neotek

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by neotek 7y ago
Is it fair to call it a Nakamoto Scheme? "He" published a paper and wrote the earliest version of some software, wouldn't it be better to call it a Pincoin Scheme or similar?
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by neotek 7y ago
>but it would differ from old colonialism in the sense that the “steward” nation would not be exploiting the country it’s taken into its stewardship If only it were that simple and some human beings weren't inherently bad people.
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by neotek 7y ago
Nobody* deserves to be the subject of violence but at some point Americans need to take responsibility for creating (and continuing to create) the environment in which cartels can flourish. When almost half the country can't even be bo
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by neotek 7y ago
I don't know, I quote this[1] all the time, and it's a great scene. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3RNsZvdYZQ
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by neotek 7y ago
No shit.
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by neotek 7y ago
Even by HN standards this seems like an excessive level of cynicism for a bog standard blog post format.
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by neotek 7y ago
There's nothing ambiguous about it at all, they are indisputably not original components even if they adhere perfectly to the original spec.
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by neotek 7y ago
>I'm confused about why being a minority means you need more help? In simple terms, many minority groups in America have been forcefully and intentionally disadvantaged for generations through programs like redlining, segregation, t
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by neotek 7y ago
>Consider that Apple is more than 5% of America's entire GDP, and 1% of the world's entire GDP. When you put it like that it really does bring Apple's dominance into sharp relief.
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by neotek 7y ago
I feel your pain, it's my number one problem with the Touch Bar, the second being that it's almost entirely useless in its default mode. I have two solutions for you, though: firstly, download BetterTouchTool[1] and install the Go
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by neotek 7y ago
NewTrackon is fantastic, and it has an API: https://newtrackon.com/list I've written a Chrome extension which periodically grabs the list of active trackers from NewTrackon and automatically adds them to magnet links a
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by neotek 7y ago
>A less generous take on that would be that he/Apple also wanted to push their app store. The App Store didn't exist at that time.
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by neotek 7y ago
The only problem with that is that the stupid ROT13 step wouldn't be performed so the site would reject your login attempt anyway. It was one of the dumbest design decisions I've ever seen, honestly.
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by neotek 7y ago
My old bank used to "encrypt" your password as you typed it into the input field, on keydown it would take the character you typed and — and I'm not making this up — ROT13 it . This had the effect of making it impossible to
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by neotek 7y ago
I'd love to know the answer to this as well, it would be so useful.
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by neotek 7y ago
Ugh, thanks, now I have to read the Fine Structure series all over again.
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by neotek 7y ago
Tell that to the families mourning the deaths of the people who didn't realise something called AutoPilot and dishonestly marketed as FSD capable is just an ambition.
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by neotek 7y ago
No, saying "Boring company will transport your car all the way into your garage" is a promise. Saying "The Boring Company will be using dirt from tunnel digging to create bricks for low cost housing" is a promise. So is
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by neotek 7y ago
Making promises he can't keep about things he doesn't properly understand to convince well-meaning but ultimately naive investors to keep coughing up the dough, as usual.
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by neotek 7y ago
The 8-bit Guy's work on Planet X3 (and the previous titles) is straight up amazing. I have such admiration for people like him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szhv6fwx7GY
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by neotek 7y ago
>Tesla is making progress, and regardless of whether they survive these various courts of public opinion, they're helping to lay the ground work for safer roads by forcing the industry to integrate more and more automated safety sys
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by neotek 7y ago
>Good. We need more of this kind of thing around here, and less negativity and the "luck is everything, effort is irrelevant, sit on your ass and wait for the government to fix all your problems" bullshit that we've been o
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by neotek 7y ago
>It's not about whether Twitch is forced to host your speech or whatever. That's exactly what it's about. >Here the government is getting involved. Which is not the same thing as the government abrogating anyone's
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by neotek 7y ago
>For the same reasons youtube demonetizes videos about legal education or discussing alphabet/google/youtube policies, yet still allows child grooming and radicalization to be monetized and recommended to children. What nonsens
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by neotek 7y ago
Experian makes its money selling credit checks to banks and other businesses. You're not their customer, you're their product.
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by neotek 7y ago
If we're being real about the choice, then you also have to include the reality that many airlines would go under if they suddenly had to retire their MAX 8 fleet and weren't immediately able to replace them with other aircraft. A
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by neotek 7y ago
You got banned for running a file sharing site, I’m afraid. PayPal’s terms require all file sharing sites to seek explicit approval before using the service, no exceptions.
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by neotek 7y ago
That's what happens when you mislead your customers into believing your self-driving technology is far more advanced than it actually is. I hope Tesla loses this case and is forced to change their bullshit marketing before more people
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by neotek 7y ago
>But chances are it is much closer to 0, at which point you’d be better off just using that electricity for something else. Unless your ultimate goal is not just to use energy efficiently, but to recapture carbon dioxide.
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by neotek 7y ago
FANG maybe; Apple seems pretty keen on maintaining privacy as one of their primary differentiators.

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