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by xref 7y ago
Of course we’ve been grinding and reforming grain into bread for 10,000 years so it’s a lot more complicated than you lay out
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by xref 7y ago
Discord has a similar problem where crypto scammers come on any public servers and mass message all the users. There are no controls except to block them after the fact one by one.
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by xref 7y ago
I’m curious if this plays out like their MongoDB debacle where Amazon burned all their goodwill, only extracting value from the community and returning nothing
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by xref 7y ago
Actually, people did say that. Even the founding fathers disagreed on the composition of Congress. It’s been argued for/against since day 0.
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by xref 7y ago
This is a good writeup on why “it’s a republic not a democracy” is a meaningless argument: http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/11/durr-its-a-repub... It also explains just how terrifying the Electoral College
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by xref 7y ago
Specifically turn-by-turn navigation, which Android had via Google Maps but you had to buy an expensive app on iOS like Garmin or TomTom. It was a real killer feature. Apple and Google had been long time collaborators but the relationship
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by xref 7y ago
As a current slack user, could you give a couple examples?
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by xref 7y ago
Same, README.md for most everything I can. Searching for info in the repo is also more productive than the search nightmare in jira/confluence.
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In 2019, would you choose something else for container orchestration?
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I’ve recently gotten back into wanting some Pirate Lego sets from when I was young, but to play with not as an investment. Purchasing used-but-complete sets are actually cheaper when adjusted for inflation than when new, at least if you put
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by xref 7y ago
If people are interested in the aforementioned other projections, this was a fun article. Stay to the end and check out the AuthaGraph projection! I def need to order one of those for the wall https://geoawesomeness.com/best
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by xref 7y ago
I gotta say I’m a lot less interested in trying Notable when the owner shows up in a competitor’s thread, lists a wall of what appear to be minor nitpicks without describing their own app at all and says “here try my app, that I’ve recently
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by xref 7y ago
> Will result in more fault tolerant software More fault tolerant because you have to waste time debugging the faults and monkeypatching them in code just to avoid FKs? > Non nullable database fields are far more useful than worrying
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Norton Utilities, Norton DiskDefrag, Norton Anti-virus (earrrly versions) were all great, man I used them heavily. This news feels like more of a eulogy for what was Symantec
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The specific bit where it is allowed on hydroponic farms: > glyphosate (an incredibly toxic herbicide that is absolutely prohibited on organic farms) is being sprayed on fields prior to constructing hydroponic greenhouses awaiting organi
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by xref 7y ago
I can highly recommend the children’s book Thanks to the Animals by Allen Sockabasin, a Passamaquoddy storyteller and historian As a bonus the last couple pages of the book, after the story, tell some history of the tribe’s seasonal migrati
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by xref 7y ago
Since you mentioned specific impulse a couple times this may help casual browsers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_impulse > A propulsion system with a higher specific impulse uses the mass of the propellan
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by xref 7y ago
Not a pro or con: DDG uses Bing results, startpage uses Google results
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>the average consumer hadn't caught on to the fact and on each sale of either the profit margin was tremendous. Normally businesses charge whatever the market will bear, in this case however the music industry was found guilty of co
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by xref 7y ago
Wow what a course change. For the last couple years there have been articles on HN about how the JEDI requirements were written to specifically exclude Microsoft/ibm/gcp because the DoD preferred AWS so its selection was a forgo
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by xref 7y ago
>There are absolutely no alternatives Our greatest scientists will surely invent another means to travel over water. Also literally the second paragraph of the article covers your use case: “should most Americans really be ashamed of g
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by xref 7y ago
I’m not even sure what your argument is. That taxis+buses+cars on all adjacent and cross streets to Market are insufficient to get people in wheelchairs where they need to go?
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Not sure it would matter, since we wouldn’t have the infra to make 100mil iPhones a year to utilize the mineral reserve. Manufacturing is sooooo much bigger than the raw materials
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>Hard problems; but with feasible paths to a solution and a huge potential market once technology gets there. IMHO this won't take more than a decade and possibly a lot shorter. I’d consider that an extremely rosy outlook, and wou
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I’d prefer not to “trust” any network, even my local home network, and encrypt all the traffic traveling over it I can. especially in an age where a security camera or even your fridge can be compromised by non-targeted automated scripts an
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by xref 7y ago
So you’re sending your traffic to some other cloud host or your ISP, his question still stands
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It will always be configurable for people who deicide they don’t like the defaults, like it has been, currently is, and will be.
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If you want a contrary take on NPR and particularly how their political coverage is awful, Erik Loomis, a professor of union labor history and about as far left as you can get, has a number of articles on how NPR fails the national discussi
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Tracetouting that address could reveal a lot more foreign-owned (and built) servers in the path, so I’m not sure what your litmus test is.
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For anyone curious, Eich didn’t fund a political campaign but rather a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. It was struck down as unconstitutional. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Propositi

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