mathgorges

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by mathgorges 6y ago
I see, that makes sense. I’m still curious if me choosing to not watch films with problematic individuals in them would be considered cancelling or a boycott?
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by mathgorges 6y ago
You’re point about cancel culture being against _private_ individuals is new to me. Where I think of people who have been cancelled I only think about celebrities. Reading about Justine Sacco’s story was interesting. Do you know where I can
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by mathgorges 6y ago
A few people have made the point about boycotts being against organizations and cancels being against individuals. I don’t see the material difference there, what about it being an individual makes you feel it’s different? Your last point i
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by mathgorges 6y ago
Thanks for this. These sort-of argument catalogue comments are very helpful in these discussions. And your call out at the bottom is good wisdom :) Edit: this->these
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by mathgorges 6y ago
Thats a fair take. I hadn't considered the sort-of agenda that boycotts tend to have. I bet a lot of cancels also have a salient agenda, but since the movement is so democratized it gets lost in the noise. Just a gut feeling. _____ You
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by mathgorges 6y ago
I've seen this take quite a bit lately with respect to cancel culture and I'm a bit confused about it. Since HN is amazing, I'm hoping someone here can help me understand without it turning into a flamewar. I don't under
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by mathgorges 6y ago
Can you help me understand what you mean by '"radical" internet models'? My brain isn't sure if you're talking about: 1) Things which disrupt HTTP like IPFS 2) Things which disrupt entrenched ISPs like Starlink
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by mathgorges 6y ago
The article seemed well written to me. Though I don't know enough about Indian politics to consider its accuracy. What about this article strikes you as low quality? Do you have a better source on this news?
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by mathgorges 6y ago
This is interesting. Hypothesis: Wearing a mask is a physical reminder that we're in a pandemic, which helps folks remember to do other things which reduce their risk (avoid touching things unnecessarily, wash hands more often, staying
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by mathgorges 6y ago
I'm curious: What about this quote strikes you as religious? I'm a layman, but the citations at the end of this article seem compelling.
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by mathgorges 6y ago
As someone who spent a decent amount of time on 8chan and boards like it in high school, this comment legitimately confuses me. Can you expand please?
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by mathgorges 6y ago
I don't think it's so much a corporate culture thing as a context thing. There are certainly channels in my work Slack that I feel compelled to add more kindness phrases to when engaging. Following your metaphor: if I were in a ro
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by mathgorges 6y ago
I'd imagine shops that are tightly coupled to the z/OS stack would find IBM cloud attractive.
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by mathgorges 6y ago
This initially had a wink emoji at the end. I didn't realize HN throws out emojis, and it's absence changes the tone a bit ;-)
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by mathgorges 6y ago
This is the answer, I think. Though one could argue that more likes/conversions/CTAs improve's a business's app experience
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by mathgorges 7y ago
Hey friend. I just wanted to say that I grew up with a parent that was addicted to ADHD meds and he used to say eerily similar sounding things when he was in the thick of it. If your honestly doing better I’m happy for you. But if you’re do
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by mathgorges 9y ago
Pivot here. Here's the book we give to everyone that rotates into labs for the first time: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321278658/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_tTuU...
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by mathgorges 10y ago
I thought the reason for the small protrusion was to make it easier to attach third party camera lenses to the phone (not that I've ever seen one)
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by mathgorges 10y ago
The radius of Earth (according to Google) is 6371 km π * 6371^2 ≈1.28e8 km^2 = 1.28e11 m^2 = 1.28e10 oz of gold So, you would need 800 million pounds of gold, which would cost (at current spot price of 1324.80/oz) almost 18 trillion do
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by mathgorges 11y ago
According to their FAQ [1] they charge $3 a week. [1] https://even.me/faq#how-even-makes-money
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by mathgorges 12y ago
This is not necessarily true. I work at a mainframe shop and we have a lot of very interesting projects to work on. Though, my experience may be unique since we're an ISV, not a business apps shop.
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by mathgorges 12y ago
Interestingly, trying most *nix commands in place of "whoami" returns a page that says "Unknown.", like with seemingly any invalid URL. However, trying https://news.ycombinator.com/ps returns a completel
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by mathgorges 12y ago
I work in educational technology for a school district of ~5000 students. I am also a Google certified trainer. My opinion is obviously bias, but here it goes. 1) It will integrate with my current student database (active directory, synced
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by mathgorges 13y ago
I haven't had any problems connecting my DK1 to my macbook with a mini display port -> adapter.
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by mathgorges 13y ago
It wouldn't be great with current hardware. I have a rift dev kit and any significant amount of lag between moving my head, and my vision being updated makes me feel a bit woozy.
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by mathgorges 13y ago
The cheapest one I could find was $37 with free shipping to the US. I found this by using google shopper to search for "android hdmi" and sorting low to high. Here: http://dx.com/p/m2a-android-4-0-network-medi
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by mathgorges 13y ago
I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that the Google Drive mobile app didn't store anything locally.
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by mathgorges 13y ago
Also, even if one were to accept copying as stealing, it wouldn't work in this context since Aaron Swartz had legitimate access to JSTOR through Harvard.
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by mathgorges 13y ago
I'm doing an internship at a mainframe shop right now. I took a look into it and the oldest macro I could find that I use semi regularly is SYS1.MACLIB(DCBD). A utility for working with data control blocks which dates back to 1977, put
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by mathgorges 13y ago
If I recall correctly Skype was working with the NSA before it was acquired by anyone.

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