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by pathseeker 6y ago
Cynic in me says this is an awfully convenient way to justify a cut-back in advertising spend during the economic crisis while gaining free PR for being so "socially conscious". Most of these companies even mentioned right in the
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Unless you're getting all of your Amazon stuff in a single box in the weekly option, it's not really better. Driving 3 miles once a week to get everything from a store is better than 7 boxes a week + delivery increased truck load.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Depends on if you consider running a phone with Google services removed "supporting Google".
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Yes, but those two examples don't have a particularly great track record. Regulation tends to be a very blunt hammer that might only partially address the problem while introducing a bunch of others (e.g. cookie banners).
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>3) HN is 3 years ahead of mainstream, but 10 years behind the edge I think you're using a weird definition of 'edge' here to mean "things that nobody else knows about" rather than the cutting edge of the industr
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>How many projects are there to automatically API-ify a database with auth boilerplate today? That's a really vague statement but you described phpmyadmin, django, wordpress with a plugin, etc. Most successful CRM companies essentia
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by pathseeker 6y ago
You have to have fully internalized those concepts already for that explanation to be useful. So it's good for people who already have a somewhat solid mathematical foundation and working knowledge. For it to be useful to a layperson,
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by pathseeker 6y ago
There was no decline. I very distinctly remember laughing that iPhone couldn't support flash because so many websites were based on flash. I was a Blackberry user at the time and the best hope for a standard website was that it had som
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by pathseeker 6y ago
I have a raspberry pi running on my desk that has been running for 60 days sitting on my desk with no outages. I don't even have a battery backup!
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>The original article is by a writer of the Washington Post. If this doesn't count as journalism It doesn't matter where it came from. Some publications just have different ratios of biased crap and the biases are different dep
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Oh, it's likely not conscious by the author. The most convincing of these one-sided views are the ones written by people who are "true believers" in their agendas. Don't tell authors to take extreme stances, just ensure
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by pathseeker 6y ago
If it's often enough to be noticeable, your scale is large enough to pay someone to be ops full time.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>web services that require high availability, redundancy and reliable backups. For these I just use Heroku. How do you handle Heroku outages then?
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by pathseeker 6y ago
No, as evidenced by the fact that you can almost always hear when a participant calls in from their car. When they start talking, you hear the road noise in the background. The only thing car-kits seemed to do was add minimum cut-offs befor
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>Why the breathless article about 2 cases? Because articles are now written to confirm people's preconceived notions. Articles that confirm your biases are more likely to be shared than articles which don't.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>who you are can absolutely be changed by external circumstances Yes, but that's focusing on the very unlikely external circumstances and defeating the point. 99.99% of the daily stuff that seems important actually is not and it&#x2
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by pathseeker 6y ago
That's why it helps to distinguish between ANTIFA and being anti-fascist. There is only a small overlap between those two groups.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>smart enough to learn to code or to polish a pitch to a vc, but lacking any critical thinking skills or morality that would cause them to reflect on their position in society. Sure, people that disagree with your viewpoints lack critica
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>I cannot condone violence nor encourage it, but you have to admit that the first few protests and property damage drastically influenced the quick arrest of an officer that may not have been arrested or even fired if it didn't happ
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by pathseeker 6y ago
It happened once before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>You are then fully aware that you are covered by a gold plated healthcare My healthcare plan is not gold plated. It's trivial to find a HDCP on the open healthcare exchange with the same $4k deductible. The only atypical thing was
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Unfortunately they are really annoying to use.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Woah, do not get into the habit of putting your wifi network password into a website if you care about security. This particular site might or might not collect it now but it's a terrible habit to put your sensitive data into another s
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by pathseeker 6y ago
https://www.pure-gas.org
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by pathseeker 6y ago
dpkg and rpm cover the vast majority of production linux servers, which makes them the "two relevant" package managers.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
The part of the equation you are missing is how little traffic the majority of business applications end up seeing. A B2B app that has at most 10 concurrent requests can run on the smallest EC2 instance whether it's written in PHP or w
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by pathseeker 6y ago
> i mean, these kinds of simple CS201 algorithms are still at the core of a lot of things that definitely count as AI by any reasonable definition. X is a component of Y does not imply X is Y. I use lots of nails to build a house. A na
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>AI roughly means "things human brains can do that computers can't" Ok, then nothing being done today (neural nets, gan, etc) on computers is AI. What a dumb definition. >claiming something isn't AI because "p
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Sure, but they certainly aren't AI. They were written by people and do not learn based on new inputs.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>graph traversal is absolutely a fundamental of AI A is fundamental of B does not mean B is A.

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