knughit

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by knughit 11y ago
Tens of thousands of dollars total is far less than it costs a company just to moot the question.
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by knughit 11y ago
A world with smart cables is a dumb world. I want smart devices/adaptors and cheap dumb cables.
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by knughit 11y ago
That's still distributing a copy. Price is irrelevant
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by knughit 11y ago
Heliocentricism is not a religious belief.
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by knughit 11y ago
>The advice for people will be to abstain. Which is a well-proven failed strategy.
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by knughit 11y ago
Because _nomap gets 99.999% coverage, and _mappable would get 0.001% coverage.
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by knughit 11y ago
In the USA we believe that once you turn 18 you are an adult and responsible for yourself, and have no right to blame your upbringing (parents, and schools, and doctors) for any of your mental, health, and economic deficiencies. And that&#
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by knughit 11y ago
Often poor means underemployed, not overworked. It's the middle class that have no time.
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by knughit 11y ago
What do you do with the "negligible" 15-30% of your money?
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by knughit 11y ago
The bans on fresh foods are due to lobbying by national good companies to regulate against local competitors. It isn't because of citizen complaints.
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by knughit 11y ago
Bread is the cheapest food. Dairy is heavily subsidized in USA. Pizza is famous because it is the cheapest cooked meal known to cow-owning humanity. McRib literally exists only during times of pork market collapse. This stuff is absolutely
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by knughit 11y ago
Humanity is also immortal and self-modifying, it uses human bodies as the unit of program transfer and modification. Humanity's version is extremely slow, of course, and limited in quantity and quality of copies of a good program.
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by knughit 11y ago
What if ramanijam was a CS scholar? you would refuse Ramanujan access to this data until after he got into a school program which he would not be able to do without access to this data.
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by knughit 11y ago
Since nowadays universities are run as start-up accelerators with closed source software, the .edu restriction is antiquated and obnoxious
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by knughit 11y ago
Male on female sexual harassment is worse per female capita (which is the effect people complain about, whether the realize it or not) wherever women are a smaller minority. This is basic math. It isn't anything special about SV cult
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by knughit 11y ago
What's to teach? Everyone knows how to say "stop it." The hard part is feeling safe saying it.
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by knughit 11y ago
They celebrated by sending spam email to past donors.
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by knughit 11y ago
Sharecropping literally means farming on someone's land and paying rent.
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by knughit 11y ago
No, it means that the scientists were incorrect when thet built a model of a dinosaur from fossil, and the actual dinosaurs were smaller than the model predicts.
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by knughit 11y ago
Amazon deploys huge physical machines sells virtual machines, why would they not charge linearly? Doubling your compute isn't cheaper than selling someone else the same compute as you.
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by knughit 11y ago
This is just pollution laundering, selling people smug self righteousness. See also: every give one get one company that way overcharges and then dumps shit noone needs like cheap shoes and and thin socks.
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by knughit 11y ago
Because Python's philosophy is that the language designers known the one best way to do everything.
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by knughit 11y ago
Do you think lawyers consume malpractice insurance? Juries and lawsuit winners consume malpractice insurance
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by knughit 11y ago
Congratulations in advance for when EPIC buys your company and then ruins your product.
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by knughit 11y ago
Confidentiality is overrated, outside of narrow areas of core tech. A few years ago, Facebook hired a massive fleet of Google experts, and replicated a lot of the tech and open sourced it. But the reason they cause Google competitive troubl
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by knughit 11y ago
Another way to look at it: avoid the open/academic community stop doing xrypto research because NSA mathematicians are (secretly) way ahead of them? "Open" is a different league from proprietary. It doesn't matter that t
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by knughit 11y ago
Matt is talking about academic who publish papers showing that System X is Y% better than System Z, under completely nonsensical conditions. They aren't advancing the state of the art, they are mapping the terrain of the compost heap,
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by knughit 11y ago
OK, mark is going to something bad, then stop doing it to prove how good it is, to convince people to ask for it back. Because it is bad.
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by knughit 11y ago
It already is a great TED talk. I forget by who. The punchline is that when yo look at earth from space, the places that don't have visible (artificial) light are the places where innovation is happening, leapfrogging legacy wired infr
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by knughit 11y ago
"Manifest Destiny"

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