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by zelly 7y ago
jack probably messed up while testing
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by zelly 7y ago
Axler's Linear Algebra book is best if you want a deep understanding in more fields than R^n
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by zelly 7y ago
They used to have this feature and removed it. Unlikely they'll bring it back.
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by zelly 7y ago
A lot of Quora spammers will play the long game. Some of them will take the time to get moderately familiar with a subject, write some organic answers, gain some karma on the site, then start shilling. It's an interesting incentive str
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by zelly 7y ago
What if they didn't need to trust the website operators because they only pay them if users click? When the user clicks, it goes through the ad company's domain with the Referrer who would be paid for it.
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by zelly 7y ago
I can think of a couple mitigations against this future: - Disable JavaScript - Render SPAs off-site (or in some sandbox with a different network interface) and return the static HTML and CSS Good enough to read news articles
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by zelly 7y ago
When user agent clicks the ad, that's how the ad companies know it's real.
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by zelly 7y ago
I knew something like this would come up. I always wondered why ad/tracking companies never proxied through the first-party domain (or in a more extreme case, the first-party server itself) to skirt adblock. Suppose you load example.co
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by zelly 7y ago
Maybe before trying to write (much less criticize) Python code you should learn how access control works on operating systems. Right click "Run as Administrator"
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by zelly 7y ago
Crazy thought, what if Android and/or ChromeOS is next? Android always seemed like another "charity" project that didn't directly generate profit (before Nexus/Pixel phones). Most of the value from Android is captur
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by zelly 7y ago
They should just sell their dead products. I know they don't need money, but someone could probably maintain the Cloud Print codebase and add value to the world.
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by zelly 7y ago
If you covered up all the screens in America, it still looks like 1989.
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by zelly 7y ago
the man pages for git
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by zelly 7y ago
I'm not sure either honestly. I've used Lisp a lot but never looked at the internals. I can see why it would be hard to implement. It has an object model unlike any other language (CLOS). It's memory model is equally baroque.
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by zelly 7y ago
There are a handful of Scheme implementations in the browser. Also ClojureScript. The problem with ANSI Common Lisp is it's gigantic. It is almost as big as C++ and not at all trivial to implement. It doesn't help that most Lisper
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by zelly 7y ago
It doesn't, that's a shame. It would definitely have to be a custom fork of either Clasp or Emscripten anyway because CL's "memory dump" way of creating executables would be too cumbersome to run in browsers. Someon
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by zelly 7y ago
clasp (LLVM frontend for Common Lisp) to Emscripten would be interesting.
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by zelly 7y ago
Great refutation of functional programming.
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by zelly 7y ago
Feature, not a bug
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by zelly 7y ago
1 sat/byte transactions will still clear the mempool, eventually. I don't think you need payments for porn to settle immediately. There are workarounds a business could use like speculatively accepting payment before a confirmatio
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by zelly 7y ago
I heard sex workers actually do use Monero when they use crypto (not BTC). It's funny how the supposedly bad UX doesn't matter when there's a compelling reason to use it.
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by zelly 7y ago
You can use an ATM (or localbitcoins) to cash out Bitcoin without any connection to your bank account. Bitcoin doesn't have to be ubiquitous to use it even today, you just have to find businesses that accept Bitcoin. A buddy of mine ac
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by zelly 7y ago
Elaborate
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by zelly 7y ago
It would be easier to take the AI doomsayers' seriously if we were remotely close to AGI. For now it's treated the same way as some guy in a cape in Central Park trying to summon Satan. No one cares because everyone knows it'
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by zelly 7y ago
It's not science. Human brains are very recent in evolutionary terms. What a frog or a peacock does is a result of many orders of magnitude more time under natural selection than the age of modern humans. People guess that this or that
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by zelly 7y ago
This is BS. You can't use biological evolution to explain high level cultural behavior. It also implies that females have no agency and just run on instinct like frogs. The real reason they want diamonds is culture.
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by zelly 7y ago
If you want your language to win, all you need is Google to adopt it in one of their products. Apparently that's all that matters.
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by zelly 7y ago
The "it's a scam" angle is they're insider trading.
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by zelly 7y ago
You know it's really easy to test a black box for bias right. This isn't something you have to speculate about like a human's bias.
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by zelly 7y ago
Yes, the point is to create your own algorithms. It's hard to create something you don't know anything about or know how other people created them before you. Imagine this in another field, say an engineer who doesn't want to

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