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by untog 6y ago
I'm absolutely the target market for this (I've even downloaded Sciter and tried it out before now)... and I had no idea this Kickstarter had been made. I'm not sure what the answer is, but I wouldn't assume there's
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by untog 6y ago
I played around with Nim a little and was amazed at how small the executables were: 10s of KB for something simple. Even Rust spits out 100s of KB, or even >1MB by default. In the end I still went with Rust, simply because it's more
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by untog 6y ago
No. Biden did push for a prosecutor to be fired, something that the administration and other governments agreed on (the prosecutor was corrupt). But the prosecutor was not investigating Burisma.
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by untog 6y ago
A core assertion in the article is demonstrably fake. Biden did not pressure Ukraine to fire a prosecutor that was investigating Burisma. It's something Trump has repeated countless times and something that's been proven false cou
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by untog 6y ago
It cuts both ways, though. The road to hell (totally censored internet) is paved with good intentions (trying to clamp down on misinformation). But the road to hell (a society full of dangerously misinformed citizens) is also paved with goo
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by untog 6y ago
It’s not like that doesn’t happen in the private sector as well, though. Literally can’t count the number of top execs you see parachuted into top jobs because they’re friends with the CEO.
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by untog 6y ago
The government should make open-source software, paying developers handsomely to do so. I know I live in cloud-cuckoo fantasy land here, but I know plenty of developers that would love to work on projects for the civic good, but they don&
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by untog 6y ago
(you're not being censored for your political views, it's because you're posting too many times in one thread. I get the same alert sometimes) Again, my point isn't that there are no Democratic Facebook execs, it's
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by untog 6y ago
> the preponderance of evidence points to some seriously bad stuff going on Do you really think the Trump Justice Department would shy away from releasing a statement saying exactly that, were it to be the case?
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by untog 6y ago
> spying on your political opponents in the middle of an election campaign, based on some implausible allegations Something the Justice Department have concluded an investigation into and have filed no charges. Perhaps it’s time to find
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by untog 6y ago
You could just as easily counter and ask why anyone would expect a Republican victory when Democrats did so well in the 2018 midterms. Previous result are only predictive to a point.
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by untog 6y ago
Big Tech also has plenty of close ties to Republicans: remember when Facebook’s Joel Kaplan appeared at Kavanaugh’s Senate hearing? https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-facebook-exec-backs-kavana... And find one of @pinboard’
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by untog 6y ago
As a fellow Brit: what you're saying definitely applies to US network TV shows, but really not to the vast majority of what Netflix does. I'm not actually sure Netflix has any shows with the 22-24 episode seasons you'd see
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by untog 6y ago
I'm curious to know what 90% of people do with their home assistant devices. I have a Google Home. I know it can do a huge array of things, but almost all I do with it is play music, control lights, and set timers. Siri can do all of t
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by untog 6y ago
I feel like this is one of those moments that shouts “Hacker News is not typical”. A lot of people are employed through recruiters, including for Facebook, Google and the rest! Aiming to impress the CEO is all very well, but it’s not comm
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by untog 6y ago
Eh? Contract tracing has been effective in a bunch of countries. And the framework Apple and Google worked together on works great and protects privacy. The problem is the government incompetence and/or malfeasance, not contract tracin
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by untog 6y ago
> The only way back to normality is herd immunity. Contract tracing seems to have worked out great in many countries. And you’re entirely discounting the possibility of a vaccine here. Given that a lot of people will have to die in order
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by untog 6y ago
I imagine that would be hugely disruptive to people’s lives, given how central social media is these days. Besides, you’d presumably only do this to US users. So if someone wanted to spread some piece of viral misinformation they’d just pos
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by untog 6y ago
I don’t mean to sound like I don’t care about that. But it’s not a binary choice: if we had a government that actually cared then we could shut down while financially supporting those who lose their jobs. But we don’t, so we don’t.
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by untog 6y ago
Oh, I actually agree with you that it’s complicated and we don’t know if we’re making the right choice, that’s what I was trying to get at with “it’s too early to tell”. The reality is we won’t know what the right level is for a long time,
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by untog 6y ago
My partner lost their job because of COVID. Please don’t make assumptions about people you don’t know.
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by untog 6y ago
Based on what?
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by untog 6y ago
Does it? I ask this as a New York resident: how many restaurants is one life worth? I was here back at the peak of the COVID outbreak when there were refrigerated trucks being loaded with bodies because the morgues had run out of space. It
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by untog 6y ago
There was a Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas that shut down because it didn't get enough numbers. So I'd be wary of assuming a project like this would be a huge success. I'm a fan of Star Trek but I have to admit it doesn&#x
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by untog 6y ago
I think OP meant internal network bandwidth. Ethernet isn't going to help you if you have a 5mb/s DSL line.
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by untog 6y ago
> I don't know why this is such a challenge for the US work cohort. > Your personal politics around parties, constitutional issues, housing, healthcare etc are irrelevant to the company As someone who moved to the US: of course
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by untog 6y ago
You didn't read the article, did you? Crypto currencies are political! One of the most commonly cited reasons for using it is to avoid government scrutiny and intervention. So how on earth could Coinbase operate a workplace free of pol
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by untog 6y ago
We sort of already have a 3D environment: windowing systems. But every IDE I’ve used in years instead uses tabs. Perhaps something of note there.
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by untog 6y ago
This isn't really true. The people making the decisions will have more or less zero insight into the data format being used to store data, they'll just know that data is stored. IMO, a much more likely scenario: a brittle, haphaza
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by untog 6y ago
Yeah I think the giant out of town multiplexes are screwed. But they’re probably also a lot cheaper to redevelop into something totally different.

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