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Haskell & declarative language dev, blockchain and big data platform builder, former research nanoscientist.

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miga··on The FBI seized safe deposit boxes knowing ‘some’ belonged to ‘honest citizens’
Would it count as forfeiture for the state, or should it rather be used for restitution to the victims?
miga··on TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator
In the age of ubiquitous laptops and phones, I have a feeling that these graphing calculator sole market are exam-takers that are forbidden to bring phone and laptop in.

Who else would use it instead of smartphone app?

miga··on Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?
By moving from AWS to a cheaper backup storage provider like B2 you would get costs from 200k$ to 50k$ per month.

There is S3-like interface, so you may just change access key, and region host: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/s3_compatible_api.html

miga··on IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal email address
Contract with IBM is never a "law". As it has been noted, labour laws are always above the contracts.
miga··on IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal email address
Which would indicate he is still available _for free_ to do the duty of reviewing the patches.

Good open source citizen, if you ask me.

miga··on IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal email address
Unlikely since termination would mean that Lijun can resume work on the kernel.
miga··on IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal email address
Being unpaid reviewer is not privilege that is a duty.

Claiming that reviewing patches is a "privilege" is bad for the kernel, and bad for IBM.

miga··on Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual potential of humanity?
"Factorio Is The Best Technical Interview We Have"

https://erikmcclure.com/blog/factorio-is-best-interview-we-h...

miga··on Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual potential of humanity?
This question was asked whenever young found a new way of amusing themselves. The same was told about penny-thrillers that came with an advent of literacy, and internet discussion groups.

It may well be that when we amuse ourselves in new ways, the other activities get less attention. But ultimately our creativity will bring scientific papers about Factorio and Eve Online, just like there are interesting papers about number theory, optimal strategies in Chess, or AI for StarCraft.

miga··on Federal government considering ID verification for social media accounts
For a long time, the internet anonymity was considered to be main differentiator between modern, free America, and more strict regimes.

However, until privacy is guaranteed by constitution, there will be always a temptation to make things easier by tying your personal id numbers to accounts.

miga··on Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails
Best of the Fool's Day. Next we need IDE for designing DMCA notices.
miga··on Nil in Go is typed in theory and sort of untyped in practice
It is very confusing that equality in JavaScript is not transitive: https://imgur.com/5pFXFbR.

Apparently equality in Go is no longer transitive either...

miga··on “ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”
Is it even legal to require standards compliance in the law? I thought that law has to be open and available to everyone?
miga··on Goldman CEO warns remote work is aberration, not new normal
HN title should be: Remote working professional gives Goldman CEO as an example of out-of-touch boss.
miga··on Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
I had a similar problem, but the chat was unresponsive so I simply asked my bank to stop honouring their receipts. They sent me spam for another year, before I finally made a lots of GDPR threats to get cancellation.

Is it even legal to ask for a zip code to cancel when there was no zip code in their system?

miga··on Ask HN: What is your low stress, high paid job?
I recommend just changing team or company. Stress is usually fault of the boss, not the industry.
miga··on Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy
This *is* organized crime, however the author made it a point that these areas are *not* under rule of the law.
miga··on Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy
There was military coup in 2014. In 2016, junta leader gave officers of the army were given police powers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Thai_Police#Army_deputiz...

miga··on Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy
In constitutional monarchy, the king is the institution. His personal location may be irrelevant to the case.
miga··on Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy
Many civilized societies hand prison penalties that are considered insane and counterproductive by sentencing experts.

US inmate composition analyses are great example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092753711... https://jlc.org/news/what-foster-care-prison-pipeline

Regretfully it is hard to sue the foster-child-care system as sharing guilt for the civil damages done to these children:

miga··on Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy
Fundamentals of judicial process are constructed so at to evoke respect of the indicted.

While mathematical analyses tend to treat lawsuit as a pure game, most people would disagree on the moral grounds.

miga··on Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy
Laws protecting against insulting of government institutions exist in most countries of the world, but nowhere I heard about 43-year sentence. This conviction carries penalty that is over twice as long as maximum mandatory imprisonment for high felony in European countries.

It shows the difference between law system based on terror of penalty, and law system that attempts to resocialize offenders (see over 1000-year total conviction here: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53003685).

Another unfortunate consequence is that Thai prisons are overcrowded and likely to infringe on human rights of detainees: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/14/joint-letter-thailand-de...

miga··on Uganda's internet Shutdown
I just looked at the cached version of the UCC act 2013, and it seems that section 56 explicitly forbids switching off the service for any other reasons than failure to pay the dues.

The cached version is still on Google...

miga··on Agile and Functional Data Pipelines - international workshop
Please submit your stories on ETL, streaming, Kafka to the international workshop of Agile and Functional Data Pipelines
miga··on Early humans may have survived the harsh winters by hibernating
If humans were able to sleep that long at [reported 50 calories per hour](https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/how-your-bod...), that would give a three months energy expenditure of about 59kg of body fat ([at 7.7kJ/kg](https://www.quora.com/How-many-calories-are-in-1-kg-of-fat)).

However, I am not aware of any confirmation that sleeping so long is possible, and does not harm health. If there was indeed possibility to enter torpor in a controlled manner, that may be up to 88% energy saving, so only ~7kg of body fat would need to be used.

miga··on Ask HN: What are some differences between x86 and ARM processors?
Do you mean the ARM vs Intel/AMD arch in general, or ARM64 vs AMD x64?

ARM64 and ARM are different architectures, just like AMD64 and x86 are different architectures with different register sets and instruction sets.

miga··on RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub
I feel sorry for GitHub people that are caught between RIAA's vandalism of the law on one side and activist vandalism on the other.

To keep their business they should defend from both sides.

miga··on iSH Shell
Why does it need unrestricted location access?
miga··on Show HN: I wrote a book on writing good developer resumes
Given rapid progress in technology, it is apparent that resume screening should go into dustbin of history, and be replaced by aptitude tests like HackerRank, CoderPad and like.

I have already talked to a few "resume optimization" experts, and their interviention infallibly landed my CV on the desks of organizations that seemed unable to properly appraise developer skills.

Anybody who can second my experience?

miga··on PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
Such arbitrary prohibition is caused by "Know Your Customer" regulations. And it is anything but.

Clear indication for regulatory audit, since the methodology is at fault here.

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