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> One wallet changes nothing. Once again, this is something I hear often and I strongly disagree. I'm lucky to be born into western civilization with the paradigm to respect the po…

Imagine what would happen if everyone did what the author did. The system would collapse. I think you put a wrong diagnosis that the author couldn't possibly affect the administrat…

I see this type of an argumentation very often and I strongly disagree. You're removing all responsibility from an actor that is a part of a bigger thing. Imagine if you slapped so…

I think it's a fair argument in the context of big corporations using the technology.

As far as I know, setting upload speed to zero disables the limit. You can set it to be very low but not zero.

Is this supposed to work like this? (Firefox) https://i.imgur.com/JXqgwMR.gif

"it happened therefore it's normal"

(1) - there's a photo of a graffiti in the article. But the translation of the article to English doesn't mention the insult was actually painted on a wall...

russia has a choice. putin doesn't.

Maybe you should update your epistemology and stop listening to the guys that said so; I listen to the experts who say (since 2022) sanctions hurt, but russia is like a big tree - …

> Reminder that HN is SV centered and therefore everyone and everything is oriented around tribal group think. Don't such absolute statements (everyone, everything) remind you of r…

There's very little decision making in the game: You don't choose battle rewards, they are forced onto you, you get only one reroll that rerolls the entire triplet. Choosing the pa…

> The imperial boomerang is the theory that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically…

It's a quote from the submission (Wikipedia article).

- AI can grow corn - Yes it can - Prove it - AI, tell me instructions to grow corn - Go buy seeds, plant them, water the field and once you gather the corn report back - I'm back w…

What can you do with 90%? Accuse people of plagiarism and ignore the fact you will hurt 10% of innocent people, while still allowing 10% of cheaters? Of course there's ambiguity in…

I'm not an expert on this, but the way I see it, the opposite is true: people don't vote on small parties, because if a small party doesn't reach the minimum required, the vote is …

I once won a very small contest of dwitter in Authotokey edition with this gear animation: https://i.imgur.com/20f2gb8.gif more: https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?sty…

This is why Electron is so popular. Building entire factory is very expensive.

Yes, the thing is, the browser is an extremely expensive abstraction layer. It's like having a car factory where everything is built by general purpose robots - it's very versatile…

This seems like such an obvious answer to the problem, your program isn't truly modularized if logging is global. If an error is unexpected it should bubble all the way up, but if …

No, it's not much easier to please. You will compete with Chrome and you will lose. It is the core audience that is much easier to please, because those are loyal users that trust …

If most people move from Firefox to Waterfox, then Waterfox can acquire Firefox devs, no? Obviously it comes to money, but the first step to gain funding is to gain popularity...

It's largely about pattern detection in our brains. If the pixels always look the same, it's easier to spot them. For many people graphics in a video game are a secondary addition …

If the volume was defined by a manifold mesh, it was already trivial to scatter points, then remove points that when raycasted down on that manifold mesh "volume" hit a normal.z < …