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by nkohari 6y ago
The energy required to provide standby power for every electronic device in the United States is a tremendous amount of electricity.
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Except JavaScript, for all of its faults, is actually incredibly useful. Unlike bitcoin.
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Providing employees with a sense of ownership and belonging is a surprisingly strong motivator. People who feel they have a skin in the game will naturally work harder.
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I'm fairly certain they were saying the excerpt they pasted was "top notch", not the idea of violence towards journalists.
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by nkohari 6y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing. The web used to be much less centralized than it is today, and not to its detriment. If we're talking about breaking up the physical Internet, that's clearly bad, but having alternatives to
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by nkohari 6y ago
I don't think I understand what's wrong with this model. If I wanted to actively trade, I'd still prefer Robinhood's zero commission model, even if it meant that my buy price was slightly higher. $10 a trade vs. pennies?
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by nkohari 6y ago
Yeah, but Mike Pondsmith no doubt drew inspiration for the Voodoo Boys from the Rastafarians living in orbit in Neuromancer, and from the AIs representing themselves as Haitian voodoo gods in Count Zero. The tabletop game draws heavily on G
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by nkohari 6y ago
I'm a HUGE fan of Gibson's books, but let's be honest: he's 72 years old, and might not be the best judge of modern video games. He was also involved in (and wrote the screenplay for) the Johnny Mnemonic movie, which was
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by nkohari 6y ago
Eh, this comes across as hipsterism. I know it's trendy to hate on the game right now, but c'mon. How much of the game have you played? The entire main quest is about transhumanism and corporate control. Cyberpsychosis and the Mae
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by nkohari 6y ago
If you had actually read what I wrote thoughtfully -- instead of falling over yourself to type a glib reply as fast as you could get it out -- it would have been easy to recognize that I am clearly not anti-vaccine, nor was I suggesting tha
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by nkohari 6y ago
I know. I don't see how it refutes what I said. I'm not anti-vaccine, I was just replying to the parent comment suggesting that because these mRNA vaccines don't use adjuvants they wouldn't have side effects. All medicin
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by nkohari 6y ago
It's good to see that HN continues to find ways to increase pedantry! You know what I meant, intramuscularly.
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They don't have adjuvants, but they do have lipid nanoparticles which allow the mRNA to breach cells. It's feasible that they could cause unexpected side effects. NB: I'm personally going to get the first SARS-CoV-2 vaccine I
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It's still unknown whether vaccines convey sterilizing immunity. Even if they don't, there will be no political will to institute lockdowns if the people who are getting sick could have been vaccinated. If unvaccinated people gett
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by nkohari 6y ago
If there is an effective vaccine which is readily available to anyone, there is no need for lockdowns.
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by nkohari 6y ago
With respect to the last paragraph, vaccination is a sticky topic, because the vaccine protects both you and those around you. Vaccines are not 100% effective, don't convey permanent immunity, and not everyone can be vaccinated due t
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by nkohari 6y ago
If you're looking to be educated, instead of drawing unfounded conclusions, you might instead ask a question, like "I'm confused what these numbers represent. Could someone more versed in clinical trials explain them?" T
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by nkohari 6y ago
Let's say it takes ~12 hours to tally ballots for your country (results are available the next morning). We have ~330M people in the USA, so if it scales linearly, the full count would take ~16.5 days. For what it's worth, most of
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by nkohari 6y ago
This is absurd nonsense. Did you actually attend school in America?
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Yes, but it is as-designed, and only affects our presidential elections. Sometimes the US acts as a single nation, and sometimes it acts as a federation of states. In this case it's the latter. American media will only project the winn
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by nkohari 6y ago
Let me get this straight: you're saying that Americans are too reliant on television for information, and to support your analysis you're watching cable news? We can both agree that there should be more healthy debate, both in gen
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by nkohari 6y ago
I mean, if your argument is that we have uninformed people in America, I certainly won't disagree. That's different from the argument that "Americans don't understand civics because they watch movies instead of reading h
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by nkohari 6y ago
Yes, maybe if we keep trying very hard, someday we will also have books in America. (?) The arrogance of this comment is simply breathtaking.
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Provide a counterpoint.
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by nkohari 6y ago
I'm not sure that they do. Just because Hooks was inspired by functional concepts like algebraic effects doesn't mean the core React team is suggesting that writing React code is functional programming. With that said, my point is
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Why is "doing functional programming" important?
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Why is that important?
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> The risk to PayPal is that Visa/MC no longer allow PayPal to transact on their network if aggregate chargebacks exceed some percentage. PayPal processed 711.92B USD of transactions during 2019. [1] It's feasible that they&#x2
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by nkohari 6y ago
It's still an asset, it's just that most assets require maintenance.
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It's a market economy. No one decided one day to offer a certain salary, the market has figured it out over time (and will continue to do so as conditions change).

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