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by pikzen 9y ago
Nobody uses pictures for identification. Not alone. In combination with everything else, maybe, but being French, I can even assure you that in most of the cases, people don't even look at your photo when checking your ID. They're
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by pikzen 9y ago
>Yes, think of the poor truck drivers. I'm sure they love doing a dull job. Yes, they're clearly doing that for the personal achievement that it brings them and not for, maybe, money. That tiny thing we all kind of need. Jesus
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by pikzen 9y ago
Oh well, you know a dozen people working at Whole Foods that have good careers, guess the literal thousands of people working in the stores, filling the shelves, being cashiers, etc., usually being the first ones to be thrown away, overwork
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by pikzen 9y ago
>Is this article true? https://www.thelocal.fr/20170309/rules-of-the-game-what-rule... . >In that case, you'll have to get 500 signatures of elected officials. That seems even more chilling, because then you&
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by pikzen 9y ago
How many of them are proper, accurate emulators though (and not emscriptened ones like mupen64)? Parsing bytes and mapping them to instructions is easy, and I believe that's why most of them are for very simple machines. We're sti
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by pikzen 9y ago
>You missed a verb. As if I such a thing. Thanks. >Good luck in getting airtime/a platform without paying money. Funnily enough, I was talking about that in a previous HN thread. You'll have to explain to me how my country (
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by pikzen 9y ago
>Millions have died from the perils of ideas such as yours so forgive me if I don't take your word for it. I'd count the deaths due to capitalism deeming a cause not profitable enough to solve its problems, but you are going to
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by pikzen 9y ago
>it is an affront then. You'll live. >These 4 companies (and more) have done more good than all the goodness of your heart will ever do Oh, certainly. Can we start listing all the bad they've done now? Because I can't,
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by pikzen 9y ago
A complete model? I don't have any. I have bits and pieces of things. And so do you. So does your neighbor, so does the CEO of Microsoft, so does the government worker in his office, so does the guy sleeping in the street. Get people
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by pikzen 9y ago
Yeah. We have those tiny things called governments too. You might know them for some investments such as, the US interstate highways, space flight, the Internet. It's amazing how the collective will of the people has managed all of tha
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by pikzen 9y ago
Every country that has a functioning democracy has realised that money is not speech. Every sensible person also realizes that this is not a solution. Have more money than someone else? Well, tough shit, your vote shouldn't be worth m
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by pikzen 9y ago
>What is up with all this egalitarian nonsense? Just the wish to have a society that is able to evolve, to have all of us go forward as a species instead of concentrating the power in the hands of few. >There is an obsession with equa
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by pikzen 9y ago
Employment is a relation of subordination, inherently unbalanced. People also happen to need money to live, making work not a voluntary transaction, unless you consider death a viable option. That is not considering other factors, such as h
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by pikzen 9y ago
Air time means "you wanna talk about candidate X on your channel? Sure, you're just going to match every single minute you spoke about him with every other candidate.". That usually excludes legal trouble because that doesn&#
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by pikzen 9y ago
You are kind of ignoring the second paragraph, which goes hand in hand with the first.
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by pikzen 9y ago
Or maybe your terrible political system has made you jaded and not realize that democracy is still a thing of the people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Yes, whoever owns CNN can use up all his airtime telling you that X is the greatest vandidate that'
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by pikzen 9y ago
>Making yourself heard on television commonly takes the form of TV advertising, which is all about money, unfortunately. Like I answered in your other post, equality of air time for each candidate. I know, you've had twenty somethin
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by pikzen 9y ago
Then you are more than welcome to blow as much money as you'd like on your favourite candidate! And since it's on Youtube, noone is "forced" to watch your video, they can always switch to something else. However, TV and
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by pikzen 9y ago
>corporations shouldn't be able to engage in political speech Corporations should be able to engage in political speech, as long it is done through their CEO or anyone that represents them officially, who then would be nothing more
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by pikzen 9y ago
>Can I create a video and post it on my private youtube channel, as a private individual? Yes. >Can I spend $10 million creating the youtube video, if I have that much money as a private individual? Yes. However, if it turns out that
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by pikzen 9y ago
Because it is a matter of original message. The Ethereum devs have had one mantra from the start: code is law. What is written in the code is what the developer means. There's no room for interpretation. But, somehow, when someone did
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by pikzen 9y ago
Ethereum cons: when smart contracts do inevitably get hacked, founders pretty much force the community's hand when it comes to forking because they just lost their VC money. Code is law, except when it's not practical for them.
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by pikzen 9y ago
Or do like every sensible country does, cap individual donations, forbid companies from donating, create a government entity whose goal is to ensure donations are respecting those rules, candidates having to deliver their list of donors to
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by pikzen 9y ago
For serious book writing, with proper chaptering and everything, I would probably use GitBooks. For anything else, even though it is not open source, Typora is to me the best visual markdown editor. It even makes me tolerate it being an Ele
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by pikzen 9y ago
>Why would I use Firefox when Gmail does not render well I don't know, maybe complain to Google who purposefully fucks up things on Firefox, over and over? >there is no way for me to seamlessly carry bookmarks, history and everyt
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by pikzen 9y ago
Because for years, the US enjoyed having NATO as a power projection tool, made mostly for them, is now complaining that the countries willingly letting them set up military bases inside their borders are not paying enough? (Even though it i
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by pikzen 9y ago
A 100ms delay is extremely noticeable, especially for faster paced games. That's 6 frames at 60FPS, or 3 at 30. While you may get away with that on 4X games, no FPS will ever get to more than 50ms input lag, because it seriously become
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by pikzen 9y ago
>My biggest expense is rent, which is about 25 % of my after-tax income. Yeah, you're not on average wage. HN is awfully biased, and I'm certain almost none of us here have actually lived on minimum to average wage for a long t
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by pikzen 9y ago
git remote remove origin git remote add origin <dead_repo_url>
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by pikzen 9y ago
It is an immensely valuable skill to have, that is usually not learned early.

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