markdestouches

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by markdestouches 4y ago
You buy a card with a unique id that grants access to any public bathroom cabin. Anyone with such card can report a cabin if it's a mess. If it is - the previous visitor's card gets banned. You also get banned for false reports. T
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by markdestouches 4y ago
It seems that it neither has any advantages over VSCode, nor brings the ergonomics and flexibility of vi/emacs to the table. I honestly cannot understand why it exists beyond "let's make a project using Tcl/Tk".
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by markdestouches 4y ago
It made me laugh out loud in a public place. Brilliant!
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by markdestouches 4y ago
The real overhead is not safety code but inefficient design and unnecessary (and often detrimental to the user) features. The added 10% of safety checks is nothing compared to orders of magnitude of bloat modern software has. Moreover, a lo
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by markdestouches 4y ago
So you're implying that Telegram is essentially Kremlin's project. Any other reasons you believe this is the case?
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by markdestouches 4y ago
This sounds like just an excuse for spying on students. There is plethora of methods to prevent bullying that do not require an all time access to students' communication.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
Could you, please, elaborate what realistic assumptions would look like? I am not in shipping industry nor am I a battery expert. I understand that batteries suffer from lower energy density and a number of other issues, but I'd really
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by markdestouches 4y ago
Large surface area means a lot of friction. I didn't do the math, but my feeling is it's not going to be feasible.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
Such issues are solved with proper regulation and effective antitrust laws. Unfortunately, if you lose the moment and allow the companies to gain enough power, it becomes incredibly difficult to push back against that. That's basically
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by markdestouches 4y ago
What's the reasoning behind picking Java for a performance critical application over something like C or C++?
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by markdestouches 4y ago
Which, correct me if I'm wrong, is also a compiler extension.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
Western-like in the sense of its institutions, elections, rule of law, economy etc. Not that these things are western by nature, just that people tend to associate them with western countries.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
In my understanding, whataboutism is when instead of addressing valid criticism you start pointing fingers at your neighbor, as if it somehow makes that criticism not apply to you. It's not OK to pee in the street even if everybody els
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by markdestouches 4y ago
This sounds like it's straight from the CCP propaganda machine. Having the same ancient culture didn't stop Taiwan from becoming a western-like state.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
It's not so much that they are investors or extremely wealthy. It's more that they are celebrities and the way the news media works. Few people would read an interview with some obscure expert, but they do tend to listen to who th
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by markdestouches 4y ago
If one ever wanted to know what's happening in the mind of a frog that is being boiled slowly, this is probably the closest approximation. These people don't understand where the country is going, and when it gets there, they will
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by markdestouches 4y ago
I'm not trying to be mean, but, perhaps your relatives are watching too much state TV. I also have relatives in there, and, unfortunately, a lot among the elder generation are irreversibly brainwashed.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
Well, the middle eastern shenanigans are biting them in the ass right now.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
Consider rulers in most countries of the world. Democracy and rule of law is the exception, not the 'normal' state of things as it might appear living in the West.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
And yet there is not another Henry over 100 years in the waiting
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by markdestouches 4y ago
Well, if you are not a professional investor, you'd better stick to savings accounts or invest in a index but not in individual assets. Investing as a non-professional is akin to doing surgery on you own body while not being a surgeon.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
I wish G.R.R.M paid a visit there
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by markdestouches 5y ago
All those random messages would do is convince a lot of those who have doubts about the war that the West is indeed waging an information war and make the official Russian sources seem more trustworthy. Honestly, I don't think you can
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by markdestouches 5y ago
Make them watch the Mirror instead. It's a much better introduction to Tarkovsky. (Solaris is much more of Crime and Punishment than Sci-Fi anyway)
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by markdestouches 5y ago
Does this description also apply to his latest film (Dune)? Because I'd describe it as the opposite of that.
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by markdestouches 5y ago
Am I the only one who hated the sequel? Nonsensical plot with flat characters and broody hero wandering wistfully on the backdrop of orange smoke.
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by markdestouches 5y ago
The fees of bitcoin are paid in the damage to the environment done by mining. It is vastly more expensive than traditional banking. The only difference is that it's not paid by the user directly, but by the whole of humanity.
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by markdestouches 5y ago
That begs the question: why does Bitcoin remain the dominant cryptocurrency then?
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by markdestouches 5y ago
That's a political problem that needs to be solved via political means. Trying to amend this by, essentially, making illegal transactions does not seem like a good use case to me.
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by markdestouches 5y ago
No, he means asset price speculation. The inflation argument that is so often brought up seems ridiculous to me. Inflation ensures sufficient demand. Modern economy will collapse if the global rate goes negative.

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