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by baot 7y ago
Trains go at 400km/h
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by baot 7y ago
>and rebel against i.e. intentionally use definitions you know are confusing and then - as language is famously a single person endeavour - blaming the listener when they misunderstand. This arrangement works particularly well as a shibb
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by baot 7y ago
Eminent domain exists in the West, too
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by baot 7y ago
Sorry, I'm not as enlightened as you. Which self driving car do you own?
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by baot 7y ago
Games are very un-'clean'. They can stop working just a few years after release and they don't support any kind of developments in the platform (framerate limits, resolution limits, OS support). Understandable, there's n
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by baot 7y ago
If that was true, you wouldn't be behind the wheel at all. The transmission can't see the road ahead and prepare in advance.
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by baot 7y ago
I'd consider 35 people who felt that suicide was better than leaving is a pretty solid display of why that argument doesn't work.
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by baot 7y ago
c++ is in narrow niches?!
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by baot 7y ago
You need to pay commission and spread every time you rebalance your portfolio (daily, if you copy the frequency of modern funds) So at the £5ish/trade of my current broker, that's a cool £912500/year on just commission. For s
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by baot 7y ago
I haven't managed to get this working yet on my phone but: would it be possible for the same code to be used for the tones of other languages?
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by baot 7y ago
I think it's worth noting that S&P 500 index funds didn't exist until the 70s. You'd be spending a lot of time and money to approximate it before that.
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by baot 7y ago
Let's be honest, people on HN aren't limited in where they live by poverty. As I said, it was possible 100 years ago. We -as a society- have brought this rut on ourselves.
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by baot 7y ago
You only chose to live that far from work, in a place that gets a foot of snow, because you assumed you could make the journey in a petroleum car. It wouldn't have been possible 100 years in the past and it won't be possible 100 y
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by baot 7y ago
She lives in Hong Kong.
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by baot 7y ago
Well firstly, you as a reader did actually know the context. That's why you could tell everyone else. Secondly, giving that context requires the writer to know that it's not normal. If it's not normal. Yet you've failed
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by baot 7y ago
That's an extraordinary level of understanding of someone's motivations and morality that I would characterise as 'baseless'.
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by baot 7y ago
Celeste (a platforming game) has an enemy who copies your inputs, making them appear to chase you.
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by baot 7y ago
A reporter in China tweets to people who choose to follow a reporter in China and you accuse her of being disingenuous for failing to accommodate it being posted on an international website, out of context. That's quite self-centred.
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by baot 7y ago
Unfortunately, pragmatism like yours sounds unconvincing compared to the more passionate positions of somebody against nuclear fission power. It doesn't mix well with an expensive project with a long development time that risks being c
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by baot 7y ago
I hear Softbank are offering 20 billion
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by baot 7y ago
Why did you choose to live 8mi from your daily obligations? I think walking would obviously be even better.
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by baot 7y ago
It's just nationalism
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by baot 7y ago
The reasons in the link are fairly ridiculous
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by baot 7y ago
>Noise should be opt in; not opt out. That's a great way of putting it. One of my pet peeves is along a similar line. I have a quiet voice. When I was younger, I had a quieter voice. The change happened because people were happy to
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by baot 7y ago
I think it's silly: the idea that free software is primarily done unpaid is just a myth, as can be seen from the attendees of any major free software conference, or the commit history of the major codebases. The killer feature of copyl
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by baot 7y ago
So what is to stop someone else who wants a slice of that 3 billion? We have AWS and Keepass (though it is GPL) for anyone to quickly implement there own competitor, or the already-huge userbases of Google, Apple, and Mozilla's impleme
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by baot 7y ago
That's actually what I ended up doing to 'fix' it. It's disappointing, yet not surprising, to learn it's intentional subversion of the API.
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by baot 7y ago
I also noticed they've started resetting the notification settings I set through the Android settings menu for Messenger. I didn't know this was supposed to be possible.
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by baot 7y ago
What remarkable luck they were born after planes were invented!
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by baot 7y ago
And to have them all agree to do it with you. Which they won't.

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