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541.
by maest 5y ago
Which one is which? Is Master = Far and Slave = Near? I'd lean towards the opposite but I can't tell for certain.
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by maest 5y ago
Amusingly, the Stackoverflow 503 page has a typo: Error 503 Service Unavailable Service Unavailable Guru *Mediation*: Details: cache-lon4236-LON 1623146049 854282175 Varnish cache server
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by maest 5y ago
Indeed they're very similar (including the name and the documentation layout!) so I was very confused for a bit.
544.
by maest 5y ago
What about all the developers (who spend 10 hrs/day in front of their screen) that choose unix machines?
545.
by maest 5y ago
But absolute moral standards do make sense, in a Kantian way. In particular, imagine a world where everyone has to make some sort of sacrifice to avoid harming everyone (e.g. wearing a mask, not polluting, not overfishing etc). If _most_ pe
546.
by maest 5y ago
They'll go all the way up to 3.(9), which, of course, is different from 4.0
547.
by maest 5y ago
> Reinventing the wheel is error prone. Having a standard lib for these sort of functions is a common pattern many languages adopt.
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by maest 5y ago
> The US has seen the most spectacular rise from poverty to wealth ever seen in history. China has arguably beaten (or is close to beating) that in very recent history.
549.
by maest 5y ago
It's interesting to see how super advanced ML-based engines have changed the field of chess in recent years - top engines are way better than top humans, so, in a sense, act as oracles. Top players routinely use them in preparation, to
550.
by maest 5y ago
> Perhaps the mayor is doing 10x better job than her predecessor and she proposed this name change in addition to that. Technically, the argument is that they are doing less work than their hypothetical counterpart who is identical in al
551.
by maest 5y ago
A few questions: 1. What does "ownership" mean in this case? It seems that the NFT holder has basically no rights when it comes to the work. (since, as you point out, ownership of the NFT is different from owning e.g. the copyrigh
552.
by maest 5y ago
> an NFT is an abstract handle to which various rights can optionally be attached. What I find confusing is the following: Rights are meaningless without enforcement (in the real world). Who is going to enforce NFTs? There's no gove
553.
by maest 5y ago
You can use Metal on Android. Won't give access to chat, annoyingly, so you mist still need Facebook Lite
554.
by maest 5y ago
The two are incomparable.
555.
by maest 5y ago
I think this level of detail partially comes from the long history behind this sport. The participants have had 1000 years (give or take), to hone the craft and explore every single aspect of the discipline. That's how you get such a l
556.
by maest 5y ago
See this comment, from a parallel submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27115880
557.
by maest 5y ago
Also, pre-digital, incremental distribution costs weren't virtually 0.
558.
by maest 5y ago
I'm already feeling uncomfortable having access to this private information. I don't want to make use of it in any way, and there's no telling how the family would receive the news.
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by maest 5y ago
Oh, this reminds me: One of my email addresses somehow ended up as the main parent address for a random student at Institut Els Pallaresos, a Catalan school. To be clear, I have no connection to this person, the emails just started coming o
560.
by maest 5y ago
I think some imortant parameters are: age when you started and ended first marriage, age when you started second marriage, current age. I suspect sexual compatibility lowers in importance as people age.
561.
by maest 5y ago
> [LWN subscriber-only content] I'm guessing you weren't supposed to share this link?
562.
by maest 6y ago
To be fair, no computer is an actual TM since memory is finite.
563.
by maest 6y ago
That's very interesting! Can you talk some more about what you see?
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by maest 6y ago
unusualwhales are incentivised to talk their own book so it's safe to assume they've cherry picked these examples. The honest way to see if politicians get an outsized return from this type of trading is to run a backtest, with ap
565.
by maest 6y ago
The optimistic view is that there is a market for unbiased reporting and someone will step in to service that demand. But who know.
566.
by maest 6y ago
Why would a government with a sovereign currency ever have to borrow any sort of money? They can issue as much of their own currency as they want.
567.
by maest 6y ago
The point of taxes is to create demand for the currency in the population. The government can then promise to pay people in its own currency so that it can provision itself with staff, goods and services.
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Portmantout: A portmanteau of every English word(youtube.com)
2 points by maest 6y ago|1 comments
569.
by maest 6y ago
Can you expand on what you mean by "latency" is not a concern? As in, the UI is very laggy?
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by maest 6y ago
> written in the key of "outrage". I've never seen that turn of phrase before, but I quite like it!

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