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by rvense 6y ago
I really think it would be good for America to enact some sort of electoral reform to allow for more than two parties to have a reasonable chance at influence. It really seems to distort your politics that everything is binary.
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by rvense 6y ago
I always think it's hilarious that people who call themselves Bitcoin enthusiasts will say things like "No one wants to live in a country where bitcoin has become vital for payments", when the original Bitcoin paper calls it
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by rvense 6y ago
> In fairness, that quote seems to have been in reference to having a "home computer" that controlled everything in the home which was a popular notion at the time and did not, in fact, come to pass. Like an Intranet of Things?
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by rvense 6y ago
> I had heard rumors that every version of Mac OS X had an Intel build secretly running at Apple. Hardly a rumour, Steve Jobs said it at the announcement of the switch to Intel. "Mac OS X has been leading a secret double life",
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by rvense 6y ago
> But honestly, the team is going to hate me, they have all spent a lot of time learning AWS. This was another motivation for going with DO: there's just less of it. Less to learn, less to get lost in. We've got a couple of jun
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by rvense 6y ago
My company is on DigitalOcean, but we're not exactly web scale yet, so I can't vouch for them on that level. Their support is nice and responsive, though, and their management interface is very nice. They don't do everything
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by rvense 6y ago
I don't think it's elegant at all. Magically treating special strings in this manner seems like a violation of "everything is a file".
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by rvense 6y ago
Actually, I don't have that device in my normal shell, mksh, but the command works in bash? Is bash putting things in /dev? That seems rather... bad, to be honest.
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by rvense 6y ago
I think Terry's outbursts are of a very different character in light of his general condition. Yarvin appears genuinely, intellectually committed to being a bigot.
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by rvense 6y ago
> Sure, but why do consumers need the government to tell them this is a valuable aspect of the technology they've purchased. It they don't value it they don't value it, having the government mandate and tell you what'
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by rvense 6y ago
It's always fun when you meet new techy people and you get comfortable enough to share your "I didn't get rich" Bitcoin stories: "I sold at $600 because it seemed like a lot at the time", "I bought a pizza
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by rvense 6y ago
> Just have to cross your fingers and hope the good times continue. If you've got time for it between working two jobs and driving Uber to make rent, of course.
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by rvense 6y ago
> It simply isn't survorship bias if something been going on for hundreds of years in a particular direction. I'm not saying secularization is survivorship bias, that seems like a category error (if I may be allowed another HN
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by rvense 6y ago
I don't think the argument I was addressing can be summed up as "X has worked". It's more like "X has happened, therefore X is an inevitable consequence of Y which preceded it." Also, tropes are often tropes fo
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by rvense 6y ago
I don't think that's a very good counter, and I don't think it addresses the substance of my post at all. I'd say the term comes up often because it's a very common phenomenon - much like the one about hammers and n
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by rvense 6y ago
> Tom Holland... argues the separation of church and state can be traced back to the Bible and it been a steady progression to secularism from there This is basically what's known as survivor bias. I think if you look at history you
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by rvense 6y ago
I actually thought it was hilarious. Once in a blue moon I get to speak a few sentences of Persian, and I try to overemphasize the Tajik traits, just because. The young Afghan guy I met in Shiraz who was honest with me but told everyone els
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by rvense 6y ago
Actually, after my month of language lessons in Dushambe I came back to university, and we were a group who had a meeting with the Iranian ambassador here. There was a round of introductions and I said that I had just spent a month in Tajik
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by rvense 6y ago
Tajikistan is a very different vibe to Iran, though. There's not much cosmopolitan about Dushambe. Also, if you learn to speak like a Tajik, Iranians will probably think you're dim, or at least sound like it. But yeah, I remember
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by rvense 6y ago
Which is a shame. It would be really interesting to compare, to see exactly how much this is a "great chip" and how much it's a "great vertical integration of chip and software".
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by rvense 6y ago
Yeah, it was a weird time to do it. I'd been gravitating towards Linux for a while (including a lot of trying to get it to work on my iBook), and in 2009 I finally had the money for a decent new computer, so I got a Lenovo X200.
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by rvense 6y ago
I also grew up on Macs, but I swore off Apple in 2009. I keep a few old systems around, though, since I'm a nostalgic person. I just got my Power Macintosh 7100 on the net yesterday. There's still a couple of Hotline servers up. G
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by rvense 6y ago
Is the P for programmING or programmER, though?
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by rvense 6y ago
I have to say, Phoenix Liveview is one of the most exciting things to me, although it's not a match for what I'm working on right now. But my previous job it would have been a perfect fit (a big SPA for monitoring a bunch of IoT d
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by rvense 6y ago
> This is not true of Apple, one can build a business and completely ignore them. These days, there is a very, very large class of "potential businesses" that are only realistically realizable as smartphone apps. In my country,
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by rvense 6y ago
I spend a lot of money on music - a lot more per year than a Spotify subscription - and none of it goes to people like Kanye West. I really like that. I also like not paying Spotify. I resent them for giving people the idea that 10 bucks pe
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by rvense 6y ago
I watch that at least once a year with my wife. It'll feel strange from now on. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself... and for that we need telescopes!
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by rvense 6y ago
I'm guessing you haven't actually used it. It's a fantastic fit for React or similar frameworks. There's honestly nothing spaghetti messy or Goldbergian about it. It's just generating a stylesheet. I absolutely do h
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by rvense 6y ago
The tool overhead of Tailwind is extremely small. I don't use SCSS anymore though, I thought it was too complicated for what it brought, and I didn't like the way it encourages nesting. React etc. are extremely nice if you're
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by rvense 6y ago
> You know that you can create themes in GTK (a Desktop GUI) using CSS nowadays, right? Does GTK offer CSS layouts? Do I describe the elements of the UI using HTML? As far as I know they just use a subset of CSS - aren't the selecto

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