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by viridian 9y ago
There are a couple of reasons people are so quick to claim other people didn't read the memo verbatim. The first being that the first major publication to run with it, and the biggest one here on HN, was the verge's article where
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This isn't true on any political topic. I've seen people who are far better authors than myself have posts downvoted to dead because they disagreed with the prevailing opinion in a thread.
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This little bit of political sparring was my favorite part of the article: >SB 827, Wiener’s bill to mandate increased density near public transit, was recently the subject of a spat on Twitter between the Senator and former Beverly Hill
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For what it's worth, I partially agree with jnordwick's comment. I've noticed an uptick over the last couple of months in the comments that receive public callouts feeling ideological in nature. It may just be based on who fl
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Honestly the best use case is actually for the very financial services industry that the crypto community thinks they are supplanting. Distributed ledger with trusted confirmations + quicker and cheaper wires is actually pretty big. It&#x27
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I'm a registered Libertarian (lol) who isn't against reigning in ICOs. My chief concern is regulation creep from problems that do exist, to problems that may exist in the future, but aren't really a current concern. I find ta
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The evidence had existed for games like centipede many years, and the dragster game had been taken apart and proven fake via the actual machine code for 6+ months. TG didn't act on it until one of the inner circle got involved, that is
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Twitch basically seems to be the only real competition at this point, but they are rapidly building up to take the fight to YouTube. They are publicly shifting away from the gaming focus and towards general content creation. This whole thin
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>Utilizing blockchain technology, the KODAKOne platform will create an encrypted, digital ledger of rights ownership for photographers to register both new and archive work that they can then license within the platform. With KODAKCoin,
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Unfortunately that voting block doesn't line up with reality, as least from the stats I know for the presidential elections. A given voter that voted for party X's candidate four years ago, if they vote again, will vote for party
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He denied it 11 years ago you mean, by that blog post. He has changed his stance, as seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mmlmxamw_k You should listen to his episode with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, they talk about the mind
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I don't think he is, a gave a couple reasons why here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16099356 But this has been a big topic of debate on his podcast subreddit as well. I think it mainly comes from the guests he
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This is a minor aside, but I don't think Joe is a conservative. I think that he said during the midnight election comedy stream that had he not promised to vote for Gary Johnson when he came on the show, that he would've had to pu
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by viridian 9y ago
In resp to 2) He wrote the memo in response to an event he attended where they asked for feedback. Are you saying that you can't provide feedback on a topic that a talk is about if you come to the "wrong" conclusion? I'v
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I largely agreed with the memo. I have coworkers and friends who fell on either side of the camp, but more in the agree camp than disagree. Should we just purge half the developers in Columbus for Silicon Valley wrongthink? edit: looks like
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I personally hope we can avoid this attitude by and large on HN. The idea that this community needs to be proactively stopped from discussing a topic because a small subgroup decides that the larger community can't handle it maturely s
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For lifting the trick is to listen during rests, and pause during your actual sets. Once you are trying to pick 400lbs off the ground you don't care one bit about the noise going into your ears.
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by viridian 9y ago
This is super cool, if a bit scary. Man Australia has it all though, 8/10 of the deadliest spiders, half the deadliest snakes, crocodiles, rockfish, and now firebirds. Inhabiting Australia is a testament to man's arrogance.
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I would actually consider doing this if I were in the same position. You'd have to wonder what the consequences were, considering that by filing a claim against someone you are establishing that you believe there to be a violation. If
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Can't disagree with that, but for some genomics work it's just not a realistic option when you can get output from a slice of mainframe in 1/10th the time, and that time is like 2 and some change days.
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AMD Looks Poised to Gain at Intel's Expense(forbes.com)
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Right, my concern is more the event of them axing work 32 seconds in or something, which could be a problem for some data analytics tools I've seen, that need a good 70 seconds or so to reach a steady state.
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It's also a huge gain to a number of science disciplines that don't have access to a mainframe or supercomputer, but have development resources.
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This is a great (read:inexpensive) resource for big data modelling if someone is willing to build for it. By choosing to be the customer of least concern and designing software that is able to handle being bounced, you are getting a terrifi
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I think it comes from not really having a grasp of a lot of the real BS involved in science, which you can really only know from first or secondhand experience. A lot of the magic and awe I found in science was beaten out of me by having cl
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How can my phone have updates pushed to it without my consent? Does LineageOS have some sort of backdoor that you know of?
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This is speculation, and I personally don't find it to be true anymore. Funnily enough, I was on the opposite end of this argument as someone else on reddit about a year ago, when I cited an article from I think the daily beast, making
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by viridian 9y ago
Funnily enough, by at least one scientific definition of wet, water is very, very not wet. Water has an extremely low wettability, and in fact will even wet most other liquids. I always find that phrase when used as an example of common sen
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by viridian 9y ago
Thanks for this comment. I wasn't aware of the iron law of prohibition but it makes a ton of sense. The higher the risk, the more you optimize your supply chain to minimize physical contraband in travel, which means optimizing for prod

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