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> The safety and needs of a prisoner are not the only concerns. The only ethical stance I've ever heard for torturing someone is the "ticking time bomb" scenario popularized during George W. Bush's administration. (I
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What does your response have to do with the medical needs/safety of SBF or the other inmates? I don't see the connection.
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Oh wow, you've got 10,000 HN points and you are asking why someone would sigh upon seeing that some technical tool has a close association with a cryptocurrency. Even people working reputable mom-and-pops retail jobs know the reputatio
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But also just think of all the useful software that hasn't been written by people sitting around thinking about all the useful software that could be written. I'd love to see a project on github that mines HN posts for a decent
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Since there's a human behind the wheel, I'll ask: Are you actually measuring the load-time bottlenecks in devTools? I don't know the exact details but it appears a lot of sites are sitting around waiting on ad-tech to get del
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It could be revelatory. Like the first time I played Super Mario Bros. on an LED screen. Finally I could see each pixel clearly, exactly the way the original artist didn't intend! Edit: in all seriousness, this makes me wonder: has any
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> I don’t think anyone who “likes” this solution thinks “it’s a great solution” It's not a solution. If we're talking about the current administration, there's no way in hell they're going to contract with a consultan
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That's funny you mention text-width, I've noticed that with "punchy" articles like these. Alternatively, when I see the old-school blogs that fill the entire page-width, I get the instant feeling I'm about to read s
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Because the ad tech is one helluva drug! The people who voted Trump and don't wear the paraphernalia occasionally check news and from what I can tell aren't regularly doomscrolling. They'll probably get disagreeable if you
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There was a research paper on doing data-over-sound with sounds that were designed to be pleasing to humans. The demos sounded like little R2D2 blips and sputters. Perhaps a researcher for Microsoft or something. Anyone know the paper I&#x2
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Now you've got two problems: 1. Child who isn't favored feels alienated And choose one of the following: 2a. When the agreeable child grows up and learns valuable skills-- how to say no, how to assert themselves and their needs--
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Ooh, I could copy A to B and add a final two lines: "else swap B[i] and B[j]" And now it's constant time!
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What's the cost of shuttling data in and out of SIMD land?
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Yes, and you wrote it more succinctly than I did in a sibling comment. :) The specific problem as I understand it: marrying/dating a narcissist will spiral into utter toxicity 100% of the time. In that case the protagonist's diffi
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> I think people are missing that this is humor. I see that it's humor. But what is the joke? 1. Light-hearted: A struggling people-pleaser exaggerates his wife's little foibles -- which seem big to him-- for comic effect. 2
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display the help message and exit https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/echo.1.html
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Just imagining an episode of Star Trek where the inhabitants of a planet have been failing to progress in warp drive tech for several generations. The team beams down to discover that society's tech stopped progressing when they became
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On the other hand, it would be prohibitively expensive to, say, auction off the whitespace of each card to the highest bidder in a realtime auction. With apps players may get this functionality right out of the box.
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You need to get to know your own industry. "These folks" can absolutely be described as the tech community: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_Tunney > In March 2014, Tunney petitioned the US governme
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In the context of a bunch of social animals wearing t-shirts, what exactly is curious about it?
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> The workload of a relationship should be split evenly overall but if one places waaaay more importance on a particular aspect than the other it’s ok for that one to bear more of the load in that case. A different take-- imagine the lov
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> Worse, it left me with a debilitating emotional and intellectual dependency on their approval. I'm not a therapist, but maybe one can back me up: The "thing" driving this emotion is essentially hard-coded in the author a
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> E.g. if you only want to make phone calls and send SMS What Linux device works with a modern baseband OS out-of-the-box with, say, Verizon or AT&T? I think it's just as terrible as Firefox/Mesa/Proprietary GPU-- e.g.
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> My Dad is like that and doesn’t understand why nobody else in the family gets off on self-imposed austerity. My gut feeling: men of a certain generation seem to have confused the skill of seeming aloof-- like when meeting a stranger
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> I really really really just want The word just is doing a lot of work here. E.g., you want graphics acceleration. That means you want work done in Mesa so that the GPU in question is better supported than it currently is. But you al
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> Seems like a great way to learn absolutely nothing about the candidate. They learned that as the spec became more complicated and twisted, his code got more and more clever. I guarantee that there were other candidates whose code got s
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> Looks more like a community of horny people and other weird stuff. Communities of horny people are indeed weird stuff. I remember one time when I accidentally happened upon one such community, naively thinking it was just a local bar.
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It's kinda like how Linux's RNG code has no special case to keep from outputting 123456789. Seriously?!? Everybody knows that's not a random number.
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> We stand now at the edge of a new epoch, reading now being replaced by AI retrieval. Utilizing a lively oral trad. at the same time as written is superior to relying on either alone. And it's the same with our current AI tools.
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> "The underlying bureaucratic key is the ability to deal with boredom." The key to excellence in any human endeavor is the ability to deal with boredom. Wallace was a serious tennis player for awhile, surely he must know thi

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