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by porpoisely 8y ago
Using that logic, does utopia result from attempting to create a dystopia?
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by porpoisely 8y ago
If you don't like the recommends, then don't use it. Youtube's recommend can be great. If you search for C# or any programming video, it provides a great way to find other interesting videos. Why is that the busybodies always
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by porpoisely 8y ago
You can't be serious. Internet = Highway? Then most of us would be dead. Do you realize that most of us have been on the internet "unsupervised" much younger than 16? Your kid has a far greater chance of running into a pedo a
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Are they going to pull ads from the Oscars which celebrate an actual child rapist like Roman Polanski? Also, Nestle peddles sugary drinks to children and Disney peddles toxic movies to children. Since when does either company care about chi
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by porpoisely 8y ago
It would be nice if there was an "Ask a Male Engineer" blog section also to get a more diverse viewpoint. It would be interesting to see the differences or similarities in opinions, perspectives and experiences of both genders. Or
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by porpoisely 8y ago
That's because to google, you aren't a customer, you are the product. Amazon treats you well because you are their paying customer. Google treats their customers ( the ad companies ) well.
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by porpoisely 8y ago
It works for me, but only on normal mode. It won't work for me on incognito mode.
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Infosec dramas are getting more tiresome? Are you really saying this on hacker news in an environment where we know governments, corporations, etc are actively trying to spy more and more on everyone? It's strange how you think the lat
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by porpoisely 8y ago
That is an interesting idea. But like you said, it takes time for you to get good at your job and more importantly, it takes time for you to increase you earnings. I don't know how feasible it would be for a senior developer making $20
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by porpoisely 8y ago
The internet predates BBS. And I'd credit HTTP, Netscape or AOL for killing off BBS rather than TCP/IP.
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Americans do both. I love homesteading, hunting, fishing, outdoors cooking and outdoors eating videos.
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by porpoisely 8y ago
And once you are back to being a baker, you'll look at a cushy sedentary office job with rose colored glasses. The grass is always greener. It's like when you are living your boring monotonous day to day life, you can't wait
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by porpoisely 8y ago
I'd assume you'd already know that media and elite pressure is why google changed since most people here work in the tech industry. Are you new to HN or do you work in a non-tech industry? This reporter claims that she got youtube
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by porpoisely 8y ago
That's not the benefit of science. The benefit of science is that it allows us to test and understand the empirical world and create predictive laws. And no, people didn't believe the earth was static before evolution and geology.
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Firstly, this plan has been unveiled for a while now. Secondly, this plan is as much hong kong/macau trying to "tie" itself closer to the mainland as vice versa. But bloomberg being bloomberg, we get a dose of stale news mixe
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by porpoisely 8y ago
I suggest calling it the bitxbitxbitcoin addendum.
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by porpoisely 8y ago
That doesn't make much sense since hong kong and macau were only returned to china within the last 20 years give or take. And in that time, china has never been diplomatically isolated.
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Are you serious? Who do you think supports the carbon tax? The ruling class. Everyone from the world bank to davos elites to wall street has endorsed carbon tax. As a matter of fact, the carbon tax is an invention of the ruling class.
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Am I cast aspersions or just stating facts? Google changed because of pressure from the elites and corporate interests who used the media to badger them. It certainly isn't in google's interest to make their product worse purely t
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Japanese government is pretty good in what specific area? "Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18459016 As for medicine, water and medic
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by porpoisely 8y ago
It is sad. But it's not just google books, it's google search, google news, youtube, etc. There was a time when all of google's properties catered to the users. Their search engine was the best. Google news was the best aggre
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by porpoisely 8y ago
In the greater scheme of things, how much energy use is mining bitcoin responsible for? 0.000000000001% of the world's energy use? I used to be very skeptical of bitcoin and cryptocurrency, but I'm even more skeptical of the recen
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by porpoisely 8y ago
It's incredible that this is the top comment in this thread. When did blind trust in government become the norm on "hacker" news?
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by porpoisely 8y ago
What's "normal economic theory"? What history shows us is that protectionism is a necessity for less developed countries to develop and catch up to more developed countries. The US, Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, etc a
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by porpoisely 8y ago
I'm embarrassed to say Amazon got me with this trap a few times. I'm at the checkout with a $19 mouse but amazon reminds me that I could get free shipping if I get to the $25. So I go back and look for something I need for $6 buck
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by porpoisely 8y ago
In finance, uncovered short positions happen all the time. Short selling and the options market being prime examples. Also, most debt ( especially fractional fiat debt ) is an uncovered short position. When you are lending something you don
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by porpoisely 8y ago
It goes beyond microcontrollers to every step up the chain. You want to optimize you system to hit the cache at every level as much as possible. The processor and its cache. The database and its cache. Web servers and their cache. Because g
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Papers were published about global cooling a few decades ago. Papers were published about malthusian collapse. Papers were published saying tobacco doesn't cause lung cancer. Also, the physics of carbon dioxide on temperature is unders
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Do they need to? I wonder how feasible it would be to put large computational centers in space and have space solar farms powering these computational centers. So if we want to test complex or long-running programs/models/algos, w
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by porpoisely 8y ago
Thanks. I can't believe the guy actually believes that. I guess if hypochondriacs exist, their opposites must exist too.

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