Avshalom

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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   Kinda giving away the game there.
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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   Well I mean of course you have to say that, kinda ruins the joke if you keep elbowing people and going "pretty clever of us eh?"
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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   Been there done that. Twice. Port Saint Lucie Florida, Chattanooga Tennessee.
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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   Well under that definition "follow your passion" is the worst career advice because aside from breathing and eating few if any of us have a passion.
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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   It worked for Nike and De Beers. The entire sports drink industry. The supplement industry.
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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   The unix way is also a different incompatible implementation of regex in every utility and a thousand interesting and dangerous modes of failure in the event of whitespace Systemd has issues I'm sure and I don't trust poettering
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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   Redhat does a lot of upstream development. By comparison Debian just has enough resources for keeping Debian running. SUSE seems to be an afterthought at this point. Ubuntu seems to mostly be concerned with itself.
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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   To swipe a line from Chesterton: micro-kernels have not been tried and found wanting, they have been found different and wanted trying.
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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   I dunno, the idea that we could have fun with, or at least be enjoying, the thing we spend all day dealing with doesn't seem like something we shouldn't be doing. Plus he's got what, a slightly dodgey font going on? That&#x27
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    alternate theory: gravel and cactus are pointy.
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    Yeah... the number of those deaths is estimated at somewhere between 0 and 100. Which is to say such a tiny number that it won't be empirically distinguishable from normal fluctuations.
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    Literally no one died of radiation due to Fukushima.
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    Immense and growing despite efforts to stop it. If there is one environment on the planet not in risk it's the Sahara. A lot of Egypt, Northern Africa, Iraq/Palestine would have looked like the American Midwest back when they were
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    There's owners and then there's owners. With a publicly traded company 'owner' is any one with enough cash lying around to buy a share. Then there's also owners who did a lot of hard risky work several decades ago,
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    I mean sure, yeah, but... https://hn.algolia.com/?query=changes%20brain&sort=byPopular... so does meditation, walking in nature, inactivity, porn, drugs, focus, menstruation, Alzheimer's, cellphones, the iInternet,
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    >>I don't understand why the Republicans voted against. >>Look, I get it, you support private industry. So in the 60's the Republicans launched a thing called The Southern Strategy that was literally the Republican Par
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    According to Wikipedia US human lives are valued at 50-100k a year so if it provides the equivalent of 2 good years above what they would have otherwise it's plus.
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    Was anyone paying attention when the Dean Kamen wheelchair stopped being made? Was it cost/demand, didn't work? The wikipedia article says something about the FDA reclassifying it but that doesn't seem to explain why it stopp
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    Maybe, but I'm fairly sure abrasiveness was meant in the case of the suckless community.
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    Every country you listed (even El Salvador by a hair) has a higher HDI than Guatamala. I'mma just throw out that maybe (hint, no maybe about) "obesity" got defined when the world was poorer and maybe (this is the actual maybe
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    For what though? For image editing, file managing, audio play back, web browsing, text formatting?
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    >MMM has never claimed to be frugal -- indeed, he likes to talk about the "extravagance" of his $25K pa spend for a family of four. And imagine how well that sarcasm goes with those of us who have never seen 25,000.
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    The animosity isn't specifically at MMM. People who think "have you tried spending less" is insight, thats what who we hate. Believe me poor people are way ahead of you on the spending less money idea.
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    >, and even if they tried, they probably couldn't For instance near as I can tell it takes like 10 grand to get into an index fund. Even if that didn't represent years of savings for most families there are so many things tha
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    right 25 grand--no house or car payment because he was in the right jobs at the right time and could afford to buy most families' largest expenses outright (over 50% of income between the two)--and he still managed to spend the entire
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    If you work at say Target 40 hours a week, squeak in the occasional overtime and work on every holiday you take home about 12-15k a year after taxes that's about half of what MMM gets from rent. MMM hasn't come within ten grand of
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10352061 ... did you just blame the ukrainian genocide under stalin on a lack of guns?
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    Naw, just jump straight to rebranding Hissing Cockroaches as Madagascar Land Prawns.
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    Because they're made out of corn.
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    A Quiet Port is Logistics’ Nightmare(thedisorderofthings.com)

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