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by johnfactorial 7y ago
> I can't believe we label this guy a traitor. I never understood how someone who tells the American people/journalist's that their government is breaking the law is a bad thing. I can give a few reasons for those genuinel
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
A short list of those tons would be wonderfully helpful to share. :)
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
> Lambda seems to be a fast prototyping tool. My thoughts EXACTLY. The great power in "serverless" architecture (i.e. AWS Lambda + AWS RDS + AWS Gateway) is how it empowers prototyping a new product. Counterintuitively, it&#x27
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
> Right and the government is paying me to say this on HN of all places. Straw man. No one has accused you of this. > You do not have the freedom of speech to threaten others. You have defined freedom of speech in a way that merely as
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
> The people still in the streets have other agendas Here is that agenda, also known as the 5 demands: 1. Kill the extradition bill. Done. 2. Retract use of the word “riot” to classify the protests. 3. Release and drop charges for protes
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
Your post is unabashed propaganda, full of false dichotomies, whataboutism, and false equivalence, with no love of truth. > China does not have freedom of speech but in a way neither does the US. A radical and undefended claim. In what w
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
I think a chicken run & coop is like 100 square feet total for a half a dozen chickens. Not sure though, I'm still just a development director. :)
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
I just love the Hacker News guideline that comments get more thoughtful and substantive as a topic gets more divisive, I think we all benefit a lot from that aspect of this site. Honestly I only posted my comment to stir deeper public discu
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
Sorry, didn't mean to sound insulting, my wife and I routinely discuss leaving our programmer jobs to move out into the woods and raise chickens.
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
Have you seen Cucumber? https://cucumber.io/docs It's a system that attempts to enable specifications for a software product to be written in a way that can be parsed by an automated testing framework. In theory, you c
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
What will you do next? You can be rid of all these problems if you start raising chickens in the woods and selling eggs and poultry.
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
For what it's worth, Python is a strongly typed language[0] and is what the manual calls "multi-paradigm," i.e. you can write purely functionally in it[1] all you want, though it is a fair point to observe that the community,
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
I would love to know more, anything specific that has changed which you think will render some of this old text obsolete?
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A Technology Freelancer's Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative [pdf](techworker.coop)
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
Admittedly knowing little about how multi-core CPUs work, I've always thought the next breakthrough in CPU tech would be a hardware-based scheduler, a chip that effectively load balances threads to ensure all cores are used equally an
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
And when capitalists start telling you to trust the invisible hand of the market, the comparison to religion becomes obvious & apt. Edit: for those who, for some reason, think my comment unworthy: "The ‘invisible hand’ has an iron
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
> What did DRM promise this guy From the article: > Thanks to a technology called “Digital Rights Management,” sellers and buyers could negotiate a subset of rights and a reduced payment for same... In other words, we were told that w
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
> There was a moat between the operations/sales team... and the technical team. It's one thing to claim two teams _don't_ work together regularly; it's another to say there's a moat between them, indicating it wa
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
LOL That quote is exactly what I was cribbing from. :)
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
There's some healthy doubt to be cast on concepts like "Chronic Lyme." Consider, for one example, the data here: https://lymescience.org/washington/ In this thread a poster claims that multiple doctors c
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
I recently rented a theater and licensed a copy of The Matrix to throw a 20th anniversary party, invited enough people to fill the theater and enjoyed it again as it was intended to be seen, on the big screen. Still holds up spectacularly,
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
Furthermore, when we have a problem, if our solution is to have human beings simply remember to do it a different way, we then have two problems.
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
Sounds great, what are the problems with its methods?
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
Indeed it occurred to me when I took my LDTs that the test's basic premise is: our machine detects stress responses, and our questioner assumes repeated stress coincident with the same answer equates to a lie. Stated outright like that
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
The study was specifically careful to make the wallet appear to have been lost by a member of the local community. Returning the wallet is an act of civic honesty as it relates to helping someone who is essentially a member of the same comm
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
It's a fantastic idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dban . A term for police is お巡りさん, "patrolman" (or, as I first read it, Mr. Walkaround lol). They're known for their neighborhood foot patro
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
It is. It is a thorough study of the necessary components of real human dialogue, and a well-defended claim that there is no model, nor even any existing TYPE of model, which can model human dialogue. Human dialogue, the paper says, is a te
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
Can someone help me understand, honestly, how a business gets started and funded without the answer to "how to make it viable" being answered already?
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
What we need is a new paradigm for making money on the Internet. Advertisements are psychological tricks users are forced to experience, designed to make that person think they need to spend their money on something they didn't need be
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
Agreed, "My DNA is my personal property," is a weak argument. "My DNA is my personally-identifying data," is a better one. The question of what rights we have to our personally identifiable information is not yet answere

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