rantwasp

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by rantwasp 6y ago
it’s more like stress testing for the virus to see where it breaks
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by rantwasp 6y ago
i enjoy a conspiracy theory as much as the average joe, but this stuff is getting out if hand
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by rantwasp 6y ago
I sort-of disagree. Maybe for just browsing hn in general you’re right. That changes when you engage in a conversation with someone on a thread. also, i don’t really believe in the idea of the “monkey brain”. our brain is both “hardware” an
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by rantwasp 6y ago
hey, thanks for your well articulated noninflammatory comment. I agree with you on some points but as always there is a lot of nuance to things. > But what if it’s not as simple as “this side is making everything up, and the other side i
605.
by rantwasp 6y ago
the reptilians have replaced him
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by rantwasp 6y ago
technically you would also need to build your own payment network. and build your own electrical grid where you put the electricity you generated on your own. of course you would need to invent your own transistor to be able to build your o
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by rantwasp 6y ago
nope. if youtube was the only way to post/watch video online AND it would be owned by the government this argument would maybe make sense. but youtube is not owned by the govt. vote with your wallet and make them irrelevant if you disa
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by rantwasp 6y ago
1) an online platform should be moderated (and it is moderated by humans and machine - anybody that tells you otherwise is delusional). 2) the content moderation is up to the owner of the platform. they do whatever they want as long as they
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by rantwasp 6y ago
Have you heard about the bullshit asymmetry principle? "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/01/2
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by rantwasp 6y ago
I disagree. I understand that it’s your opinion that he’s doing something, but without something concrete to back it up, it’s just an opinion.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
how can you tell if: 1) he is doing something? 2) it is not working?
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by rantwasp 6y ago
yeah. notifications are an attention drain. i virtually have no notifications on my phone. pull, not push for me.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
yes. i believe newer region had read after write in a while but you needed to use the right endpoint i remember a time when if you were using the us-standard “region” and were unlucky it could take 12 hours for your objects to become visibl
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by rantwasp 6y ago
if this is dynamo, this is just a bunch of BS. you cannot get the latencies DDB has with a ton of abstractions on top of MySql.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
that's a feature not a bug. you see... in today's world if you need to attach the debugger to understand something you have already lost. why? because you should not be able to attach a debugger to a production system (if you can
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by rantwasp 6y ago
hah. gold is not that rare. even an entry level billionaire could afford a monolith this size
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by rantwasp 6y ago
i think safety (perceived or real) is different from joy. I also think it’s really hard to enjoy something repetitive and super verbose.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
while i agree with you that we are overanalyzing things and are "optimizing" things that are not worth optimizing I believe the bigger point still stands: a collective strategy that would yield better results for everyone is not s
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by rantwasp 6y ago
way out of my element here, but i don’t think you’ll find the electron transport chain in these.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
imho this is the reason he allowed the authorities to catch him. it was between getting caught or keeping his promise
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by rantwasp 6y ago
with great power comes great responsibility. ruby is amazing and once you get past your keanu stage and learn some of its most common pitfalls it's insanely good. it's one of the few programming languages that brings me joy when i
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by rantwasp 6y ago
also, how does one learn COBOL nowaday? it’s mostly a curiosity buy would be interesting to see what people that use it recommend
623.
by rantwasp 6y ago
hah. still waiting on BTC to hit 500K. McAfee told us it’s gonna happen!
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by rantwasp 6y ago
you don’t replace drinking with smoking.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
aging (and anti-aging medication) has the potential to become the next big thing. My dog is part if the DogAgingProject and it’s really exciting to see some focus on something that impacts all of us.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
> I'm writing some Java at the moment for an Android app, and it's just killing me after doing Scheme and Python, but I have to admit, if that start-up had used Java or C#, they might have been better off in the long run. that’
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by rantwasp 6y ago
nope. it’s not about probabilities. if it is it’s incorrectly modeled
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by rantwasp 6y ago
electric cars existed but they were ugly/unappealing. now, the model S looks great and is a sports car in disguise (of you go for the P100D). electric cars went from meh and being pretty rare to mainstream.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
it’s really sad, to me, to see the gimmicky way tesla is trying to sell its cars imho they already have the killer “feature” which is... the electric car. remember electric cars before tesla? me neither. so, focus on the electric part and m
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by rantwasp 6y ago
in my case it’s static content + cloudfront. I have yet to see it not being able to handle the traffic (we’re talking thousands of requests per second at peak). This does not surprise me and i think the same thing could be accomplished with

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