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by ythn 9y ago
The quality/success of a future project is inversely proportional to the glamour of its initial marketing. The marketing seems just a little too polished on this one. Reminds me of a kickstarter scam.
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by ythn 9y ago
They suppress all "foreign" religion, not just muslims and buddhists. They also steal/copy anything they can get their hands on. Airplanes, pharmaceuticals, tech, you name it, China will copy it and make a Chinese version wit
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by ythn 9y ago
I think security though obscurity can be a massive deterrent for all but the most dedicated attackers. For example, say that I not only move ssh to port 24, but it's also completely disabled by default. Then I have a small script scann
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by ythn 9y ago
Also what if members of a group commit violent acts? Does that mean BLM and Antifa are out?
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> "What constitutes ______?" "We'll know it when we see it"
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> Almost all religions make demands on the actions of their adherents This is a feature, not a bug? Otherwise what's the point?
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by ythn 9y ago
They are hosted on SourceForge, and you can access all the code, but basically anytime there is an update you have to download the newest version from SourceForge and reconcile with your private fork manually.
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by ythn 9y ago
What is the maximum amount we should spend to save a human? A million? A billion? Should society absorb any cost to save a human even if it gets exponentially more expensive with each subsequent procedure? Or should there be a cutoff where
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by ythn 9y ago
This one is possible, but might be difficult. It's currently a single developer who approves all code additions with no version control to sync things up. i.e. You have to manually maintain your own fork of the codebase
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Poe's Law
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> But torturing someone is stupid and doesn't work, I'm pretty sure if someone waterboarded me to get my phone password I would eventually lose the mental will necessary to keep getting waterboarded and give up the password. Bu
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"I'm not going to maintain a version control system." "Having no source code repository (version control system) doesn't mean that KeePass isn't open source." --Dominik Reichl
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Still not using proper version control, though
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So are you saying consciousness doesn't exist (Chinese room argument) or that AIs indistinguishable from our brains are assumed to have consciousness?
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Reminds me of https://www.indiehackers.com/
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> It's a zany cartoon with witty dialog, At least, it used to have witty dialogue. Now 95% of the conversation is: Rick: "*Shut-uurp the f### up Morty you piece of s###" Morty: "Y-y-y-y-y-you know Rick, not everybody
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by ythn 9y ago
I flagged because I see this politicized crap on every single social media and news platform, and I'd like HN to be a bastion for just tech news and tech conversation. I don't want to know the political alignment of whoever I&#x
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by ythn 9y ago
Ah, well, not the C++ version, it seems (which is the one I use): https://github.com/graphql/libgraphqlparser/blob/master/PATE...
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> Everything is MIT Licensed Besides GraphQL you mean
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People that didn't mess up their brains with bad choices
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People like drugs because they allow an escape from their normal lives, which they don't like. Boredom, depression, etc. Read about the rat park experiment, rats like being high too if their lives suck.
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"This shift naturally raises questions about the rest of Facebook's open source projects. Many of our popular projects will keep the BSD + Patents license for now."
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> Frameworks don't rust Unless the framework is iron [1], of course [1] https://github.com/iron/iron
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by ythn 9y ago
As another user pointed out though, it's not quite that simple. After reading up some more, I think this is a better analogy: You have 2 magic entangled coins. Each coin has a heads and a tails side. If you both look at heads first, en
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by ythn 9y ago
Ah, so if I understand correctly, you could detect message eavesdropping as follows: 1. We agree ahead of time to always observe the first digit of magic papers first. 2. I send you a message that includes eavesdropping-detecting magic piec
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> This phenomenon depends on the fact, surprising but true, that particles with identical properties which are created simultaneously are entangled in a way that means one cannot have its properties altered without also altering the othe
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by ythn 9y ago
So you are saying we should treat drug addicts like we treat hunger - by having "drug kitchens" where addicts can come to get a free fix and by building up huge industries to mass produce drugs so they are much more accessible and
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by ythn 9y ago
> Drugs are a health problem, not a criminal problem. Well, I would say they are both. They are a health problem because of the addiction factors. They are a criminal problem because of what people are willing to do to get drugs when the
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They exist, yes, (and I've even heard some ridiculous ones like the human right to internet access), but how do you make the "rights" a reality?
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The ability to see side by side diffs and which files/lines I've touched is what did it for me. I still use git CLI for squashing, rebasing etc, but basic staging and committing I do entirely in VSCode now.

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