CRConrad

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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Hungary is a democracy. Oh, is it still? OK, maybe... But just barely, ad not for long. > the elections “were well ... marred by the absence of a level playing field”. Yeah, that's what should'a tolja it's not much of
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> after consuming self-help content, is how people fail to realize that we're all unique individuals Where the people who fail to realize that are mostly self-help authors, you mean?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Actually, I found washing dishes one of the most meditative things I used to do out of habit. It was my wife who was all for getting a dishwashing machine, not me.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The concept of “wanting to do something” is complicated. Not really all that complicated, IMO, once you realise: We don't really want to do all the boring stuff that's supposed to be good for us, we just want to have done
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yeah, I thought that was the shape in question (hadn't read ther article yet). The article -- either OP, or the one linked in one of the first comments (at the time I clicked) -- had a video banner with scutoids across the top.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yeah, I agree on pretty much all of that. My point was actually a much smaller one, about just part of it: > It's not so much Basecamp, but Agile mixed with Scrum and then enforced very strictly that's the issue. Namely, how th
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by CRConrad 2y ago
That bit about trademarks not applying to people’s names is probably universal, and the staff who handled the case in TFA screwed up in the same way the ones in the Khaleesi case originally did and alter corrected themselves in the same wa
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by CRConrad 2y ago
You could always replace it with a modular monolith in stead of microservices.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> No one says agile is perfect Read the agile manifesto and tell me what you want to do that isn't in there.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> ...my current job uses Shape Up and Basecamp ( https://basecamp.com/shapeup ) instead of Agile or a Kanban... What, is "Agile" percieved to be so tightly bound-up in some particular methodologies (or trademarks
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Not that this is all that new, IIRC. Didn't StandUpMaths on YouTube have a video on this months (at least) ago?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41618685 ETA: Not that this is all that new, IIRC. Didn't StandUpMaths on YouTube have a video on this months (at least) ago?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Though the German word for cell phone, “handy” is pretty great. But it sounds rather silly in the standard German pronounciation of "henndii".
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Here's a video about a favourite from my youth, kind of a Nordic parallel (though this one is about a duck, not a mouse) -- "How This Duck Outsmarted Disney's Lawyers": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that's not what was meant. (Do you really think it was, or are you just being snarky?)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I am trying to understand and evaluate criticisms against NVC and I am not convinced by what those posts said. Sure came off as trying to dismiss or deflect from criticisms in your earlier comments. Sounded almost like you'd drunk
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yeah, we've all been taught a lot of BS in school.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Is Caterham a common name in Britain, or are you related to the sports cars?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The words "probably nothing" imply that on something more than belief, you can assign a probability to nothingness. Maybe not "probability", but likelihood. That's the way Ockham's razor cuts: In the tot
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> if nothing follows death, then this would also mean the end of the universe Huh?!? How the heck do you get from one to the other??? I see absolutely no logic connection there. Care to explain?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Our bodies and minds get replaced bit by bit over time. We're ships of Theseus[1] -- changing all the time, but still the same entity throughout. Mind-scanning your consciousness and pouring the resulting Copied Intelligence[2] into a
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Oh wow, finally an exercise regimen for us lazy people!
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> As if electricity just falls from sky. For Norway, it literally does. In the form of rain and snow, which fills up their hydroelectric dams.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
That's what estate cars / station wagons are for.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> So, replacing erroneous signs is beyond the current state of technology ? From the GGP: >>> But currently, all the signs have the double negative condition crossed out
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> It discussed the command "git request-pull". In git syntax, the command is "git request-pull". What's that in natural language? Perhaps... "A pull request"?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
As this guy argues, that this is also price fixing by algorithm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFk8V7mU0Wo . (Got the link from a comment on another recent HN post, IIRC.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> That is not what you're doing - the free-market HN users that you're emotionally attacking Who said they were talking about HN users? AFAICR, the GP explicitly said that was not what they were talking about. Maybe you'
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Exactly: They intentionally built their transit system without cameras. Who benefits from that, except criminals? Oh yeah, sure: North Korean dissidents, Saudi LGBTQ people, etc, etc. Yes, quite noble. But: How many of those are there using
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Even if we assume 99% of Tor is CP, that doesn't mean blocking Tor will remove 99% of CP. Yeah, sure. But now you're talking statistics, which is rather irrelevant in a discussion on principles.

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