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by jplayer01 7y ago
While we're on the topic, why do sites have non-wrapping anything? That site has non-wrapping code blocks, which made it so tedious to read on my phone that I gave up. HN has non-wrapping quotes. In what universe is non-wrapping anythi
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by jplayer01 7y ago
Okay, maybe the design isn't great. Can we talk about algebraic data types now? I come to HN for interesting discussion about interesting topics. I start to wonder why I bother when the only comments on a post like this, which actually
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At a population level, we're ridiculously resilient. Or we wouldn't be here today in the numbers that you see. I just don't see PTSD being maladaptive enough. Maybe if you were born with it and were so dysfunctional that you
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> But being a mental wreck along the lines that PTSD is often portrayed very clearly would negatively impact your reproductive success. There are plenty of people with PTSD who have families (particularly, kids). Our reproductive age beg
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Isn't the keyword "imagine"? From what I understand, nobody is actually doing this and triple-sided paper doesn't exist in any form. You know, like spherical cows in a vacuum (I assume).
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I was subscribed to Netflix for years until recently. I’ve given up. It’s the high seas for me. And anybody who argues I just want stuff for free is twisting the narrative. I was and still am more than happy to reward content creators as lo
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by jplayer01 7y ago
Seems like a real world implementation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation I'm not sure that's a great thing, but you're never going to find a consensus that's both palatable to
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by jplayer01 7y ago
1) Accessibility 2) There's always been some measure of manipulation by political leaders in order to achieve certain goals. Obvious examples are the US in drumming up support for WW2 or the Vietnam war or ... well, any war, really. I
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That's a problem of the current system we have, not a fundamental issue like the one he's portraying. It's one of the problems we need to solve if we want science to be better.
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I take serious issue with this. I completely agree that Saudi Arabia and Israel are significant national security and geopolitical issues that aren't being dealt with appropriately. The Israelis are spying on US politicians and other
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> It's all the other things they changed around and the subtly added "telemetry" spyware that should get your attention more. ;-) As if that isn't already discussed to death around here or elsewhere. I see far more di
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Okay, now you're focusing on one part of my argument that isn't airtight. But missing the forest for the trees. They don't have to buy all or every single company in order to have anti-competitive effects on the market, w
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You keep picking these companies as examples that haven't made it a part of their model to buy potential competitors, that already made these mistakes and suffered because of it. I don't understand why. The companies I've nam
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Report back, I'd love to know.
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I like this idea, it makes sense to integrate a particularly low spec machine into the development process and I wish more developers would do it.
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I'm not talking about breaking them up. Also, while anti-trust law exists, it's not enforced. And breaking the tech giants further doesn't ensure that anti-trust is enforced in any expanded sense outside of "consumer pri
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Wow, that's impressive.
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I'm sure. I still much prefer Microsoft's model over Apple's, even if there are some drawbacks.
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I agree. But I haven't seen anybody push this forward as possible policy anywhere. There's no discussion about it anywhere that I've seen.
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The tech industry has fundamentally changed since the early 2000s though. Microsoft was primarily interested in extinguishing competition. The new culture for the past 10ish years has been to assimilate. It's not an isolated case. Ther
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How do you ensure competition when Big Tech can (and do) literally buy any and all potential competition? I'd say this is the biggest issue we have, and it doesn't seem like anybody is addressing it. After seeing countless interes
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I was impressed when I upgraded an old Win7 system and Office 2007 still worked on W10. Makes me wonder what the oldest version of Office is that would still work. There are a lot of things to not like about Microsoft, but their dedication
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by jplayer01 7y ago
Yes, so? Nobody is concerned about the Chinese because they’re Chinese. Unless the CCP adopts principles like freedom of speech or other values that are foundational to Western countries, the CCP is forever going to be at odds with us. As l
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So, give any quote from the link or elsewhere that in any way shows the reasoning for this consideration is based on how much they don’t like Chinese people or how inferior they are as a race. People keep throwing around the racist label ev
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But the problem isn’t storing information in these countries in this case. It’s how these are known to coerce nationals with ties to the homeland into spying for them.
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Well, ignoring the fact that WLAN/Ethernet won’t work without drivers (since internet is a bad idea with XP anyway), Sound and graphics don’t work either. So games are out, which is really the only reason I have for running XP. It’s to
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It seems really concerning that Startpage is still recommended on privacytools.io. Instead the forum post discussing the delisting is hung up on getting a statement from the new CEO and giving them a chance, which seems insane to me. Either
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Which is the point, no? What good is a PC where nothing works? Cool video though.
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That was a great video, thanks. He apparently also did a Win XP video, where he put together his dream PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XTnL4Mang0
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So, out of curiosity, what’s the fastest PC that will still work on 95, 98, XP respectively? I recently tried installing XP on my desktop and, despite it being old enough to still be compatible and have drivers available, I wasn’t able to e

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