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by xphx 4y ago
"in August 2021, Discord had reported $130 million in 2020 revenues, triple from the prior year, and had an estimated valuation of $15 billion" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord#History
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by xphx 4y ago
> treaties [...] not based on trust How are these treaties enforced? All international treaties are ultimately based on trust. There is no higher authority, only elective councils of and voluntary commitment to procedures (a.k.a. promis
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by xphx 4y ago
A 2016 talk by Tribeflame CEO Torulf Jernström about the monetization of mobile games called "Let's Go Whaling!" also caused a bit of a ruffle a while ago. Ominously delivered with smug smirk, met by smug laughter: "I&#x
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by xphx 4y ago
Written as though it's competing for the attention of fourteen-year-olds against meme scrolls, video games and online porn.
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by xphx 4y ago
Unfortunately that is also the problem with rational arguments if they are deliberately or ignorantly reductive, i.e. without holistic perspective.
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by xphx 4y ago
Web.de was founded in 1995 and GMX in '97. Both now belong to the gigantic German United Internet AG founded in '88 which currently has roughly 10,000 employees and EUR 5.5bn revenue.
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by xphx 4y ago
Or if homogeneous data is fine, just cat or dd from a source like /dev/zero.
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by xphx 5y ago
> If every statement fit within the column limit of the page, yup. It’s a piece of cake. (I think that’s what gofmt does.) But our formatter also keeps your code within the line length limit.
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by xphx 5y ago
I think you are correct and am confused why you're being voted down without explanation.
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by xphx 5y ago
I did underappreciate this, thank you!
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by xphx 5y ago
Maybe I misunderstand, but didn't JSLinux[1][2] do system emulation running a proper kernel basically since 2012? 1: http://jslinux.org/ 2: https://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html
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by xphx 5y ago
One Jesus of Nazareth is tolerable, a million people preaching their opinions everywhere would be truly awful. Therefore what Jesus was doing is immoral.
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by xphx 5y ago
Sorry, but Wikipedia also doesn't get to decide what words mean, nor you or I, at least not authoritatively. Linguistically, tax evasion is: evasion of taxes. I can use the words to describe any action taken to evade paying a tax. The
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by xphx 5y ago
> a relief when i click on a link to any site, and the page loads, and there's no animated anything whatsoever I've recently disabled CSS animations globally in Firefox's userContent.css and my Web experience has indeed im
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by xphx 5y ago
There is a not so subtle implication of your comments being voted down that those claiming HN is not an instance of social media would be well-advised to reflect on.
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by xphx 5y ago
>> Maintain (a low waist circumference) and (muscle mass)
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by xphx 5y ago
https://archive.is/aW95d https://web.archive.org/web/20210708074814/https://www.argus...
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by xphx 5y ago
Yes, the stated original requirement to "find that one person who’s been suspended and is incredibly dangerous" does presuppose that the dangerous person is already in the system and you're just trying to find them. I don&#x2
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by xphx 5y ago
I believe the questionable rationale there is that it helps to identify suspended students whose presence is assumed to be dangerous. “The mission creep issue is a real concern when you initially build out a system to find that one person
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by xphx 6y ago
It's an ageist way of saying that this exploit is less critical for people who take proactive counter-measures, and more affects less technically inclined or security-minded people.
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by xphx 6y ago
That would invalidate the byte offset. The intention here isn't so much printing the data as its location on disk.
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by xphx 8y ago
Isn't that the same as when someone offers me a couch to surf and a kitchen to use? Sure, it's unconditional and I'm not violating any agreement, but if I use their stuff and don't give anything back, am I not a freeload
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by xphx 8y ago
Could you explain how the term does not apply? Its meaning seems to be: "to impose upon another's generosity or hospitality without sharing in the cost or responsibility involved".
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by xphx 8y ago
Hopefully useful nitpick: In the "prisoner's dilemma", it's the dominant strategy. It's only sub-optimal in the /iterated/ prisoner's dilemma, the ominous reason being an expectation of continuity.
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by xphx 9y ago
What is a menu bar offering you that makes or breaks a program for you versus several political, philosophical, ideological, practical, and technical other differences?