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by plerpin 5y ago
The thing that really bothers me about Weinstein's approach is that, while he and his wife are scientists, they're exceedingly quick to assert their hunches as scientific fact. They wear their scientist labels on their sleeves but
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by plerpin 5y ago
"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing."
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by plerpin 5y ago
A black bar to commemorate the loss of a dear community member, with their death a warning of the real human cost of online toxicity and intolerance.
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by plerpin 5y ago
At my university, the fratboys were far, far, FAR more disruptive than the LGBT groups. But we go with it; fratboy are an accepted pupal stage of American men it seems
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by plerpin 5y ago
Really neat! This ought to be a Hacker News "why don't they just...?" holy grail. Now applying homomorphic encryption to solve privacy woes might actually be possible!
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by plerpin 5y ago
Everything in a single process? Assuming that everything running on the computer is benevolent is a very "so 80s" notion. Rust programmers use unsafe escape hatches all the time BTW.
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by plerpin 5y ago
It's vertical integration. As long as we're wishing for fairness I wish Apple would share those tasty M1 processors with the rest of the non-Mac world.
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by plerpin 5y ago
Their PR lets them have it both ways.
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by plerpin 5y ago
Toyota makes a version of the Outback, it's called the Venza. People ignore it and buy the Highlander instead.
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by plerpin 5y ago
It would be really interesting if someone could benchmark the performance before and after the transition.
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by plerpin 5y ago
I think that working from the office 5 days a week is on the table if your home isn't set up for remote work.
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by plerpin 5y ago
I'm still bitter about the shutdown of Windows Reader.
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by plerpin 5y ago
>The main obstacle is the bandwidth cost ...hence the ads? How would competitors be immune to the need to pay the bills?
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by plerpin 5y ago
It's not for lack of trying. Microsoft would love to get a taste, but their online products don't stick.
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by plerpin 6y ago
Huh? What does that even mean?
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by plerpin 6y ago
I wish there was a stickied post feature to head off these sorts of RSS measuring contests. Multiprocess applications, and especially multiprocess applications with really big discardable caches, are extremely difficult to compare apples-to
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by plerpin 6y ago
It does not. Bitcoin is a commodity, not a currency, so you have to pay capital gains on any appreciation that you realize. Active traders of Bitcoin have to track the bases of their lots so that they can pay taxes on each sale.
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by plerpin 6y ago
No mention of the acquisition by Justin Sun/TRON. Things got even weirder once crypto came into the picture.
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I Paid $250 to Drive for Lyft Last Year(jalopnik.com)
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by plerpin 6y ago
A blockchain based storage system means that every participant will need to store every video forever in order to achieve consensus. If the blockchain uses URLs to external resources, then those can be easily be taken down.
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by plerpin 6y ago
A mechanism for regulatory compliance will probably err on the side of less exposure to lawsuits. They're stuck between a rock and a hard place, but the demands imposed by the government for copyright compliance are backed by a bigger
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by plerpin 6y ago
Ah, crypto and fraud, peas in a pod.
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by plerpin 6y ago
What more proof could you need? In what universe would Windows' market penetration NOT be considered a monopoly?
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by plerpin 6y ago
Advertisers have always chosen where they want their ads to be seen, and what types of content they don't want to be associated with. That's censorship, now?
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by plerpin 6y ago
>Tether has everything to do with the bitcoin markets and the price of bitcoin, which is the only thing basically anyone is interested in. Tether has become the proverbial suitcase of IOUs. The GP is outraged about the government stealin
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by plerpin 6y ago
"Commodity hardware being competitive" isn't a desirable thing either? Remember when Ethereum caused a run on desirable GPUs? Miners were buying them by the truckload and locking them away in datacenters, where they basically
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by plerpin 6y ago
I believe they're legally compelled to remove them from the search listing. Write a letter to your congressperson?
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by plerpin 6y ago
Most sites use dynamically generated content with URLs that are essentially meaningless. The path for this comment thread in HN is "/item?id=23516088". A lot of websites append literally kilobytes of values to the querystring
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by plerpin 6y ago
Your pages might have huge JS heaps allocated or contain supersampled assets.
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by plerpin 6y ago
Not surprised, vets already have been using ketamine to anesthetize reptiles.

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