offbytwo

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by offbytwo 1y ago
Nobody will do anything about it and things will continue to get worse.
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by offbytwo 7y ago
> It could be done with a new separate branch of government. Ah, yes. Maybe we could call it The Ministry of Thought.
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by offbytwo 8y ago
> cannot be used to infer any sort of near-time It's not meant to, it's meant to dispel the common notion that no progress is being made in this area of research. And the total power output doesn't need to remain exponen
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by offbytwo 8y ago
Unfortunately people are actively trying to ban nuclear, the safest and cleanest form of energy[1] ever devised. [1] https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy
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by offbytwo 8y ago
Before anyone comments "fusion is always 10 years away" I'll just say that we've made significant progress in the last 40 years (energy generated by fusion is on par with moore's law) and it is simultaneously the si
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by offbytwo 8y ago
What's the industry 'standard' nowadays? I assume SHA-256 would be decent but I don't really keep up with that stuff.
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by offbytwo 8y ago
buzzfeed lol
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by offbytwo 8y ago
Forgot no humor allowed here
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by offbytwo 8y ago
Marijuana taxes are obscene and immoral. I pay 30-40% on a plant that has medicinal properties in Colorado. The whole "sin" tax on marijuana makes no sense. God forbid this gets set at a Federal level.
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by offbytwo 8y ago
how does one build arms without arms?
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by offbytwo 8y ago
>Rust is pretty >Of course, you might feel differently, but one of my biggest takeaways from all of this side-by-side code is that Rust is clear, expressive As someone who doesn't use either of these languages, I couldn't di
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by offbytwo 8y ago
> My only hope is that this isn't so successful that they neglect the installer because nobody is using it anymore :-) Wouldn't that be a good thing? I mean, you'd have a tough time finding a computer for sale in 2019 that
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by offbytwo 8y ago
Gonna start using this one ( https://www.gnu.org/graphics/I_run_GNU_by_GNUlancer.png ) on my Windows PC at work
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by offbytwo 8y ago
>I disagree that voting has become meaningless You literally have better odds of winning the powerball than your vote having any effect on the outcome of a general election. Even if it did, the people put in office are worried about them
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by offbytwo 8y ago
> Is this 'hallucination' though? Or just some weird stuff happening in visual processing? Is there a meaningful difference?
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by offbytwo 8y ago
Thanks for this!
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by offbytwo 8y ago
> If I want to use Facebook to some extent but stop them from selling all my data to everyone This is an unrealistic expectation. You signed a legal contract when you signed up for an account stating that you're a-okay with them usi
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by offbytwo 8y ago
How can you harvest data from your own datacenter?
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by offbytwo 8y ago
If you care about your privacy you shouldn't be using facebook. Kind of insane that people need the government to make these decisions for them.
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by offbytwo 8y ago
Try this out on the portrait page: r = {}; za = {}; fda = {}; intv = {}; function setH(div){za[div]=Math.floor(Math.random() 100);fda[div]=((za[div]>50)?-1:1);i = setInterval(function(){ za[div] += fda[div]; div.style.height = za[div]+&q
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by offbytwo 8y ago
> It's still hands-down the best OS out there if you just want a stable, usable computer that respects you, and I still feel really grateful for it every time I boot up my computer to get actual work done. Anecdotal, but I just rece
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by offbytwo 8y ago
If your taking the 'protect wildlife' route, then it doesn't make sense to argue against taking trash out of the ocean which directly kills a god-awful lot of animals as it stands.
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by offbytwo 8y ago
I would say a serious attempt at cleaning any amount of the ocean is better than no attempt.
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by offbytwo 8y ago
The device is made from recyclable plastic.
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by offbytwo 8y ago
So your argument is essentially: "cleaning the ocean is hard, so we shouldn't attempt it"
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Ask HN: If you could go back to study any CS-related field, what would it be?
72 points by offbytwo 8y ago|76 comments
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by offbytwo 8y ago
Facebook does not force you to use their service.
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Searching for the Elephant's Genius Inside the Largest Brain on Land (2014)(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
1 points by offbytwo 8y ago|0 comments
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by offbytwo 8y ago
> https://danielegrattarola.github.io/metaverse/ These are really cool, did you come up with that function for the mandelbrot set? Do you have an explaination of how it works??
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by offbytwo 8y ago
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