mFixman

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by mFixman 4y ago
Maybe aliens are trying to contact us in a way they understand. SETI has been sending unconventional radio signals to random spots of the cosmos and waiting for a quick response. An extraterrestrial SETI might have launched ʻOumuamua a bill
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The hide button is useful for me. I read the HN front page several times a day, and hide posts that are obvious ragebait, low quality submissions, or things that negatively affect my mood due to personal reasons. By hiding posts I can make
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Of course. Human contact is an integral part of the Starbucks experience; otherwise they wouldn't do things like writing your name on the drink or having a million different coffee customisation options. Your scenario could work with M
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We've had automatic coffee machines since the 1950s, and yet Starbucks employs over 300k people. Everything being possibly automated doesn't mean everything will be automated. There is always value in human work, even if we are ob
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> today we can do everything Flash did, and more, with HTML, and WebGL. There's one big piece missing: we don't have an animation/gaming interface that's as easy and intuitive as Flash. Flash didn't become ubiqui
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I just wish it didn't have the giant useless light/dark mode button covering a chunk of the screen.
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Most people of any generation are not technically savvy. Most people here in HN were technically savvy before formally joining the tech industry. Our industry benefited a lot from new employees who had prior experience fighting against bugg
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Widespread energy generation nuclear fission is politically impossible in most Western countries. Why are people optimistic that fusion won't have the same kind of problems, such as new plants being too expensive to build and old obsol
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Back in the day my phone carrier in Argentina would send me ultra-high-priority alerts with ads several times a day. A lot of people in this thread are understandably okay with good carriers doing this for good reasons, but it's very e
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The only ads I've bought things from were ones that were hyper-targeted to my demographics, like seller of sweets from my home country in my current city.
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This reminds me of being taught that "ch" and "ll" were a single letter each in Spanish back when I was in school before they were re-digraphed in the late '90s. Adapting alphabets to languages has a long history: j
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The "it just looks wrong" makes me appreciate the effort of medieval scholars that added random silent consonants to English words to make their spelling closer to their Latin and Greek originals, like the 'b' in "d
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Do they? Both alphabets are almost identical, but Cyrillic has many "standardised" sounds that don't appear in the Latin alphabet (Ж "zh", Ц "tz", Ч "ch", Ш "sh") while I don't thi
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I don't know. This entire job listing smells of a PR role created to communicate how the New York government is getting the job done rather than actually getting the job done.
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Watching pictures of my friends vacations on FB is better for my mental health than reading the angry political opinions of some mentally ill anonymous on Reddit.
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It's £12.50 per day. I'm sure they can manage.
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I strongly support this policy, but I worry that it will be struck down in the courts. The government of London attempted to subsidise public transport in the 1980s, but that was considered illegal after the council of the London Borough of
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by mFixman 4y ago
Brexit became a possibility the second UKIP became a threat to the electoral chances of the Conservative party. It's very likely that Labour would have won in 2015 if Cameron didn't promise that referendum. Scottish Labour already
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You just need a program that registers the `'; DROP TABLE 'users` font and voilá.
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To me, the use case of Alexa is doing those exact same things _without_ having to use my phone. Sometimes I want to listen to a podcast without risking accidentally spending the next hour on Reddit.
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This is 100% the government testing the waters to see how such news would be received by the public.
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Does anybody know of a book that's a good introduction to pre-computer mathematics? I love factoring primes manually, and reading these kind of answers make me feel some "I was born in the wrong generation" vibes.
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I have been getting those emails too, and I noticed that they get automatically send to spam ~5 minutes after I receive them. I seem to be getting a spam email of this kind almost every day for the last ~6 months. Maybe the spammer found a
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Apple doing R&D doesn't mean Apple won't ever make a search engine, electric car, or VR headset. It means that Apple is waiting to get a mature enough product in any of these areas to create one. If you want to see how hyping
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It's not just the culture: managing perks such as hardware, tech support, and VC equipment seems like a useful proposition. I could see WeWork working in 2012 by getting money from small startups and large company with overflow problem
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I believe it. A data science company I used to work for got hired in 2017 by a large American telco to handle this exact same sort of data coming from antenna location to do better ad targeting. The reason why Verizon or AT&T do not hav
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Volkswagen cheated on emissions tests by creating software that did the expected results only during an audit. Doing the same for voting software would be much easier. There's no way for a computer to completely prove it has the right
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What's the point of `push`ing constants to the stack and `pop`ing them to registers instead of `mov`ing them directly?
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Cool, you just deleted every event you attended and every photo you commented. Deleting stuff is complicated work :-)
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Shouldn't they delete your posts and likes too?

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