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by strbean 7y ago
That is quite a disingenuous quote... the actual content is: > Smalltalk, Perl, Ruby, Python, and Self are all "strongly typed" in the sense that typing errors are prevented at runtime and they do little implicit type conversio
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by strbean 7y ago
Nobody wants to host ad content / pay for the bandwidth themselves though. I think URL blacklisting will continue to work.
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by strbean 7y ago
This is an excellent analogy. The stock market is an aggregate of people's sentiments and numerical analyses (which often have absolutely no predictive power). I think the old George Carlin quote applies perfectly to it - "Think o
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by strbean 7y ago
I think parent means that we often say: > I get my check on the first of the month But never really say > I'm going on vacation for the sixth (month) of the year Seems like they are just trying to explain the bad decision, not ju
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by strbean 7y ago
> NAT punching isn't terribly hard after a lightweight rendezvous. Has that been true for very long? It seems like nowadays it is trivial, but a decade ago it was extremely common for users to have to do manual port forwarding to re
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by strbean 7y ago
I feel like home NATs were one of the biggest developments that curbed decentralization and led to the dominance of a "producer vs. consumer" internet. STUN/TURN and IPv6 are big enablers of a move back to the roots of the in
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by strbean 7y ago
> Single family detached homes with garages on quarter acre [...] are not going to happen for all 8B+ people. Why not? There are ~7.7 billion acres of arable land on the earth. 0.25 acres per person would leave ~5.7 billion acres of ar
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by strbean 7y ago
> it's other stuff in tobacco that gets you I think the evidence regarding swedish snus shows that it is far less carcinogenic than traditionally-cured oral tobacco, but still significantly carcinogenic. In particular, swedish snus
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by strbean 7y ago
They also tend to lose function when they are gutted by politicians.
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by strbean 7y ago
Slides from one of the authors: https://www.jlab.org/indico/event/320/session/16/contributio... Short writeup on the paper in Nature News and Views (that isn't paywalled) recommended reading by
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by strbean 7y ago
No mention of a Dyson sphere[1]? I hope we are witnessing the construction of one! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
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by strbean 7y ago
How dare these filthy peasant redditors profane our sacred and pure institution of derivatives trading with their foul lust for social mobility?
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by strbean 7y ago
How does that narrative apply to the example we are discussing in this thread - r/wallstreetbets? All the objectionable language used there is self-applied. The members of that community call themselves gay, autist, etc. Are they tryin
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by strbean 7y ago
Don't forget that American tobacco companies all have "snus" products that are actually regular 'dipping' tobacco placed into pouches. Swedish Snus is cold-cured, while other dip is heat-cured. It is well establishe
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by strbean 7y ago
I think you'll run into a chicken-and-egg problem here. Without bonafide strong encryption, those strong protections against misuse probably can't exist.
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by strbean 7y ago
Seems like they are just an index now, with no ETF? All I can find for ETFs is "BUZ ceased trading on 03/01/19"[1]. [1] https://www.etf.com/BUZ
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by strbean 7y ago
Essentially, utility CSS is a philosophy that promotes having tons of general-purpose classes to apply style rules of extremely limited scope - usually(?) just one rule per class. It is described in the Tailwind docs here - https:/&#x
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by strbean 7y ago
It's almost like people think their personal data is zero-sum - if we give it to the government then companies won't have it! Just like if you download a car, someone else loses that car. Makes me think of the Israeli voter rolls
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by strbean 7y ago
> in a way that was nearly impossible for the average citizen a few decades ago Ehh, maybe if you are talking about speed and scale. The average citizen could always learn how to use a one-time pad.
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by strbean 7y ago
Not if you are shipping chrome with your application. Isn't that part of the point of electron?
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by strbean 7y ago
And god forbid you got yourself in an alert() loop!
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by strbean 7y ago
Unfortunately, any platform with any kind of lock in will have you over a barrel here. Try disputing a card transaction with Steam - your 18 y/o account with thousands of games and dollars invested will be gone in a flash. Same goes fo
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by strbean 7y ago
This anti-ATO mechanism is asking for a code delivered via email (something you have) in order to grant access to the account. That is authentication via an additional factor, i.e. 2FA.
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by strbean 7y ago
Wait... Todd Rider the DRACO guy?
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by strbean 7y ago
Unity supports builds targeting WebGL and WASM. Last time I stumbled on an "io game" built this way, the lack of WASM debugging tools made it very hard to hack at the game :(
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by strbean 7y ago
I'm guessing the comments you are referring to are more specific than a broad reading of "government involvement in tech"? My first thoughts were "DARPAnet, automobile safety standards, ... etc.". Reading it as &quo
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by strbean 7y ago
I'm surprised this isn't a part of the official HN guidelines, it would be good to adopt it from Reddiquitte: > (Do not...) Downvote an otherwise acceptable post because you don't personally like it. Think before you downv
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by strbean 7y ago
Adding A* pathing for the zombies would probably solve the "walking through colliders" issue to some extent, and would also add some additional challenge. It is pretty easy right now to just get all the zombies stuck around a corn
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by strbean 7y ago
No parcel carrier will allow me to mail my cardboard box full of loose fish guts. They turn me away because the box is wet and falling apart and smells terrible. They find the content I want them to ship to be objectionable, and it would ne
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by strbean 7y ago
Did some research and found an article stating it was 8/year granted pre-2002 and 8/quarter after requirements were eased in 2002. Gives me some hope for the city :)

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