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yipopov··on Candy Japan 2017 Year in Review
Let's be honest, weeaboos make a poor target market to base any business on. No real purchasing power other than the allowance they get from their parents or perhaps a burger flipping wage, and I'd imagine most of them just pirate their cartoons.
yipopov··on Vietnam Deploys Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views'
>I feel it's on us tech people to enable them the free speech they deserve.

It's clearly not a technical problem, so it's foolish to try to find a technical solution. This kind of silicon valley elitist Tellerism is doing more harm than good in cases like these.

yipopov··on Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015)
Top 32 cave symbols that will blow your mind!

What these researchers found in caves will amaze you!

32 sure signs you're in a European ice age cave!

Discover these cave-dwelling secrets that your real estate developer doesn't want you to know!

yipopov··on Show HN: Going Serverless
An explanation of what makes AWS Lambda "not-a-server" would be helpful.
yipopov··on Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam
I was once asked to edit a sociology paper for grammar, spelling and style, but ended up deleting large swaths of it containing claims made up of thin air and found nowhere in the data or the citations. Of course this was not well received and I expect every one of those passages were promptly restored, complete with their horrendous spelling and grammar.

The claim? That the biggest challenge facing remote poverty- and alcoholism-stricken communities of indigenous peoples were not enough tablets to be able to "Netflix and chill". Because surely that will solve all the world's problems.

yipopov··on Show HN: Project Management as Code with Graphviz
Thanks. That looks like just what I need to create class and sequence diagrams in a version control-friendly manner.
yipopov··on Technical feasibility of regulating public Blockchain explored
A blockchain is just a data structure. Bitcoin is more than just a data structure.
yipopov··on In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)
That would make absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Adding a small bag of sodium iodate to a big bag of sodium chloride and mixing requires no skill or special equipment and any idiot, or shall I say cretin, can do it. Whereas running a bioreactor and somehow convince people of eating the gunk that comes out of it is far more complicated and expensive.

Edit: and you'd still have to add iodine to said bioreactor, you might as well add it directly to the salt.

yipopov··on In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)
Oh no, a nanogram reduction of dietary silicon is going to leave me crippled with malnutrition! Whatever will I do?
yipopov··on In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)
>it's only purpose is to enhance taste

No.

>there is no need for an extra sodium intake because our food has plenty

Depends on the food and other environmental factors. The reason why a preference for salt evolved in the first place was because we didn't get enough salt in our food, especially warm climates, which is incidentally where we started out. Same reason why herbivores frequent salt licks, their normal diets don't contain enough sodium or other minerals.

What you said would have been true if we were carnivores.

yipopov··on Show HN: Project Management as Code with Graphviz
I love Graphviz but hate the Dot language with a passion. Has anyone tried to come up with a more consistent and user-friendly graph definition language?
yipopov··on Introduction to WebAssembly: why should we care?
Why go from WASM to native? If you're using LLVM to get your WASM, just go directly to native, if other, find a native implementation of the language you're using.
yipopov··on Internet Chemotherapy
> his/her/hir

Stopped reading there.

yipopov··on I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it
>The Amazon Cloud Cam live streams and archives deliveries with Amazon Key

Are they absolutely crazy? The camera obviously needs to be operated independently from Amazon, being able to be remotely switched on or off by the very people it's supposed to watch completely defeats its purpose.

yipopov··on The Last of the Iron Lungs
I never understood why they went out of fashion. They seem far superior to positive pressure ventilators in terms of patient comfort and risk of complications.
yipopov··on The art of the dinner party
My dinner party pet peeve is hosts (or overly enthusiastic guests) who miss the point of bracketing the wines of the courses with an aperitif and a digestif, and instead bring out one bottle of red wine after the other until late into the night. It's in bad taste and a recipe for getting guests wasted, sick, or both.
yipopov··on Dynamic Progamming: First Principles
Would it have killed him to use a proportional font? We have the technology to accomplish that now.
yipopov··on Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive?
Yes, but that doesn't make it a "key problem" with the question being asked. The question was fine, even though it wasn't global in scope, but why should it have to be?
yipopov··on An Open Letter to Patreon
Yeah, when I hear "people of color and those whose first language is not English" my mind goes to some poor untouchables who live in a slum in India, and not speaking English can't work in a call centre so they have to resort to prostitution. In which case they probably don't give a damn about Patreon's NSFW policy if they have heard of Patreon at all.

Shows how out of touch these people are with reality and the problems real people face around the world.

yipopov··on Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive?
The question obviously concerns insurance plans that DO cover hearing aids, genius.
yipopov··on The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and Rewriting a Running GUI
Having seen the Smalltalk environment leads me to conclude that modern IDEs aren't integrated at all. It's a scam.
yipopov··on HolyJit: A New Hope
Does Terry still post here? I just went to my settings to turn on dead posts.
yipopov··on Writing a Bootloader
Apparently hackers can turn your home computer into a bomb

...& blow your family to smithereens!

yipopov··on HolyJit: A New Hope
I haven't looked closely at the architecture, but isn't JIT compilation pretty much how Holy C works?
yipopov··on Ask HN: Renting satellites like servers?
I'm pretty sure this is already a thing. Except you probably have to use some monstrosity cobbled together in LabView instead of SSH.
yipopov··on I Was Suspended from Facebook for My #MeToo Post
White woman singles out black guys as sex-crazed maniacs? She might as well have gone full 14 words as far as Facebook's moderation bots are concerned.

Of course you and I know that's not really what her post was about, but Silicon Valley being so heavily invested in BLM and associated movements really can't take any chances. And with the volume of traffic manually reviewing these things and applying some common sense just isn't an option.

yipopov··on I Was Suspended from Facebook for My #MeToo Post
It should be painfully obvious why she was she was suspended for posting that stuff.
yipopov··on MNT Reform: DIY portable computer
It was very mature of them to admit defeat on the trackpad and put a trackball on it instead.

A lot of big PC manufacturers really shouldn't bother putting trackpads on their computers until they manage to manufacture or source a decent quality one.

yipopov··on The war to sell you a mattress
>this kind of silly abuse is easily caught and filtered out with no effort

Not an AdNauseum user myself, but how can we tell this isn't ad industry FUD? They would certainly have a vested interest in discouraging the practice.

If nothing else at least AdNauseum can contribute somewhat to bandwidth and administrative costs.

yipopov··on Self-driving car accidents: Robot drivers are ‘odd, and that’s why they get hit’
COLREGS don't say do it blindly, why should you?
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