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by z3c0 4y ago
I get the goal of the framework, and I did then as well. It just isn't expressed well, and it's even worse in execution. I think kids are smart enough to handle a more ambiguous "five-section essay". All the same rules a
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by z3c0 4y ago
Especially the 5-paragraph essay. Doubly so where paragraphs are rigidly-defined as "a collection of five or more sentences". I argued with a lot of teachers over that one. All it did was teach kids how to write boring simple sent
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by z3c0 4y ago
My remark was tongue-in-cheek. I'm aware that this would only go as far as appearing as a bridge router, which Windows often designates with a number after the name (e.g. WittyNetworkName 2). It's not very subtle, and you would li
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by z3c0 4y ago
Too obvious - just give it the same ESSID and password as your local coffee shop's network, and let the "Connect Automatically" setting on Windows do the rest.
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by z3c0 4y ago
Surprisingly cool merch. Love the Arecibo Message tee, thanks for sharing
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by z3c0 4y ago
Apparently Arecibo was the source for the cover art for Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures . Neat. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/pop-culture-p...
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by z3c0 4y ago
This seems to be lost on a lot of folks, which I find strange in a tech-centric forum. Bitcoin is perfectly pseudonymous, as it strives to be, and not anonymous, which it has never attempted to be.
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by z3c0 4y ago
I found this article to be poorly-written and deliberately inflammatory. I'll gloss over the regular criticism of "stop conflating cryptocurrencies with blockchains". It makes continual leaps from Satoshi Nakamoto's inte
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by z3c0 4y ago
I'd add that this extends to data processes as well. Lean pipelines with rigid schemas are great and all, but you're really going to regret not having something more malleable once the system has grown and you have an onslaught of
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by z3c0 4y ago
Agreed. Personally, the way I overcame my lack of a complete college education was through learning multiple languages. Researching the way different languages solved the same problems - and why - helped me understand the fundamentals, as I
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by z3c0 4y ago
I think who's hosting the content is the differentiator. Maybe an allowed app that's hosting the objectionable content itself would be a more apt comparison.
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Much like how private chat and gaming servers work, I expect the onus will fall upon the tech-savvy to host content for their friends via services like Plex, Jellyfin, or the like.
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by z3c0 4y ago
The NSA has a poor track record with cryptography, often being audacious enough to believe that their backdoors in common encryption standards wouldn't be found by anyone. So much so that the idea of them being behind Bitcoin at the sa
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by z3c0 4y ago
If that were true, it would have already been 51%'d by the backdoor they left themselves.
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by z3c0 4y ago
I don't know... Obviously anecdata, but I'm from an area notorious for poor education standards, and civics and history were focused on very heavily there. I'll go out on a limb and suggest that civics and history aren't
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by z3c0 4y ago
The historical context is fascinating indeed, but I also want to point out how beautifully composed these shots are. Most adhere to the rule of thirds perfectly. The pole vault shot - the least-adherant to the rule of thirds - still takes a
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by z3c0 4y ago
You're correct, I should have been more clear in my comparison to individuals facing criminal charges. I am critiquing that they get to squash this matter in such a way before the preponderance of evidence can occur to bring proper cha
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by z3c0 4y ago
I really take issue with "settlements" of such a scale that don't equate to an admission of guilt. It's essentially buying a get of jail free card. If any individual were facing criminal charges, they would have to ple
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by z3c0 4y ago
It seems that you've never realized that most of the stuff being gathered is not stored on any device that you have control over. Very weird to encounter on HN, but I guess you're part of today's 10,000... Maybe if you were r
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by z3c0 4y ago
That's exactly who he should have been spotlighting. The Five Eyes is an egregious Orwellian contruct, and STATEROOM is integral to its continued existence.
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by z3c0 4y ago
This is still an area of controversy, and the text you've highlighted explains exactly why: > The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects , against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall no
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by z3c0 4y ago
Weird to see you accuse someone of intellectual dishonesty, and then turn around and take a quote out of context to throw a dig at somebody else, purely because you don't agree. Very shameful behavior, honestly.
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by z3c0 4y ago
Anywhere that truth matters will be unaffected. If such deviations from truth can withhold, then the truth never mattered. False assumptions will never hold where they can't, because reality is quite pervasive. Ask anyone who's ha
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by z3c0 4y ago
I guess you're technically correct, but the task you're describing isn't generating an image from a prompt. It would be to maintain context across distinct-but-related statements based on an internalized model of reality. T
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by z3c0 4y ago
It appears that nobody has shared the rather long list of Google easter eggs, so here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs Personally, I'm a fan of "recursion", as well as &quo
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by z3c0 4y ago
Apart of me thinks that maybe you're trying to be provocative, but you don't actually believe that second bit, do you? It really makes me wonder what kind of books you've been reading.
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by z3c0 4y ago
The actual link, for anybody who doesn't consider Twitter a good source: https://web.archive.org/web/20120723173702/http://blog.okcup...
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by z3c0 4y ago
Hinge has been sucked up into the Match.com umbrella. I haven't used it lately, but I wouldn't expect it to hold up to its past success stories anymore.
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by z3c0 4y ago
A dollar in your hand is "redeemable debt". It's future value that you've been promised, presumably for having prior given up something of value, like your time or some tangible good.
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by z3c0 4y ago
You and I differ in what we consider speaking well. I'd sooner hire an ex-con over a reductionist, as I at least know the former can handle nuance.

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