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by po1nt 11mo ago
Every regulation has some unforeseen consequences. Most of the time it's impacts are worse than the effect we wanted to regulate from the start. Us humans discard the effects we can't predict as benign even over smaller inconvenie
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by po1nt 1y ago
It shouldn't https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/free.html >If ptr is a null pointer, no action occurs.
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by po1nt 1y ago
We had just that. But we accidentally banned it by banning sulfur in cargo ship fuel.
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by po1nt 1y ago
How can you know that? That's also such an arbitrary number to obsess about. Setting bilionaire income tax to zero would increase total salary also.
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by po1nt 1y ago
If they could get higher paying job they would already do so. No legal immigrant dreams of working at McDonalds. No illegal immigrant would be employed by McDonalds.
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by po1nt 1y ago
Then we should increase the minimum wage to 200$/hr or more.
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by po1nt 1y ago
They might be living in a tent on a sidewalk for free if you ban them from working.
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by po1nt 1y ago
It's 100% lower wages for those who lost jobs.
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by po1nt 1y ago
If we could bridge over Meshtastic, this would be so good.
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by po1nt 2y ago
I love it! Now I need it in every calculator
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by po1nt 2y ago
That's because we got reliant on the funds from government. Maybe it's time to break the dependency.
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by po1nt 4y ago
I disagree about having it the best healthwise. My back is killing me and I burned out multiple times from stress. I'm not comparing myself to a fireman or something like this, but I would change my job for something more outdoorsy any
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by po1nt 4y ago
Then there is a tiktok, which I refuse to install because it's massive spyware AND until you build enough data for the algorithm it's all just inapropriately dancing kids
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by po1nt 4y ago
Censorship is the side effect of moderation.
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by po1nt 4y ago
> true(1) Translates to "Do nothing, successfuly" This tickles my imposter syndrome
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by po1nt 4y ago
And here I am, raging over hardcoded stuff that should have been overrideable but now I'll need to fork or hunt down original developer of the library. Well things changed. Now what?
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by po1nt 4y ago
Why do people act like by introducing Web3 the "Web2" will cease to exist. You'll always be able to use it without any financial knowledge whatsoever "like in the old times". Web3 as a concept exists solely to decen
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by po1nt 4y ago
Implementing and maintaining billing is my daily job for the last 6 years. I would also mention topics like: - Reporting (various data aggregation and audit reports) - High reliability, nothing hurts company more than unability to bill thei
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by po1nt 4y ago
I believe these issues will solve over time by moore's law. By the time Web3 will be mainstream viable we will all be able to run nodes on our mobile phones.
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Ask HN: What question from your field are you now too afraid to ask?
2 points by po1nt 4y ago|0 comments
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by po1nt 4y ago
Yeah but why?
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by po1nt 4y ago
Isn't Papers Please built on this concept? Maybe not poverty but war/survival related is This War of Mine
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by po1nt 5y ago
It's hard for me to comprehend simple asymmetric encryption let alone understand how this solution is quantum proof. Everytime I read something like this I wonder if I'll ever catch up with the times.
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by po1nt 5y ago
I'm a bit dissapointed it doesn't convert into raw curl module function calls in PHP.
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by po1nt 5y ago
Replacement of cars is realistic until it rains, snows, wind blows too much or you need to haul something, have multiple passengers and such. I can't imagine owning ebike as a city daily driver though bikesharing sounds reasonable. The
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by po1nt 5y ago
I don't get the argument. We all follow standards like HTTP, IP, ECMAScript and others that are developed by single entity. That doesn't mean it's centralized. It's like saying open source doesn't exist because most
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by po1nt 5y ago
None of the benefits mentioned in article won't benefit well maintained codebase. If you're forced into such solution you're doing something wrong. Just use locking, cache and reduce your dependencies to bare minimum you actu
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by po1nt 5y ago
I've seen dozen of tutorials trying to explain quaternions in multiple analogies and methods. But finally after this tutorial I can finally conclude that I'm dumb.
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by po1nt 5y ago
I've expected some plot twist like "It will be coded in Rust"
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by po1nt 5y ago
I really hope AI will be added in future.

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