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by yarcob 6y ago
> news sellers should stop giving it away for free and starting charging a price But that's exactly what they are trying to do? The news stories obviously have a value for Facebook, and the publishers are trying to get them to pay f
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by yarcob 6y ago
Yes, but the people complaining here are not really Facebooks core audience anymore. Facebook has basically become a news sharing platform, because that's how they keep people "engaged". Most people just don't have enoug
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by yarcob 6y ago
A lot of people are using Facebook as their newsfeed, so I think it's not quite honest to claim that Facebook is not gaining anything from sharing news stories. Facebook would be a lot less compelling without news. People used to brows
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by yarcob 6y ago
The article mentions that using S3 makes it harder to block. You can't block Amazon S3 without breaking very many things. Presumably the malware author would open an AWS account with a stolen or prepaid credit card. They could probably
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by yarcob 6y ago
> welcoming new people raises all boats No, it doesn't. Not when the new people are just interesting in exploiting local resources. They are not interested in becoming part of the local community.
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by yarcob 6y ago
> If you just tax it or try to ban it they'll just move Which is exactly what the locals would want, is it not? I mean, if I live in a place with cheap power, I don't want some outsider to come, take advantantage of that fact,
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by yarcob 6y ago
New Reddit is almost unusable for me in Safari as well, it amazes me how they are so popular when the experience in the browser is so bad. (old.reddit.com kinda works, but lots of embedded things like slideshows or videos are a really bad e
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by yarcob 6y ago
Is it a bluetooth mouse? Many USB 3 devices cause interference in the same frequency bands that Bluetooth and Wifi also use. USB 2 has lower bitrates so the interference is in a different band.
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by yarcob 6y ago
I don't understand why "instant on" after sleep is supposed to be new when my white iBook G3 already had that back in 2002. Or is it even more instant now?
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by yarcob 6y ago
That's brilliant!
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by yarcob 6y ago
> Do you have a notion of how the code actually computes bouyancy? Weight force (downward) is determined by the full polygon. Buyancy force (upward) is determined by the part below the water line. Lateral/angular motion results from
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by yarcob 6y ago
I annotated a screenshot with winding numbers. You'll see that the filled areas correspond to the parts with non-zero winding numbers, but the physics simulation considers the sign and magnitude. https://i.imgur.com/3OL
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by yarcob 6y ago
If you look at the source, you'll see that it doesn't really try to split the path into smaller primitives at all. It uses a simple algorithm ( https://stackoverflow.com/a/33852627 ) to calculate the center of
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by yarcob 6y ago
If you say something offensive to someone, even in private, it's pretty much expected in any setting that the other person will tell all their friends what an idiot you are. People love gossipping, and they always have. It's just
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by yarcob 6y ago
It's stupid that the program doesn't show a preview of all transactions that will be executed before it does them. My online banking has that, I don't get why software for managing 900m dollar loans doesn't have that. Wh
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by yarcob 6y ago
That doesn't sounds like it would just combine the drawbacks of both approaches: You end up with slow open/save operations, and the writes to the db still aren't necessarily atomic (eg. if a user copies the file while change
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by yarcob 6y ago
It sounds like PostGIS might be a good fit. It gives you a lot of tools for accessing and indexing geometry data, and it can scale to huge sizes. Parsing text formats is unlikely to be a bottleneck, accessing the data is more likely to be t
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by yarcob 6y ago
File formats based on ZIP files only work for small files. For big files you have huge overheads; opening and saving a moderately sized documents takes seconds (vs. milliseconds for writing changes to an SQLite database). There's a rea
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by yarcob 6y ago
> No offense intended, but you're a little out of your depth here. I wasn't trying to make any claims about how skin diseases work, I apologise if it came across this way. I just wanted to say that it sounds plausible to me tha
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by yarcob 6y ago
I agree with you and I want to make it clear that I don't think meditation itself is fraud. I'm pretty sure meditation is an effective way to deal with stress. It also sounds plausible that reducing stress would help with skin pro
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by yarcob 6y ago
Scientific studies have shown that the placebo effect is very real. You may think that a placebo could never help with your back pain, but I see no reason why a random person on the internet should be immune to the placebo effect.
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by yarcob 6y ago
> I don't require any evidence, if given practitioner helps me with my problem, while traditional ones can't. Let's say you wake up with back pain, and there's nothing obviously wrong with your spine. You can go to a
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by yarcob 6y ago
> desperate people who've tried mainstream therapies without success It would be wonderful if we could help desperate people without lying about the expected outcome of alternative treatment. I don't think anybody will complain
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by yarcob 6y ago
> It rarely happens that once a prototype is written, the developer finds out it was all a wastage and the customer wanted something quite different. In my experience this leads to mediocre results. You need to throw out prototypes often
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by yarcob 6y ago
So as long as it's just sterilisations and imprisonment and forced labor camps and just a few murders for organs it's hyperbole to call it a genocide? I don't get the point. Yes, they haven't reached the point of murderi
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by yarcob 6y ago
> people are eventually being released from them According to what I've read, people in these camps disappear and are never heard of again. They sound a lot like concentration camps. Just because they aren't full blown extermin
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by yarcob 6y ago
> Exchange fees are a great way to charge consumers for spending their own money in 2021, when normal credit cards actually pay people 1-2% to use them Credit card companies in the US are a special kind of evil. They charge huge fees, fo
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by yarcob 6y ago
Thonny and the turtle package are pretty neat. Not quite as direct as Bret Victors examples, but you have immediate feedback and a debugger. The Python arcade package is also absolutely fun. We spent a day programming a Snake-clone, and som
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by yarcob 6y ago
Unlike everyone else here, I agree. In most cases you can build your own analytics. Think about what kind of analytics you need, and then decide if you should buy something complicated or just build something simple yourself. For example, f
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by yarcob 6y ago
I doubt that they actively partner with rip off companies, but the way they run their platform strongly encourages them. It seems that it's more important for Amazon to have the lowest prices rather than being a trusted reseller. (It&#

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