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by pera 6y ago
In 2016 WhatsApp let users opt-out of Facebook data sharing with third parties by just checking a box in Account Settings [1]. Most of my friends and family did opt-out. Now, as far as I understand, they are being "forced to opt-in&quo
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by pera 6y ago
To me a boring movie is one that is mostly a constant flux of extremely predictable events with near zero content to analyze (e.g. a Marvel superhero movie). Tarkovsky is nothing like that, in fact I think his movies are the exact opposite
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Frog: A static web site generator written in Racket(github.com)
47 points by pera 6y ago|8 comments
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by pera 6y ago
Idris for instance is strict "by default" but still supports laziness through the Lazy data type.
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Who's Afraid of Background Independence? [pdf](philsci-archive.pitt.edu)
1 points by pera 6y ago|0 comments
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by pera 6y ago
I know but I believe they should rephrase that: I have been using their VPSs for ten years and they have the best customers support I have ever dealt with :)
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by pera 6y ago
But that's exactly the point isn't it? I mean, using pgp because you don't trust the communication channel. And you would still have the same issue with a mailing list.
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by pera 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
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by pera 6y ago
this actually makes me want to buy a couple of gme stocks
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+HCU: Academy of Reverse Engineering (1998)(web.archive.org)
1 points by pera 6y ago|0 comments
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Facebook to staff: Avoid company-branded clothing for own safety(businessinsider.com)
306 points by pera 6y ago|336 comments
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by pera 6y ago
I also was very surprised about that number, so I checked with tcpdump and google maps on a new browser instance: I count just 31 syns after zooming in, moving and clicking on a pub :?
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by pera 6y ago
Correct, that's why I used the word "ambiguous" (i.e. having or expressing more than one possible meaning).
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by pera 6y ago
English is not my first language, but it seems an ambiguous slogan as the prefix de- not only means to remove but also to reduce / degrade. For instance, there were some recent calls for "defunding the Pentagon", in the
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by pera 6y ago
You are probably not aware of this but Parler is currently being used by hundreds, maybe thousands, of fanatic radicals to organise another violent insurrection on DC (on either January 19th or 20th), and there is literally zero moderation.
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by pera 6y ago
An official Sci-Hub Mastodon instance could be pretty interesting :)
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Understanding Collective Action in a Political Trolling Community(arxiv.org)
1 points by pera 6y ago|0 comments
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by pera 6y ago
Here are two examples of this: https://mobile.twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1346920198461419... https://mobile.twitter.com/cevansavenger/status/134692092431...
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by pera 6y ago
> Was it ever proved that he did? No, which is why in the judgment every reference to a supposed attempt of "cracking a hash" is preceded by "alleged".
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America’s Vaccine Rollout Is Already a Disaster(nymag.com)
10 points by pera 6y ago|10 comments
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Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2(thelancet.com)
2 points by pera 6y ago|0 comments
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Photonic Quantum Advantage?(gilkalai.wordpress.com)
1 points by pera 6y ago|0 comments
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by pera 6y ago
Yes but I don't understand how this can be seen as modelling anything but the experiment one is performing: the way I interpret this proof of quantum supremacy is (and again I know this is incorrect but don't know why) almost like
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by pera 6y ago
I feel a bit embarrassed for asking, but can someone explain in layman's terms why the Gaussian boson sampling experiment proves quantum supremacy? I believe my main confusion is why is this experiment being called a computation : to
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by pera 6y ago
Boeing whistle-blower says proposed 737 Max fixes aren't enough. 179 points by bookofjoe 50 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24543411
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by pera 6y ago
didn't pg name this place "Startup News" before changing it to "Hacker News" just because hacker sounds cooler?
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Texas Republicans seek to toss 127k drive-thru votes cast in Harris County(texastribune.org)
3 points by pera 6y ago|1 comments
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Trump to strip protections from Tongass National Forest(washingtonpost.com)
13 points by pera 6y ago|0 comments
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U.S. FCC votes to maintain 2017 repeal of net neutrality rules(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by pera 6y ago|0 comments
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by pera 6y ago
AFAIK you need to demonstrate a real need to actually acquire a block, this is not like buying a domain name.

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