lalc

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by lalc 11y ago
>Democracy does exactly that - it gives everyone the same vote, regardless what minority they come from. Therefore, it protects any minority for maximum possible extent. From my reading, doesn't this say nothing? "democracy p
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by lalc 12y ago
I just want to say: HN is bursting with great articles today.
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by lalc 12y ago
Right, book publishers are largely middlemen. Let the old ways die and a hundred new business models flourish.
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by lalc 13y ago
Yep, lots of workplaces are like this. As you do care, get away from PHP ASAP. Beware of structuring and refactoring too much, or writing low-ROI tests. You must find balance.
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by lalc 13y ago
At least now we have Mozilla Persona. Oh, and a shining example of good mobile fingerprint reader UX. Soon...
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by lalc 13y ago
I bet it has lots to explore and "lovingly crafted" I can buy, but "gorgeous"? Not everything can be gorgeous. Maybe try "quirky" or "with character"? Anyway, buying to support, and wishing you succ
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by lalc 13y ago
When you become sure what the future price of BTC will be, please, do tell.
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by lalc 13y ago
I believe proprioception is resilient to minor offsets or miscalibration, as I've seen such illusions at science exhibits--false hands that you're tricked into thinking is your own. And the STEM system (absolute body position trac
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by lalc 13y ago
Yeah, virtual phone and virtual laptop seem ridiculous when you have an AR headset. There's even a virtual laptop keyboard... how could the glasses possibly detect your typing? That Oculus demo looks great! See, there's an honest
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by lalc 13y ago
I'm writing a middlebrow (lowbrow, really) dismissal because this actually deserves it. This is... shamelessly phony. "Your laptop is now a hologram"?[1] Do I have to 3D scan my laptop in? Are they going to mind-upload my Int
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by lalc 13y ago
I have to admit I'm ignorant as to what Java libraries I'm missing out on by not using a JVM language. I hear about this advantage a lot though! What are some examples of good Java libraries that aren't as good in other commo
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by lalc 13y ago
To get back into your account you're provided backup codes that you're supposed to store somewhere safe. Otherwise, if your phone were stolen you'd be out of luck, yes.
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by lalc 13y ago
Re: photos of you being posted: You can enable manual approval of you-being-tagged appearing in your Timeline in privacy settings.
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by lalc 13y ago
I get that App.net is supposed about owning your own data, and sure there's a brief mention of PRISM at the top. But why I would want to write an app for it in the era of PRISM? How can I trust this notion of a "private cloud?&quo
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by lalc 13y ago
Really cute mechanism in http://507movements.com/mm_123.html The little pins hit the V in the center gear and cause it to shift to the other gear. Neat!
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by lalc 13y ago
>Any legitimate business accepting payment in bitcoins can only receive bitcoins from other registered addresses, else they are black flagged and no longer a registered address. This particular implementation wouldn't actually wor
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by lalc 13y ago
Do you know what GC does?
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by lalc 13y ago
That is a really silly article. The author extrapolates hundreds and then thousands of years into the future.
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by lalc 13y ago
That's CloudFlare responding to the influx of HN visitors. Site admin probably has their security setting too high.
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by lalc 13y ago
Yeah, I just migrated from Linode to Ramnode (just in time!) and I'm quite happy with the performance. Great network connectivity.
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by lalc 13y ago
And here I just finally finished migrating to RamNode for this very reason a week ago. Frick.
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by lalc 13y ago
>Work, being a core part of life, is meant to be interesting, engaging, and meaningful. Otherwise, why are we wasting our time on this planet? A little early for April Fools'. Let's try this again. >Work, being a core part of lif
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by lalc 14y ago
This looks great and that is a huge amount of effort. I have to ask about what I think is the elephant in the room: Surely you must have noticed that all your mountains are chopped off at the exact same altitude? Wouldn't the scene look way
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by lalc 14y ago
Food isn't as fungible as change, but there's still opportunity cost. Each dollar they don't have to spend on food is a dollar that can be spent on drugs instead.
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by lalc 14y ago
Here I was thinking you were referring to the Japanese meme "No ___, No Life!"
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by lalc 14y ago
I'd like to see a custom version of Chromium for this purpose. Google's sandboxing is great. Just reduce the attack surface by stripping out non-essentials like plugins, SVG, WebGL, NaCl, etc. etc. and you have a pretty darn secure browser.
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by lalc 14y ago
Here's an obscure crypto algorithm I hand-rolled: http://instacode.linology.info/15261 You've probably never heard of it.
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by lalc 14y ago
Step 1: Write the next PayPal.
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by lalc 14y ago
I'm assuming this is being posted (from 1987!) because of how hilariously wrong it was.
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by lalc 14y ago
Quite a bit of it pokes fun at General AI researchers from the '80s, actually.

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