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by pavanky 14y ago
May be he had to order within a budget and the macbooks are shit if you are within a budget.
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by pavanky 14y ago
> Payment for…organs is likely to take unfair advantage of the poorest and most vulnerable groups, undermines altruistic donation and leads to profiteering and human trafficking. That is probably the reason India is ranked high. No "sur
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by pavanky 14y ago
Can someone explain to me why bruteforce is important if you can not access the password hashes ?
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by pavanky 14y ago
Firstly, Osama (not Usama) Bil Laden. Secondly, 11 years without trial or even a concrete charge against "an accused terrorist" would be something USA and its citizens would be appalled about if Russia or China did so to their "terrorists".
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by pavanky 14y ago
You know who else did hunger strikes ? Some old chap named Gandhi.
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by pavanky 14y ago
Sounds very familiar like trusting the entity with the largest arsenal of weapons.
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by pavanky 14y ago
> Just like Gandhi say - first they ignore you, then they fight you, then you win. We are currently at step #2. I expect the heat against bitcoin to raise in the next weeks. It's a big threat for the current establishment cash cow. Wow.
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by pavanky 14y ago
Then it is not a useful monetary system. When people trade money (paper or electronic), they are trading time they invested in doing useful work for someone else. When bitcoins are traded, you are trading wasted computer cycles.
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by pavanky 14y ago
I understand that. I said it would make more sense than the existing one. It would not be a perfect solution, and I would not have participated in that xCoin system either.
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by pavanky 14y ago
The only way bitcoins are being generated is by wasting computer cycles solving problems that are of no use to anyone. Krugman's problem is not with the concept of bitcoin, but the process of mining. I may not be an economist, but the metho
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by pavanky 14y ago
It is also interesting to see what the median age is. I think it is between 25-30 now where as it was between 30-35 before. The ratio of teenagers also seems to be decreasing.
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by pavanky 14y ago
This particular problem is so embarrassingly parallel, I am surprised the speedup is only 14x.
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by pavanky 14y ago
I really don't get it why people over here are heads over heels about Apple. They most definitely will not re-invent the wheel.
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by pavanky 14y ago
About the smartness aspect of it: You have set top boxes like Roku which are designed well. Hell my PS3 is fairly easy to use. The previous generation of the LG smart TVs were also pretty good without having to deal with the gestures. As fo
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by pavanky 14y ago
Why not just buy a regular computer monitor then ? The lack of large screen sizes ? This I can understand.
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by pavanky 14y ago
There are tons of TVs that are doing it right. Apple doesn't need to "show everyone how it's done". This particular example is of one manufacturer messing up one product line.
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by pavanky 14y ago
1. Because it can be done. 2. The native way of doing this in C (without using SWIG or cython or any other such)is more verbose. 3. It may be easier (not necessarily faster) to write certain code in Go as opposed to both python or C.
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by pavanky 14y ago
Yep pretty much. In the original article (not from time.com) it was 9 and 1. So I am not sure where the number came from.
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by pavanky 14y ago
C with templates. I think that would be the best compromise for me.
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by pavanky 14y ago
From my experience if you are familiar with both C and C++, you do not end up writing C++ code that is completely obnoxious.
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by pavanky 14y ago
Stallman on steam for Linux (in 2012/2013 ?). "However, if you're going to use these games, you're better off using them on GNU/Linux rather than on Microsoft Windows. At least you avoid the harm to your freedom that Windows would do. Thus,
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by pavanky 14y ago
You would be surprised by the sheer number of idiotic patents out in the wild.
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by pavanky 14y ago
Can someone explain to me how an interpreter written in Python works ? Has it become bootstrapped at some stage such that the entire interpreter is written in restricted Python which is now translated to C and compiled ?
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by pavanky 14y ago
Split this into metro areas please. Generalizing for the entire state makes no sense.
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by pavanky 14y ago
This came up on reddit a few days ago. The consensus was that there is dynamic library that is present on the ARM chromebooks which is used by netflix(and hence can not be used on regular x86 machines). That said, it may be possible to reve
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by pavanky 14y ago
Well that is what you get for going against the hivemind of hacker news. Sometimes we just need to sit back and let a few people have their bit of drama.
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by pavanky 14y ago
You can download all the raw data. It is linked in his post. There are 2 users for Android, 1 user each for Chrome OS and Chromium OS. That is not a lot. There are however a lot of people using a lot of niche distributions.
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by pavanky 14y ago
I am not sure why, but /r/linux has a unusually high number of archlinux users compared to other samples around the internet. It is second only to Ubuntu there. May be it just speaks about the kind of people on reddit also using Linux. May
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by pavanky 14y ago
aur.
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by pavanky 14y ago
/r/linux has a huge archlinux bias (which includes me). So take those results with a grain of salt.

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