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Can third parties (especially foreigners) finance legal battles in India? Can we donate?

I just wish the Julia community wasn't so invested in using UTF8 symbols in the code. I understand that for Physicists, Engineers, Mathematicians, etc it look cleaner and more familiar, but when …

This is very clearly targeted at running heavy SPAs, so I don't see this as a step in the direction of taking general computing from our hands, as many in this thread do. In a way it lets one (mo…

A synthetic womb would indeed be a game-changing technology.

Wait, I'm not sure if I follow. TSMC builds a fab in US soil, guaranteeing American autonomy on chip production. Supposedly the DoD would also require training for American technicians and more c…

Between this, BNDES (Development Bank) and Bacen (Central Bank, its "Fed"), it seems like Brazil's public service is a Julia hotspot.

I'm sorry if this has been answered elsewhere in this thread, but honest technical question: Couldn't someone own an NFT within a smart contract, which can itself be fungible and transferrab…

Question for ppl using DuckDB: are the use cases similar to what you'd use Apache Arrow, but with the benefit of working in SQL, or are they meaningfully different? I'm not currently using a…

The author doesn't actually say it out loud, but > OP should have reached the conclusion that there are alternative worker arrangements which would benefits workers globally. This is specifica…

I'd really like to see a serious analysis about the viability of a government, or an alliance of governments, to block / split the btc blockchain. I find it hard to believe the US couldn…

That's fair! Thanks

Have you looked at Nubank? Largest neobank in the world by users and valuation, it's a clojure shop to such an extent they literally bought Cognitect No affiliation, just a satisfied customer

Honest question from a nocoiner: are there communities, however small, that use meme coins as non ironic currencies? Like, can I rent a VPS for a month for 1000 doges or whatever from someone without …

> The Japanese manufacturers were not comfortable with firmware updates. "They didn't want the computer experience to be transferred to consumer electronics," Ram said. And that exte…

Apple is a hard tech engineering company disguising as a branding company so that everyone that tries to compete with them follow the wrong lead and invest billions of dollars trying to sell unimpress…

Citing "Sci-hub", Elbakyan A. et al is definitely an academic trend I'd support :)

Frankly it's a brilliant innovation, assuming that's the case. Applying new regulations quicker is definitely a moat in a heavily regulated environment, as long as it's not half-arsed…

Considering that Substack's model is designed to attract independent thinkers with a following, I assume they are taking a very close look at their talent pipeline to avoid this issue. That would…

In order words: if I want to buy something that costs 100, the broker is free to get me a price of 95, but they were colluding with the players able to offer this discount to offer me 97 instead and p…

The question is not dumb, but I suppose the answer is simply a qualified "no", as in "we can't reach our targets by relying solely on our main/single property, so we need to f…

So you can be literally infected with vegetarianism now? (brb writing a novel about a secret agent trying to stop a terrorist vegan organization from putting this in the water supply of new york city.…

The Boeing of semiconductors

Already done: https://bytepack.io By the same team behind Elixir/Phoenix no less

From what I've seen, jupyter notebooks reach convoluted excel formulas-level of accessibility and efficacy for lay people. Most of us really underestimate what "non" programmers can ach…

> If you want to work on this topic DM me :) hnchat seems dead from a quick google :( Deeply interested in this, thought a lot about this before, but can't work on it right now (at my startu…

Like all humans he is full of faults has a long track record of unfortunate postures and statements, but as a technologist the best analogy for him would be an atomic clock sent back in time to before…

> Staring at fact flashcards for hours on end just felt like a waste of time. I think I found your problem. Try this cycle: - Add however many cards you like - Study - Got bored and didn't fin…

Friendly reminder that rms launched the FLOSS movement because he was incensed when he couldn't program a printer at MIT to do something he wanted.