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by mapgrep 6mo ago
You've shown your words to be meaningless. You said the U.S. car brands were "completely irrelevant" outside the U.S., here you admit that's wrong. You move the goalpost and change your assertion to something entirely di
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by mapgrep 6mo ago
The Western carmakers have been responding rationally to market signals in moving away from EVs, meanwhile Chinese carmakers are responding rationally to government mandates and subsidies. It's actually the Western approach that is log
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by mapgrep 3y ago
That’s interesting about Austria, thanks for that! I may have underestimated them. (I did check their growth rate and for whatever reason not as strong as S Korea…)
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by mapgrep 3y ago
Post made some good points but in the end it's pretty nihilistic to say that elite spaces shouldn't exist merely because they tend to cultivate elites and other elite spaces. Also very reductive to say that Harvard exists just to
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by mapgrep 3y ago
The best insight in the article is actually this: > cheaper real estate presents an opportunity for employers with vision On top of any deterioration in office rents, companies need way less space than they used to since people are worki
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by mapgrep 3y ago
No comparison between the excellent economic growth of South Korea and that of Greece, Hungary, Austria, or Italy going back to either cold war or post cold war days, despite this hypothesis of "empire gradient". If you google &qu
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by mapgrep 4y ago
…he says, as his company eagerly does business with Xi in China. No organization I am part of will ever do business with you if I can stop it. You fought for Turing but I suppose the Uyghur concentration camps mean nothing to you. They are
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by mapgrep 5y ago
You’ve correctly observed that success can bring unpleasant side effects. I think it’s too late to save Linux from this. It is used by all manner of parasites. The tracking bugs that slow down the web and invade our privacy? They are quite
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by mapgrep 5y ago
It’s worse than birth control. There are concentration camps in xinjiang. Called “re-education” or “vocational training.” There are many places to begin educating yourself on this (not directed at the person I’m replying to, but to the down
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by mapgrep 5y ago
This has already happened. Chen Quanguo was party secretary in Tibet during a major crackdown there and in 2016 transferred to be party secretary of Xinjiang where he led a very similar campaign of severe repression. He remains party secret
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by mapgrep 5y ago
Totally incorrect. The most cursory research (e.g. a Google for “US government”, a search on the nytimes, lookup in the AP style guide) will refute this. Anyway, regardless of your personal definition of the term, the intent of communicatio
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by mapgrep 5y ago
In open source the trend unfortunately seems to be toward a Readme.md with a couple of simplistic examples, then you’re left to read the source in lieu of a proper API reference. I still remember CPAN perldocs as a high water mark for docs.
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by mapgrep 5y ago
Legal documents do this as well (albeit in different language, typically at the top of the document).
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by mapgrep 5y ago
My experience with Apple store is also similar to the experience described (actively making false statements, in my case about a laptop logic board).
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by mapgrep 5y ago
OP was correctly refuting the prior post which claimed "US govt" (that means federal) is "mostly in the business of insurance (welfare, healthcare) and 'education'. Defense and infrastructure come some time after th
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by mapgrep 5y ago
From the white paper published on netbsd.org: “ An implementation that does this ships with NetBSD, allowing the NetBSD drivers to be run in NetBSD userspace… The first major PCI driver developed was the In- tel Centrino 7260 driver develop
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by mapgrep 5y ago
Maybe read this whitepaper: https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/justin/2015_Asi... “ The rump kernel has been used as a way to supply device drivers in other new operating systems, which do not yet h
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by mapgrep 5y ago
> other major cloud providers catch CSAM content on their platform by inspecting every file uploaded So does Apple. EDIT: some people don’t like that answer, but “inspecting” in this context clearly means “digitally inspecting” (Google d
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by mapgrep 5y ago
That is super interesting. I will say the package manager (pkgsrc) seems to be very portable as well. It’s default on netbsd, smartos/illumos, and minix, but also available for macOS, Linux, and other operating systems. I use it routin
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by mapgrep 5y ago
The risk is real in banking. I wasn't just referring to customers there, but to the whole system, since the criticism of this idea has been quite broad. But there is some real risk for customers. There are caps on FDIC coverage and t
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by mapgrep 5y ago
Thanks and be sure to post the distribution here on HN if it ever happens, call recording sounds great (I achieve this only with a tangle of wires, adapters, and a physically separate audio recorder)
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by mapgrep 5y ago
My point is, Apple has already crossed the rubicon of allowing users to lock themselves out of their data. On an iPhone, regardless of auto-erase settings, if you lock yourself out, Apple cannot help you.
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by mapgrep 5y ago
What initially drove you to Calyx vs Lineage? I'm new to the Android fork landscape. I gravitate to /e/os because I like that it's prepackaged, but have no qualms about rooting a phone myself if the OS is good. My main c
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by mapgrep 5y ago
On laptop I moved to Qubes a few years ago, on a ThinkPad X1 carbon which is an amazing machine. I keep a c2014 MacBook around for miscellaneous things (e.g. syncing Spotify local songs to my phone over local WiFi, which I have not figured
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by mapgrep 5y ago
> abstract problem solving, logic, bigger-picture-how-things-fit-together. These skills are not unique to programming. It’s true that building sophisticated applications requires skills that need to be developed over time. But there are
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by mapgrep 5y ago
/e/os seems reasonably good for phones. It’s far from an iPhone or even stock new Android but not an order of magnitude worse and none of this file scanning.
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by mapgrep 5y ago
> For users, if you enable this feature, but then lose your password, you are entirely screwed and Apple can't help you. Exactly the same with the phone if you forget your PIN/passcode. So they already do this.
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by mapgrep 5y ago
I think one of the best things the U.S. government could do would be to buy and nationalize 1password and give everyone a license. Canadians too, since it was one of your companies :-) I am being intentionally outrageous but do genuinely fe
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by mapgrep 5y ago
The browser isn’t the only consumer of an api, they are called server to server as well (and this was particularly common when they couldn’t be called directly from the browser). Headlines from other sites, weather, hit counters, all that g
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by mapgrep 5y ago
Your first sentence is wrong for many scenarios and is meaningless without a time interval. Over a period of 10 years the risk historically is absolutely higher from inflation than a total market mutual fund. If people were good at sweeping

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