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by mantap 7y ago
For me this future has already arrived. Yesterday I cancelled Netflix because I realized that even if I pay money each month for legal content, I still have to pirate the content that is not on Netflix. Asking people to subscribe to multipl
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by mantap 7y ago
Python's standard library is where things go to die because of the terrible adhoc versioning system (the module name is the version number) and dynamic typing means they are afraid to change anything. But even then it's still be
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by mantap 7y ago
I consider all these articles about plastic pollution to be a kind of "fake news" because they are completely misleading people as to the nature of the problem. The plastic waste that is entering the oceans is because people in de
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by mantap 7y ago
It seems that this law is a good idea executed with an unwarranted degree of severity. I've never in my life heard someone complain that shop signs are too big (it's the small ones that block the street that people hate). The adve
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by mantap 7y ago
When you want to learn an abstract word, you have to learn it in the context of a sentence in the foreign language. In order to do that you have to know the meanings of the other words in the sentence. This works passively as well, if you s
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by mantap 7y ago
Traditionally, your kids work to support you when they grow up. In rich countries this doesn't happen because it has been financialized into pensions, but in the rest of the world it's very much a reality.
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by mantap 7y ago
Yes and there's also a kind of lying with statistics that goes on. That human accident rate includes drunk drivers, very young drivers, very old drivers, etc. The average accident rate is not your expected accident rate, if you are a
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by mantap 7y ago
You cannot have false negatives. Ever. You cannot have a situation where the system doesn't see a pedestrian and runs over them at without noticing. So you need to make a very convincing argument that it can't happen. With cameras
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by mantap 7y ago
I could be wrong here but my understanding is that the letter forms of a font are not subject to copyright, only the font file itself. This is why Microsoft was able to create Arial which is a virtual clone of Helvetica without it being a d
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by mantap 7y ago
It's Apple's fault for writing things like: "OS X 10.9". If the X is a 10 then it should be "OS X.9", the fact that both the X and the 10 are there proves that the X is pronounced "eks" :)
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by mantap 7y ago
Where I live (London) there's a few of these lamppost chargers and people do use them. The thing about cars is that they... move. So you can drive your car to a vacant lamppost charger 5 minutes away and park it there. The walk back ho
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by mantap 7y ago
Generally the courts punish "crimes against justice" such as perjury very harshly as it is seen as an attack on the rule of law itself, something much more valuable than any amount of money. When I was a juror they made it clear t
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by mantap 7y ago
The problem is that when they did the big Python 3 transition they didn't fix the real pain points (with the exception of string types), many of the things they fixed were not a problem, or worse they removed things that were actuall
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by mantap 7y ago
Consider that 10 years ago Ruby and Python used to be spoken about as a pair, with Ruby being the more popular one. Now Ruby is rarely heard about, JavaScript has eaten it whole and only the bones remain.
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by mantap 7y ago
In general JavaScript is eating the world. Python still dominates in numerical computing and JavaScript hasn't been able to make a single dent. Because nobody wants to write a.mul(k).add(b) rather than k * a + b or
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by mantap 7y ago
Battery life used to be an important issue but now people have gotten used to carrying power banks around and it seems less important than it once did.
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by mantap 7y ago
Why would they when Israel doesn't recognize Palestine as a state? Why should anybody maintain that double standard least of all the people who are at the raw end of it. Do you think that if they did recognize Israel then Israel woul
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by mantap 7y ago
If there have not been any new elections how can you attribute the violence to the Palestinian people, many of whom would have been children 15 years ago. And if the application of sharia law is cause for blockading a country and rendering
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by mantap 7y ago
The use of voip mode is well established technique for building encrypted messaging apps on iOS, and its unsurprising that whatsapp is built around it, especially when you consider that whatsapp is a voip app . No conspiracy theories are n
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by mantap 7y ago
How would measuring someone's wrist bones tell you how old they are?
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by mantap 7y ago
Time on a train is at least semi-productive time. You can read HN! Which, face it, is what you'd be doing anyway. Time in a car is just spent staring at the road.
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by mantap 7y ago
If the HK citizens were all armed, China would roll in the tanks. Good luck shooting at a tank. We live in the 21st century not the 19th.
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by mantap 7y ago
The primary advantage of a schemaless binary encoding such as CBOR is that it lets you encode binary data directly instead of using a double encoding of base64 in JSON.
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by mantap 7y ago
I tried CBOR but honestly the JS libraries available are not yet of production quality and I had to abandon it and go back to messagepack.
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by mantap 7y ago
Google's problem is that if they enter existing industries, they attract the ire of competition regulators. Google could eat entire industries if they wanted to, but there would be hell to pay from the EU and US regulators. So they are
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by mantap 7y ago
Debt has a psychological cost too, you owe something to someone, in this case several billion dollars , so not pocket change. Perhaps, after becoming the richest man alive, being free of debt is worth more to him than extra money.
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by mantap 7y ago
With the advent of air travel most of these geographically distant places are less than 24 hours away.
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by mantap 7y ago
Chrome does automatically download webpages: it supports prefetching and iframes. Not only is it up to judges and lawyers but there's >190 juresdictions in which you could be sued. There are more important things to worry about, suc
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by mantap 7y ago
Yes you can write that same bash script as a chrome extension and nobody will care. Many people use extensions that make automated requests not intended by the website operators. Making automated requests isn't illegal and won't p
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by mantap 7y ago
I wouldn't be so cynical. The real goal is to catch stupid criminals. Not all criminals are stupid, but most are. Of course governments cannot stop tech people from using e2e encryption. That's not what bothers them. What bothers

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