there is an specific trait that one (or many) of this kind
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by ivanca 11y ago
If a human uses wasted plastic is called recycling, don't know what would it be any different for bees.
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by ivanca 11y ago
related: https://twitter.com/NinjaEconomics/status/662419805509578754
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by ivanca 11y ago
Is unfortunate how she mixes racism and sexism in this essay, which makes the subject too broad, specially when bringing things like "only 30% of google is female", firstly because such companies are the ones making the "inte
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by ivanca 11y ago
To be good at escapism and at creating it (e.g. poetry, music) one may need first a desire to escape.
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by ivanca 11y ago
Imagine an human whose work is do lift rocks, one day he no longer can't lift rocks, they always fall from his hands how could he do it until dead? Use the rock to crush him? That would be suicide not actually "working until dead&
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by ivanca 11y ago
Always follow the money (for-profit prisons): https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/...
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by ivanca 11y ago
I suspect that observing multiple generations of ants would give the answers for those questions. My guess is that the 25% which are permanent idlers are the older ants (retired) or injured ones (permanently disabled)
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by ivanca 11y ago
The "diversity problem" is never going to be fixed, because the goalpost is always something more. The population of non-hispanic black people in California is of 6.4%, if half of them are women (3.2%) it means that if a tech comp
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by ivanca 11y ago
"Intersectionality" in this case means excluding black males right? That seems a bit wrong.
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by ivanca 11y ago
Actually I know that, I was talking about _modern feminis_ where this kind of jobs get a lot more attention by them than any other "gender gap"
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by ivanca 11y ago
What's with the obsession of gender equality by women in high paying jobs?, is never about lack of women in sewer maintenance or coal mining, or bugs exterminators, or firemen (firewoman? Is that even a word?). Is always CEOs or STEAM

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