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by zozbot123 8y ago
AIUI, Rust can do it "the Swift way" (a misnomer, since it was first) for any given object simply by adding a RefCell<…> or Mutex<…> type constructor, as appropriate. These types are commonly used in combination with
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Binary options are "fake" in that they're often promoted by boiler-room operations in a fraudulent manner-- it's not like they're something that's actively traded on the market. If anything, it's more com
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To their credit, they got rid of the "incel" stuff pretty quickly after it became basically-synonymous with "dangerously violent male-supremacist cult" (it used to just be "losers who can't relate with the oppo
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You know that NNTP is a thing, right? It's not like the "chat-like threading" was Reddit's invention.
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It's an interesting question. "Reddit as a business" would seem to have an incentive to keep their esoteric and weird communities going, otherwise it's hard to see their appeal over other social-media sites. The notable
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> If only people had free mobility...maybe everybody could just love in a place that works for them It would be nice to have free mobility + something like a low-level UBI, for people who really need to be helped and not fall through the
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by zozbot123 8y ago
These pressures would work in favor of small housing spaces, not against them. 3 small houses would in fact be worth quite a bit more than 1 house that's 3 times as large, especially in high-cost-of-living areas.
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Wouldn't it make more sense to add support for this machine family to QEMU? 68k cpu emulation is already included in QEMU, all it needs is general support for the platform itself.
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Most humiliating interview of my 20 year career. Thanks guys.
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It's interesting that the reviews also touted the fact that a "your money back" guarantee was offered. ISTM that very few people would trust a money-back guarantee from a counterfeiter.
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> I'm writing "sufficient amount", because it is obvious that a basic income experiment that doesn't allow people to get by without working would not be basic income either, but a subsidy to the salary, as they alread
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The real difference between Very Rich Guy and Homeless Guy is plausibly lower today than during any other previous era of history, including the mid-20th century. When he isn't working at Amazon or playing with his rockets, Jeff
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> I’m finally groking what rms has been banging on about for so long. It is completely unacceptable that we are running software that does this to the user. Users need to be empowered and able to run code that they can control. There are
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> Here's a crazy idea: instead of pricing congestion, let's introduce a point system with quotas tied to license plates and surge point deduction. Good idea. Then make these points tradable, and you'll reach the same optim
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ContentID is their AI. And of course it doesn't resolve anything - "AI" being opaque and unpredictable by definition - but parent wasn't saying that computers would do a better job than humans, just that they'
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> “If we just show laundry like all the other advertisements, ours will not stand out.” Very similar to the Gillette thing, in a way. Makes sense when you think about it.
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> for a subset of problems it worked well but once you had branchy code and less than very consistent memory access it was dismal. So, a lot like coding for the GPU. Makes sense, given that the low-level architecture is so similar... An
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> ...are of Caribbean origin, not the descendants of slaves Dude, seriously ? Educate yourself, FFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_British_and_Fre...
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UI components might be hard, but typing <input type="date"> into a HTML document is not hard, and it's enough for the browser to do the right thing here. This screwup was entirely self-inflicted, a consequence of ignor
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> dedicated directories for applications to keep stuff. That's what /opt is for!
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> attribute a combination of blame and envy to tech. Well, it doesn't help when techbros from 4chan and other 'techie'-linked spaces routinely troll these same journalists by suggesting that they should "learn to code
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> China was the size of Russia's economy 20 years ago, now it's nearing ten times larger. ... As Russia's economy goes nowhere for the next decade... Something doesn't add up here - why is Russia's economy so bac
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NZ is one of the countries in the world with the highest level of broad-based economic development, and is literally in the middle of nowhere-- you couldn't find a less representative example. It's nice that they have managed
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He actually meant that people are literally being robbed of their culture at gunpoint, due to hostile American influence. That's what government-enforced censorship is , after all.
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Not sure if serious, but sex censorship is mostly a bi-partisan endeavor these days. See, e.g. the whole controversy around Patreon, where creators of sexually-suggestive content and right-wing/conservative intellectuals are both faci
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The problem with legalizing prostitution is that it opens up a sanctioned venue which human traffickers can use to slip under the radar. You can have the best regulation in the world and you'll still fail to have only the entirely a
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> while this negative view of sex may not be the view of other texts in the Bible, it is very clearly part of Paul's worldview, as evidenced in e.g. 2 Corinthians. A further quibble - Paul's worldview wrt. sex is actually, and
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> The main issue with linux is the GPL for drivers That's the main benefit with Linux. OEM drivers on MS Windows are a shit show, even on Windows 10.
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> If a better search engine comes along and people switch over People are lazy. It's hard to deny that Bing and DDG are "better" in many ways, but how often does that matter? Most searches are simple and mindless - where
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This seems fallacious. The whole reason for that "more expensive targeting cohort" becoming available after tracking is its increased relevance. Otherwise, everyone would be getting the $100 ad in the first place-- the $10 ad wo

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