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by asjw 6y ago
I don't understand if this has to be considered an answer to the previous post, it sound more like a reaction But if > China is bad because it is a horrific human rights abuser without democratic elections. What about US where peopl
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by asjw 6y ago
A bank is not a single entity, it's made of people converging after reaching consensus There are a lot of banks, with different interests that usually compete with each other and work under regulations that have been discussed and appr
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by asjw 6y ago
Back in the days I was there :) In late 80s I was actively involved in some of the BBS of my city, that also gave access to Usenet, engaging mainly in cyberpunk, science fiction and C programming Eternal September is still going on
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by asjw 6y ago
That's actually a great idea! I would also abolish votes in general and only sort comments chronologically. users could vote and see the posts/comments ordered by their votes that would not be public The "first" kind of
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by asjw 6y ago
There's a rule 34 in porn, but also a rule 34 in history: if it happened, Romans have already done it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras_(freedman)
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by asjw 6y ago
Relevance. if the search results has less relevance and historical data has lower importance compared to spikes in interest at the moment of the search, it's worse For example medical related searches right now prioritize covid relate
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by asjw 6y ago
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by asjw 6y ago
Unfortunately for you I am exactly from southern Europe, from Rome in Italy to be precise. I think you should visit here, I would show you how much noise people from other countries make, especially Americans. I'm sure you made it as a
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by asjw 6y ago
Any brand wants potential customers And social networks have hundreds of millions of them Do you think Coca Cola cares if KKK members drink it and bottles of Coke are shown in pictures of their rallies? Brand awareness is more important to
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by asjw 6y ago
There is no way that something that is not enforceable will succeed though. Plus forgiveness works only on then forgiver side, nothing stop others to keep doing what they are doing after you forgave them. I would argue that the main reason
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by asjw 6y ago
I've seen it, several times, and I am both an Jodorowski's huge fan and an avid reader of the books I'm a dreamer and I really hope that Villeneuve's Dune will bring some of those what ifs to life Knowing that Jodorowski
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by asjw 6y ago
Even though it went through different restoration processes, the original is still the original Much like the Amphitheatre Nimes is not closer to the original Colosseum, even though it suffered much less damages over the centuries and had v
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by asjw 6y ago
They where created more or less in the same "old days" Erlang is from 1986, BEAM from 1991-1992
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by asjw 6y ago
In Italy we work approximately 220 days a year, 5 days a week, we have 52 weekends (as everybody else) 24 days of payed holidays and another 10 days of national holidays. six months, 6 days a week it's about 160 days. Working an hour a
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by asjw 6y ago
The documentary about South Park studios production process "6 days to air" is pretty great I watch it regularly to not forget how to give everything you can in a short time span and still enjoy what you're doing I learned to
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by asjw 6y ago
Because some protection is better than no protection Why use a condom which doesn't protect you 100%?
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by asjw 6y ago
Yeah people burnt witches in the past ... If they are confident that this feature has no privacy implications they are right to defend the point, despite what people say or think People don't run DDG, the company People can use another
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by asjw 6y ago
It's true, but for some workloads. I wonder, and I really wish it's gonna be a game changer, how well they will behave on jobs that go on for hours or days at full CPU load.
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by asjw 6y ago
A thousand dollars is 1/12 of the average Chinese annual salary That's why they buy 99$ phones You're comparing a few millions people living in SV with billions of people making less than 10 dollars a day and assuming that t
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by asjw 6y ago
> so the manufacturer protects you from these risks. Gigabytes of pictures in an archive called "the fappening" say a different story.
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by asjw 6y ago
I don't have to go full PWA to make useful apps And don't have to go through an app store, creating an account, paying Apple, waiting for their opaque reviews and giving them 30% of whatever amount I make through my app. Android h
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by asjw 6y ago
But a billion+ users do Android on a 99$ phone
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by asjw 6y ago
Vast majority of users go back home and browse on their laptops because a big screen is better than a credit card Vast majority of users will use whatever you throw at them, especially if they're friction free (no account needed, no cr
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by asjw 6y ago
Moderation hides content That's the biggest limit of moderated forums, they only reflect the opinion of the most active groups who can steer the discussion helped by moderators who benefit from rewarding the largest groups instead of t
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by asjw 6y ago
This really reminds me of good times I started a company with friends to write games for phones, before they were smart Our fist breakthrough was at E3 in LA with a game for Nokia 7650, but we worked on prototypes years before My first mobi
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by asjw 6y ago
So Facebook should be considered a proxy for frauds delivered through Facebook. I agree .
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by asjw 6y ago
Flash could do it
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by asjw 6y ago
Well, both of the previous answers prove my point US is a a dangerous country and the police is not doing a good job at all If there are so many homicides, who should prevent them? If after killing a hundred people a month (by shooting at t
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by asjw 6y ago
Not to disagree with the post in general, but at a thousand/year shot and killed by the police in US, they probably are one of the most dangerous threat For comparison in Italy in 2019 there have been 3 people killed by the police, and
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by asjw 6y ago
> I stick with Apple for the privacy. The problema Is if you stick with Apple hardware there is no OS alternative you're stuck with what the dictator (benevolent or not) decides

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