rainsil

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by rainsil 5mo ago
There are actually many parts of the world where such voices are routinely positive or neutral[0]. People in more collectivist cultures often have a less-strict division between their minds and their environments and are more apt to believe
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by rainsil 5mo ago
Australia simply forces people to save a portion of their income into investable retirement accounts. Because the money goes towards productive investment rather than funding what is essentially a government-run Ponzi scheme, retirees on Su
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by rainsil 6mo ago
According to the US Copyright Office, fully AI-generated works aren’t eligible for copyright because they don’t have human authors. They’re in the public domain by default. See: https://library.osu.edu/site/copyright&#x
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by rainsil 8mo ago
We have quite a bit of insight into Indian scam centers thanks to the work of scambaiters like Jim Browning[1] who frequently hack into their CCTV cameras and desktops. The big difference is that the workers in India are voluntarily employe
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by rainsil 2y ago
That’s a good thing. Expanded slogans have object-level meanings. Acronyms just stand as identity markers, and are much easier to dismiss. It’s harder to argue against “Make America Great Again” or “Black Lives Matter”. Their object-level m
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by rainsil 2y ago
It seems like if you created a new operating system to solve these problems and it gained some traction, you'd fracture the landscape even more. Unless your operating system happened to be superior to all the existing solutions in all
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by rainsil 2y ago
What unexplored space do you think is ripe for a totally new operating system?
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by rainsil 4y ago
But couldn't you just claim somebody else's name/address (such as your neighbor's) when you go vote? Or is a photo stored on the voter roll?
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by rainsil 4y ago
So they'd split off Google Ads then create another ad platform to sell ads on their properties? Why would anyone use the independent Google Ads?
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by rainsil 4y ago
I wonder why they haven't implemented this after so many years. It can't be much more difficult than integrating highlight.js and MathJax, and it's lost them at least one big publication (Hackernoon)
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by rainsil 4y ago
You can always use a privacy coin. Even if they get banned from exchanges, you can transact within the coin, then use an atomic cross-chain swap to cash out to bitcoin. Alternately, there's decentralized mixing algorithms like CoinJoin
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by rainsil 4y ago
>But I definitely think there's room for more comprehensive and transparent documentation to bridge the gap between the source code and barebones docs. This is usually provided by technical books, which are available for a much wide
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by rainsil 4y ago
There's an inherent trade-off between decentralisation and computing price+performance, so it's likely that centralised exchanges will continue to be cheaper and faster for higher-frequency activities such as day trading, transact
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by rainsil 4y ago
WebP images support animation, and they're fully supported in Chromium and Firefox[0], but Safari support seems flaky[1] [0]: https://caniuse.com/webp [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68522
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by rainsil 5y ago
It's a combination microwave/convection oven.
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by rainsil 5y ago
Well the first year of the Iraq War cost the US $54 billion, according to congress's budget[0]. This doesn't include the total cost of the supporting infrastructure need to be able to deploy troops in Iraq quickly, but we can esti
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by rainsil 5y ago
I didn't think typosquatting actually worked. I wonder if there's a general way to figure out the most common misspellings of a given domain name...
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by rainsil 5y ago
The nudity exception is probably more along the lines of the usual carve-outs for 'scientific, educational, or artistic' content.
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by rainsil 5y ago
Somewhat disappointed "securities fraud" wasn't mentioned, although the SEC is ever-present.
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by rainsil 5y ago
Elixir and Phoenix is a great option. As a functional language, the focus is on pipelines of functions that progressively transform data structures, which is how Phoenix processes requests (through "plugs" transforming a Plug.Conn
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by rainsil 5y ago
Isn't the Messenger app a "messenger only app that does not include a feed for me to angrily browse."? They also seem to have standalone web and desktop versions at messenger.com
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by rainsil 5y ago
It's not clear that the government is legally able to censor all types of spam. If the spam is commercial, the Central Hudson four-pronged test on commercial speech restrictions applies,[1] which requires, among other things, that the
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by rainsil 5y ago
Is the 1.2% intended as a contrast to the "<1%" claim?
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by rainsil 6y ago
I believe the concepts in the first paper are unrelated to those of modern lenses (i.e. functional references). See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17198072/how-is-anamorph...
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by rainsil 6y ago
I doubt this explanation really captures the gist of the phenomenon. Many current and upcoming trends (containers/Kubernetes, machine learning and Rust, for instance) have suffered in varying degrees from either of those problems, yet
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by rainsil 6y ago
Seriously, the lack of awareness that pretty much every year is the best year in human history* is rather depressing. Pair that with the coming end of extreme poverty, extraterrestrial habitation, and a non-infinitesimal chance of experienc
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by rainsil 6y ago
Isn't the monthly subscription model even better for tasks you only do a few times a year, since you can subscribe when you want to use it and deactivate when you're done?
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by rainsil 6y ago
The issue with monad tutorials is that they start at the top - trying to impart a generalizable understanding of the concept (which, short of category-theoretic explanations, requires hopelessly leaky analogies) instead of focusing on the p
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by rainsil 8y ago
Turn-based strategy games such as the Civilization and Total War series are probably good examples to compare chess with. Aside from the potential asymmetries (which can be removed), they are both 'purer' than RTS games and less d
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by rainsil 8y ago
The national debt problem is somewhat overblown in popular opinion. Sovereign debt, in a country that pays it in its own currency, is bounded by inflation, not tax receipts. In practice this means that the US can reduce its debt to more man

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