iamsohungry

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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> I think in general adults should be able to make up their minds about ingesting chemicals that might hurt them. However, it makes sense to make an exception -- if the chemical has addictive properties and empirically is likely to have
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> So are you saying countries should retreat from Syria and let things fall where they may, or are you saying we should get more involved? I'm saying that our current involvement in Syria is worse than not being involved, and talkin
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> It's debatable. Do you stand aside and look the other way and say, that's their lot in the world, or do you do something. > It's not an was call. If you do nothing people die. If you try to do something people will di
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> However, by far the most infuriating (and one I run into frequently in my line of work, hence the anger) is when you are trying to get the language running on a platform for which binary bootstraps do not yet exist. > Portability ma
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
I'm fine with cracking down on ISIS propaganda as long as we also crack down on the propaganda of hawks in the West. ISIS is bad, no question there. But the US invasion of Iraq has caused more deaths than the fighting with ISIS. We nee
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
I dunno, but I've read some of the books from this year's list and I liked them. Especially Mindset: The New Psychology of Success , although I think it was a bit longer than it needed to be. It's a high value book, but I go
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
Yes. :)
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
Graph databases are exciting, but I'm far more interested in the potential of append-only stores. Rather than recording data at all, you store events (item added, item deleted, etc.). This allows auditability and for you to look back a
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> I play video games, and I can't imagine what the latency would be like over a mesh network. 1. Neither can anyone, because we don't have examples of large-scale usage of mesh networks, and the amount of research that has gone
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> Not being able to find private space in your multi-million dollar open floor plan modern home is one of those good kind of problems to have. If you want to live in a home with private space it isn't exactly hard to do. Since when
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> As far as I can tell, this prevents countries from demanding source code to a closed source product as a condition for selling into a country. Seams reasonable? How could this possibly be reasonable? Being able to look at the source co
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
The bill of rights is a set of meta-laws and as such is separated from the problems that laws solve by a level of indirection, and as such they have to be more abstract and general to cover all laws that could be made. I don't think it
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
I realize you're joking, but in the context of this discussion, this shouldn't be mistaken for a valid point. We're talking about how to structure a society, and I think it makes sense to structure society in a way that allow
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
Is it really? If we can provide a mesh network that is as effective as older topologies but cheaper, the problem is solved, period. If we break up ISPs into smaller ISPs, then we have to maintain that solution, as giant companies are consta
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
Bob Black's essay, The Abolition of Work gives an alternative dichotomy to the "work versus idleness" dichotomy: work versus play. You can be paid for playing if your play produces value (and many forms of play do produce v
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> Today's youth think the suburbs was about race now? It was about a lot of people don't actually like living in a concrete jungle, that was what it was about. Ugh. You realize that people can do things for more than one reason
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> But then, I think all the major telcos are scum. The solution is decentralization through mesh networks.
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> yeah, very self consistent, pretend you care about the GPL, then decide it is the vendor you really care about. No, I'd be saying that about any other vendor who released code under a proprietary open source license, too. > Wh
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
If typing is the bottleneck in your development you're not solving difficult problems and could probably make more money solving difficult problems at a different job.
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
Goethe and Twain are dead. Murakami is still alive.
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
There's room for plenty of things that I don't care about. I don't care about open source software that is still controlled by Apple.
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
Because when 100 people in front of you do it for 1% of the experience, it's 100% of your experience.
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
I think the problem here is that nested comprehensions and filter comprehensions are almost always too complex. If you are doing something that requires that, you should break it up and give the pieces names: odd_numbers = range(1, li
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
When all 50 people in front of you do it, the cost to the experience is pretty big.
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> They would like to have the photo in addition to the experience You don't get to have both. You have to take time out of the experience to take a picture of it. > typically so that they can remember it. This reason makes sense
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> I have yet to see research that providing a zero-rating service is harmful as you suggest. "Internet.org provides access to a subset of the internet that Facebook chooses to pay for." > Last time I glanced through the agr
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> I do think most people place a higher value on photos they took themselves - that much is obvious. That's true, but it seems absurd to me to place a higher value on a photo than the experience itself.
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> It's a direct connection to the place and the event, a momentum. It's absolutely not direct connection. You're looking at the phone which is looking at the thing, not looking at the thing. It's more direct than a pr
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
I haven't thoroughly researched cert pinning, but it seems like basically the same as the SSH message you get when you SSH into a new server. If my understanding is correct, it does nothing to solve this problem. 1. It only prevents yo

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