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by zamazingo 8y ago
> Does the social credit system ever charge higher prices to low scorers rather than banning or shaming them? That sounds like the system here (US). Low scorers receive much higher interest rates -> significantly higher final prices c
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by zamazingo 8y ago
Parent probably meant e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth
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by zamazingo 8y ago
> It is a sad fact of life that the best outcome for everybody is to let the economically productive take first pick of any available resources That is not a fact of life, it is simply a hypocritical way of legitimizing monopolistic adva
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by zamazingo 8y ago
Comparing it to galago pro 13", Librem 13 seems to be $200-$400 more expensive with half the memory. Is there something extra you get with Librem that you wouldn't get with a galago? Is it about the company, the hardware, the soft
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by zamazingo 8y ago
Similar story here. Got mine since 2010 or 2011. It's my only machine, is used daily and regularly, and works without issues. That touchpad though; it does acquire sentience sometimes :) [I don't care, tbh; it's something I c
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by zamazingo 8y ago
Do you know where the new elves are?
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by zamazingo 8y ago
Clickbait title, it was a battle simulation.
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by zamazingo 9y ago
> two professors emailed sixteen philosophers in the U.S., England, Australia, Germany, Finland, and Brazil, asking specifically for "ten of the most important and influential philosophical books after 1950." "They receive
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by zamazingo 9y ago
A lot of lobbying money is spent by the likes of Intel, Apple, Microsoft, etc to create that impression abroad, just like it is here. (Doesn't matter where "here" is.)
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by zamazingo 9y ago
I agree on these reservations, especially in terms of silent errors (which get compounded through minor ways in which backwards incompatibility can sneak in to the existing scripts) and dependencies. As a half-solution, I ended up restricti
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by zamazingo 9y ago
Apparently it's funny to most hn'ers. I'm guessing they aren't clear on what it takes to teach helplessness.
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by zamazingo 9y ago
I doubt the horses had a real say in this, and the deliberate use of active tense to legitimize the "sacrifice" is very annoying.
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by zamazingo 9y ago
One grows a pig, not a pork. Once you kill the pig, its name is supposed to change to pork, though why, I never understood quote well.
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by zamazingo 9y ago
Hi, do you happen to have the list of absolutist and non-absolutists words you have used? I couldn't find it in the publication and the comment below (by slig, which lists the absolutist ones) does not give its source.
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by zamazingo 9y ago
MSO works very well in a closed environment with only MSO users, but it doesn't work to share documents with Office users. That is because LO actively uses a standardized and well documented document format while MSO created it's
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by zamazingo 9y ago
I am guessing the author would get arrested without that tacit acknowledgement. > ... is a CBC News correspondent based in Istanbul.
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Snowden's Android app for physical security(theintercept.com)
3 points by zamazingo 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How can I learn to present my data effectively?
3 points by zamazingo 9y ago|1 comments
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by zamazingo 9y ago
> I pledge to give $20 to Mozilla once: - they apologized for the fuck-up - they pledge to stop doing that kind of stupidity - they reconsider the employment of those really responsible for it. I was indeed considering making a recurring
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by zamazingo 9y ago
This is really cool! Is there a source repository we could explore?
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by zamazingo 9y ago
It's all good and what not but how do you buy bitcoin without either giving away all sorts of private information about you to a website or having to meet strangers?
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by zamazingo 9y ago
> I see so many of them in homes of people who are in the tech industry. I resisted having one until everyone in my house started turning on their "assistant"s... I have 4 smartphones in my home, all with assistants running and
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by zamazingo 9y ago
How does everyone here buy/exchange bitcoin without giving every little bit of detail about themselves (e.g. bank account, driver's license, etc) away? Every time I look into it to buy online, I'm amazed by the sheer amount o
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by zamazingo 9y ago
Apart from the actual set up to include org-capture in it, not much. Shortcuts to open a file (C-x C-f), close it (C-x k), and closing emacs (C-x C-c) would be the emacs shortcuts you'd need to learn. The rest would be org-mode shortcu
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by zamazingo 9y ago
Emacs Org-Mode, along with its org-capture mode and the ability to clock in/out, is a perfect tool to implement this, btw. https://emacs.cafe/emacs/orgmode/gtd/2017/06/30/orgmode-gtd....