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by mihaic 3y ago
I don't know a single person that feels good about paper straws. Rather, I think it's done by legislators to fake doing something, ironically making the world worse than not doing anything at all.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Is this true if the price of all houses fall? In that case it seems like it's easier to swap up.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Thanks, that's much closer to the mentality of many people that are accused of having Stockholm syndrome: they value predictability above something with possibly unexpected results, that might be better or might be worse. The fact that
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by mihaic 3y ago
Nobody wants to pay taxes as well, but unfortunately we need a government to solve coordination issues, where not all parties can be satisfied. When the results are so bad, maybe the system needs some tweaking, don't you agree?
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by mihaic 3y ago
The benchmark should be against x265 though, which is mainstream now
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by mihaic 3y ago
I was answering to the post that it's just a number, which I don't really agree with. This topic seems to be quite emotionally loaded. > Because some people who don't care about raising children do care about the economy.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Why choose to explicitly mention that number? It becomes a focus point, which turns it into a metric to optimize.
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by mihaic 3y ago
So is my analytics engine merely observing inanimate electrons that have been launched apriori by an occupant, but which do not constitute the actions of the occupant-in-itself or the tracking-in-itself. Sorry, but I can't find any oth
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by mihaic 3y ago
Yeah, but how can you know if some specific IP isn't ruining your aggregated data?
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by mihaic 3y ago
When is an inanimate object the subject of the tracking? In all my examples it was a person being observed.
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by mihaic 3y ago
If they are, in that case isn't data sharing the problem and not the tracking itself?
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by mihaic 3y ago
In what way? What are the "necessary terms"? I honestly have read some of that legislation and didn't get clarity. GDPR created a lot of burden for small companies and at the same didn't seem to offer that much protectio
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by mihaic 3y ago
I am pretty sure that you needed to know who controlled what territory all across human history. The planet is populated everywhere, and you need to know who's in power pretty much everywhere you're going, or else you might have a
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by mihaic 3y ago
One problem I've always seen when debating tracking was the broad scope of the word. Take for instance three examples: 1. A shopkeeper that watches his customers for shoplifting and observes their flow in the store to know where to pla
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by mihaic 3y ago
At this point dating apps have such a broad influence over society that I'm surprised that there's not even a mention of gov regulation. I don't want the fine technocrats that brought us cookie banners to exert their control,
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by mihaic 3y ago
While Sagan's advice is great, it's still putting burden on the individual to handle bullshit. The more I've thought about bullshit as a phenomenon, the more I think the only real solutions are social ones, where non-bullshit
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by mihaic 3y ago
To me, a random letter is pretty confusing, but it seems I might be in the minority.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Sure, anyone can use any name, but should they? For instance there have to be some limitations on calling yourself General Hospital unless you actually have a medical license.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Yes, because a company like Slack lacks the resources to implement a frontend that posts updates in multiple places... Joking aside, I'm a bit shocked that X is being used for Twitter, and we just have to go along with this. I can&#x27
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by mihaic 3y ago
The hash-table response is a good one -- you're right. But I still interpret it as debiasing tool for those that aren't very familiar to PG's writing, so it's not really useless. After all, there must still be new HN use
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by mihaic 3y ago
Why attack someone for an opinion? I agree that pure cynicism is toxic online, and merely pointing out flaws without solutions can be worse than useless, but that message was not this. I read it as a warning that PG skews his arguments to p
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by mihaic 3y ago
I was writing it with a "using antibiotics in absolutely every mundane product causes superbugs" energy actually, which is something that is really a problem.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Yes, but cloud providers share that protection over all customers. Someone hosting their own websites needs the same level of protection just for themselves. DDoS is really the only thing that you can't host yourself on your own machin
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by mihaic 3y ago
The fact that large cloud providers can handle huge DDoS attacks I think in the long run leads to a worse internet. It forces botnets to up their game and for websites the only solutions available are to pay Google, Amazon or Cloudflare a p
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by mihaic 3y ago
Interestint, my intuition was inverse to the result: landing on the opposite side takes an odd number of flips and on the same side it would be an even number of flips. Since for every number of flips either the number of odds is the same a
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by mihaic 3y ago
I'm not at all religious, even though I was brought up in religious environment, you hinted correctly. I don't believe in the existence of the human soul. I do find a deep alignment to the core Christian values of forgiveness and
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by mihaic 3y ago
I'm from Romania actually, this isn't something tied to my upbringing. Infanticide has been a cruel part of human life almost for our entire existence. You'd be surprised to find out how common it was before the universal rel
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by mihaic 3y ago
I honestly can't quantify myself what makes "a person", only list instances when it's a clear yes/no for me personally. Note that I'm not advocating anything, I'm just giving my view. At 6 months a child f
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by mihaic 3y ago
I know it's something that is very frowned upon publicly give the emotional response, but I honestly put infanticide at one step below murder, and I'm sorry that high emotions make any discussion futile. It's still atrocious,
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by mihaic 3y ago
Children become the people I have to share society with. If their education drops bellow a certain level I'll be affected. It might sounds like a 19th century preacher talking, but it's in everyone's interest that your fellow

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