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by venomsnake 11y ago
There is subset of people that frequent HN more than news outlets or facebook.
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by venomsnake 11y ago
The Trump supporters are driven by the same things that Bernie ones are. Anger at economic insecurity. The racism is mostly a side dish. If we have a great compression, growth and redistribution like in the 50s/60s expect racial/i
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by venomsnake 11y ago
I think that the Supreme Court is just tired of sorting out the Congress' (and state governments) mess caused by action or inaction. My uneducated guess is that we will see a lot narrower decisions from the SCOTUS and probably some for
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Here is a good napkin test if a platform is open - do I have root? Can I obtain and run unsigned software? Can I do memory scan and edit of userland running software (cheat engine style). If all are true - it is open.
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Wealth accumulates exponentially when you have longevity or inheritance in the system. Why do we suddenly act surprised that an exponential function is growing exponentially after we reduced all other variables that could slow its growth to
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Generally speaking yes. I can publish it right here. If you want to send money to my IBAN - feel free to do it. I won't mind. And yes - I will have case against the person that gave information to gawker. But not against gawker themsel
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Dividends. I know it is a mythical beast, but isn't that the whole point of owning part of a business.
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Typical games I can think of are Doom 1&2, Quake 1,2,3 , UT, Serious Sam and Painkiller. Big weapon pack, Six axis free camera movement, free movement in the levels, free jump, no contextual actions,no cover mechanics and the ability to
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Wolf was classes below Return To Castle Wolfenstein. Doom is not out yet, and after Quake 4 I am sceptical.
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Yes. It is freedom of the press. Leaking the tape to the public should be punishable, but just broadcasting information obtained should not be. Gawker did not produced said sex tape. On a personal level I would love to see Gawker the compan
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by venomsnake 11y ago
The engine was absolutely breathtaking back in the day. And SS games are aging very well. Sadly they were one of the last pure FPS games.
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Pi has other uses. The digits are real, but they just don't matter in practical engineering. But lets assume that there really are 10 dimensions - in that case a volume of a 10 dimensional sphere will require (pi^5)*r^10. If you want t
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by venomsnake 11y ago
I had to show id card for the Barcelona - Madrid rapid train. Spain is as far from USSR as possible. In Europe the system with population wide government mandated and granted id works very well, is not burdensome and is not a big deal. And
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Carmack is a rare breed - true engineer. Not in the sense of having a degree, but in Isamabard Kingdom Brunell ability to solve problems.
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Zuckeberg funded Iridium done right. That will show that pesky India with it's "net neutrality"
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Rest assured - any form of technological progress will be used to kill people eventually. "Now we are all sons of a bitches." It is the world's nature.
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Not much - they use amino acids as building blocks. Still ferment glucose for energy.
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Some of them are good. Some - not so much. Aside from my universe my rules: The first colonies will be either mining or agriculture. The whole point of colonies is resources extraction. If we build installation inside the moon the odds of i
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by venomsnake 11y ago
There seems to be sites that think of private browsing as ad blocker. A watchdog script and firefox with new profile takes 10 seconds ... why do they even bother.
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by venomsnake 11y ago
One may argue that balance is way off right now. I would prefer to see a system in which there are lump sums by the government for a treatment development with certain performance characteristics. And the government owns the rights afterwar
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by venomsnake 11y ago
The US was at its most powerful at the end of WWII. Its GDP was more than rest of the world combined. Military and industrial capacity - unmatched. And the only power with nuclear weapons. At the end of the war they were barely scratched co
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Well Tim Cook is alive and well and has Apple signing keys.
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by venomsnake 11y ago
That the fate of said four year old depends on the result of talking. That is cruel.
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Hmm ... I was thinking for the whole fact of a four year old being put in front of the judge to be cruel (sadly not unusual)
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by venomsnake 11y ago
And if I told that I have live edited mission critical production code on the server, and I mean it - there are two readings - 1) I am crazy 2) My company is so broken that it was inevitable. After all - he was TEACHING them immigration law
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by venomsnake 11y ago
I read it as a judge going onion. The fact that he teaches them means that they do have need for council. The fact that it is inefficient is "look at the stupid shit I have to do, to be able to do my job" I may be wrong of course.
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Since "eat less" for weight control is too hard, we are on constant search for stuff we can stuff ourselves with with minimum weight gain.
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by venomsnake 11y ago
> Inaction, or postponing a decision long enough that a situation spirals out of control is generally speaking not an option. Can you please send a link to your blogpost to EU leadership and some EU nations' leaders? Right now we h
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by venomsnake 11y ago
> You are a married lady older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year Good to know that married ladies have older than 32 have squeakymail and keychain on their phones. See - pgp is not that hard after all.
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by venomsnake 11y ago
Because then you get all the "features" of the current banking system that bitcoin wanted to avoid. Bitcoin is by design deflationary currency. Fractional reserve banking is by design inflationary. No matter where you sit on how m

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