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ranit··on Libra White Paper
security != privacy
ranit··on Benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy on autism symptoms and gut microbiota
That sentence seems to suggest that the study includes (also) "autism-like behaviors". I am not trying to redefine Autism Spectrum Disorder as I don't have knowledge to do so.
ranit··on Benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy on autism symptoms and gut microbiota
My comment was meant to agree with you and to point that the study seems to include patients that have "autism-like behaviors".
ranit··on Benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy on autism symptoms and gut microbiota
It is on the first sentence of the Abstract: autism-like behaviors

>> Many studies have reported abnormal gut microbiota in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), suggesting a link between gut microbiome and autism-like behaviors.

ranit··on Show HN: Xmake, a modern C/C++ build utility
You may accomplish the behavior shift you desire by posting about the tool yourself. Then people will start supporting, disagreeing, posting questions, etc. Bashing the behavior might not work well.

People tend to stick to familiar topics ... as shown in the next Meson comment turned to Python2-vs-Python3-compatibility in a whim.

ranit··on GPS Flaw: Security Expert Says He Won't Fly April 6
Thanks. My bad - didn't read the whole article.
ranit··on GPS Flaw: Security Expert Says He Won't Fly April 6
Off topic: Does anyone know why Coordinated Universal Time is abbreviated in this order - UTC? None of the languages seems to have that order.
ranit··on New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking
> Silicon Valley has no intention of retraining itself in any manner.

Historically, no industry, once became major, intended to retrain itself to be more positive to the society. If any improvement happened, it was forced from outside.

ranit··on Did wine cause a full-scale revolution in Armenia?
> History seems to be littered with change that occurs when thinkers, talkers and dreamers can meet openly in public.

So true. Thanks for reminding this to all of us.

ranit··on Oat Milk Could Change the Way You Drink Coffee (2018)
Thank you. I certainly don't plan to manufacture and sell it, just curious.
ranit··on Oat Milk Could Change the Way You Drink Coffee (2018)
Thank you.
ranit··on Oat Milk Could Change the Way You Drink Coffee (2018)
> Recently tried making my own and it's a really nice process ...

Interesting. Could you elaborate?

ranit··on List of hilarious and useless things at CES
> Similar lines could have been written about once crazy ideas that we take for granted today.

The post mocks the presentation of the products, not the products. Submitted title here in HN makes it look like it is about mocking the things.

ranit··on It took seven miles to pull over a Tesla with a seemingly asleep driver
>> we get a regulatory required pull over signal for autonomous systems and how in the hell you would secure it considering it would need to be used by countless law enforcement agencies world wide

Regulatory requirement is per jurisdiction, isn’t it.

ranit··on Strato Pi – An Industrial Raspberry Pi
>> the problem with anything thats 'industrialized' is that so many companies use this as a chance to gin up the price and double down on rent-seeking behavior. This thing takes a $45 pi and jacks the price up to $250USD.

Fair point, but is it really a "problem"? Think of it from the opposite side. A market for this markup exists. It is an opportunity for people like you, that understand well both, a particular (non computer) domain and computing that is needed to support it.

I bet many "diesel repair stores" would need what you already accomplished with your regular raspberry pi's custom applications. And won't mind to get it packaged with an useful hardware and software for whatever markup you deem fair. They will be glad to pay for what you already thought and successfully incorporated in your application, wouldn't they?

It is HN after all. :-)

ranit··on Making transparent wood [video]
Could you explain this process in more details or link to a more comprehensive description please? Thanks.
ranit··on Show HN: An Easy Programming Language That Runs in the Browser
Reminds me of the old educational graphics programming language Logo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

ranit··on Show HN: Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book
What do your abbreviations mean?
ranit··on Xinu – A small, elegant operating system
> No virtual memory

Are you sure about this? Xinu Timeline (3-rd paragraph on the site) states:

1988-90 - Xinu ported to 32-bit mode x86 architecture; virtual memory support added.

Disclaimer: I haven't read the code.

ranit··on Gerbil Scheme
> If the website has links that don't work, generally poor UI.

Or could be just a bug.

ranit··on What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
> Look out of your window at a tree ...

> Even the drawings in the linked article with their horribly mangled geometry are immediately recognisable as a bicycle. It's not a difficult thing to draw, relatively speaking.

I guess, the point is that a bike is easier to draw that natural objects.

I bet if people had been asked to draw a tree, 100% of the pictures would be recognisable as proper tree. Conversion from reality to visual representation is not only a function of object complexity it is much more complex (pun intended).

ranit··on Introducing the Dweb
An effective way to suppress hate speech is to critique it and even to ridicule it.
ranit··on GUIs Considered Harmful (1992)
The article is not against your points. It is against creating GUI-only applications. Explains why it is better to have modules in applications with functional "backend" and GUI if needed, and CLI for programmability.
ranit··on Stripe Press
GP's link is to an on-line HTML version of the book. It works fine as far as I can see.
ranit··on The hotel bathroom puzzle
Yes. Don't assume, describe the context and explain the reason for your request.
ranit··on People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard
You made me curious. Do you have any links to the criticism you quote?
ranit··on “I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”
> If you don't want to serve the users ...

I don't understand how Guido van Rossum's message was interpreted as "he doesn't want to serve the users". His message said (to me) that he will continue, but he will not make decisions.

> Companies that shut down open-source dev teams are at least usually honest that that's what they're doing at the time that they do it.

This sentence implies that Guido van Rossum did something worse (than these companies) today. Is this what you are saying or I misunderstood?

BTW: I don't know him personally. I don't use Python regularly and I don't have any knowledge or position on Python's developers struggles and disagreements (if there are any).

ranit··on “I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”
So, we insist open-source software developers to keep their "implicit contract", but we (as society) allow companies to buy companies that develop and maintain open-source to close-source it or just close the entire establishment? Without legal consequences.
ranit··on Why Isn't Debugging Treated as a First-Class Activity?
Point taken. Thanks.
ranit··on Why Isn't Debugging Treated as a First-Class Activity?
> Debugging is an extraordinarily first-class, up-front, frequent activity in Common Lisp

A bit of nitpicking: It is anything but "extraordinarily", it is a completely ordinary activity.

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