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by simula67 8y ago
Previously : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18741529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13618378 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13622301
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<sarcasm>Yes. US government should publish it's nuclear launch codes on whitehouse.gov </sarcasm>
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Ah, I am wrong about this. Thanks for the correction
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> I think the most unusual characteristics of his story was that everyone tried to control him. First, the priests at the seminary by disciplining him Priests tried to control him ? He entered the school voluntarily. They did not lock hi
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by simula67 8y ago
Can Google Docs replace MS Word in this workflow ? It seems intuitive enough and there can be real time collaboration. This might allow authors to not install MS Windows and MS Word
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I hope its a RISC V processor that wins out and not an ARM one. RISC V is more open than ARM Make it happen Apple !
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US should be friends with other nuclear powers, at least in a limited sense, for the safety of all of humanity There are other mechanisms for combating Chinese wrongdoings
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I think it was important to them that someone else did not win. Winning it themselves was probably a bonus > Would google rather not absolutely win in the infrastructure as well? Probably, but it is up to it's competitors to try and
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by simula67 8y ago
This would prove the OP's point, wouldn't it ? Soviet Russians had interesting discoveries in semiconductors also [1]. However, they were never able to parlay it to economic success as US and other western powers were able to [1]
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HP Measure Magazine Archive(hp.com)
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Google built a hugely successful Operating System ( Android ), Web browser ( Chrome ) etc because it was important to them that nobody won these platforms. If someone had monopoly control, they could squeeze Google for a lot of money throug
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It is relevant since they could be cherry picking facts to rate
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I think the quote is meant to convey that 'A players only want to hire A players', 'B players only want to hire C players' and so on
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> Public rail is a money-losing venture, in every country (except Hong Kong). That's what "public" means. But it's important to have Why ? I wish connectivity to airports here in India would improve and railways would
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An A player who thought a B player was an A player
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I agree. I think it may be naivety. There even was a thread here on HN about how saying that the world is fallen is just religious and therefore should be avoided [1] These people might think human beings are fundamentally good and war is j
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by simula67 8y ago
HN already has italics. It shows up " like this " if you use asterisks
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OpenWRT routers may not have enough power (RAM/CPU) to run complicated server software. Also the router may be running MIPS which is not that well supported by many apps and containerization is not going to solve that problem. Admitted
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> How much should [bm]illionaires be allowed to leave to their children? As much as they want/can. > Trust fund babies only help yacht builders. But it does convince the parents to build useful companies, provide useful services
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Things have gotten a lot worse between Russia and West. West has backed out of INF, introduced sanctions, announced plans to militarized space etc
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Are you seriously under the illusion that western powers do not try to impede Russia ? John McCain flew in to support Ukrainian revolutionaries against Pro-Russian government : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013&#x2
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I guess this should have been expected after Putin's interview with Megyn Kelly Disconnecting Iran from SWIFT[1], continuing use of export controls [2] even after the fall of Soviet Union etc have demonstrated that non-western powers m
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Gawker destroyed themselves
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> Lots of support for monorepos – indeed, this is the main reason that Google, Facebook, and Mozilla are all pouring work into hg and are using it. They are improving mercurial[1], but are they using it ? [1] https://code.fb.c
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That link says that the treaty is non-binding
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> Chromium will be the web’s de facto rendering engine I think Blink is the rendering engine. Chromium is Chrome without Google branding I think that the problem with Firefox right now is that it does not have something unique to offer.
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I think for some languages this might be problematic. I am trying to learn some Russian and the word endings changes based on how each word interacts with other words. For example : "I know" : Ya znayu "We know" : My Zna
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FSB does not operate outside of Russia. It is the equivalent of FBI in USA. Foreign intelligence agency of the Russian Federation is the SVR and GRU
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> Today, 99% of 32-bit and 64-bit processors are RISC > Concluding this historical review, we can say the marketplace settled the RISC-CISC debate; CISC won the later stages of the PC era, but RISC is winning the post-PC era It is cle
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> To that end, we’ll begin reducing recommendations of borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways—such as videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making b

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