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by ebcode 8y ago
> Is it normal that I don't have close friends and that I'm solitary? Am I missing out on anything? Given your interest in type theory, it's definitely normal for you to be solitary. Most mathematicians are. A lot of write
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Digiloi: Action game with C64 default characters(oldmachinery.blogspot.com)
4 points by ebcode 8y ago|0 comments
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Communities.com, the True History (2000)(thecan.org)
1 points by ebcode 8y ago|0 comments
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by ebcode 8y ago
Not just US-specific, but anywhere where the police force believes themselves to be separate from the folks they are policing. The police force in the US arose from "slave patrols." So in Germany, you might have "Germans poli
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by ebcode 8y ago
Fiskars, Nokia, BP
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by ebcode 8y ago
ኾᥱΛ᜶ұ, you don't?
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by ebcode 8y ago
> I recommend everyone to read the Cypherpunk Mailing List archives to understand the situations. https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/
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by ebcode 8y ago
I'm seeing some really interesting JavaScript techniques in the turtlevm.js[1] source. This line in particular stands out: const code = String(work).trim().split("{").slice(1).join("{").slice(0, - 1).trim().replace
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by ebcode 8y ago
> I then did the most chaotic neutral thing I could and created the longest possible repository name. This sentence just made my day. Thanks for posting.
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by ebcode 8y ago
It is relevant because the parent made a disparaging remark about Indians on Quora, while having a username with a borrowed word from India. I dislike the antipathy shown towards Indians online (and off), and I try to combat it where I can.
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by ebcode 8y ago
Yet you have the Indians to thank for your username: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru
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by ebcode 8y ago
> Let’s make 2019 the year we push back against the forces subverting the open spirit of the web. I used to like TBL, but I can no longer take him seriously when he says stuff like this, after his decision[0] to allow DRM/EME[1] int
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by ebcode 8y ago
When the Roman Empire found Jesus and slowly devolved into the Roman Catholic Church over the next thousand years, its "war on paganism" spread throughout Europe and Asia, with a death toll that is hard to estimate, but easily in
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by ebcode 8y ago
What's your show?
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by ebcode 8y ago
Just found this from 2016: https://blockmetry.com/blog/javascript-disabled That post also implies that the figure is stable. Your second paragraph is a perfect example of the kind of attitude that I think is problemati
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by ebcode 8y ago
No I don't, unfortunately. But I imagine that this figure will be fairly stable for the foreseeable future. There are always going to be people with disabilities who turn off JavaScript for accessibility reasons, and privacy-conscious
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by ebcode 8y ago
Out Of The Crisis.
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by ebcode 8y ago
>You think the 0.001% of people who browse with JS disabled are the primary target for such a website? Because you obviously grabbed this number out of thin air, I would like the HN community to know that the actual percentage of users w
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by ebcode 8y ago
But a geek trying to save face and get more bandwidth at the same time is the very best worker.
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by ebcode 8y ago
Thanks for sharing these links. I first came across David Ackley watching the Artificial Life II Video proceedings from 1992, where he was demoing an agent-based simulator. So it's interesting (and quite amazing) to see how far his re
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by ebcode 8y ago
That's a familiar argument, but I just realized that it mistakes scale for evolution. I imagine that if there are aliens, they are closer to the scale of a human than an ant.
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by ebcode 8y ago
> What is missing in much of the recent discussion about engaging with the Pentagon is the simple fact that there probably wouldn’t be a Silicon Valley as we know it without government defense contracts. Times change. The DoD is not what
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by ebcode 8y ago
I had the login page cached in my browser, so there's a bit of javascript that pops up an alert. They suffered a major DDOS attack a while back, and I'm guessing that their servers being down intermittently is going to be part of
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by ebcode 8y ago
It's down for me. Getting this message on the login page: "ProtonMail cannot be reached right now, please try again later."
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Climate change and the future of air travel(imperial.ac.uk)
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by ebcode 8y ago
I believe the word you're looking for is Jobsian. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jobsian
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by ebcode 8y ago
This looks awesome, and I'm really happy that the inventor is getting funding for this and bringing it to market. Some of you may remember this from the arduino website when it was called OpenCat: https://create.arduino.cc&#
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by ebcode 8y ago
Yep, definitely click-bait to make it seem like a sweep that just happened. Recommending the following headline instead: "Google has fired 48 employees since 2016 due to sexual harassment".
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by ebcode 8y ago
> Dumb people are incapable of learning unless they get burned on the stove a few times. I'm having a hard time not applying your statement to the entire human race. Not that I think we're all "dumb people", but we al
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by ebcode 8y ago
The Sieve of Eratosthenes is one of my favorites, and surprisingly has yet to be mentioned. I imagine I would spend many days researching prime numbers if I hadn't read "The Mystery of the Aleph" in time. I'm keen to kee

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