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by pwaai 9y ago
I think this summarizes the entire situation of the past 24 hours after China has banned its citizens from foreign crypto exchanges http://archive.is/2018.01.16-165846/https://twitter.com/AntP... Just lo
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by pwaai 9y ago
man, reading this comment was like a breath of fresh air. we've been collectively brainwashed to reach out for AWS for almost any dev related work. Also refreshing that a $5 DO/Linode box can do everything AWS can without the lear
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by pwaai 9y ago
Wouldn't be the first time they tried to barter. They also paid with t-80 tanks and other Soviet weaponry to pay off debt to a certain country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-80#South_Korea
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by pwaai 9y ago
Will it just create another blackmarket with another organized crime taking control? I'm not sure about legalized states in America but in Canada, from what I hear all the dispensaries in Vancouver and beyond source it from the black m
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by pwaai 9y ago
His crime was scraping a website. The accusers killed an innocent man for violating Terms of Service. Who's the real criminal here? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/ninth-circuit-doubles-...
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by pwaai 9y ago
While reading the article on the back of my mind I'm thinking that 99% of founders that read & follow those advices will still fail. But why? Why is the failure rate for startups so high? and why is the failure rate for starting a
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by pwaai 9y ago
ㅋㅋㅋ perhaps in the capitalist counterparts. I'm envisioning a new Korean alphabet only programming language, staying true to the Juche philosophy of self-reliance! I would replace all operators with Korean characters: * is ㅆ || is ㅣㅣ &
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by pwaai 9y ago
So in China, lot of people don't have the luxury of travelling to the actual place, so they just build it within China because of the demand. This is what I've been told but in reality it seems a bit like GDP fudging, with endless
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by pwaai 9y ago
> Other ex-pats would say how bored they were and go to the ex-pat pubs. This was what I've heard more than few times from people who went to Macau thinking it'd be like Vegas and walking away very disappointed. I guess when yo
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by pwaai 9y ago
It's really interesting to see non-English languages being used as programming languages. I recall Aheui (아희) programming language that was posted on HN a while back. It's truly exotic. https://aheui.github.io/spec
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by pwaai 9y ago
I would rephrase the question as the following: My company plans on partaking in a legally grey area with a real potential for liability down the road, do I want my name associated and put my neck out for something I don't believe in?
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by pwaai 9y ago
Unfortunately, this is what people who claim piracy is evil thinks. You obviously can't afford Final Fantasy 7 or Megaman Legends so by deriving pleasure from an unauthorized copy, you are a thief and lacking in moral fiber Sir!
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by pwaai 9y ago
Stealing would mean the loss of property, but there are infinite copies of the digital good. Users for the most part do not read EULA agreements or Terms of Service of a website, the expectation is on the software company's side, it&#x
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by pwaai 9y ago
What if you could detect the vocalization somehow instead of relying on a very noisy data source (brain signals), which I see becoming a roadblock...subvocalization would be like being able to chat without typing...you would still be intera
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by pwaai 9y ago
> As someone that was prevented from distributing Linux at high school because the administrators thought that any copying was piracy I remember having this discussion with in HS and also at work with people who were convinced pirating a
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by pwaai 9y ago
YES! This is ecstatic news for those operating under the constant threat of lawsuits from delusional folks who thinks their TOS is the fucking constitution of United States of America. Linkedin and Craigslist will finally get the competitio
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by pwaai 9y ago
The only successful organization which kept US at bay was OPEC. They collectively caused a major oil shock that sent US panicking. Similarly, the best thing for Africa is to somehow form a coalition to collectively operate on Africa's
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by pwaai 9y ago
> I often wonder why my fellow Africans betray us at the behest of the CIA I'll try to answer this the best I can. First know that it won't be Americans for long, China is picking up whatever the US neglected and doing the sam
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by pwaai 9y ago
Its ironic that you say parent is thinking like American yet you are doing exactly that. The US like USSR used ideological excuses to prop up dictators who goes into heavy debt from buying weapons, infrastructure etc. When they can't p
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by pwaai 9y ago
Sorry, I had to respond to your comment because it's attempting to derail parent's long list of difficulties faced by smaller weaker nations. Basically, the US, is just another empire in the pages of history. It is not the all bri
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by pwaai 9y ago
so does this mean that the cold run startup time thing has really been improved enough to build web applications? To me that is the biggest killer in moving forward, not knowing what the end users experience is going to be like because of c
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by pwaai 9y ago
Well if you think about it it's actually quite genius ... How do you subvert an increasingly connected population where information travels and spreads like wildfire that can force you out of power? You bring those people on a platform
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by pwaai 9y ago
With all that money they've raised, it's puzzling why they don't take PR seriously. I guess they have a mentality of "where the fuck else are you gonna go, the node community is tightly coupled to our service"
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by pwaai 9y ago
Is pip also vulnerable to this type of exploit? Or is this unique to npm?
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by pwaai 9y ago
I still don't, what does that mean exactly?
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by pwaai 9y ago
curious why you didn't choose asyncio? If I understand this correctly, it lets you write python endpoints to call from javascript? Does it let you create UI from python only? Lot of questions because I'd like to see more Python us
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by pwaai 9y ago
> What is the alternative for more introverted people? Stay home? Come on now. There's literally FUCKTONS of stuff to do on your own. I had this existential crisis when I realized how shitty Vancouver nightlife is and that it was n
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by pwaai 9y ago
> As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium. spoken like a true hermit....ma
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by pwaai 9y ago
When I was like 5 or 6 we roamed freely in South Korea during the early 90s and when we came to Canada, we still used to hang out in the apartment complexes, playing hockey, riding bicycles, building tree forts....looking back we lived in a
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by pwaai 9y ago
I'd say for new folks I highly recommend Doug Demuro's youtube channel. Unlike other car reviews that focus on the high end market, I like how he still focuses on extreme details around ergonomics to performance and look. It'

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