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Shared with whom? The Federal Reserve?
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How do banks do backups of this data?
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by magpi3 5y ago
Not a very good analogy. No western country ever invaded Ukraine. When the Soviet Union collapsed Ukraine was granted its independence without a shot being fired. A better analogy would be Australia and Canada. Both were part of Great Brita
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I have always wondered this. Nuclear Apocalypse scenarios always assume the ICBMs will all function as specified. Maybe they will, but it's not like you can thoroughly test each one. But I guess they don't need to.
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Yes, but the point of Markdown is mapping those conventions to HTML. The mapping was the new thing that made it Markdown.
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Apache. And winget-cli is licensed under the MIT license. So although the licenses are incompatible, the end result would have been the same even if Microsoft had simply forked winget with the Apache license, although in that case they woul
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by magpi3 5y ago
Compilers maybe?
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Flatland, referenced in this paper, is a wonderful and thought-provoking little story. EDIT: I removed the link because I was worried about the server I linked to. But you can find the PDF of flatland if you just google "flatland pdf&q
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by magpi3 5y ago
But if you use the word too liberally, it loses its meaning. Corporations have always editorialized their content. Now that's censorship? Or to put it more simply: would you consider parents who tell their children not to curse or risk
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You're allowed to say anything you want, but you are not allowed to discriminate based on race, and if such signs in the window would cause a reasonable person to think you are discriminating based on race, then yes they must be taken
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If the government has tried to "force" Spotify to take down or produce content, then the government is in the wrong and Spotify is spineless for not fighting back. We have the Constitution for a reason in the U.S. The government w
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Before the internet, if I wrote a letter to the editor of a magazine or comic book, the editor obviously made the decision whether to publish my letter or not. Was this censorship? No, of course not. And no one complained about it. It wasn&
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How can you be so confident in this opinion?
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It implements the Windows API.
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Can anyone point me to the documentation listing the modal commands? I can't find it in the editor itself or on the website EDIT: I figured it out. Type ":doc keys"
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The hype around the blockchain reminds me of the hype around XML around 2000. People were blown away by the potential... but no one could quite demonstrate it with a product. Now the blockchain can point to cryptocurrencies as a success sto
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> Once upon a time, one could download visual studio, click about to make a new project in (e.g.) Visual Basic, draw a gui in the gui editor, and click the run button The world that lived behind that experience - COM & Active X Contr
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I think the overarching message with this post is right on whenever you are talking to someone who is struggling: listen, love, and don't judge. A hug is much better than a suggestion on how the family member can "fix" themse
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Thank you for sharing. That takes a lot of courage, and it is very helpful to hear a story like this with a positive outcome.
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We live in a global world and there is no going back. Colonialism happened, and even if it hadn't technology would have eventually shrunk the world as it has today. Every country, just about I suppose, is home to people from different
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by magpi3 5y ago
I think there is a different between enjoying a shared cultural identity and tribalism. I am currently in China and as an American I stick out like a sore thumb. But most people are very polite to me, and even though we have our cultural di
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Tribalism is old, archaic, outdated, and not useful (from a global perspective at least)... and yet it's everywhere. We're human, and for better or worse this seems to be a condition that we can't escape. EDIT: I really shoul
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> I saw a need for a safer, better, decentralized protocol for email, so I drafted one (TMTP) and implemented client & server. We definitely do, and then we need big, heavy corporate advocates for this new protocol. That second part
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It really is about incentives. When the government and universities were the primary agents influencing the internet, open protocols were favored I presume because they incentivized the decentralization that the internet was created for. No
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I would say the entire world economy is based on people taking other people's ideas and running with them. Steve Jobs was a Silicon Valley folk hero, no? Was he known for implementing his original ideas?
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Obviously it did in this case. I think the use of GOAT is common in the U.S. but not elsewhere, and HN draws an international community.
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They failed because it is an impossible goal, but I imagine it is still the main directive of the company. It's okay to reach beyond your grasp.
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github is not blocked in China
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Love this website, and love how there are more and more resources for auto-didacts. For anyone who wants to learn how to draw, check out drawabox: https://www.drawabox.com . The guy started out just wanted to share the basics and
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Reading other people's code helps a lot. You will have a lot of aha moments when you see how experienced programmers work and design things. Reading the source of some python libraries or web frameworks you like to use will probably be

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