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by ttt0 6y ago
> Bitcoin has no inherent value, it is a string of characters. Dollar bills have no inherent value either. It's just that people believe they have value. This is basic economics.
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by ttt0 6y ago
Compiler should be able to figure out at compile time whether the dynamic allocation is needed. But maybe the Go compiler already does this, I don't know.
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by ttt0 6y ago
Sure, in ~/.vimrc: command! Stk r!stock-tickers.sh Custom commands have to start with an uppercase letter, so it will be :Stk
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vim :r!stock-tickers.sh
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by ttt0 6y ago
I already live a minimalist lifestyle, not because of the climate, but because I simply prefer it that way. If this is not enough, then the climate will be the least of concerns for our grandchildren. > Wars are the most likely outcome.
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by ttt0 6y ago
So on one hand you have GDPR to protect your privacy and on the other they made it so you have to give up your entire identity to them anyways. Brilliant. But let's also not forget that Google is (was?) parsing your banking info from
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by ttt0 6y ago
Found this cutesy site ( https://www.footprintcalculator.org ), did the test and apparently just because I eat a decent amount of meat and heat my house so I don't freeze to death, I'm using two point something Earths
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by ttt0 6y ago
> There are many websites that calculate your “earth footprint”. Ie how many earths are needed if everyone lived the same as you. My earth footprint was 4 earths ! What kind of metric even is that? What does it even mean, Google doesn&#x
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by ttt0 6y ago
> December’s Covid-19 relief bill included a directive to the Pentagon and intelligence agencies to share what they know about UFOs within 6 months. Seems like that Covid-19 relief bill was about everything but the Covid-19 relief, lol
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by ttt0 6y ago
I haven't heard the term "conspiracy theory" thrown around too much with this recent UFO stuff, so you might have a point here. You'd think it would be a great propaganda tactic to harp on this and accuse one or the othe
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by ttt0 6y ago
> In April 2019, Facebook was preparing to ban one of the internet’s most notorious spreaders of misinformation and hate, Infowars founder Alex Jones. That's rich, coming from a clickbait "news" media outlet that published
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by ttt0 6y ago
On Linux, it's easy. Because we have the source code and it's licensed under GPL.
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by ttt0 6y ago
I wonder, how exactly are practices like this helping with viruses? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/24/apple-sam... https://www.computerworld.com/article/2541250&#x2F
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by ttt0 6y ago
It's not like, because they didn't, as far as we know. It's unclear how that cop died, there wasn't any official statement. To people who are downvoting, the NYT story was made up: https://www.politifact.com&#
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by ttt0 6y ago
What Apple is doing with their hardware trumps anything that Microsoft or Google does with the software, in my opinion. With software at least it's more or less possible to hack it to your liking or replace it with something else. Than
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by ttt0 6y ago
The best part is that they will shut down this game once people move on to something else and it's no longer profitable
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by ttt0 6y ago
I have a Google account for like 14 years or so, although I no longer use it for anything other than YouTube. Yesterday I tried to watch some age restricted video on YouTube and they've suddenly asked me to confirm my age by either giv
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by ttt0 6y ago
Yes, I was lucky enough to be born after the fall of communism, so I had the privilege that my parents and grandparents didn't have of not struggling through starvation, not being subjected to attempts of erasing my identity and genoci
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by ttt0 6y ago
A personal blog is not social media and HN arguably is not social media either, as it doesn't even have basic social networking functionality like private messages.
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Which is what you can see today, with corporations and the media promoting anti-white sentiments. Well, systems are made up of people, are they not?
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by ttt0 6y ago
You know, you say things about having a privilege of being ignorant, but you seem to be unaware that this is exactly what you're doing. You all have the privilege of basically downplaying racism to be a just systemic issue of black peo
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by ttt0 6y ago
But are not now. There are groups with similar messages that never had any power. BLM also have supporters in the highest positions and also influenced police and lawmaking, some places actually did defunded their police force. My point sti
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by ttt0 6y ago
Jesus Christ, stop downvoting and flagging these comments. As much as I disagree with the comment, it correctly explains what the disagreement is, which is that we have different definitions of racism. According to this brave new definition
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by ttt0 6y ago
The main purpose of free speech is to ensure the ability to criticize the government. It never meant pornography, free speech and obscenity laws always coexisted together in Europe and US. It's easy to construe the criticism of politic
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by ttt0 6y ago
Not in this context. When "let's not base our judgements on race" is responded with "you're a privileged white male", we're never going to reach any agreement. It's simply not going to happen.
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by ttt0 6y ago
The actual power is in the hands of the elites, so a minority. Just because you happen to be a part of the largest demographic group doesn't mean you hold any power. For example, would you say the same thing about Africa back when it w
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by ttt0 6y ago
> It is obviously associating racism with something not intentionally racist. But does it not strike to you at all problematic, at the moment, that 'black' is a synonym of 'bad' and 'white' of 'good&#x2
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by ttt0 6y ago
Maybe using lowercase "whitelist" and capitalized "Blacklist" would be enough to appease them? https://apnews.com/article/7e36c00c5af0436abc09e051261fff1f
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by ttt0 6y ago
I don't know the details of this particular case, but it's not a hyperbole. Another commenter here pointed out the Markiplier case. They banned entire Google accounts for spamming emotes in YouTube chat and those bans were un-appe
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by ttt0 6y ago
What about the whitespace character?

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