darkengine

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by darkengine 4y ago
The exact example you mentioned (a person's weight being taboo) was my first "culture shock" when learning Japanese. My mind was opened to the multitude of prejudices carried just by speaking English many times after that. At
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by darkengine 4y ago
SESTA and FOSTA are certainly DC's doing, but I think it's fair to say there is a serious aversion to sexuality and eroticism among incumbent platforms, that did not require any prodding from US lawmakers. For example, AFAIK, Inst
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by darkengine 5y ago
I get where you're coming from, but this website is called Hacker News. Getting around limits is a primary part of the tradition.
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by darkengine 5y ago
Japan's expressways are privatized and tolled per-kilometer. They are competing with long-distance train lines, so the toll is in the same ballpark as a train ticket (about 13000 yen or $110 from Tokyo to Osaka). The privatization of t
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by darkengine 5y ago
I'm the furthest thing from a lawyer, but "knowingly and intentionally" sounds to my lay self like it's a test of mens rea. If I were operating a Tor node in the EU, I would probably assume until stated otherwise that op
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by darkengine 5y ago
Being able to send an SMS to a US phone number does not guarantee the ability to send an SMS to, eg, a Chinese phone number. SMS isn't even widely used in a lot of locales outside North America. Email works the same everywhere.
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by darkengine 5y ago
Peopleware is astonishingly relevant and short enough to finish reading over a weekend. Definitely recommend it to anyone starting a career in tech. Then give it a second glance 5-10 years in and see how many more workplace anti-patterns yo
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by darkengine 5y ago
I have to agree, I have a lot of respect for McKenzie but this advice seems unwise. I've landed four jobs (including my longest-lasting gig to date) by sending in resumes to job listings without knowing anyone internally.
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by darkengine 5y ago
Is the code or any of the models available to the public? I'd love to mess with this on a local GPU cluster.
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by darkengine 5y ago
Not offended at all. I do see some Meditations showing through here. There is a lot of wisdom to be found in that work, and plenty of parallels to be drawn to the modern world -- Aurelius was, after all, dealing with the Antonine Plague jus
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by darkengine 5y ago
I know it's bad form to move so quickly into meta-discussion on here, but I feel a lot of the comments in the thread right now are endemic of a certain closed-mindedness that has, to me, come to define in part the Hacker News zeitgeist
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by darkengine 5y ago
Satellite phone subscriptions aren't cheap, but chucking a Baofeng in the car pre-programmed with some repeaters along your route (CHIRP can do this) is free.
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by darkengine 5y ago
I definitely think you are on to something. However, while I don't know about China, in Japan I do know that premarital sex is not stigmatized and even first-date sex is not unheard of. It's true that marriage is seen as a benefit
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by darkengine 5y ago
The student dating event I described was among university students, so 18-22 age range. Japanese goukon are usually among the working crowd, but they're not exclusively for >30.
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by darkengine 5y ago
If women in east Asia actively seek out partners because they feel pressured to get married, could it also be said that men in the West actively seek out partners because being a single man is seen as loserish or otherwise low-status? I&#x2
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by darkengine 5y ago
This articulates something that feels quite truthful, but one has to take care not to assume that every sexual phenomenon is biological. For example in the States, in matching tools like group dating events and dating apps, men typically ou
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by darkengine 6y ago
This seems backwards -- anecdotally, it feels like the most politically active people I know are doing quite well for themselves. In contrast, those who are working harder to make ends meet seem more likely to be apolitical. There is some d
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by darkengine 6y ago
I was under the impression that spending your crypto required you to file and pay capital gains tax. If this is true, won't you have to have a line item for every single purchase you made with this card for the whole year on your sched
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by darkengine 6y ago
To my understanding, the GPL does not require acknowledging the original author's contributions any more publicly than the Apache license (used by the project). The Apache license already requires preserving the copyright notice, which
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by darkengine 6y ago
I'd like to see the p-value on states' political lean vs the size of their economy. Looking at the top 10 state economies on your list, 3 are swing states and 3 are red states, leaving only 4 (far from "pretty much all")
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by darkengine 6y ago
Washington has a similar law, and a referendum to repeal it was on the ballot last year (I-1000/R-88). It was narrowly defeated (ie, the law was not repealed). Interestingly, according to Ballotpedia, there were many newspaper editoria
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by darkengine 6y ago
Sadly, I think you are right. All reasoning starts with postulates that you cannot prove. For ethics and politics, these axioms are our emotions and values. Two people who have a different set of values can't have a logical argument be
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by darkengine 6y ago
I was thinking the same thing -- obscure its view with a few well-placed paintballs and see who shows up to clean it.
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by darkengine 6y ago
This is a godsend. Zoom screen share doesn't seem to work at all on Wayland.
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by darkengine 7y ago
The original Project Zero article was discussed here 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22315235
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by darkengine 7y ago
Maybe I'm missing some nuance here, but most of these (excepting maybe "Complicated explanations are suspect" and "All interconnection is apparent") just seem like different manifestations of fundamental attribution
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by darkengine 7y ago
PBS receives some funding from the US government, however it is an independent non-profit corporation. My guess is they are trying to generate much-needed funds from toy sales, as well as compete for eyeballs with other more engaging childr
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by darkengine 7y ago
What I found most interesting about this article is Singapore's practice of buying an incredible amount of sand and using it to make more Singapore. I made sure to read the cited source because this claim sounded way too similar to som
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by darkengine 7y ago
Is there any way to buy a print, or get a high-quality image for printing at home? The expanded version on the website is a pretty gnarly non-animated GIF.
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by darkengine 8y ago
GTK isn't any more "native" than Qt -- they're both abstractions atop X (or Wayland, or Broadway).

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