mlmlmasd

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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> Advertising is necessary No it's not.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> ISP are providing access/transit, not content. If you want to go that route, then none of the advertising companies, or companies that make money from advertising are providing the content either. There are several steps before th
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
No I prefer everything to be free, open source, organic, and made by volunteers. You can stop pretending that there are only two options.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> The fact is that advertising pays for much of the internet content you consume for free. I've never had free internet... which ISP do you use? > It's because of perverse incentives and a lack of regulation in the entire i
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
This whole initiative (acceptable ads) came out of Google paying off Adblock Plus. http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboo...
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
Fuck off ABP. Use uBlock Origin.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
Professors and other high-ranking academic nerds: get your students to design your websites, cause you always fuck it up. Lol.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
I can't really think of any good forms of 'security through obscurity'. Is the elimination of buffer overflow vulns and sql injections a form of obscurity? Is SSL a form of obscurity?
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
How does it make the system easier to game? > Or that could be another downside if the answer is "the moderators". To me it seems like an upside if we know when moderators are gaming the system.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> There's simply too much data that isn't public. Make it public?
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> There's no way around the need for moderator intervention on a site like HN—the clue is in the word 'moderator' itself: left to its own devices the system runs to extremes and it needs a negative feedback loop to dampen
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> What do you do with a conscript who never wanted to be there and possibly fundamentally isn't suited to military life anyway gives up? Threaten them with legal action? In some countries, you will get punished - get assigned bathro
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
Static typing is great. My point is that whether a language is statically or dynamically typed has no bearing on whether it is functional.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
Type-checking doesn't really have any bearing on weather a language is functional. Functional languages can be statically or dynamically typed.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
Wait, so you say 'that is patently ridiculous', then completely agree with me while trying to add your own little spin on it? Okay bud.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
^ That's called ideology.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
He`s not talking about policy. Most capitalistic businesses are anti-competitive regardless of policy.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
You still don't get it buddy.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> I don't think he has a problem with government spending as long as it's towards corporations instead of people. That's exactly what every right-libertarian and ancap thinks and acts according to. Most of the right-liber
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
Has infinite mathematics actually been useful for anything at all? I mean uncountable infinities, higher cardinalities, etc - not limits, and other 'pseudo-infinite' abstractions. I have never encountered these things applied to a
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> but right now it's an atrocious book if you want to learn current C and this has been the case for a long, long time. Strongly disagree.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
It only makes sense to apply such rules to closed-source and proprietary software.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
There is a difference between building something and paying others to build something.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
Language exists in this medium - language that computers cannot mimic or understand the way humans do. There is also intonation, pauses, etc.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> That's the medium - but how many bits of information, after compression, are exchanged in a conversation between humans? We don't really know, but it is much more than 10 bits a second. > He's saying that the amount o
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
> Musk explained what he meant by saying that computers can communicate at "a trillion bits per second", while humans, whose main communication method is typing with their fingers via a mobile device, can do about 10 bits per s
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
Sounds like a fun place to work though.
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
Seems to be just a marketing page with no link to source code or even mention of open source? Here is the github page: https://github.com/Microsoft/GraphEngine
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
Avoiding bugs is the default in software development in any language, no? If you have pointer DSL that can lead to various bugs, replacing it with a more complex pointer DSL is not a good way to avoid bugs. And I don't think C++ '
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by mlmlmasd 10y ago
I have a joint for you buddy. :)

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