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by vslira 6y ago
> In order to build a sustainable business that can continue to innovate and improve our products, Mimestream will eventually transition to being a paid app. Come on, they're explicitly saying that they're charging for the serv
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by vslira 6y ago
OTOH emacs is used by a lot of people with access to sensitive data and/or industrial secrets, so the potential for malicious exploits is disproportional to its footprint
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People compare type checkers with guard rails. In this regard, programming in SML is more like taking the subway :)
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I know we all know that polygraphs don't work, but: is that true in practice or in principle? I mean, there are papers out there about methods capable of extracting complete words from brainwaves. Does it really seem impossible for a m
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by vslira 6y ago
You know, what's funny is that we'll never be sure if that's the case[0]. What guarantee is there that the median socialist voter wouldn't vote for more work for everyone because they want fancier tvs, or more dazzling m
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by vslira 6y ago
> AGPL is unchallenged in court What would be the cheapest way to settle this? Can I found a SaaS company that uses AGPL code, grow to ~100 usd/month and basically ask the FSF to sue me? Even if the legal fees alone amount to tens o
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by vslira 6y ago
"You Need to Learn Mandarin" is needlessly inflammatory, but yes, I would like to learn Mandarin, actually. English is not my first language, but having learned it allows me to consume content from the English-speaking world and
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by vslira 6y ago
I feel like this article wasted an opportunity to discuss the seemingly larger trend - the splintering of the Internet - and focused too much on the (current) landscape for India (in contrast with US/CN/EU) I'm not an economi
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That's really interesting, excited to follow the project and see more!
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I understand where you're coming from, and while I do understand the value of institutionalized "debating and dissenting" parties (I even believe political parties in a democracy should have declared mouthpieces), there'
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by vslira 6y ago
> This article is just more propaganda in the evolving war of words between SV and journalism. There's no war between SV and journalism, theres a feud between technologically and business savvy content companies and decaying content
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by vslira 6y ago
Wouldn't a move to renewable / greener energy sources (I realize that in Europe oil is used in transportation and heating mostly instead of direct electricity generation) remove the necessary connection between oil demand and indu
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by vslira 6y ago
There's no paradox here. The balkanization of the web is a foregone conclusion. And not just between geopolitical rivals: the EU is dead set on creating a local version of FAANG companies.
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Yeah, it seems like an anti-pattern. Also, it's supposedly better for children to be educated by a great educator and most parents, like most people, are not. The fact of the matter is that the implicit assumption of many pro-homeschoo
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by vslira 6y ago
This is great. I'm currently trying to rewrite a heavily object-oriented library into a more functional one (the rewrite is necessary because of licensing issues, and functional because the original code is a clusterf*ck of mutation) a
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GP's point (which I believe is naive, I suspect foul play from competitors, especially big banks) is that FB was trying to corner the market through network effects before an open standard took hold and the Central Bank acted to stop t
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by vslira 6y ago
So, from the comments, it's not a real action plan, more like a scenario for case analysis. Which is a shame. I'd really like to read about how well blockchain technology -- which is based on very transparent p2p communication --
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by vslira 6y ago
"Maxinator", "Five Eyes" Imagine being in the brainstorming session to come up with name for intelligence agencies alliances. "It must sound dangerous, yes, but not evil. Like some kind of anti-villain"
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by vslira 6y ago
I'm trying to imagine the kind of org that uses MongoDB and has someone on the ethical board with enough technical knowledge to understand the difference between sql and nosql and at the same time believe that nosql can't hold str
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by vslira 7y ago
Good news. Pypy is criminally underrated
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I don't pirate, nowadays mostly because I already have a couple of subscriptions and not enough time to consume all the content I already can. But for me the answer is fairly obvious: availability. If video content was as convenient to
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by vslira 7y ago
For what it's worth, I keep everything in a single deck. I never stop reviewing stuff and "interleaving" makes learning more effective than "blocking" (studying things in blocks). Source: Bjork et al 2013 ( https:&#
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by vslira 7y ago
> the harder everyone else must work to compensate I really don't want to get into this argument but supposedly productivity gains from automation/AI should make those who keep working work proportionally less to compensate non
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by vslira 7y ago
I've read a few posts about how this standard is sufficient for GDPR compliance (and other regional regulations, like Brazil's LGPD). Might be useful to the HN crowd.
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Possibly GDPR-compliant ISO standard(iso.org)
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Aging is a multidimensional process and if "lack of adaption" is targeted the same way "control of bowels" will be/is, then it makes sense to include this concern in anti-aging research. Speaking this way, resistanc
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by vslira 7y ago
> At 48, Dan Peres is already an old hand at being a former magazine editor. Condé Nast shut down Details, the men’s glossy that he had been editor of for 15 years, in 2015 Wait, if my math is correct he became editor at 28. Was that com
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by vslira 7y ago
It's worth remembering that Vision Fund's apparent thesis wasn't just to have a many-losers-compensated-by-a-big-winner portfolio like most VC funds, but that they would pick winners by sheer scale of their checks. That shoul
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by vslira 7y ago
Dan Grossman's "Programming Languages, Part A" (In Coursera) made me fall in love with SML. Highly recommended.
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About getting treatment: it's extremely irritating that some people judge using Ritalin is somehow morally wrong. Yes, I get that "lifestyle changes" could help, but I don't want to change my lifestyle. Imagine if there

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