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by jf- 8y ago
Sure, but the issue there is the poor value offered by Macs (not hating on Mac, I also use one, but bang for your buck is absurdly low). If you have a non-Mac then you likely have a decent sized hard drive. While electron resource use is no
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by jf- 8y ago
From a cost-benefit point of view there’s nothing in it for slack. They’d have to rewrite and maintain three separate versions of the same app they already have, and what would the payoff be? It would mildly please a handful of bellyachers,
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by jf- 8y ago
Given that electron is not chrome, no, not chrome. A specially made, backwards compatible chromium/node/whatever bundle, that developers can build against without fear of having their apps broken by future API changes.
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by jf- 8y ago
Or maintain backwards compatibility. You don’t need to remove deprecated API features, just mark them as deprecated. It would add some size but it’s better than the alternatives.
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by jf- 8y ago
Having a shared electron runtime on each platform is an answer to some of its performance-related criticisms. Hopefully this is what Microsoft are going for with chromium and the github acquisition. There would still need to be compatible e
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by jf- 8y ago
You're just reiterating the received wisdom on drug tolerance: you have to take more to get the same effect. On that, some claim to find a ceiling effect to tolerance, that is after a certain dose adaptation no longer takes place and t
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by jf- 8y ago
Nicotine does do something, it gives you a dopamine hit. It feels good. It doesn’t cause impairment like weed and alcohol if that’s what you mean by “doing something”, but you can definitely feel it. Even if you personally don’t respond to
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by jf- 8y ago
Software developers will be non-unionised until there are so many of us that supply outpaces demand. Then we’ll form cartels to demand better pay and conditions, much like everyone else.
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by jf- 8y ago
No, it isn’t. That’s why things are tested for carcinogenicity rather than DNA damage before being called carcinogens.
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by jf- 8y ago
This article has now been flagged, killed, resurrected and is now flagged again. It seems there's a core group who really hate it and don't want it discussed.
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by jf- 8y ago
Did you forget to include the quote where they claim it causes cancer, or did you not include it because it doesn't exist? You're trying to imply something you have no evidence for.
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by jf- 8y ago
Your mileage may vary there. I've gone on and off nicotine rather easily. Just nicotine though, not cigarettes, which contain MAOIs that radically increase their addictiveness.
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by jf- 8y ago
> but I wasn't convinced by their research methodology This is the problem with all of science, or at least the popular discussion of it. Things get presented in little bite-sized chunks stripped of all context. It's significan
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by jf- 8y ago
> It may turn out that e-cigarettes are, on the balance, safer than cigarettes, however it's way too early to make that claim with any level of certainty. No, it isn't. Tobacco contains 70 known human carcinogens and is known t
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by jf- 8y ago
I think we're in danger of attaching the stigma of tobacco to something which is far less damaging. Vaping need not be zero harm for it to be socially acceptable; research shows that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption, that
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This Algorithm Can Create 3D Animations from a Single Still Image(futurism.com)
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by jf- 8y ago
Hijacking the top comment to say that this thread is a mess. Nobody seems to know what they’re talking about and at several points it degenerates into arguments about GMO food. It would be really nice if some domain experts, if there are an
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by jf- 8y ago
Call it that if you want to, but I’d be rather unhappy if that was how machine code worked.
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by jf- 8y ago
Selective breeding is the poor man’s genetic engineering.
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by jf- 8y ago
Except that it doesn’t represent logic, it represents strings of amino acids that form proteins that fold up in unpredictable ways and interact with lots of other things to do stuff that half the time is weird and inefficient and doesn’t ma
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by jf- 8y ago
I’d happily eat the frankenburgers. I don’t buy into the anti-GMO hype!
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by jf- 8y ago
Or make them into burgers.
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by jf- 8y ago
Someone had their coffee today.
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by jf- 8y ago
When you release something it becomes subject to natural selection. It would evolve to target everyone. It’s still dumb.
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by jf- 8y ago
> There are few technologies in history, including nuclear, that haven't eventually been available to curious teenagers. ...because the world has been ended by kids making their own nuclear weapons? What?
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by jf- 8y ago
Look, I’m no big fan of China, but why do we suddenly think they’re out to commit genocide? Let’s calm down here.
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by jf- 8y ago
Something that would rapidly spread back into their own highly dense population centres and wipe them out? For the most part world leaders aren’t this stupid. Mostly.
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by jf- 8y ago
A useful heuristic: anyone who's argument is of the form "x is cancer" can safely be ignored.
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by jf- 8y ago
No one is hyping electron Oscar, quite the opposite: HN is ceaselessly negative about it, and for very thin reasons that just don't cut it for me. I think you do get close to the real reason for this negativity when you say that you&#x
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by jf- 8y ago
One day I'm sure we'll all have our own robot butlers, but right now it's mainly just allowing software to be made faster and cheaper.

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