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by lylecubed 8y ago
But it's equally illegal to kill anybody based on race, class, political belief or religious belief.
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by lylecubed 8y ago
Isn't that what you tried to do to me? You asked me this: "is there actual factual standing behind the positions I listed?" First of all, why are you asking me about the factual standings of your examples? And second, you did
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by lylecubed 8y ago
> I'm starting to feel like there's an unexpectedly enormous number of people out there with zero ability to critically evaluate information, and it seems as if all a terrible idea needs in order to gain critical mass is that i
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by lylecubed 8y ago
You posted them as examples of "bad ideas." Shouldn't you be able to tell me the factual standing behind the positions you hold?
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by lylecubed 8y ago
And who decides what is and isn't a silly idea? For 40 years, Americans were told by the government to believe that low fat high carb diets were the key to a healthy life. Not only is that not true, but it's never been true. There
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by lylecubed 8y ago
> A common argument in philosophy is that bad ideas should occur in the open - where everyone may ridicule them. Not to get too far off topic, but is this actually true in practice in the real world? Scientific studies have shown that th
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by lylecubed 8y ago
> What happens if the DNS server refuses to host the IP lookup? No need. It's easier if DNS registrars conspire to confiscate and/or refuse to sell domain names. This has already been done. SSL certs can, and have been, revoked
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by lylecubed 8y ago
> It was a new sound, and there were new aesthetics being explored. Is that really true, though? Most of the music that dominated the 90s, for example, wasn't created in the 90s. Grunge and Punk started in the 80s and were repackage
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by lylecubed 8y ago
> They'll be able to make all of those movies available to their own streaming service and lock everyone else out if it makes business sense for them to do so. They have to make that streaming service first. Disney has a long histor
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by lylecubed 8y ago
Do you know any companies that have hired programmers to do deep learning who don't have a relevant PhD? I'm not trying to be insulting, but it's hard for me to determine who has actual, practical, first-hand knowledge of hir
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by lylecubed 8y ago
Don't you need a PhD for that?
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by lylecubed 8y ago
There's a financial crisis of one type or another every 7 years. Each time, more and more regulation is put in place to make sure it doesn't happen again. It's only a matter of time before congress hangs too many ornaments on
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by lylecubed 8y ago
> I feel like it mainly does that because Musk fails to set realistic expectations and then goes on tantrums whenever someone is negative about the outlook. That's about as fair as saying there's a cabal of billionaires shortin
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by lylecubed 8y ago
> Every time a programmer adds an animation, a settings option should also be added to "disable animations". You can disable every animation in OS X itself via the command line (defaults write). I put them all in a shell script
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by lylecubed 8y ago
The time to do that would have been during Snow Leopard. At this point, MacOS is a liability, not an asset.
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by lylecubed 8y ago
> Then there is no native package manager Isn't brew native? This time around (a few months ago) I didn't notice any issues with setting up a modern frontend dev environment. Not even the dependency hell I always seem to run in
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by lylecubed 8y ago
You know nothing.
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by lylecubed 8y ago
You don't live in rural NY, do you? I do. Most of my extended family are farmers. Cows and corn as far as the eye can see up here.
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by lylecubed 8y ago
> If we keep having to subsidise these areas because it is uneconomical to build infrastructure there, and most new technologies require infrastructure development, does it really make sense for people to keep living there? Do you like t
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by lylecubed 8y ago
You might find this an interesting read: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/technology/how-to-give-ru...
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by lylecubed 8y ago
Because they were contractually obligated to do so with their deal with the state. It's part of the reason their merger has just been rescinded.
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by lylecubed 8y ago
Are those both mesh networks?
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by lylecubed 8y ago
Thanks! I'm interested in this topic, but I have no idea what I'm doing. lylecubed AT gmail
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by lylecubed 8y ago
You've posted about ISP related things in the past. How viable do you think it would be to start a WISP in rural New York State? I'm mostly interested in last mile rural stuff (I don't like cities), but from the looks of the
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by lylecubed 8y ago
> They are just replacing the one incredibly bad ISP with a somewhat less bad one. ... we hope. That certainly wasn't the case the last time (when Spectrum bought TWC). As far as I can tell, NYS doesn't have any idea who's
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by lylecubed 8y ago
At least you're getting 100Mbps. I'm one of the original TWC customers who refuse to switch over to their new "no contract" plans because I don't want them to jump my rates like they did yours. Their retaliation? I
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by lylecubed 8y ago
I'm surprised nobody's talking about the political implications here. This could do more damage to the open internet than revoking net neutrality. Here's a link to hn.algolia.com for the search 'ssl revoked.' https
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by lylecubed 8y ago
> Similar story for me. Another +1 here. I got so sick of programming interviews that I went freelance. If at any time a potential client suggests I need to do a whiteboard style interview, I decline and offer to work for them for a week
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by lylecubed 8y ago
Either a new OS for power users that "just works" or a replacement for the web (a ground-up rewrite of web servers, browsers and protocols).
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by lylecubed 8y ago
> The point of a low stakes conversation to me is learning something about a person or subject That point of view is getting rarer and rarer, especially on the internet. Which is unfortunate. It has ruined online discourse for me almost

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