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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
All that leaked phone call between Nuland and Pyatt shows is that the US most likely participated in the (failed) negotiations for a new government with Yanukovych as the president and a opposition candidate as the prime minister. It isn&#
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
>Another part of the Ukraine conflict that is strangely absent is that Ukraine has been in a civil war since 2014 when a CIA backed coup toppled their government. It is always presented as if one day for no reason Putin invaded a peacefu
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
It is nothing like the web. The web is unstructured, Xanadu isn't. The web supports all kinds of content, Xanadu is stricly textual. Xanadu documents are immutable. Xanadu is integrated with a payment system and everything is pay-per-v
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
Or maybe, just maybe, Xanadu wasn't as great idea as he thinks.
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
>The attempt to provide a second JPEG-XL implementation has stalled What do you mean by " the attempt"? There are at least three independent decoder implementations: jxl-oxide (Rust): https://github.com/tirr-c&
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
Some will blame Google for the demise of JPEG XL, but I think that's a red herring. JPEG XL includes Google technologies such as Pik and Guetzli/Brunsli. Some of the JXL developers are Google employees. Google doesn't have a
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
I don't know where this belief that marxism is merely an economic theory comes from. Critical theory is directly descended from marxism.
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
I agree AI ethics is important, but unfortunately, the field is dominated by frauds. Do you remember the drama[1] with Google's AI ethics team? Here's a sample of the "research" they were producing: https://s1
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
>Yes, you have brought this up before.[0] And as I have said before[1] -- and will presumably say for the next 26 years as well -- I very much regret that quip. Do you also regret this post? I'm genuinely curious. https:/&#x2F
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
>Dutch registrar was sued by Meta, which alleges the company ignores abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains. I wouldn't be surprised if they are ignoring those complaints because t
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
Yes, it is important to understand that using open-source software in a commercial SaaS is immoral. However, it should be noted that it applies only to open-source projects that were created by billion-dollar startups like Mongo or Elastic.
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
The lesson here is: "give an inch and they will take a mile".
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
As I wrote in my comment, the contractual obligations will matter in the future, when (if) the economic relations are normalized. Settlement of the outstanding financial disputes will be a prerequisite for that.
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
>"There will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it." Conveniently for Russia, Nord Stream 2 still exists. Only one of its two pipes had exploded. Everyone forgets about it.
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
> But why the fuck would Russia do it? Why do so many people act as if it's so unlikely that Russia did it? They had the least to lose, their relations with the west were already ruined at that point and such an incident couldn&#x27
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
I have one problem with PeerTube: its P2P architecture makes the users legally liable for the content they're watching, because they aren't just watching , they are also automatically sharing it. Of course, Torrent has the same p
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
This is pretty much what this lawsuit is about. He claims that it's bitcoin developers' fault that he lost access to "his" billions and they should restore it somehow.
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
I should have said asymptomatic disorders in general. It's okay to say that you suffer from ADHD, people will support you. But co-workers and especially bosses tend not to appreciate the issues that come with it, such as procrastinatio
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
>When I reviewed the rules, which I tend to take seriously I noticed that it said "We promote neurodiversity" and in the next line it says "don't be an asshole". The only commonly tolerated, perhaps even celebrat
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Tell HN: Freenom (the operator of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq TLDs) is falling apart
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
Bread is very cheap. Despite that, in my country (Poland), many people believe that throwing bread away is wrong. When it gets stale or moldy, they will either eat it anyway, feed animals with it, leave it next to a trashcan so someone else
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
>They get the AVIF support for free when they implement the AV1 decoder. No, it isn't free. You have to implement the support for the AVIF container. This is why libavif exists.
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
The difference is that Cpp2's in/out references are actually useful. With them, it would be feasible to completely ban uninitialized variables. BTW, P2723[1] tries to solve the same problem by zero-initializing everything by defau
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
It's a shame that the teletext archive doesn't offer raw downloads and the online browser is the only available option.
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
>Irrelevant, we have Zuckerberg himself admitting to being “primed” by FBI for the hunter Biden story. Please stop spreading misinformation. FBI issued a broad warning, there was nothing about Hunter Biden in it: https://www.n
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Open sourcing the attention center model(opensource.googleblog.com)
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
>Ukraine’s arsenal was formidable. It started the war with over 1,000 barrel artillery systems (those with long tubes) and 1,680 multiple-rocket launchers—more than Britain, France, Italy, Spain and Poland put together This is a very imp
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
Adobe Animate, formerly known as Adobe Flash.
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
>Remember when Biden said the Hunter Biden laptop was fake? I don't think Joe Biden has ever said that.
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by peppermint_gum 4y ago
The funny thing about AVIF support in Chrome is that, unlike JPEG XL, there was no experimental period. It was enabled by default from the beginning (in Chrome 85).

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