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by pofilat 8y ago
This is just a spam ad for a Blockchain promoter "Internet of Blockchain"
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by pofilat 8y ago
Even if blockchain really just means dressed up encryption, I would never trust a security solution that is built and marketed on lies.
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by pofilat 8y ago
"It's perfectly acceptable to beat up gays" is probably a better example of this troubling phenomenon than "It's perfectly acceptable to beat up people who have publicly declared their membership in a murderous cons
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by pofilat 8y ago
It's unlikely that the "teacher" subject believed #1, because if they did, then the whole experiment makes no sense, unless the "teacher" felt pressure to conform. That is still a similar conclusion, AND in the abse
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by pofilat 8y ago
Cities don't want housing. They want other cities to fund residents, while they extract their pound of flesh from business offices.
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by pofilat 8y ago
Those examples tell me that people don't want to buy as much expensive products anymore; they prefer cheap stuff.
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by pofilat 8y ago
A lot people appreciate that Linus is a role model for their own desire to be disrespectful to their peers.
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by pofilat 8y ago
Communication has always been a two-way street.
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by pofilat 8y ago
several past discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%20LINUX%20is%20obsolete%20(19...
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by pofilat 8y ago
It isn't $40 for content you don't use; it's $40 for the content you do use.
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by pofilat 8y ago
WaPo has 3 Opinion sections, only one of which they label "Opinion" ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ) The have /news/the-fix", something they call "Analysis", where they mix
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by pofilat 8y ago
Any (non-pathological) terminating computer program (including a non-terminating program that includes a step to forcibly stop at a certain clock time) has a closed form, it's just phenomenally complex. :)
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by pofilat 8y ago
What is f'(0), the derivative of f at 0? It doesn't even exist , therefore it has no discontinuity at 0. Darboux's theeorem says that there is no way to create a jump in the derivative, in part because a derivative at a poin