uniqueid

10 ms·

31.
by uniqueid 5y ago
My bad. I reread my comment, and I easily can see what it sounded like.
32.
by uniqueid 5y ago
But you want me to shed a tear for who exactly? For the same people the parent comment described. Ugh, does everyone think the people to whom I was referring were the bigots ?
33.
by uniqueid 5y ago
That depends on the salary and the caché of the position. Plenty of people will put up with an asshole boss if the price is right, or to fast-track a career.
34.
by uniqueid 5y ago
It used to be that if you were queer - in any sense of the word - and lived in one of the countless small, conservative, traditional communities in this country, you were shit out of luck. As bad as that was, in the past yo
35.
by uniqueid 5y ago
Funny, I read this immediately after leaving a comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28525122 ) using height categories as an example of a social construct.
36.
by uniqueid 5y ago
if there are all of these biological correlations with race, what does it mean that “race is a social construct”? I could divide people into 'tall', 'medium' and 'short' buckets. Someone else could cate
37.
by uniqueid 5y ago
I'm quite content with the way HN solves that problem.
38.
by uniqueid 5y ago
The first torrent I, and probably quite a few others, ever downloaded was some Linux distro that Bram Cohen shared with the internet as a demo of the protocol.
39.
by uniqueid 5y ago
"Apple Banned my Quran app in China" at least would be factual.
40.
by uniqueid 5y ago
Thanks. That relates to the same point I conceded, but it's still interesting. Unfortunately I seem to have turned conjecture from someone's tweet into a large thread which was the opposite of what I wanted. We have some developer
41.
by uniqueid 5y ago
what do you have to back your assertions After reading @fredros's comment here, I no longer feel confident that my statement that the "Qur'an is legal in the PRC" is much of an argument. The other assertions I ma
42.
by uniqueid 5y ago
Thanks! I did not know that. In light of that, the third point in my comment isn't valid.
43.
by uniqueid 5y ago
That would be outrageous if it were true, which it almost certainly is not. Think it over: the Qur'an is sacred to 1/4 of the world, banning any holy book is PR suicide, and the Qur'an is legal in the PRC. The developer of
44.
The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 18 Soon(torrentfreak.com)
278 points by uniqueid 5y ago|98 comments
45.
by uniqueid 5y ago
https://swiftheadline.com/apple-is-in-search-of-the-next-big...
46.
by uniqueid 5y ago
I was going to defend Python with the obligatory 'every language is least a little bad' but then I noticed Python sucks followed by... I’ll be mostly comparing it to Java and C# ...and it seems unnecessary to belabor
47.
After 9/11, the U.S. Got Almost Everything Wrong(theatlantic.com)
2 points by uniqueid 5y ago|0 comments
48.
by uniqueid 5y ago
This is an excerpt from today’s subscriber-only post. To read the entire article and get full access to the archives, you can subscribe for $5 a month or $50 a year. I can't see much point to this essay aside from reassuring po
49.
by uniqueid 5y ago
These two guys fought in the Civil War: https://youtu.be/4qGX0XM84Ck?t=74
50.
by uniqueid 5y ago
I didn't notice anything one wouldn't expect, given how different first-hand accounts tend to be. Kawasaki is a marketing guy so his knowledge is weaker than an engineer's in many areas; stronger in a few others. For anyone i
51.
The Macintosh Way (1990) [pdf](guykawasaki.typepad.com)
54 points by uniqueid 5y ago|16 comments
52.
by uniqueid 5y ago
I haven't looked at the spec, but presumably the model will output only a subset of any language. It seems pretty do-able providing there's the ability to add the (hopefully) rare sentence per-target-language manually. I actually
53.
by uniqueid 5y ago
"Hey guys... arrr arrr... remember to like and subscribe" and back under the waves again.
54.
by uniqueid 5y ago
A large sample size provides more conclusive results than does a small sample size. In the case of Coronavirus vaccines, the sample size is 1/3 the population of Earth. If hundreds of millions of vaccinated people were developing heart
55.
by uniqueid 5y ago
It's a reminder that Torba didn't create Gab to facilitate 'free speech'. Gab is a site that censors 'obscenity' and whose CEO refuses to deal with journalists if they don't practise the same religion as h
56.
by uniqueid 5y ago
Literally billions of people around the world have been vaccinated against Coronavirus now. How high can the chance of serious short-term side effects be?
57.
by uniqueid 5y ago
Did Paul Dirac address the matter directly? The Robert Heinlein essay sounds interesting; I'm just confused about why he had to speculate about Dirac's belief. It's not a topic about which I know much.
58.
by uniqueid 5y ago
Because people are gullible. There's a documentary about Theranos called 'The Inventor' which addresses the question at length. It's worth watching. Trailer: https://youtu.be/wtDaP18OGfw
59.
by uniqueid 5y ago
I checked out the author on wikipedia. I've seldom been less surprised... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Tucker
60.
by uniqueid 5y ago
I would be okay paying a one-off fee for lifetime access. I would never pay a recurring fee. Subscription services sap a little mental energy from the subscriber for as long as they are active (and occasionally after they are supposed to

More ›