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by msvan 8y ago
Rust is such a great language, and I wish I had more excuses to use it frequently. It is well-designed and pleasant to use. It has a vibrant and friendly community. It is fast. The library ecosystem is getting there. Go Rust!
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by msvan 8y ago
Caruana was a GM at 14. Unless EGreg is a very strong player, I don't think he was able to beat Caruana.
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by msvan 8y ago
How about a database on a server owned by the Riksbank?
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by msvan 8y ago
My entire social life lives in Facebook Messenger. Maybe Messenger is dead in your social circle, but certainly not in mine. The Wall is dead though.
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by msvan 8y ago
Humans have a tremendous bias towards good stories with heroes and villains. World War II is a great story, and Hitler is a memorable villain who has come to symbolize evil. A flu outbreak is just a massive tragedy without anyone to take th
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by msvan 8y ago
Not at all. This is portrayed as a way of fixing the incentive structure of the web by making people pay for content, but it only fixes part of the problem. Time tracking is not the same as users making an active choice about what contribut
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by msvan 8y ago
My problem with Brave is that the BAT incentivizes publishers to grab as much of my attention as possible. More attention, more money. If Brave becomes successful, expect the internet to become even more addictive and abusive of human psych
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Kessler Syndrome(en.wikipedia.org)
63 points by msvan 8y ago|62 comments
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by msvan 8y ago
Chinese also had the same "issue": it is more of a family of languages rather than a language. But the Chinese government has been pushing pretty hard for Mandarin over the past 100 years, such that it has now become the Chinese
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Linear Types in GHC(github.com)
1 points by msvan 8y ago|0 comments
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by msvan 8y ago
I often hear the argument that Apple respects user privacy because their business model is selling hardware, not user data. However, they are making billions of dollars by letting Google sell data for them.
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Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations(plus.maths.org)
54 points by msvan 8y ago|3 comments
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China's Butler Boom (2015)(newyorker.com)
7 points by msvan 8y ago|0 comments
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Quantum Bogo Sort(wiki.c2.com)
1 points by msvan 8y ago|0 comments
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by msvan 8y ago
It is true that housing prices in urban areas have risen astronomically in many regions of the world, and while we may well see a correction, I wonder if these these areas have simply become way more valuable than they used to be. People th
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by msvan 8y ago
As someone who spent a lot of time learning Chinese without any clear end goal, I think it was mostly a waste of time. Educational? Yes, and it's fun to be able to understand Chinese characters from time to time, but in hindsight I wou
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Haskell in production: A GHC upgrade success story(engineering.itpro.tv)
2 points by msvan 8y ago|0 comments
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The $12 “Gongkai” Phone (2013)(bunniestudios.com)
131 points by msvan 8y ago|43 comments
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by msvan 8y ago
OT = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation , for those not in the know
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by msvan 8y ago
Ten years ago or so, I'd occasionally read the print version of Time. It was a serious magazine full of in-depth articles. These days, from looking at their online presence, it seems to have mostly devolved into BuzzFeed and news spam
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by msvan 8y ago
So even Hacker News data gets analyzed, monetized and sold to third parties. When did I opt in to you scraping my profile and determining my mood?
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by msvan 8y ago
I've always been perplexed by the massive salary rift between Europe and SV.
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by msvan 8y ago
This conclusion may have held in 2012, but the loudness wars are ending with loudness normalization being enabled by default on most streaming platforms, which is what most music is mastered for these days.
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by msvan 8y ago
It turns out that if your suffering is spectacular enough, people will come save you. Maybe if we throw all the poor children of the world into caves people will start caring about them.
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by msvan 8y ago
I grew up with phpBB forums. They sucked in many ways, but you could easily find niche communities and be a part of them. I think Twitter is an inadequate replacement, because on Twitter you don't just sign up and post a thread for eve
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Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs (1999) [pdf](nakamotoinstitute.org)
1 points by msvan 9y ago|0 comments
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by msvan 9y ago
I was hoping to see an application of knot theory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_theory ) to forensics. Bummer.
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by msvan 9y ago
Wasn't the Twitter Mac app just an Electron app?
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Silicon Valley would be wise to follow China’s lead(ft.com)
3 points by msvan 9y ago|0 comments
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Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify(getconcertmaster.com)
90 points by msvan 9y ago|54 comments

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