matt4077

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by matt4077 8y ago
When has "subsidy" become the go-to narrative to argue against any sort of deference to real-world usage? You could just as easily frame CORS as "antibiotics for the people who dared to leave their house". (There's
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by matt4077 8y ago
Percentiles are already normalized to group size. So no: it's just as hard to be among the top 10% in your field in Billings, Montana, as it is in all of the world. Of course your mechanism works in absolute terms , but then it rests
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by matt4077 8y ago
The rather obvious reason (which I suspect you know full well), is that "capitalism" just isn't very specific. Even believing that it is the best of all systems we've thought of (which I do) does not preclude one from op
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by matt4077 8y ago
And my point is that content creators will prefer to be paid more by advertisers, one you've proven you have money to spare.
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by matt4077 8y ago
There is absolutely no doubt that all those sites, and many others, are continuously running such experiments. There are also new financing methods, paywall implementations, prices, cooperations, etc. being tested all the time, with some su
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by matt4077 8y ago
People willing (and able) to pay $50/y for this have the unfortunate correlating characteristic of being far more valuable as advertising targets than the average person. In other words: If you are willing to give me $50 for ad-free in
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by matt4077 8y ago
Yeah... that's kind of my point: your indignation just seems a little excessive, considering data charges do not in reality range in the top 100 problems people have. If you really can't fathom why this doesn't get a Special
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by matt4077 8y ago
If people actually cared, websites would be lighter. But they don't. Yes, this community here does care, much like the experienced woodworker who nods approvingly when he sees <some old-fashioned, difficult, and slightly more elegan
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by matt4077 8y ago
HTML + CSS, pure and simple. Don't overthink. Frameworks like bootstrap were useful back when they started: column layout (and other popular patterns) were hard to achieve, and each browser (and version) had their own quirks to work ar
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by matt4077 8y ago
The section titled "Enforcement Process" is more specific about the consequences being proportional to the developer's misdeeds: > Repeated or serious violations (such as malware, fraud, and apps that may cause user or de
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by matt4077 8y ago
It's worth mentioning that "slippery slope" was originally meant as a fallacy, i. e. the invalid argument that something good is nonetheless bad when extrapolating to some extreme version of it. It's easiest to see how u
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by matt4077 8y ago
Yeah... Of course! To join this marketing alliance, Google decided, more than a year ago, to demand that CF sever ties with exactly one of their customers. Apart from how wacky that conspiracy theory is: Do you believe you can devalue Cloud
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by matt4077 8y ago
If Google's decision-making processes were as blatantly short-sighted as you seem to make them out to be, they would have prevented ad blockers years ago.
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by matt4077 8y ago
I would have said the same, until I recently had to boot into an UEFI shell. Input was just so .... immediate? It’s really hard to describe, but it was surprisingly obviou.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Terminal.app is orders of magnitude faster than iTerm, or any other alternative. As in: less than a second v 30 seconds for cat <big file>.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Having dabbled a bit in open data, I think "this data is available in too many formats and going through all the options manually is tiresome" counts as a problem you'd love to have.
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by matt4077 8y ago
If you really used to be a public defender, the sorry state of our justice system makes a tiny bit more sense now. I mean... Just the claim that, quote: > The homeless aren't prosecuted for sleeping outside On an article titled: &gt
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by matt4077 8y ago
You cannot "operate independently from" without also "being independent from". And you're just proving that bad-faith accusation, and splitting hairs into finer and finer strands.
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by matt4077 8y ago
This is just nationalistic jingoism... As but one (or, actually: thousands) of data points in evidence: If your idea was workable, there'd be some among the tech companies both large and small would have implemented it.
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by matt4077 8y ago
There is no such requirement, and I thought I was clear that I appreciated the post, and was merely trying to add the information. Also: the headline has "now" in it. It's not the end of the world, but I've seen correcti
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by matt4077 8y ago
I seem to remember Podesta, whose email was leaked, was already using GMail, either because the campaign used it, or he was using a personal account. Activating 2-factor auth would probably have stopped the attack. It also bears repeating t
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by matt4077 8y ago
Note the plural: campaigns , hinting at the explanation: There are many campaigns, and they operate entirely independent from each other, at least when it comes to technology infrastructure. The reason for that is something that HN would u
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by matt4077 8y ago
"Published Mar 30, 2017" (I'm not complaining–it's interesting and I'll give it a try. But it's not brand new)
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by matt4077 8y ago
Their point isn't really diminished by you claiming easy efficiency gains using "some computer program/social platform".
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by matt4077 8y ago
> Perhaps editing could then be a product sold to the researcher, rather than a reason to yield publishing rights to a single journal. That's exactly what's happening with Open Access Journals: they charge the authors to financ
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by matt4077 8y ago
Among dystopias, this one is remarkably well-argued... It is rather frustrating to see how illiberality and strive have come back. In the nineties, the "End of History" made for a convincing hypothesis: Market economies in functio
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by matt4077 8y ago
There was a recent study that concluded that the loss of sunlight under such a scheme would have a large effect on agricultural yields: even if it succeeds to stop the rise in temperature, it would be net-negative at least in regards to foo
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by matt4077 8y ago
Dysfunction largely isn't normal. The universe of things that are going well is far greater than that of issues that threaten us. It's just that we really don't pay attention to the earth not being destroyed by a meteor tod
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by matt4077 8y ago
It's even worse that, long after nuclear power has lost on economic terms, the tech community still can't get over their infatuation with it. Yes, people sometimes had irrational fears. Yes, probabilities are unfortunately difficu
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by matt4077 8y ago
The NYT has 65 projects, most of which have a few hundred stars, and many in the thousands. It's lower for some of the others. But it still seems to me that these publishers default to publishing their code. BUT: most publishers probab

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