mcherm

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by mcherm 7y ago
You, sir, have a crafty and evil mind. Well done.
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by mcherm 7y ago
The short and simple answer is because it is substantially faster (and has a hugely less memory overhead). It is easy enough to modify the c-python source to try this. Why it is faster is the article helps cover... some of the tricks fo
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by mcherm 7y ago
I believe the connection is that people addicted to narcotics are famously insistent about self justification, even when it is obviously baseless.
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by mcherm 7y ago
Yes! I think this is exactly the way to think about it. Especially the part about giving the user control over just what sites they hide in this manner.
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by mcherm 7y ago
Unless Superman shows up to turn back time, yes.
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by mcherm 7y ago
> This is straight up racism >> No it's not, [banks are scared if the US] Yes, banks are scared of the US. And perhaps the racism stems from the Italian bank, perhaps it stems from the US government, perhaps it stems from the
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by mcherm 7y ago
Look, if your response to encountering terrible customer service is to declare that everyone has terrible customer service then you were likely to continue to receive terrible customer service. If, instead, your response to receiving terrib
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by mcherm 7y ago
Is this being posted to Hacker News so we can laugh at it? Are we that much in need of entertainment?
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by mcherm 7y ago
Deepfakes.
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by mcherm 7y ago
A fascinating piece of chemistry. I like everything about the article except the claim, near the beginning, that it melts into two different liquid forms. I would have preferred to express it as two different melting processes (one catalyze
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by mcherm 7y ago
> Are you seriously complaining about having to pay for using their resources? I didn't read it that way. I thought they were complaining about poor customer service that made it difficult to understand the bill or respond to it app
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by mcherm 7y ago
Actually, in an interview situation, "Let me think about that for a minute." followed by 120 seconds of silence, followed by a solid answer is a GREAT response. That's different from when the candidate is asked a question and
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by mcherm 7y ago
PayPay calls it "frozen" because that is the term that actual regulated banks use when they temporarily deny access to an account because of a government order or a fraud investigation. It is to PayPal's benefit to use termin
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by mcherm 7y ago
Wouldn't that require an unreasonably thick atmosphere? Our current atmosphere is only around 10 miles high. (Obviously, it all depends on what you consider as your cutoff.)
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by mcherm 7y ago
> This loophole now results in investors only being subject to taxation when they actually sell their stake in the fund. IE the same way as how ETFs are designed to work. Your phrasing is slightly misleading. The only reason under tax la
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by mcherm 8y ago
I agree with everything you say here. But I can't tell whether this is an argument for, or against, funding The Jasons.
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by mcherm 8y ago
> People want ‘estimates’ at all costs, tell you to not worry about any accuracy, and then a week later tell your manager you committed to x date. I like to handle this problem by providing an estimate RANGE.
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by mcherm 8y ago
> It is unlikely a complaint about DMCA behavior is going to go anywhere. It is guaranteed that the lack of a complaint will not go anywhere. And legal processes tend to be VERY slow and inefficient but they thrive on formal documentatio
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by mcherm 8y ago
I would not paint Julian Assange (or Chelsea Manning) as a blameless hero like Edward Snowden. But sometimes people do reprehensible things that are not (or ought not be) against the law. The primary objection against Julian Assange appears
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by mcherm 8y ago
For employees who are paid by the piece (paid in proportion to how much they produce) inflation with consist of paying more per piece. But these employees are paid by the hour. Regardless of how productive they are, they are getting paid to
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by mcherm 8y ago
> does Trump own the American Treasury? Depends on what you mean by "own". I would use "able to decide how it is used". So I would say that Mark Zuckerberg "owns" Facebook because he has a controlling intere
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by mcherm 8y ago
I wonder whether we can have the benefits of both. Sounds like the bit-packed protocols save bits (that's clearly good), while the other protocols are self-documenting. Documenting is good. Why can't we have both? Something like p
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by mcherm 8y ago
Then you should take a look at Flattr < https://flattr.com/> . They are older than Patreon (although they never got the same level of widespread use as Patreon) and they operate in exactly the manner you describe.
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by mcherm 8y ago
> Many people browse the web from an employer who has rules about what types of pages may be accessed. I think only very few people browse the web from an employer who has rules about what types of pages can be fetched. As a web develope
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by mcherm 8y ago
But I DON'T work just 40 hours a week. I work more like 50-55 hours most weeks. I LIKE my work, and I don't want to do less. I agree that the belief that we must work 40 hours a week in order to be a good person lies at the root
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by mcherm 8y ago
> Congratulations, silicon valley, you've just re-invented public education! There is a key difference. With public education, the excess cost of the education is born equally by ALL taxpayers. With education that is funded by a per
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by mcherm 8y ago
> The big issue is for universities is how they would handle marriage. I don't see why this is an issue at all. If the college claims that "finding the high-income person you will marry" is one of the reasons to attend tha
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by mcherm 8y ago
> The fact that Twitter is way more popular than Mastodon doesn't really change anything. We're not discussing what IS, we are discussing what SHOULD BE. The fact that twitter is way more popular than Mastodon absolutely DOES c
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by mcherm 8y ago
What is a "pillow"? Do you have a recipe?
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by mcherm 8y ago
> Do you know if council members can be re-elected? Yes, they can, and likely will be in many cases.

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