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by vectorpush 10y ago
It's not a jab or a judgement, it's a statement of fact to illustrate the point that technology from 1991 still works perfectly fine today and that nothing about today's technology prevents you from using technology from 1991
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> Unfortunately the web development profession has decided to shoot itself in the face and make framework-oriented development mandatory Frameworks are commonly used across many programming industries. It's also not any framework&#
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by vectorpush 10y ago
I'm not making a normative claim, my only point was that the same technology that worked 20 years ago still works today and it's the developer's fault if they don't like the tools they've chosen to use.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Web development is still that simple if you want it to be. Nothing is stopping you from writing for the web like it's 1991 if that's all you feel is necessary for your site.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
They detail their reasoning in their tweet, otherwise I'd suggest you ask them, but I'd suggest that we avoid a speculative discussion about race based on some random person's twitter rant.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Oh. Well not everyone is a gamer and that's fine, but adult gaming is not a new phenomenon and it's not just pokemon, it's a pretty huge industry. I'm sure there is something you do for fun that others might regard as
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Is there a certain age where you're supposed to stop playing video games?
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> miners can now choose to prevent the thief from spending his/her coins. While that sounds like a very useful feature, I think there is still a stark difference between having to update your money with security patches vs just n
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by vectorpush 10y ago
A critical difference being that the traditional banking system insulates depositors from theft whereas cyptocurrency theft leaves depositors victimized without any legal recourse.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> can a human likewise be abstracted away to some substrate-independent program such that we lose nothing by deleting some running copies Oh. Well, assuming our current model of computation, I think a "substrate-independent"
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by vectorpush 10y ago
I would, yes, though I'd be careful about drawing comparisons in this regard between computer programs (as we know them today) and the phenomenon that we call consciousness, since the framework of computation deliberately extricates th
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by vectorpush 10y ago
One's position in space-time is an inextricable component of "the self". Even in theory, a perfectly replicated individual has already fundamentally diverged from the original just by virtue of its existence as a duplicate (s
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by vectorpush 10y ago
See my reply to brokenmachine. Let's do a little thought experiment. Suppose that I, living in the USA, want to send money to my aunt living in the Caribbean. Let's also say that she has never used bitcoin (like most people) and
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> Maybe useless if you need to convert it to paper dinosaur money at the other end The vast majority of people on this planet use "paper dinosaur money" because that is what the overwhelming majority of merchants accept. Ther
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> I'm going to hazard a guess that you have never sent money to family overseas. Bitcoin is utterly useless in this regard. Converting bitcoin to usable currency is very impractical in most locales and nearly impossible in others
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Let's say the members of the DAO voted to make an investment. How does the subject of the investment receive the funds and what mechanism ensures that the DAO actually receives any returns to which it may be entitled to based on the te
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Cruz's father helped to assassinate JFK. Obama is secretly a muslim and wants the terrorists to win. The Clintons murdered Vince Foster.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
What if the century long bubble concluded with a pop that resulted in total economic collapse? I'm not suggesting that is likely, just that the defining characteristic of a bubble seems to be the magnitude of the fallout after the pop,
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> IME It's easier to teach junior devs not to use integers than it is to get them to think holistically about security. IMO, explicitly prohibiting unauthorized access to an API endpoint is a basic security tenant, not a "hol
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Excuse the morbidity, but if this type of asphyxiation is essentially pain and stress free, would it not be a humane method for euthanasia or even for capital punishment?
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Perhaps the supercomputer does experience a kind of proto-consciousness.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
This sentiment is selectively applied based on one's values. I am confident that there exists a set of principles that someone could espouse to cause you to shun them, it's really only a matter of where one draws the line.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
I think the problem isn't so much that the tech isn't ready, it's simply that the software is immature. Everyone has been rushing hard to get this tech out the door, but software developers haven't really had time to p
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Totally agree. I'll also add that we don't even need to definitively eradicate the possibility of cancer to consider it effectively "cured". If we can reduce the rate of cancers such that they only start to appear in pop
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> Women are very prone.... > Look at any middle or high school female clique.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Which "n word"? Do a simple twitter search with the two spelling variants and you'll immediately notice completely different results.
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Headline seems a bit misleading. "Half of online abuse" seems to suggest that this study is representative of the internet as a whole instead of just twitter. While the findings are still worthwhile, I think we'd see differen
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by vectorpush 10y ago
> Once you start talking about systemic racism vs the rise of single-motherhood and destruction of the family and glorification of violence within the black communities you're called a racist and the discussion stops there. How is
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by vectorpush 10y ago
Agreed. Ethereum seems like a pretty cool iteration on what bitcoin was able to achieve, but just like with bitcoin we're left with a gigantic deficit when we subtract real-world-applicability from the incredible levels of hype. Runnin
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by vectorpush 10y ago
ActiveRecord is terrible for any kind of complex database work. If your data models are simple or you decide to shoehorn your entire data model into an "object" representation then ActiveRecord will allow you to work, but if you n

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