kanox

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by kanox 8y ago
It's not clear how the parent post blames this on "economic stratification" when siblings in highschool have the same economic status because of their parents. His sister just went to a different better school.
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by kanox 8y ago
The word "celebrity" has negative connotations but Elon is famous for very good reasons: he gets results and he helps other people get results. Tom Mueller and Gwynne Shotwell could have worked at other more traditional companies
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by kanox 8y ago
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1987/
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by kanox 8y ago
> The shuttle isn't really designed to put basic stuff in space The shuttle was absolutely designed to "put basic stuff in space". By being partially reusable it was meant to be cheaper than all other "expendable&quot
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by kanox 8y ago
Should have gone with Blackwater instead
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by kanox 8y ago
Also tumblr?
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by kanox 8y ago
> Yes. The owner always has the right to monitor what goes on with his/her property. No. By this logic your ISP owns the cables and has the right to MITM as well.
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by kanox 8y ago
Cities should also ban papers and force everybody to get news from the town crier or conversations with their neighbors.
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by kanox 8y ago
But people would still be judging you. All the time. Even when you're sleeping.
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by kanox 8y ago
I have the exact opposite problem: it's too difficult to politely exclude myself from potential social situations. Seeing that some people consider "loneliness" as a problem to be fixed is a nightmare. I know I am very much p
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by kanox 8y ago
I'm not sure if you're serious but such measures sound more like what you would encounter in a cult than modern society.
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by kanox 8y ago
Is the problem here really about closed platforms? I don't think problems such as "spending too much time on validation" would be fixed if the author published photos on a personal blog instead of facebook/instagram. For
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by kanox 8y ago
> The freedom to modify your roots of trust is extremely important. I agree, modifying certificates shouldn't be technically impossible but perhaps we could have regulations where companies that do this are penalized. If companies a
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by kanox 8y ago
> the software was also installing a root certificate into the Trusted Root CA Certificate store. This kind of stuff shouldn't even be legal.
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by kanox 8y ago
> And DX doesn't matter to most developers? I'm a developer and don't know what that is.
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by kanox 8y ago
It's not a mistake! Compatibility is a feature, and quite a difficult to maintain one at that.
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by kanox 8y ago
Does that apply to web assembly?
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by kanox 8y ago
Linux is just a kernel, the proper terminology is Node/Linux.
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by kanox 8y ago
jornalolologists
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They don't?
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by kanox 8y ago
> “Don’t hire for culture fit” doesn’t mean anything. People has such widely varying definitions of "culture fit" that "hire for culture fit" doesn't mean anything either.
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by kanox 8y ago
Your ISP is also a private third party. If Microsoft rejects you why wouldn't Comcast? The 70 dollars you pay for a home connection isn't worth dealing with a twitter mob, so they'll gladly boot you.
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by kanox 8y ago
> Its purpose is providing independent access to space for ESA member nations at a reasonable price > Ariane's goal is not to win the most commercial contracts or compete with SpaceX on price Winning commercial contracts is how t
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by kanox 8y ago
Teracompany, because trillion
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by kanox 8y ago
I don't follow Tesla or the automotive market but I do follow space and for many years SpaceX was mocked because of it's low launch rate and delays. They are now #2 by launch rate, behind only China. SpaceX launches 2x to 3x more
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by kanox 8y ago
The moral compass has shifted and Silicon Valley has learned to embrace censorship, at home and abroad.
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by kanox 8y ago
That doesn't sound right, GRO is a performance optimization but shouldn't be required for interactive response. Sounds like what you need is TCP_NODELAY?
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by kanox 8y ago
One decent "middle ground" would be if you could step outside using just an oxygen mask instead of a full spacesuit. Unfortunately the conclusion of this paper is that there isn't nearly enough CO2 to reach the required press
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by kanox 8y ago
Maybe because many people haven't experienced this? The parent poster also said this: > I wish I could find that company where nobody gives a shit about their place in the hierarchy and everyone isn't constantly trying to gun f
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by kanox 8y ago
This needs to be posted again: https://xkcd.com/927/

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