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by richmarr 10y ago
> As close as possible and as close as profitable are vastly different goals. Sure, if you want to set up a non-profit or p2p social network (or contribute to an existing one) then good luck getting widespread adoption. I sympathise, in
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> And yet, that's what they want to seem like they are. Until something like this happens... They want to be as close to being a town square as it's possible for a commercial service to be... but there'll always be differe
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> Can't half way free speech. Twitter isn't your town square. They have legally set out T&Cs that specify what you are and aren't allowed to do using their service. Abuse damages Twitter's reputation so it's
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by richmarr 10y ago
> Basic economics make that really expensive, but not just a waste of money, which is what excess capacity in shelters is. If you boil it down to a bed counting problem you're right, but it's not as simple as that. Take London
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> I'm pretty sure it is, due to basic economics... Not being funny, but basic economics also rules out a bunch of other stuff that exists. For example, in Medicine Hat, Canada, they just provide you with an actual home of your own i
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by richmarr 10y ago
Suspect parent was asking a rhetorical question, but what data are you looking at? Not sure it's true universally. Shelter (UK homeless charity) broadly agrees with parents claim that privacy & other residents are a significant pro
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It's terrifying that Assange's self-preservation might put Trump in the Whitehouse.
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> How about UK businesses which DO NOT export... ...or import ...or use goods and services reliant on imports. > ... and have to compete How do you propose avoiding having to compete? Isolationism is a short-term solution. Edit: ...a
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We do, with the Republic of Ireland... and we have a borderless travel treaty with them called the Common Travel Area which has existed in one form or another for nearly 100 years.
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Norway and Switzerland both have European free trade treaties that mandate compliance with trade regulations, free movement of people, etc. If Brexit actually wants to stop EU free movement, which seems to be a majot motivation, it will nee
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by richmarr 10y ago
> ...criticism of the theory of evolution that seems sensible to me ... Criticism of evolution isn't sensible, it's ignorant (which is fine). It's an observable phenomenon, each piece of which can be reasoned about without
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> Except life is not like writing a program... So, your argument is that it's okay to have terrible foreign policy because we don't have time travel. Are you sure you want to go with that?
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> Black and white decisions are a luxury... Yes and no. In this case a lot of the 'grey' in these decisions is caused directly by wilful and callous foriegn policy, in which Clinton has played her part. You don't see the P
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by richmarr 10y ago
Agreed. Perhaps this could be addressed by a personal medical 'agent' that could access condition profiles & statistics on your behalf, rather than having your data mined en masse by a search engine, ISP, etc.
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Agreed, considering the amount of processing and information loss that happens in the optic nerve (in people with healthy vision) you could save yourself a lot of processing, and get a higher fidelity result (potentially indistinguishable f
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> ... I suspect it would be purchased in an orderly fashion "Orderly fashion" and trading (algorithmic or otherwise) are oil and water, surely.
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by richmarr 10y ago
> But man was it fun to feel like you had some of the Mac's lickable UI on a PC. Well played sir, now nobody who knows you from HN will ever touch your Macbook
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by richmarr 10y ago
On this one I have to side with the advertisers. If a customer wants to block ads that one thing... if an ISP wants to block ads... or... "achieve change by working with all stakeholders" that sounds like (a) a whitelist or blackl
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Totally understandable, but I don't think project owners/maintainers behave quite as rationally as you're presenting here. 'Important', 'style issues', 'improper' and 'large project'
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I've let at least one PR go stale after having made the maintainer's requested changes, only to find a secondary list of demands such as squashing and 'comments too long'. Way to suck all the enthusiasm out of contributi
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I can think of at least... three... things more evil than this.
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Yeah, I don't feel any enlightenment kicking in. I'm aware that the Gang of Four name originated with a cabal of power at the centre of Maoist China, but I'm curious who drew the connection and why.
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This analysis seems to confuse performance in tests with actual potential, then goes on to state evolutionary causes (without supporting evidence) as "probably" the cause, which is somewhat overreaching to say the least. We'v
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Does anyone know how the Design Patterns authors became known as the "Gang of Four"? I'm guessing it originated from an unflattering comparison, although my knowledge of the Cultural Revolution is pretty weak, maybe it was a
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> US government explicitly funded development of TOR ... as a way of helping people avoid the depredations of oppressive governments. How are those rose-tinted spectacles working out :) "It was originally developed with the U.S. Nav
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I suspect they're also for the people who see a black man's face and react untrustingly.
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The short answer is that they won't care much. Twitter's job right now is to figure out how to make their UX less niche and grow market share before they lose ground to the Whatsapps and Snapchats of the world, not to police edge
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> break the rules and profit from it and if caught, pay a small fine and keep your ill gotten gains. I've learned this long time ago (watching coworkers, family, etc) Sounds like family christmas was a hoot :)
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Not just a member, that he was their leader Al Gorithm
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Not sure what evidence there is that the quality of leaders has changed, but there is evidence that both (a) we perceive strangers differently (compared to say the 1960s), see Robert Putnam's book Our Kids and (b) there are cognitive

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