throwaway33339

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by throwaway33339 6y ago
If anything he should have been fired from Mozilla for that reason
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
>Why is it fair to block ads, but unfair to block visitors? Go ahead and do it. You will quickly find out how much your quality content is really worth.
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
> In more provincial regions and even just much of Europe lots of forms have to be filled out and printed. This is changing quickly with the covid pandemic. One of its silver linings is that I can't remember the last time I had to w
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
Why choose between Makefiles and Python when you can have both? [0] [0] https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
This is probably the time to plug this wonderful extension [0] that directly warns you, whenever a link to a scholarly article is posted, that said article has had comments on its PubPeer entry. For those who don't know, PubPeer was de
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
Leaving aside the usual quip about HN being an endless source of entertainment when it comes to attempting to comprehend basic concepts in biology that they weren't taught in high school, I'm wondering about something. What's
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
>Among other things, because of a dead-simple user experience that lets even grandpa post content after a few clicks. Federation, if it adds any level of complexity past the grandpa UX, would defeat the goal. You could have stopped there
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
It does fix the issue of censorship, in that 'blacklisted' instances can still have a world of their own and use the technology or protocol. No amount of technology is going to fix the 'a majority of people don't like yo
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
As multiple commenters have said already you should get acquainted with the concept of median (as opposed to mean ).
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
>Its to the point that the 50 million americans in horrid proverty are richer than the middle class in countries like spain, italy, greece Lol do people really believe that?
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
What I mean is that most Europeans are fine, comparatively to Americans, and don't actually need to let tech giants intrude every aspect of their lives for the sake of growing their economy. Seriously, do you think everyone would be up
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
GDP per capita doesn't nearly tell the story: 1. Much of the gap is due to former Eastern-bloc countries 2. 50 million of Americans live in horrid poverty I guess it's hard to get the full picture when you get a cushy six-figure t
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
I find it very amusing to see miffed people crawling out of the woodwork to reply to your jest about 4chan because it's a constant reminder that a huge chunk of HN is being very civil and charitable on one tab and reading a bunch of
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
>This is usually the point that someone handwaves that having more money and more people makes you less capable than Scotland... No a rebuttal on HN will usually be on the lines of something something small homogeneous population somethi
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
Ah, the suckless philosophy - making everything as terse, austere and featureless as possible in the name of 'simplicity'. It's a wonder so few people want to adopt it. To get a further glimpse into that philosophy check this
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
5% is pocket money. By the time the get sued, lose, appeal, lose the appeal, etc. they'll have made that money many times over. At this scale fines are just the cost of doing business. The only way to act as an actual deterrent is to p
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
Ah, this is what exclusive by design really means.
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
I mean, Send was probably the non-browser product that was useful and solved a problem its users have (sendingfiles.xkcd), and of course they had to axe it. Meanwhile I still have to remove that stupid little Pocket icon every time I do a
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by throwaway33339 6y ago
The two-language problem is well-known. People wanted performance, which is reserved to languages like C, C++ or Java, but they didn't want to use these languages, since they are objectively ugly and a pain to write. Thus, languages li