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by naringas 7y ago
Is there evidence to prove that illegal cocaine/meth/heroin being available for citizens would be good for society? I fact I am pretty sure that since the alcohol prohibition era there's evidence that turning markets with a l
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the one which is actually running things? and which isn't written down, they monkey patched it
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did sublime die? I use it everyday. and I am looking forward to sublime merge with plugin capabilities
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blizzard is a video games company. china is often here because they use computer technology for mass surveilance. iirc the catalan separatist made some interesting use of technology when they protested in 2017 so that is relevant. this arti
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by naringas 7y ago
what does this have to do with hacker news, technology, computers, or science? these are off-topic political news. edit to paste the relevant guidelines: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're
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by naringas 7y ago
>Not at all. The US legal tools that let the government demand data substantially limit what can be demanded. and in some level(s) they definitly believe the Chinese way to be a better way.
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what about China's own "national security concerns"? will those be out in the open? somehow I don't think so but that's only my supposition. I would bet they will keep their own one government party secrets private
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by naringas 7y ago
how does this relate to tools like TLA+? coq?
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but the Chinese also farm fish... I think this was on HN a few weeks ago: https://interestingengineering.com/these-massive-floating-fi...
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a new project is much easier to do than having to deal with software a few years old created by a parade of a dozen people
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a few years of that until one day, for example Apple realeases Catalina?
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by naringas 7y ago
if by maintenance work, you mean "patch up the system so it keep trudging a long" then sure. it sucks. And I feel that when people refer to maintenance work that is what they end up doing. I like improving systems (I think it is a
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> Then try to make them 'better'. this. I like this too. but then, in practice, I very rarely get a green flag to actully make it better. Not until is do or die. And by that point necessity forces a rush job, so it's not a
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> I’m aware that our bodies feed into our minds, and that things like hormonal levels, nutrition, gut flora and fauna, etc all have a fairly profound impact on things like mood it's pretty much that. the mind is the entire body. al
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at one point I decided to disagree with the idea that the mind is just the brain.
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until you plugin a second simple HD monitor and everything looks huge on it
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how about a rotational flip flop?
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I think its size would boggle our minds the megaprocessor[1] is built from pure transistors [1] http://www.megaprocessor.com/index.html
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I wonder why couldn't they just make the open source version address their needs...
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you must be joking, what crimes? /s they probably payed him a big bonus and set about incorporating his results into standarized procedures to be used against "enemies of the state" he apparently served as president for seve
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it is not that ironic, they did such a throrough job that they managed to swap out their problematic solution into their plan b easily enough.
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New android malware detected in campaign against Tibetans’ smartphones(arstechnica.com)
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> who currently has access to do such searches. my guess is intelligence agencies do
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> guess people do not matter anymore I agree with this sentiment. only groups of people seem relevant nowadays. makes me really wonder about the philosophy and history of individualism.
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it's rather interesting how all the information technology (social media, etc...) is slowly moving our culture towards increasing self-censorship. One has to have the right opinion or stay quiet. Having the wrong opinion about certain
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> I don't know what kind of definition of "intellectualism" it could fall under. what about success within traditional academic institutions?
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>one professor asked for evidence of “violent practices.” Another professor responded that “to ask for evidence of violent practices is itself a violent practice.” so: to question something is an act of violence towards that something? o
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yes, they've been doing that for a while but it's gotten worse. also top results tend to be from sites trying to sell something. which makes sense because businesses can hire SEO consultants and spend their resources getting googl
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by naringas 7y ago
Ben Eater is also top notch content: https://www.youtube.com/user/eaterbc but it's not artistic
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by naringas 7y ago
but a prediction is an explanation about what will happen in the future

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