lyxsus1

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by lyxsus1 7y ago
> I have no clue why so many people desire to believe that our ancestors were apes Technically, we are apes, you and me. Hominids, Great apes. The degree of certainty we have about that and about core concepts of evolution is such that
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
Sometimes when I'm thinking about it and what 95% of developers are working on, it feels like a planet-wide charity project against unemployment.
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
So. Instead of giving any arguments you prefer to claim a higher ground based only on some intrinsic quality miraculously shared only by people who agree with you, but some terrible people don't and deserve pity. Nice try, but nope.
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
Well, I beg to differ. I'm against kindergarten level of moral. Look, luddism is bad for everybody in a long term. We saw riots against Uber in some country where people turn cars upside down or burn them. It hurts their earnings and t
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
> - The traffic that (apparently) comes from competitors scraping our prices exceeds the traffic coming from legit customers. We're paying more to supply data to our competitors than to our customers! Make an API, put your site behi
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
Oh hey, I got where you were mistaken! :) You assumed that people who don't want their data being scraped are the nice guys and people who want to use that data are the baddies. Nope, my point was that it's the other way around an
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
> scraper goes on to use that information in ways that are for the commercial benefit of the scraper and usually to the detriment of the site owner Yes, and they extract that benefit because in the process they add a value to that infor
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
Unpopular opinion here. I think that it would be better for most if scraping prevention was illegal if there's no API that allows authorised application to perform every action accessible to authorised user. Just imagine, how much bett
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
I don't think I'll convince you to try the latest MM, so I've ordered the one you've mentioned (Logitech's MX Master 2). It should be delivered to me tomorrow. I'll be using it for at least 1-2 weeks just for t
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
> But... why? idk exact reasoning, but it seems like they've decided to maximise design focus on primary user experience from device sacrificing almost nothing. > Logitech managed to build a significantly more comfortable mouse C
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
> What happens when the battery conks out? throw away the mouse and buy a new one That's the easiest thing to do, yes. But you can bring it to apple care, they do battery replacement for smth like $35 I guess. And if it's facto
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
> It still means the thing is unusable when charging, no matter how long a charge lasts. That was the whole purpose of putting it in a bottom. The thing works several months on a single charge and it takes just a couple of hours to recha
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
Ah, thank you. William James keeps chasing me.
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
Is it a known phrase or your good sense of humour?
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
So what if he is? Humanity can cover whole planet in asphalt and survive.
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
Surprisingly, that's how I thought about it.
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
Somebody, please explain me, why out of blue it became fashionable to put that native-sounding flavour of an accent in games and movies even when its story assumes almost every character in it is a native speaker? I always find it disturbin
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
Flippant – yes, interesting points – really not. My problem is with grandparent comment. I don't get how it's permissible to discuss ethics of other peoples reproductive choices.
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
If you don't see labour camps as a form of modern slavery, then I'm genuinely asking you to provide the definition you've learned back at school.
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
Well, we have better means for automation now. But I'm just fascinated how quickly that solution pops up in such discussions as soon as it's convenient.
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
I like how we instinctively turn to slavery when there's a grand project that becomes vital.
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
We don't know exact question asked. And even if it contained exact "stealing" phrasing, it's possible mr. Bengio simply decided to ignore connotation for sake of productive conversation. It's clear both we and him a
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
Really. Because "they" are not "Yoshua Bengio". "They" are the journalists. In a link from this quote: "You have expressed concern that corporations have ‘stolen’ talent from academia. Is this still an iss
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
What concerns me the most is a wave of people who don't like learning. It's the best part of our jobs! People are complaining about new languages, frameworks, platforms, features here more and more. There's always at least 1
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
for a while now, yes
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
Sorry, I don't think a misused quote can justify a thought crime. It would be funny and educative if we could temporarily reanimate Mr. Clifford to give him a chance to appreciate some twisted logic that is required to apply this parti
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
wow, thank you. that's amazing!
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by lyxsus1 7y ago
Do you realise that any person has a right to have a racist point of view, exchange it in conversations with like-minded people and discuss it with others, unless it doesn't result in real discrimination?
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by lyxsus1 8y ago
> I disagree entirely with this. The difference is clear -- data is not operational on its own, it requires something to operate on it. So in terms of trust, I only have to trust the software operating on the data -- and I have many choi
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by lyxsus1 8y ago
> There's a big difference between processing data from an untrusted source and allowing active code from an untrusted source to execute. With all respect, there's very little difference between code and data. > That's

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