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ctlaltdefeat··on Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder
> I'd also point out an alternative: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

And adding a fork that's been updated more consistently for some sites I use: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

ctlaltdefeat··on Why Not Signal?
> The author can barely contain his hatred for the politics of Signal's founder (about which I know nothing outside this article.)

It's especially bizarre since the author's only reference to the founder's "confused and useful idiot politics" is that the founder claims that regimes in Belarus, Russia, Venezuela, China are authoritarian and that there are human rights abuses elsewhere. That claim seems not only reasonable, but also perfectly consistent with still being suspicious about US surveillance policy.

ctlaltdefeat··on Avoid FIFA World Cup CDN Issues
Yes!
ctlaltdefeat··on Vectordash: GPU instances for deep learning
If I understand correctly, the instances available are containerized instances that users run (i.e, the system matches hosts to guests and takes a cut).

Beyond being dangerous on multiple levels, there doesn't seem to be any guarantee of storage or network bandwidth/traffic. Having a multi-TFLOP GPU to train with is hardly useful if you can't get the training data on the device in a reasonable amount of time, or hold that data in local storage.

ctlaltdefeat··on Benchmarking Modern GPUs for Maximum Cloud Cost Efficiency in Deep Learning
Hetzner has a single 1080 for 99 EUR a month: https://www.hetzner.de/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu
ctlaltdefeat··on An On-Device Deep Neural Network for Face Detection
I would consider that pretty performant for a task such as this on a phone.
ctlaltdefeat··on Startup Cities Index: best cities for startup employees
I don't know, I would much rather be in Bratislava or Bucharest than Pittsburgh (the only one out of your list I've been in) in terms of quality of life, income, and opportunity.

Language is a different story though...

ctlaltdefeat··on The blockchain paradox: Why DLTs may do little to transform the economy
>in particular, so-called mining pools, headed by a handful of individuals, are very influential.

He mentioned that.

ctlaltdefeat··on Advantages of Using R Notebooks for Data Analysis Instead of Jupyter Notebooks
And for options utilizing grammar of graphics (really worth knowing, even if you're not coming from the R world) you have ggplot and plotnine, which are both sort of ports of ggplot2 from R.
ctlaltdefeat··on Plato knew a lot about behavioural economics
Academia? The author is a journalist.
ctlaltdefeat··on Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments
I'm not sure if this is really relevant, but recently I've been looking into something similar: trying to find a decent, self-hosted, simple "real-time chatbox" to add to my site instead of the various online options. Anyone know of something good for this?
ctlaltdefeat··on Always Free Usage Limits
To be fair, there are some instances where GC has unique technological advantages compared to VPSes. Their new distributed ACID SQL database comes to mind.
ctlaltdefeat··on How we secretly introduced Haskell and got away with it
There are various mature options for scheduling jobs with dependencies between them.

Why did you choose to write your own, regardless of the language?

ctlaltdefeat··on Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?
Anyone using an asynchronous python library? Interested in how that's shaping up.
ctlaltdefeat··on DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment
I remember that program! Interesting though that my experience with it was different; I recall that letting it run for enough time it was able to come up with viable and often quite efficient build orders. By the way, I do seem to remember that putting 2 probes on an extractor was slightly more efficient (per probe) than 3 :)
ctlaltdefeat··on Show HN: Euro 2016 predictions using Bayesian inference
Are you guys confident that this can beat the market (i.e Betfair)? I would highly suspect that the answer is "not at all". Does this affect you?
ctlaltdefeat··on CertBot: Automatically enable HTTPS on your website with Let's Encrypt certs
The webserver Caddy also offers similar functionality
ctlaltdefeat··on PredictIt: How It Works
Why aren't decimal odds used, a-la the established betting exchanges? The system is equivalent without having to dedicate pages to explain confusing terminology.
ctlaltdefeat··on Economic Inequality
> Graham writes another article on a subject about which he knows little, and in doing so quotes Stiglitz as advocating a silly "fallacy".
ctlaltdefeat··on GoshawkDB: A distributed, transactional, fault-tolerant object store
Ceph doesn't seem to support (serializable) transactions (correct if wrong), which is kind of the whole point. In fact, how does it differentiate itself from Apache Cassandra etc? By storing arbitrary objects?
ctlaltdefeat··on GoshawkDB: A distributed, transactional, fault-tolerant object store
This is really cool! I guess the main competition in terms of similar purpose and guarantees is http://hyperdex.org/, although the add-on that enables transactions (quite critical...) is commercial.
ctlaltdefeat··on My Parents Were Home-Schooling Anarchists (2011)
This is not what the modern definition of "Anarchists" means at all.
ctlaltdefeat··on Einstein: The Negro Question (1946)
What? He was a Zionist according to the classical "definition" and principles of the time. The varying uses of the word "Zionist" are confusing, yet nonetheless Einstein supported self-determination of the Jews in Mandatory Palestine.
ctlaltdefeat··on A group of 3,000 citizens is making better forecasts than CIA analysts
>If it were just luck, the “supers” would regress to the mean: yesterday’s champs would be today’s chumps.

huh?

ctlaltdefeat··on Crypto 101
Who is the author? I can't find anything about him except for his real name and a self-description of "hacker". I'm confused why he thinks it's reasonable to create something so authoritative sounding as "crypto 101" without bothering to explain his credentials to do so.
ctlaltdefeat··on TunnelBear VPN app
Is the 1TB of data transfer enough for you?