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by polemic 6y ago
I co-work with an architect who loves his ReMarkable 1. He'll do initial sketches on it, keep meeting notes, read contract docs etc on it, and so on. It's an ideal "work support" device for what he does, vs an iPad whi
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by polemic 6y ago
This is a deliberate misinterpretation of the previous point. Short, miserable lives and long rewarding lives are not equalised by death.
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by polemic 6y ago
Hard disagree. Until extremely recently Zoom was a mature enterprise video conference solution. It's a B2B product that has suddenly exploded in general consumer usage, and suddenly product and commercial decisions made in that context
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by polemic 6y ago
Harassment is a form of censorship.
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by polemic 6y ago
Read the article, it's not for social programmes.
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by polemic 6y ago
Potentially, but then surely a Cost/benefit analysis would strongly encourage the CDC to stockpile them in advance too? Perhaps nations need strategic PPE reserves.
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by polemic 6y ago
Heh, well consider the level of abstraction involved with displaying this text on your screen.
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by polemic 7y ago
It certainly helps when they're working from the same playbook though.
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by polemic 7y ago
I've had this happen a few times! It'll happen usually while falling asleep - a sudden very loud ("overwhelming" is probably a better word since its obviously not auditory) static rising rapidly, sometimes with the image
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by polemic 7y ago
I don't quite understand this comment. In my experience, payment processors (and related services) are somewhat unique in providing test gateways & APIs. Unlike other API services you can write integration tests against their t
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by polemic 7y ago
> ..don't test production checkout flows.. That's good advice. Payment providers have test gateways and cards for you to test your code against. While it might be a minor convenience for you to have 'fake' cards in
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by polemic 7y ago
I think this is the punchline
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Rackspace terminates FOSS support without notification, charging fees(mobile.twitter.com)
56 points by polemic 7y ago|7 comments
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by polemic 7y ago
Bold assertion in the face of side channel and timing attacks.
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by polemic 7y ago
And how do you square that with reality here, where the subject matter experts disagree with the political class, and the armchair crowd appears to be siding with the politicians. (I'd suggest that armchair quarterbacks are very much t
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by polemic 7y ago
I don't have answers, because I'm not an Australian bush fire expert. We need to get past the idea that we can reason this out with faux-rational arguments on message boards.
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by polemic 7y ago
You can see examples of the kinda of disinformation right here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22012427 Blaming arsonists, blaming "fire load" and lack of forest manangement, etc. Go listen to the rural fire
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by polemic 7y ago
The season where it is safe to do controlled burns has been shrinking due to climate change. So no, this is not true. Don't spread FUD.
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by polemic 7y ago
Wikipedia says Brighton is 82.79 km2. So this is about 70x larger.
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by polemic 7y ago
Well, not profit, clearly.
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by polemic 7y ago
I wonder what you do with a jet of vapourized rock too, once you've got it to that temperature!
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by polemic 7y ago
I'd be curious to hear from downvoters on this comment. Do you believe it to be factual incorrect?
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The most advanced MySQL raytracer on the market(pouet.net)
276 points by polemic 7y ago|47 comments
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What’s going on with WhatFreeWords?(justpaste.it)
250 points by polemic 7y ago|93 comments
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by polemic 7y ago
> high speed rail is romanticism from bygone days when rail was the only alternative to long distance travel. air travel pretty much superseded it and is doing so all over the world. This isn't true. High speed rail is alive and wel
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by polemic 7y ago
I've spent some time working and using the space there and my impression was very different. Kids (and adults) using the games rooms, lots of interesting projects going on at the 3D printers, sewing machines and graphics computers, hea
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by polemic 7y ago
They knew about it in 2015.
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by polemic 7y ago
I'm surprised how under reported this has been. There were basically three scenarios: 1. They knew about the malicious code in 2015 and chose to misrepresent the breach, effectively lie to customers. (note that they didn’t reset passwo
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by polemic 7y ago
I came here to say this too. Here's me thinking that the Coyote's are the "bitcoin is freedom" crowd and it pulls a full 180. As if bitcoin and Libra can't be the same side of the co(i)n.
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by polemic 7y ago
There is an awful lot of human suffering on the scale between current earth conditions, and "venus", which you seem oddly focused on. Venus is a wildly different environment to Earth, several hundreds of degrees hotter. The pe

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