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by losvedir 5y ago
IJ does great work. They definitely have a libertarian bent, and while I wouldn't necessarily want to live in a full blown taxation-is-theft society, I do feel better knowing there are groups out there providing necessary pushback like
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by losvedir 5y ago
I always enjoy reading Vitalik's posts. I remember many years ago back when Bitcoin was fun. I traded it back and forth with friends for pizza and such. I even used it once at a hip restaurant in town. Some Bitcoin forum (the name of w
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by losvedir 5y ago
Can someone explain the point in the article that Facebook can still track you if the script is loaded from an edge cache and the browser doesn't send cookies? I can think of unique script URLs, but if it's coming from an edge cac
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by losvedir 5y ago
I haven't used DDG much but I tried for a while to use Bing (which, I believe serves most of its organic search results in the US?), since Microsoft had a thing for a while where they'd basically pay you to use their search engine
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by losvedir 5y ago
What's the point of SSIDs, really? They just need to be some strong unique in your proximity. I got tired of coming up with witty puns and just used my street address. Is there any downside to this? In fact, if everyone did this, the
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by losvedir 5y ago
> They dont talk about or even cover the same things Yeah, this is a key thing to realize. People seem to think that Fox News, for example, just trots out falsehoods all the time, but if you skim the news, I'd say very little is a
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by losvedir 5y ago
Since rust does a "crater run" with each release, where it builds (all?) many known crates, it has stats with how many break. I vaguely remember a comment by Steve Klabnik here in HN one time (which I sadly cannot find now) that s
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by losvedir 5y ago
> Except it's a localized, self-limited amount, as mRNA cannot replicate. Well, hence my question about cytokine storm, since by definition that's an out of control feedback loop prompted by other cytokines and not the underl
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by losvedir 5y ago
> Sorry for being pedantic, but it’s the same as “you don’t die from being shot, but from the resulting blood loss”. I think I wasn't clear then. With the Spanish Flu, the virus took hold in the host and multiplied. As part of the
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by losvedir 5y ago
I'm vaccinated but I think it's hindsight bias to say the mRNA vaccines are obviously safe. We had to wait for clinical trials to show that. There has been a great deal of research and development on the delivery of the mRNA, what
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by losvedir 5y ago
I dunno, I rarely get issues that crash just once. For example, in the blog post, it's recommended to use `Jason.decode!`. But what if whatever server you're hitting is returning invalid JSON for a time? If you crash, the GenServe
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by losvedir 5y ago
Good stuff. I disagree about the first point, though, and have actually gone the opposite way, going from generic Access via `[]` to specific `Map.get` and `Keyword.get`. The reason is that the underlying data structures are quite differe
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by losvedir 5y ago
Might be easier to set up the backend before testing the front end. You could use your existing models and code to create data in the DB for instance, and then use the web browser to test that things are working. What's the alternative
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by losvedir 5y ago
> Not everyone in the country does siesta. We just have lunch. Obviously nothing is universal. But to an American visiting Spain the hours of operation there are striking! I only visited Madrid and Sevilla, but I found that restaurants a
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by losvedir 5y ago
I guess I can sort of see it for a cryptocurrency that exists solely to send tokens back and forth, but what about Ethereum where the miners are running some global VM, one function of which is to send tokens back and forth? There you'
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by losvedir 5y ago
What? Now you're making me feel old. I remember 20 years ago... it didn't seem that different from today. What's "massively different" about being a millionaire then? You mean, inflation-adjusted, how it's $1.5
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by losvedir 5y ago
Maybe keeping a pet? Probably carbon intensive things like taking an international flight for vacation.
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by losvedir 5y ago
This is an astounding amount of work for such a small project. Looks like the 0.7.0 release was about a year and a half ago. I've been sponsoring for a couple months now. I love the passion here and want to support a smart, dedicated g
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by losvedir 5y ago
This hasn't been my experience. Once I let my lawn get quite tall (grass that was maybe 4-5 inches), and I had crazy mosquitoes. When I finally mowed that grass, they came up in swarms. I then learned, and have kept it short since then
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by losvedir 5y ago
What explains the pervasive malaria that used to be in this country then?
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by losvedir 5y ago
> I don't see why Elixir is exempt - do you mind explaining? Your points don't necessarily apply super well. Point 1 is about hiring and teaching. There's going to be a different candidate pool of people interested in le
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by losvedir 5y ago
> Let everyone have a home, eat and drink as much as they need, receive proper education and healthcare, and thrive working for something they see interest in not a paycheck/boss and you'll see terrorism will be entirely rid o
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by losvedir 5y ago
No, this isn't true, though it's a common misunderstanding. Most school districts receive funding from the state. Generally, the underperforming schools spend more per student. For example, Stuyvesant, the premier math/scie
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by losvedir 5y ago
Yeah, I read "petascale" and thought, oh, we must be nearly there. Then I saw "one cubic millimeter"! Oh my, we still have a long ways to go.
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by losvedir 5y ago
I'm in a similar position, and lately I've been having flavored sparkling waters (Mmm Orange Bubly) and herbal (i.e. non-caffeinated) teas, depending if I want hot or cold. Obviously they don't taste like beer, but what I fou
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by losvedir 5y ago
The terms the two of you are looking for in your discussion here are Pareto efficiency, and Kaldor-Hicks efficiency. Your point is that not everyone is better off, so destruction is not a pareto improvement. Their point is that on net, valu
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by losvedir 5y ago
I have a question: are there any "crypto-like" currencies? I do see value in being able to instantly exchange tokens which are generally liquid and convertible to local currency, with low fees, internationally, and in denomination
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I'd say it's consistent with that hypothesis, but not that it corroborates it. An alternative hypothesis is that the Bay Area draws in smart folks (who are then wealthy, because Bay Area salaries are outrageous), and smart folks
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by losvedir 5y ago
I'm assuming they were talking about Elixir, which uses that syntax to pipe the result of the left side into the first argument of the function on the right side. The transformation was correct in Elixir, and I can confirm that I at
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by losvedir 5y ago
Yeah, I think about this a lot as I've been brushing up on my Spanish lately. A lot of people are eager to come up with and apply "rules" to the grammar, but I suspect most of these rules are post-hoc, and the way it _really_

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