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by mactavish88 5y ago
It seems to me as though people who make a big deal out of "lack of diversity" in any field are saying that it's because of some form of discrimination or bias in hiring. This is the primary hypothesis they're putting fo
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by mactavish88 5y ago
Focusing on such statistics usually encourages equality of outcome as opposed to equality of opportunity. A far more helpful metric would probably be to know how many people want to be in tech (or tech journalism in this case) but can’t, al
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by mactavish88 5y ago
What would be interesting to know is what % of Windows users actually want to use Windows (as opposed to being forced to do so through corporate/organizational dictates).
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by mactavish88 5y ago
Totally. Which is why I’d pay over $300 for a dumb phone like the Mudita Pure with its FreeRTOS-based, open source OS. Call me stupid, but I’d be far happier without Apple or Google in my life, and am willing to pay the price for that in te
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by mactavish88 5y ago
And so am I.
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by mactavish88 5y ago
The last version of Windows I used was Windows XP. I since switched to various Linux distros and macOS, now settling on a combination of Debian and Ubuntu as my daily laptop/server OS’s. My initial reasons for my leaving the Microsoft
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by mactavish88 5y ago
Maybe, we’ll see how we turn out in the coming decades :-) As for the psychological ramifications (not “damage”), I was talking specifically about the loss of privacy. There seems to be something very important about privacy that facilitate
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by mactavish88 5y ago
To be frank, I really don’t care. The ad-driven business model needs to die. The ad-driven business model is making our society sick on so many levels. The incentivization it creates is totally toxic. It’s one of the biggest driving force
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Ask HN: HTTP request headers to facilitate better UX on web sites?
5 points by mactavish88 5y ago|5 comments
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How long does it take to build a small-to-moderate sized nuclear power station? (Assuming reasonably well-operating supply chains) Asking because I have no idea and would love to know from someone who has some insight/experience on tha
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by mactavish88 5y ago
How does one protect against catastrophic cascading power failures in the event of solar flares, given this greater interconnectivity?
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My point is, for whose benefit was the talk in the first place? I imagine it’s mostly for those who were coming to listen to the talk, right? So what’s the job of the chair of the department in this case? To serve those who are coming to li
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by mactavish88 5y ago
Why does the chair of the department get more of a say in who gets to speak than those who were going to come listen?
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Weak bureaucrats are going to be the undoing of so many societies until the average person realizes that they do have genuine agency in (and a responsibility to) the world, and that the weak bureaucrat is unnecessary.
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by mactavish88 5y ago
Can someone please just offer an open source browser that I can pay towards somehow? IMO adtech is the root of all that’s wrong with the modern internet. It gives companies 2 masters: advertisers and users. Guess who’s prioritized when ther
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by mactavish88 5y ago
How compatible is this new Fairphone 4 with mobile providers in North America? (in USA and Canada)
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Who benefits from such a decision?
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I wasn’t trying to define God. Maybe it’s strings down there, or subatomic gnomes (and then we’d have to probe further to discover what makes them tick). Maybe we’ll never be able to know because knowing reality would require knowing all
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by mactavish88 5y ago
That sounds a lot less like the religious form of scientism I mentioned. Skepticism seems to move people from the religious mindset into an inquiring one in the first place. There’s an openness there that isn’t present in purely religious t
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by mactavish88 5y ago
Given that we don't totally understand reality, is it not a little premature to be taking the "magic" out of it? I mean, what if the base substrate of all that is (underlying subatomic particles, at the tiniest levels we don&
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by mactavish88 5y ago
To me it looks amazing, and I was literally about to adopt it in one of my open source Rust-based projects, but then I realized that the Rust version (and only the Rust version) is restrictively licensed under the Parity Public License [1].
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by mactavish88 5y ago
I'd love to understand why all the advertised implementations have permissive licenses except for the Rust implementation, which is released under the Parity Public License 7.0.0 [1]? This seems to be as restrictive as the GPL, no? In
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by mactavish88 5y ago
What kind of amateur criminal would store illegal material in their iCloud account?
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> said an official, requesting anonymity. How ironic
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Does anybody have any ideas as to what this means for people who've had COVID and then get vaccinated with one of the mRNA vaccines? If not, is anyone studying this?
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Bill C-10: The Canadian government’s attempt to regulate Canadian speech online(nationalpost.com)
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by mactavish88 6y ago
These exercises are definitely not for everyone. I've been suffering with disequilibrium/vertigo for nearly a year now (no headaches, just a weird bobbing/floating/falling sensation that comes and goes). After brain&#x2F
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A Vagus Nerve Survival Guide to Combat Fight-or-Flight Urges (2017)(psychologytoday.com)
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I'd recommend: 1. Identify a few projects you'd like to implement (toy ones if you want, or applications that exist in languages you already know well; or try to implement the Advent of Code problems: https://adventofco
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Ask HN: How do you track productivity (beyond just tracking activity)?
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