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by wtfrmyinitials 6y ago
I thought this was a pretty decent article until the very end when the author asserts: > ...nobody could be bothered to develop a nationwide program to test people for infection and trace their contacts if they were positive, or to adequ
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
During a shortage: Commodity is available. Commodity is affordable. Pick 1.
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
Interesting to see this pop up now, I recently finished building an open source command line typing tutor myself! The idea of mine is you pass it an existing text file (plain text, markdown, source code, etc) and it tests your ability to re
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
I've been running it on my desktop for a while and it's been wonderful. I have a cron job set to take a snapshot of the filesystem hourly so if I ever blow a file away or a package upgrade goes wonky I'm back up and running i
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
Reason number n+1 why Google is bad for the open web
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
In terms of power usage, the best solution would probably be a passive Ethernet hub.
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
Now run it in https://bellard.org/quickjs
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
Possibly also generated. From the top of HN last week: "AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21525878
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
Why? There isn't much for a troll to plunder
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
Why did your team deem it appropriate to mess with core system components like /var?
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
I’m not sure I understand your point. The surgery was done in a private hospital and paid for by a private health insurance company. It certainly points out that care in the U.S. is too expensive, but I’m not sure how it indicates a single
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
There’s still something to be said for the relative uselessness of most social media. I don’t avoid it by any measure, but I’m also very aware that a minute spent on a given social platform is usually a minute wasted. At least with somethin
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
Keeping values small is still useful for the sake of CPU cache
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
These two are not mutually exclusive
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
Purely competitive, purely monopolistic, monopolistic-competitive, and oligopolistic are terms to describe how a market behaves, not the regulatory environment the market exists within. A "free market" is a regulatory environment
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
> So it’s possible that big companies are increasing their market power by using lobbying to capture politicians and regulators. If this is true, it’s very bad news for free markets and capitalism. A market where companies engage in regu
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
Not exactly it but Schadenfreude is pretty close
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
Worth noting that Maker is different than those other because there's no central authority holding fiat money to maintain the peg. Their stablecoin Dai is minted "out of thin air" and the price peg is maintained via an intere
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
Prices set by fiat cannot possibly react quickly enough to changes in the market
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by wtfrmyinitials 7y ago
> anyone can send an email with any "from" address, and filtering on people/domains in the "from" field is basically pointless if you want to catch spam. Isn’t this the exact thing that DKIM is designed to fix?
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by wtfrmyinitials 8y ago
I’m gonna invoke Hanlon’s Razor[1] here and assume middle1 is a random HN user that didn’t realize you only use “Show HN” when it’s your own project. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
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by wtfrmyinitials 8y ago
Ok... and? Ownership != control on the Bitcoin network.
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by wtfrmyinitials 8y ago
One thing the author missed about htm is that you don’t necessarily need to parse it at runtime— there’s a Babel plug-in to compile it to plain js function calls. This way you can develop without a transpiler and add one later when (if) the
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by wtfrmyinitials 8y ago
Congress hasn’t cared about the constitutionality of new laws for a long time
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by wtfrmyinitials 8y ago
We've already lost count of the number of federal laws in the U.S. https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/03/frequent-reference-questio...
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by wtfrmyinitials 8y ago
https://www.xkcd.com/774/
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by wtfrmyinitials 8y ago
So called "open-faced sandwiches" are not sandwiches.
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by wtfrmyinitials 8y ago
206 is for downloads, not uploads.
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by wtfrmyinitials 8y ago
Looks like somebody listened to Ungeniused this week
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by wtfrmyinitials 8y ago
> they're (stablecoins) are issued from a centralized authority. Nitpick: there is at least one decentralized stablecoin: Dai https://makerdao.com/

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