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by unimpressive 8y ago
I think the research branches of a university are much less ambiguously positive than the teaching branches. One of the things people consistently fail to grok is that community colleges of the sort that are generally fairly cheap, are ch
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>I don't think I ever got a counterfeit item on Amazon. Well you wouldn't, if the counterfeit's were any good.
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Invented actually means the same thing as discovery in the original French root it's taken from. https://www.etymonline.com/word/invention
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>There is no such thing as free speech in an era of weaponised media. The principle has become a nonsense. You're aware the 20th centuries relative journalistic neutrality is a historical aberration, right? https://www.in
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A great deal of the strategy here is meant to be demoralizing you out of putting up any resistance. When you begin feeling that, it's a sign you've been insufficiently ruthless with your opponent. The biggest question in electoral
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" As I've noted before on Business Insider, the part-time gig economy has broken a fundamental link in capitalism that was good for workers. Pay rates no longer move upward as unemployment moves downward because companies like Ube
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by unimpressive 8y ago
The funny thing is that early on in this interview the host tells Nelson that he's the only one saying anything about using computers to store and retrieve text. But that's simply not true, certainly not in 1979. For example, John
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by unimpressive 8y ago
This seems like an overly reactionary take. There's a lot of noise in any given hype cycle, distinguishing between unusual preferences people happen to have and manufactured interest isn't always easy. (See: The curious curious
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This isn't a news story, it's a profile piece describing the mood and state of an industry. There's no one central focus, it's more meant to express a mood and variety of small developments rather than one big developmen
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by unimpressive 8y ago
It's been my understanding that Firefox has been soft splitting its consumer and business versions of the product for a while. This would presumably just be another step down that road.
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I think this was probably it (just reached that point in the video where Thiel says the money quote). Thanks.
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by unimpressive 8y ago
It was a post or discussion, I think involving Peter Thiel talking about how innovation is in the world of bits not atoms now and that implies some unpleasant things about our society. Closest I could find was: https://news.ycomb
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Obviously 1000 is a bit more than the grandparent can 'name' directly, but I would in fact like to see some evidence indicating the presence of at least 1000 US companies that pay in crypto.
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by unimpressive 8y ago
How would someone contact you about this hypothetical job? I notice you don't have an email address in your profile.
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by unimpressive 9y ago
I'm kind of offended that you seem to think young people can't be aware of things that happened before their time. EDIT: To elaborate a bit, my expectation would be that the sort of young person using HN leans more historically in
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by unimpressive 9y ago
Flinches if surprised, picks at skin or scratches more than normal (there might be visible sores from this), intense preoccupation with things ordinarily beneath interest, hard to interrupt from work, drinks lots of water if responsible, pa
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by unimpressive 9y ago
This. I would very much appreciate if the author managed to take a more nuanced view than darpa_escapee here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16468350 This entire thread is probably being massively selection biased by
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by unimpressive 9y ago
As Lawrence Principe points out in his Secrets Of Alchemy , Alchemy was in fact the precursor to our modern notion of 'Chemistry'. The alchemists had theoretical foundations for their work which were inspired by and often incorpo
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by unimpressive 9y ago
Actually, the exploit with the keyboards is both more interesting and more sophisticated than that. As described in Silence On The Wire , essentially how it works is that English letters are not randomly distributed. If you hear any given
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by unimpressive 9y ago
So I'm going through this thread and what I'm reading over and over is "huge penalties", "personal responsibility for people involved" and what I'm wondering to myself is if you've all gone mad. Okay
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by unimpressive 9y ago
As someone who's tried to develop stuff for IRC before, thank you for this. People act like IRC is dead, but it's very much alive in 2017 and severely neglected on the tooling and documentation side.
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by unimpressive 9y ago
Reminds me a bit of my writeup here: http://www.jdpressman.com/2015/11/27/how-to-emulate-unix-v7-... (I figure if you enjoy this tutorial you'll probably enjoy trying that one out too.) To OP: The networ
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by unimpressive 9y ago
Extremely disappointed this is the top comment. You are letting the perfect be the enemy of the good here. As other comments point out, you need net neutrality to even have a chance of fixing the situation you're describing.
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by unimpressive 9y ago
I'm 21, and everybody I know who did this is either already burned out or in a precarious life position of some sort. OP, don't listen to this crap here's the stuff I wish I'd done four years ago: - Look at real systems
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by unimpressive 9y ago
Right, so are there any examples of successful projects which do this? The idea is certainly plausible given that the vast majority of initial contributions to an open source project are based on need: http://climate-action.eng
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>Engineering is not a democracy. The technical merits of an argument are more important than how popular it is with arbitrary commenters on GitHub. The (frankly shallow) technical merit is that it gives us one less status code, in a prob
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18khz, I'm 21
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When I was a kid the psychiatrist prescribed me Ritalin and on an average 22-hour day I probably spent it watching cartoons for hours on end, playing Neopets ferociously, xbox, along with some time outside with the other kids riding my scoo
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by unimpressive 9y ago
>dear younger people than me: strive to do something that you would be proud of even if you weren't getting paid. and if you do end up making a bunch of money without a lot of work, give it away! thats my feeling anyway. Don't

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