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by kick 7y ago
The above post didn't say unpopular, they said 'underpopular'. While that's a bit of a neologism, it just implies that it's less popular than it should be. Also: "Lisp is the most fun you can have programming
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by kick 7y ago
He takes several obvious and blatant jokes seriously, and he does this because not long ago, two right- and right-libertarian outlets with relatively large audiences posted pieces intentionally misinterpreting them, practically admitt
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by kick 7y ago
Ah, interesting! Thanks for chiming in!
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by kick 7y ago
There is literally no Rust in the main repo: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2 https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd It's confounding how a project that doesn't include Rust is included i
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by kick 7y ago
He's very clearly mocking right-libertarians, who are very prone to having outbursts of "Actually, it's just hebephilia." https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughLibertarianSpam/comments/7obs...
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by kick 7y ago
Wow, this is a really terribly-written article. You'd imagine a company that had been around for 20 years would have a sense of professionalism or something. When someone is able to pinpoint your exact political alignment and the news
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by kick 7y ago
Site's back up.
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by kick 7y ago
Why not property taxes in particular? Disincentivising land ownership would promote growth and lead more people to population centers, which seems like one of the only effective ways to solve many of the world's problems, from climate
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by kick 7y ago
Only thirty! It was started in 1987, I believe.
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by kick 7y ago
Thanks for sharing!
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Sun's NeWS was a mistake, as are all toolkit-in-server windowing systems (2013)(utcc.utoronto.ca)
5 points by kick 7y ago|2 comments
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Many Hits, Some Misses: The Post-Crash Web Rush (1996)(nytimes.com)
2 points by kick 7y ago|0 comments
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by kick 7y ago
It seems plausible that it's mostly the former. Kind of like gambling: if you know you're going to lose $20 just for playing, you have to be significantly more confident in your ability to win than if you don't have to lose a
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AACS Encryption Key Controversy(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by kick 7y ago|0 comments
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by kick 7y ago
It doesn't actually solve the problem, which is something you would have imagined they would have thought out from the beginning. They basically admit, outright, that their proposed solution doesn't solve the problem: The ideal w
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by kick 7y ago
They've already done it for you, so you don't need to worry about implementing it: https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-protocol-c
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by kick 7y ago
I forgot that MBps is different than mbps. Just a capitalization error.
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by kick 7y ago
(1 tb) / (1 (mb / s)) = 11.5740741 days Ah, I see. mbps v. MBps. Capitalization error! Also, you're arguing against the past point which is fine because I messed up the capitalization (though the point still holds, because I
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by kick 7y ago
How is 3TB "HUGE"? If you're using computers like a normal person, that'll be gone pretty quickly. I remember using 1-4TB a month in my youth on a connection that couldn't push 1MBps. Given the recent emergence of h
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by kick 7y ago
Apple's really loose with the interpreted code policy. Not going to mention some of the apps I use that do so if nothing else because HN has dozens of Apple employees.
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by kick 7y ago
It looks minimalist, but it's not. I was talking about it without CSS. Turning CSS-blocking on for it with uMatrix makes it look fantastic once more. No one with sensible browser settings/extensions will see a pop-up, it's
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by kick 7y ago
While I think the above poster was wrong in equating the two, the article does sound really paranoid in a rather entitled way, and as a result makes a great point come off poor, despite the core idea ("Discord is bad") being tru
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by kick 7y ago
The only actual connection between FOSS projects and the use of secret communication channels is the author's general ethos of distrust. Taking your use of "secret" to mean "private," because no one was discussing
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by kick 7y ago
It took so long for the CSS to load I thought, "Wow, what a beautiful minimalist site!" and then came...everything else. I agree with part of one of 'sneak's points, though, if not the way it's presented and some of
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by kick 7y ago
There are like three dozen twitter bots that automatically repost HN posts, and there are like ten thousand twitter bots that automatically repost popular reddit posts. A single post getting to the front page of both will get you a hundred
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by kick 7y ago
The entire concept of the corporation is to make it less likely the people involved will be imprisoned or directly take risk based on their mistakes. They willingly take the advantages that come with incorporation, they should lose somethin
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by kick 7y ago
Crabs was probably the first graphical prank program—most assuredly the first well-documented one: there are a lot of scattered anecdotes about it around. Here's an amazing talk by Rob Pike where it's casually mentioned, for exa
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by kick 7y ago
Bitcoin and Ether are autonomous. Not when you're using Coinbase. Monero [is] anonymous. Sure. ZCash [is] anonymous. lol Proof of work is not inherit to cryptocurrencies. I didn't claim it was. You completely misinterprete
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by kick 7y ago
I question what these people value about cryptocurrency: with none of the autonomy, anonymity, or resilience present in initial pitches and offerings in the space, it seems like it's mostly valueless. Surely there's more to it tha
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by kick 7y ago
More commonly known as Hitchen's Razor, Quod grātīs asseritur, grātīs negātur never ceases to be true in these situations.

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