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by m12k 7y ago
A relevant question is also, if most deaths really are among immunocompromised, elderly or very young, then how many of those 2% would have been killed by the flu or similar if coronavirus hadn't shown up? 14 million dead is terrible b
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by m12k 7y ago
A fee and dividend system[1] so the price of emission is actually included in the price of products is pretty damn important too. As is, it's only hippies and governments that are helping - with that system all companies and consumers
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by m12k 7y ago
The price of buying a computer to compile and ship the code with is not going to kill many business models that would otherwise have worked (you can buy a used Mac Mini or make a Hackintosh if you're feeling adventurous vs the TOS). Bu
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by m12k 7y ago
How do you mean? The presence of a public key doesn't tell us what has been encrypted with it or if the private key has been shared with anyone. How will a debugger tell us any of that?
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by m12k 7y ago
The article makes it sound like he's only buying proven songs, meaning they already have distribution. Also, as Napster, Pirate Bay and now Spotify have shown, distribution really is trivial - what he's buying is the right to rest
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by m12k 7y ago
I mean they pay roughly 3-4 times as much for the same level of service as the single payer healthcare in my country. So it's a massive market with much larger profit margins, the lack of vertical integration adds not just one, but man
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by m12k 7y ago
"Summaries of the state of knowledge in different fields": I've been thinking a lot about this one lately. There's so much confusion (and willful disinformation) in the world when it comes to science, and so many journal
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by m12k 7y ago
This right here illustrates something I've been thinking about a lot - the various ways you can define freedom, and how differently it tends to be defined in the US compared to how I as a European define it. It seems that in the US it&
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by m12k 7y ago
If you define hacking broadly as 'repurposing a system in a way that is significantly different from its originally intended use' then it certainly covers it - and you sort of need to define it broadly to encompass both the '
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by m12k 7y ago
I use dynalist.io (similar to Workflowy but more actively being developed) - I've found that the lists-within-lists patterns maps well to the way I think - if there's more than one layer of subtasks, Trello tends to not map well.
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by m12k 7y ago
I wrote a comment on another post where I explain the cache optimization benefits of ECS, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21674818
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by m12k 7y ago
Combine this with measured water resistance, to help me find 'the most breathable material that will stand up to X minutes of rain', add data for 'crinkliness' and stretchability (even just your own qualitative scale),
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by m12k 7y ago
I prefer semver, but it's still not exactly what I want. What I'm looking for is the answer to 'how painful/risky is upgrading likely to be?'. I expect an x.x.1 release to be zero/low risk - small fixes only wi
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by m12k 7y ago
I've played a lot of Hearthstone over the years and it has a concept similar to putting someone in check in Chess: Reducing their health to where one or two hits can kill them. Minions in Hearthstone can attack the opponent's mini
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by m12k 7y ago
There's an organization where volunteers teach coding to refugees: https://www.hackyourfuture.net/ It started in Amsterdam and has spread to Copenhagen and Toronto now - you could get involved and help open up a chapte
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by m12k 7y ago
I can sympathize with that feeling, but you sort of are in a "Damned if you do/Damned if you don't" situation. No one is expecting the wolf to stop eating sheep, and as admirable as its proposal to fund a shepherd might
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by m12k 7y ago
- Some words or identifiers should always have a specific color - The same thing should have the same color everywhere - Good contrast is at odds with: - WYSIWYG editor that behaves like Word If you give users the option to use all bold Com
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by m12k 7y ago
There's an article about how it works in their help section: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007060632-Wh...
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by m12k 7y ago
Well, Signal comes with a system for verifying a person's identity, so you can be sure it's really someone you know and not an imposter. But sure, for semi-public channels that will let anyone in without verification, something li
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by m12k 7y ago
If the shortage is not of cables in general, but of cables that are long enough to reach the current connection point, then a switch would help.
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by m12k 7y ago
I agree with your analysis that TLDs are mostly useless. But I doubt that's enough reason to believe they'll go away - if history is any indication, IP will seldom go away, whether useful or not, since whole industries tend to spr
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by m12k 7y ago
Couldn't any member state just choose to tax daughter companies in their own country, whether or not those daughter companies were buying IP from the mother company in Ireland? Basically choose not to accept transfer pricing as actuall
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by m12k 7y ago
For those not familiar with this, here's a bit of background knowledge: A lot of game engines had run into an issue where a sensible and user friendly object oriented design led to a lot of little inefficiencies that added up to relati
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by m12k 7y ago
Agreed on all points. One of the main metrics I use to assess maintainability of code is 'how many places do I need to edit to make a change?' (within the same file or worse, in other files too), 'how easy is it to find those
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by m12k 7y ago
This is one of those situations that really encapsulates the essence of IP for me: There is something virtual (the .org tld) that comes with legally enforced scarcity and a monopoly that governs it. And some guys realize that you can acquir
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by m12k 7y ago
My first thought was that the 3D model accidentally used the low-poly LOD for far-away rendering instead of the high-poly one.
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by m12k 7y ago
"It is the third most-downloaded app outside of gaming this year. Numbers one and two are WhatsApp and Messenger, while four and five are the Facebook app and Instagram." Facebook owns 4/5 of the most downloaded apps - just l
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by m12k 7y ago
I'm kind of perplexed to find this at the top of the front page of Hacker News. It seems, if not entirely devoid of actual information, then pretty close. Is there some context I'm not aware of, that would explain its popularity?
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by m12k 7y ago
"successful server-based peer-to-peer" - it's certainly P2P, but I thought the whole point of Bittorrent was to avoid needing servers?
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by m12k 7y ago
I didn't know NextCloud was P2P (I thought it was just based on a central server with a bunch of clients) - what's the P2P part?

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