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by slver 5y ago
> how would you like it if another country was a dominant technological power and we all had to re-learn to read and write English backwards precisely like that to use computers? I'd actually like it. You know, thanks to this we hav
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by slver 5y ago
Imagine if Europe was pre-metric system today. Merely proposing unification I'd be instantly downvoted, and called a bigotted racist who doesn't respect the cultural heritage of every nation. Unfortunately those are the times righ
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by slver 5y ago
> ?srekaeps hsilgne-non lla rof sdrawkcab txet lla ekam ot si noitulos ruoy oS So you just said all non-English speakers use right-to-left? No, the direction isn't what's confusing me, rather the fact you're trying to scor
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by slver 5y ago
It depends how big you think. Dealing with status quo, things like text direction are necessary complication. But at a higher scale it’s purely incidental complexity: you only need one direction for all languages. All languages are linear.
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by slver 5y ago
Things are as hard as we allow them to be. You know, fixed width ascii terminals in text mode sure were much easier in the 80s
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by slver 5y ago
Those we elect are not “involved in science”. Still you’re supposed to have higher bar for representatives, instead of saying “representatives are dumb”. You realize this essentially says those being represented are also dumb. Or there is a
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by slver 5y ago
Don’t compare leaking someone’s email with disappearing their whole life savings.
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by slver 5y ago
You can’t have a pirate blockchain. Rather, not one someone would invest serious money to buy from.
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by slver 5y ago
Except that's wrong, most people use it properly. Because they can just use trusted applications that implement it. Who do you trust with your wallet? Mt. Gox? Altsbit? Upbit? BinDAX? Bitpoint? GateHub? Bitrue? Binance? DragonEx? Bithu
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by slver 5y ago
Honestly if you expect that Joe who keeps his wallet on the desktop right next to some screensaver.exe he has downloaded is as a good steward of his savings as having a regulated bank account with a government backed currency, any conversat
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by slver 5y ago
> I buy bitcoin from a guy down the street how are you going to stop that? I don't think outlawing cryptocurrency will stop people from using it, same way outlawing alcohol and weed doesn't stop anyone just makes them "cri
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by slver 5y ago
It's too late to (re)define GIF. Actually software which edits animated GIFs doesn't have to crash per se, it's all about how smartly it's implemented, and because GIF editing isn't exactly a sprawling industry, mos
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by slver 5y ago
Do you even realize most of the crypto research is done by the NSA, a government agency? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_cryptography Yes, AES, SHA and so on, that's all the NSA. If instead by "government c
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by slver 5y ago
Look I'll restate my position in simpler words again: Encryption has good uses, and some bad uses. Cryptocurrencies have only bad uses. See the difference?
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by slver 5y ago
That doesn't even make sense. What do you plan, to buy yourself a bagel in Mozambique with Bitcoin?
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by slver 5y ago
I have no idea what you're talking about, but it sure seems like you want to set a different topic and put words in everyone else's mouth, so it's easier to argue with them.
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by slver 5y ago
All right, welcome your ransomware organized crime overlords then. BTW, I've never seen cryptocurrencies used for ANYTHING good yet. It's about hiring hitmen, buying drugs, buying child porn, stealing wallets from naive fools, ste
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by slver 5y ago
Doing science is great, but first we need to make sure we're not comparing apples and oranges. OP has defined the problem as speeding up an HTTP server (libreactor based) on Linux. So that's a context we assume as a base, question
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by slver 5y ago
> So the only path forward is to radically improve the security of our software and hardware. It's actually not the only path at all. Few other paths: 1. Outlaw cryptocurrency. Now it's much harder to pay digital ransoms. 2. St
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by slver 5y ago
It's available, is it very common, I can't claim. Googling stuff like "Amazon AWS hardware TCP TOE" doesn't reveal anything. So we can't assume that either.
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by slver 5y ago
Handling request response isn’t just about packet count. I might as well claim it’s all just electric current and short some wires for max throughput /s
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by slver 5y ago
Chrome runs a separate process per origin so that adds up almost as fast as Atom
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by slver 5y ago
And this kids, is why we have key and delta frames. We should drop gif support.
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by slver 5y ago
Apple’s arm has a partially different instruction set than other arm devices. So it’s not just arm, something to consider.
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by slver 5y ago
TCP is not typically a hardware feature so how’d you know exactly? Maybe you wanna write a dedicated OS for it? Interesting project but I can’t blame them for not doing it.
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by slver 5y ago
Alternate theory. In its core, the universe is a giant one-dimensional loop, which starts "curling" to form multidimensional forms as energy lowers and it's insufficient to keep the string straight (think about small magnets
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by slver 5y ago
We also saw videos of sick people left to die in Chinese hospitals from their own phone recordings. Is that also propaganda? And no, a video of something that isn’t what we thought it is, is not the definition of propaganda. Propaganda has
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by slver 5y ago
"for what were called feature phones" This way of phrasing it, makes that term look ancient, which is a hilarious way of making me feel old.
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by slver 5y ago
The issue in general is how to bridge these JS OOP APIs to something that's basically assembler. If WASM gains a foreign object model calling convention or whatever, we're in game.
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by slver 5y ago
Nice thing about evolution is that if everyone keeps eating plastic for a few centuries, eventually we'll evolve to digest it properly. Of course most will die at first. But that's a price evolution is always willing to pay.

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