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by zzalpha 9y ago
You know, I went into this article skeptical, but I'm now a believer if it works for this couple. Solid relationships are built on communication that enables conscious compromises and deliberate decisions to accommodate one another whi
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by zzalpha 9y ago
This is the sad reality behind much of content creation nowadays. Don't be fooled. It's always been this way. In fact, there was a time when content creators didn't get rich at all. If they were lucky they made a living,
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by zzalpha 9y ago
So, basically like every other artform. Be it indie music, indie movies, or various physical artforms, unless you win the lottery by hitting it big (of which a significant factor is pure luck), you ain't gettin' rich. Is this surp
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by zzalpha 9y ago
What happens to that coffee once it's behind the door is, of course, purely speculation. Its times like this that I'm reminded of the risks of failing to fund high-quality investigative journalism...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Let's set aside the claim that stating an argument can be "sexually abusive"--I can't express how ridiculous that is--and cut to the core of your argument, which, if I may, can be summarized as follows: When it comes t
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by zzalpha 9y ago
But it is sexist to not believe not a single woman but a number of women who come out and support TK. ROFL. I could literally replace the word "support" with "do not support" in this sentence and it would be an equall
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by zzalpha 9y ago
If it were truly a sexist culture as was claimed then you wouldn’t be seeing these testimonials. Fascinating. One group of women saying the culture in Uber is corrosive? Well that's rumour and innuendo. But another group of women sa
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by zzalpha 9y ago
To add to the other reply, here's my analysis: Well, Bancor itself is... interesting. The background section of the whitepaper provides the motivation: https://www.bancor.network/static/Bancor_Protocol_Whitepaper.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Initial coin offering. https://qz.com/1004892/the-bancor-ico-just-raised-153-millio... Think crowd funding meets IPO with digital contracts. Which, to me, is just begging for another DAO fiasco... I know I have my popc
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Yes: the reason they bring it up is that the issue provides a powerful moralistic cudgel against Assange, a threat to their business model. Oh this is just beyond ridiculous. They bring it up because people's lives were put at risk
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by zzalpha 9y ago
"Main point"? That's a point among many. This is a documentary about Assange himself. By definition that means a study of the man, not strictly a study of the issues. So "kvetching about Assange's personality an
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by zzalpha 9y ago
J2ME is nowhere near being hard real-time. ...and? Believe it or not, not every embedded application has a hard real-time requirement. You're just moving the OP's goalposts to make a point, here.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Compared to a complete Linux kernel, the Go runtime is pretty tiny. Buy to your point there is no magic answer. The question is rather: when is the capabilities of a full OS kernel like Linux worth the resources needed to run it? And the
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Hah, that's a fair point, actually. Maybe I'm using a different definition of 'embedded system'. To me, anything that's a general purpose application processor these days (i.e. capable of running Linux) barely fits
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I'm really not sure the drive for garbage collected languages in memory constrained systems with no user recoverability. Seems like a recipe for a device that just stops working from time to time. J2ME would like to have a word with
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I don't think that deleting a bunch of cruft from the app store will "create a cultural black hole for generations to come." Imagine people had said that same with old DOS games? The article makes a very valid point regardi
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by zzalpha 9y ago
How does Idris' Java compatibility compare? Simply compiling to the JVM is nice, but unless it can cleanly interoperate with the rest of the Java ecosystem, it simply cannot take the place of something like Scala.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
As a non-smoker who has indulged in the odd cigar, I disagree. The buzz, alone, is intense and very pleasurable (though probably less so for regular smokers). There's a reason cigarettes and coffee (or alcohol) go so well together. Wh
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Sure, it could also be that! But Chromium is undoubtedly a significant part of the problem.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
If, by "rendering engine", you mean the full instance of Chromium being run to drive the app... the full instance of Chromium that nothing else on your machine shares... yeah, I guess you could say it's the rendering engine.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I also think that the electron hate is overhyped. If you really don't want the overhead, use the website instead. (eg Slack) So... you think the Electron hate is "overhyped". And then recommend people not use Electron apps
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I really wish I could agree. On a core i7 with 16GB and a completely fresh Windows 10 install that has never had Firefox on it (so we can't blame an old profile on the machine), Firefox with a single plugin (Keefox) is noticeably slowe
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by zzalpha 9y ago
No kidding. I can't even use Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnels because Netflix thinks I'm trying to intentionally circumvent geolocks when I just want V6 support... sigh
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by zzalpha 9y ago
If wallet security didn't require levels of opsec that no regular human can manage or understand, you might have a point. But you can't blame a layman for preferring to trust an ostensibly secure service in lieu of screwing up sec
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Indeed they have not. They're the archetype of the late stage startup.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I somehow doubt you'll get one. A quick Google search suggests they exist, but they're hardly a large portion of the overall bodybuilding community.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I agree, that number is absurdly low. I made more than that during an internship back in the early 2000s...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Heck, Alberta is providing a model for how to regulate and insure Uber drivers. The only reason the rollout was paused last year was because the insurance issue couldn't be resolved in time. That has since been resolved and Uber is a
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by zzalpha 9y ago
It says a lot that you think the only alternative is "1960s-era IBM, going to work in a suit, and other dull things"... Personally, I simply prefer to surround myself with people who've grown out of the phase where they value
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Judging by the emailed cited in the article, I no longer assume what is and isn't obvious to the founders of Uber, and I certainly don't assume they have even a modicum of sense... ;)

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