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by scribu 9y ago
tl;dw: They bring you enough food for four people, even if you’re alone.
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EU’s planned copyright reform raises problems for free speech(liberties.eu)
2 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments
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The look of a leader(economist.com)
2 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 9y ago
> the article never mentioned in what way the site is "engineered" Yes, it did: "octopuses who had been inhabiting the area had built up piles of shells left over from creatures they ate, most notably clams and scallops. T
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Pentagon Ignores Trump's Orders and Continues Preparing for Climate Change(iflscience.com)
4 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments
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Trump Damaged Democracy, Silicon Valley Will Finish It Off(thedailybeast.com)
4 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments
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Nazis, the Internet, Policing Content and Free Speech(techdirt.com)
11 points by scribu 9y ago|1 comments
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by scribu 9y ago
Would be interesting to do a comparison with Standard Notes, which seems to offer the same features.
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by scribu 9y ago
> we serve no purpose as a species higher than existing and reproducing You say that as if there are (or can ever be) species which do have a higher purpose.
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by scribu 9y ago
> AI playing games of Dota against the top players This example weakens your argument. As TFA explains, the bot can only play a very restricted version of Dota - much simpler than chess - which means it was thinkable ever since the &#x
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by scribu 9y ago
Submitting an identical link starts working after a few days since the previous submission.
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by scribu 9y ago
Those seem like excellent reasons, but I really don't like that they keep repeating after a while.
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by scribu 9y ago
I get what you're saying, but I don't know of a better phrase. "Whatever the most studies published in reputable journals seem to suggest" doesn't quite roll off the tongue.
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by scribu 9y ago
What stops me from implicating them in this way? The OP made an unqualified assertion - "for every point" - which means it would apply even to the most extreme example. Edit: And I didn't ask the OP if they are skeptical
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by scribu 9y ago
So, would you also agree that the existence of climate change should still be up for debate, even though there is overwhelming scientific evidence in one direction? NB: I do not know what the scientific consensus is on cognitive differences
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by scribu 9y ago
Yep, that was the one.
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by scribu 9y ago
The problem isn't the VCS part so much as all the code review/project management features of Github. I seem to remember there was a decentralized VCS which included issue tracking besides commits, but it never was mainstream.
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Everyone is not Ops(medium.com)
1 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 9y ago
What's stopping you from moving to a less expensive city in China? Lack of jobs? Family members to take care of?
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How the Ticking Clock Kills(gsb.stanford.edu)
4 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments
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Things I’ve Learned from Reading IndieHackers(toomas.net)
611 points by scribu 9y ago|153 comments
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by scribu 9y ago
I enjoyed the overview about what fintech is. But the middle of the video, the startup guy makes some bold claims about their AI - essentially that it has human-level understanding of natural spoken language.
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by scribu 9y ago
I didn't say they're identical, but they do seem similar in spirit. Indentured servitude: you either obey the contract, or go to jail. Non-compete: you either obey the contract, or go work in a different industry (in effect, becom
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by scribu 9y ago
Compare with indentured labour: > An indentured servant or indentured labor is an employee (indenturee) within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a contract (indenture) to work for a particular employer for a fixed period. https:&
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by scribu 9y ago
> I'm assuming that by "codebase" you mean all the code that gets compiled into one program or library Correct. > Are there any other languages where that is allowed? One would be Racket, a Lisp which allows you to pick
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by scribu 9y ago
I think the negative attitude comes more from frustration than from anything else. > I am a professional programmer working at a large company and I am pretty sure that 95% of my colleagues (myself included, as difficult as it is for me
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by scribu 9y ago
Not quite. The article mentions that Go 1 code needs to be able to coexist with Go 2 in the same codebase. So, at runtime, Go 1 code needs to be able to work with Go 2 types. That will impose some restrictions, I imagine.
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by scribu 9y ago
> imagine if all the top links on hacker news were just corporate advertisements disguised as stories. Would it be a worse place or cause any of us harm? Of course not. Did you leave out the </sarcasm> tag by accident? How can
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by scribu 9y ago
> I wonder if they're using the same tactics here. Comparing the number of upvotes with the limited karma bump on my account, there do seem to be a few suspicious votes happening.
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How To Go Viral By Using Fake Reddit Likes(hack-pr.com)
444 points by scribu 9y ago|189 comments

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