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by scribu 11y ago
Your comment would be a lot more valuable if you replaced "There is so much wrong" with specifics.
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by scribu 11y ago
Seems very similar to https://nomadforum.io/ Not all remote workers are nomadic, but all digital nomads work remotely.
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by scribu 11y ago
It doesn't actually sound like a gift, but more like a payment to resolve a territorial dispute.
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by scribu 11y ago
I was expecting an explanation for why it's trendy right now to watch other people playing games.
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by scribu 11y ago
> If only the people of Japan stood up for their rights.. As mentioned in the article, there already are massive protests around this issue. What more could they do? Try to take down the government by force? Even if they succeeded, I&#x2
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by scribu 11y ago
> I very rarely find myself wanting generic code, and when I do using empty interfaces make the code difficult to read. But is that unreadability due to the nature of generic code, or due to the empty interface hack that Go forces you to
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Who owns our cities and why this urban takeover should concern us(theguardian.com)
46 points by scribu 11y ago|20 comments
518.
by scribu 11y ago
> performance optimization in rails is much easier than php. [citation needed]
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by scribu 11y ago
AWS is clearly dominant right now , as your links show. What I'm disagreeing with is the idea that it will be dominant in the future . On the other hand, who's to say they won't start offering containers on bare-metal and k
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by scribu 11y ago
> the market wants what Amazon is selling You say that as if it's an immutable fact, as permanent as the laws of nature. Market demand changes all the time. > no amount of blasting VMs is going to undo that. I wouldn't be so
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by scribu 11y ago
> Interacting with people, playing with children, etc. can be enjoyable activities. When you put it like that, it sounds more like a hobby. It's not worth it to "fall in love" if those are your primary goals. > enjoy th
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by scribu 11y ago
The article is behind a paywall, unless you access it via a Google search.
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by scribu 11y ago
I agree and I think the cool factor comes from the fact that users of Ogo need it in order to move without their hands being tied up and also that it actually takes a bit of muscle effort to operate. Compare to Segways, which are associat
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by scribu 11y ago
The latest version of Python (3.5) has both async/await syntax (albeit still tied to a single core) and type hinting.
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by scribu 11y ago
I'm having a hard time seeing how voting based on "the struggle" would help increase the quality of the discussion (compared to voting based on the actual merit of the comment).
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Climate Politics and the Volkswagen Scandal(bloombergview.com)
2 points by scribu 11y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 11y ago
Thanks. I agree with your larger point, but wanted to clarify this detail, because I've seen people around the web saying that Japan actually has no security forces whatsoever.
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by scribu 11y ago
> US military presence in Japan for the last half-century has meant that the Japan doesn't have to invest any money in security Wikipedia seems to disagree with you [1]: > In 1976, then Prime Minister Miki Takeo announced defense
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by scribu 11y ago
> Isn't a bit bizarre from the author to point the finger to Italian anarchists for this unsolved case? It's the investigators that are pointing the finger, not the author: "Investigators immediately suspected that the bom
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by scribu 11y ago
> I don't see how a dolphin can be expected to know what a scarf is. Nobody has that expectation. It's possible that dolphins already have sounds associated with familiar objects (like seaweed), which might interfere with learn
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by scribu 11y ago
Great link - thanks for posting! Pulsar can be configured to use either processes or threads. If you use processes, you pay the IPC penalty, just like NodeJS does. If you use threads, you pay the GIL penalty. So yeah, it won't be as fa
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Defending the One Percent(pubs.aeaweb.org)
30 points by scribu 11y ago|51 comments
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by scribu 11y ago
That's an interesting perspective, but I'm not sure how well such ad-hoc communities can deal with important life events. For example, if a loved one dies, will your book club friends help you organize the funeral (or even attend)
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by scribu 11y ago
This looks interesting. What are those .patel files? [1] [1]: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/tree/master/glyphs
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by scribu 11y ago
> something that would allow me to conduct massive scale refactoring Here's an interesting tool for that: http://www.graspjs.com/ (structural search/replace)
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by scribu 11y ago
Could a mod un-editorialize the title of this submission, please?
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by scribu 11y ago
I can't feel any difference between Chrome and Firefox when scrolling, but http://www.vsynctester.com/ is jankier on Firefox on my old-ish Macbook Air.
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by scribu 11y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9250020 I thought it wasn't possible to submit the exact same URL twice.
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by scribu 11y ago
> I thought the = signs denoted mathematical equality (equations). I had the same confusion! My very first roadblock in programming was when the teacher told me to write `x = x + 1` on the blackboard, which didn't make any sense, ma
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by scribu 11y ago
> I know of nobody who would Then you're forgetting about the guy up-thread: > accountability of governments has increased in response to many of those exact same services (Twitter/YouTube/Facebook/Google). https:

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