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by rualca 5y ago
> For anyone who really cares about pursuit of truth or the scientific process (and how it tends to be ignored even by science institutions) this would actually be earth-shattering. I wonder how much is this due to this noble pursuit of
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by rualca 5y ago
My point is that actors can and do change over time. Just because you trust who is in charge today that does not mean that said person/organization will continue indefinitely as-is.
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by rualca 5y ago
> So would not being able to get fuel because there isn't enough of it because no one allowed supply and demand to work. The UK has strict rules on how much petrol/gas anyone can carry. Consequently this type of law works as an
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by rualca 5y ago
> You don't get it. just because tge grant was denied, does not mean the work was not done. The fact it was even written at all is evidence someone thought it'd work. You should really pay attention to what you're claiming
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by rualca 5y ago
> It's not a "weasel word", "Scientific theories placing a low enough probability (...) If that was the case then go ahead and just show the theory. Just provide a single evidence that supports said claim. Any at all.
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by rualca 5y ago
> This is honestly the most damning part of evidence. What evidence? There was a grant proposal, and the proposal was rejected. Why do you feel that the fact that the rejected proposal referred to North Carolina is supposed to be "d
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by rualca 5y ago
> You cut off the critical part of the parent's comment: "(or well, with such a low chance it may as well be)". No, I left out the weasel words from the original claim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We
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by rualca 5y ago
> There’s also evidence it cannot possibly (...) have occured naturally. I feel this claim is simply not believable nor possible to take at face value, given that in order for a proof of impossibility to even be considered you need suppo
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by rualca 5y ago
> My favorite is to implement a tarpit while moving the ssh port. For those who, like me, are unfamiliar with the concept of a SSH tarpit, it's a technique consisting of inserting delays into SSH connection attempts. Old HN discussi
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by rualca 5y ago
> It's well-known that there has been high-risk coronavirus research across the globe. It's the first time I heard of anything of the sort. Do you have any reference pointing out, or is this just Facebook hearsay?
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by rualca 5y ago
> Daczak serves on the WHO team to investigate the virus origins (...) As a reference never hurts, specially in a topic prone to disinformation, here's a link to the WHO's page on its official list of members of their "Glo
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by rualca 5y ago
> When speed mattes, people use libraries that are considerably faster than plain python. This. The general guideline has always been that Python is ideal for glue code and non-performance-critical code, and when performance became an is
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by rualca 5y ago
> It may seem like a design mistake at first glance but it’s surprisingly useful. > It’s intent is to allow a given codebase to maintain a consistent style (eg camel vs snake) even when making use of upstream libraries that use differ
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by rualca 5y ago
> 1. UBI might increase people's willingness to pay for goods in general, and the prices of goods that are most strongly driven by willingness to pay would rise. It's reasonable to assume that UBI would be linked with an increa
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by rualca 5y ago
> Food and clothing depend on other things (cost of employees, equipment, materials, etc.) When the costs of those things rise, the cost of food and clothing will have to rise. Not really. You're pointing to production costs, but pr
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by rualca 5y ago
> The problem of surveillance isn't a problem at all if you could trust every actor to do things right, it's just that you can't. I disagree. The problem of surveillance still stands even if you trust each and every single
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by rualca 5y ago
> This is an article about the iPhone 13 Pro camera. If you can afford it (...) Some people who purchase iPhones can't really afford them in the sense of having hundreds of dollars of disposable income, and either save their asses o
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by rualca 5y ago
> Did anyone expect anything else? It was either extinction of the virus (which was unrealistic once it was out of China) or it evolving into a sort of cold with lots of casualties on the way there (the better adapted a disease is to the
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by rualca 5y ago
Paywalled.
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by rualca 5y ago
> I wouldn't call Lightroom CC "expensive"...it's less than a Netflix subscription. The site states $126/year. > I guess everything is relative nonetheless. Right, $126/year might not sound much for someo
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by rualca 5y ago
> The only currency that has stood the test of time is gold, a private currency. I'm curious about what leads you to claim that gold is "a private currency". Can you elaborate on the rationale behind your claim?
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by rualca 5y ago
> That's true, but at this point we should clarify what we mean by microservices. By "microservices", I mean "you end up with more services than engineers". That's not what "microservices" is. If y
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by rualca 5y ago
> Most companies won't see the kind of scale Facebook/Google/etc sees, not because they won't have that much clients, but also because there's a good chance that they don't need all clients in the same syste
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by rualca 5y ago
Oh dear God... WEBRING! I haven't heard that in a while. I'm starting to have flashbacks, hearing the sound of 56kb dialup modems...
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by rualca 5y ago
It's hardly fair to go to a thread on an embedded JavaScript implementation to criticize JavaScript by focusing on the JavaScript ecosystem. It's up to you to decide which and how you use a third-party package. If you adopt a depe
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by rualca 5y ago
> There was absolutely nothing wrong with the "ugly" framework code, it was quite beautiful, well structured, configurable and fast. I'm sure there is far more to the story than the new guys doing a poor job writig a repla
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by rualca 5y ago
> You don't usually see e.g. windowmakers or installers coming up with windows in the shapes of superellipses because square windows are already solved, or stoves coming with integrated fridges because "just an oven and a top&q
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by rualca 5y ago
Does anyone know why this comment is being buried? It's clearly a good spirited joke.
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by rualca 5y ago
> I fail to see how that's whataboutism. I'm not trying to justify one form of plastic packaging with another. I'm merely questioning how much stuff actually leeches out and how it compares to how much leeches out during n
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by rualca 5y ago
> If the company describes itself as "cool" because they have pool tables, that's a great thing. It's signal that thats what "cool" is to them. No, not really. It just means that HR had a PR budget to sell t

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