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by GuiA 7y ago
There are still 6 times more guns per person in the US than in Switzerland. Looking at the numbers also shows that Switzerland is far from being an outlier in any way, so I'm not sure why the Swiss system is more interesting than the A
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by GuiA 7y ago
A common hack in customer service is to make the customer feel like they're getting special treatment, are more knowledgeable than most other customers, and so on :)
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by GuiA 7y ago
And yet that 8 year old child was left with a phone. At some point the adults in the room need to take some responsibility. It’s okay to tell your friends that you think it’s inappropriate for an 8 year old to be left alone with a phone at
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by GuiA 7y ago
FWIW there’s a footnote at the end of the article mentioning the print title of the article: “Boy, Disconnected”.
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by GuiA 7y ago
Every few years some company/research lab will claim they have a technology that’ll simulate sunlight coming through a window, but it still isn’t something one can buy. The moment we can buy eg a 3ft by 1ft panel that we can just mount
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by GuiA 7y ago
Financial Independence/Retire Early The core idea is to define your annual expenditures (let’s say $50k), a long term investment strategy you personally feel comfortable with (say 5% ROI), and from there you can deduce the amount you n
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by GuiA 7y ago
If you have moral objections but still believe that the company can address them, why would you quit rather than try to change things from within?
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by GuiA 7y ago
Strawman, that is not what I am saying at all. Merely that in space meant to foster constructive conversation - which HN aims to be - ending a comment with "you guys chose to do X" when talking about controversial political decisi
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by GuiA 7y ago
Saying “you guys” when talking to individual citizens (especially online) regarding actions of their government (especially when they were 3 decades ago) is unnecessarily antagonistic.
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by GuiA 7y ago
Somewhat similar stories with eg Grothendieck and Kaczynski. As the article points out, one of the properties of genius is that it can’t really be deliberately focused.
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by GuiA 7y ago
Travel that doesn’t scale is the best kind of travel.
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by GuiA 7y ago
That’s quite the leaky metaphor. If you split a list in half to sort it, the computer doesn’t inherit the backlog of punted features/bugs/stress/frustration/etc from the previous half.
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by GuiA 7y ago
In addition to all the other great points: Where are the train stations? What services at are there? Who works there? Where do they live? Where do their kids go to school? How do they get their food? Who takes care of them for medical issue
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by GuiA 7y ago
> What was the creative outlet of regular people before the meme culture? Still memes; albeit in the form of jokes, idioms, quotations, fables, etc. The novelty here is the tools that now allow us to create pictorial content and share
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by GuiA 7y ago
> I'll write my own language and ship code that people will not understand without a heavy investment of time; market failure for sure, but I'll be happy because it is my art Perhaps not a great way to make money, but likely
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Trespassing != breaking and entering
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by GuiA 7y ago
See also: membrane computing/P systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_system
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That’s pretty wild. Do you remember what breed?
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by GuiA 7y ago
> I'm not sure what the phrase "atmosphere of boredom" signifies but it doesn't sound like a faithful attempt to get something to work. If you are doing any of these treatments in an atmosphere of boredom will it act
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by GuiA 7y ago
One end of the spectrum: modern psychiatry turns out to be kind of like alchemy. Some fundamental ideas have merit to them (the material world shares a common basis, and it is theoretically possible to turn any matter into any other matter)
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by GuiA 7y ago
I can’t even copy text on Facebook.com with iOS Safari.
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by GuiA 7y ago
They don’t even let you copy text! We’re losing the most basic computing affordances that we’ve taken for granted over the past half century.
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by GuiA 7y ago
There’s a device called Burger on the Go which allows one to obtain six hamburgers (or twelve sliders) from a horse without killing the animal.
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by GuiA 7y ago
Is there a cool story around how the person came to own such a thing?
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by GuiA 7y ago
I thought bitcoin mining hardware was only useful for a few months at best due to rising complexity built in the protocol? If so the computers hidden by the criminals won’t be very useful when they get out of prison a few years from now.
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by GuiA 7y ago
La Joconde has been at the Louvre since 1797. Since 1878, it has been displayed in the Salle des États - a room originally used by Napoleon III for legislative sessions. As you mention, the room hosts many Venetian works, and has been recen
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by GuiA 7y ago
Here is a blog post applying a similar idea to matrix math: https://www.sebastiansylvan.com/post/matrix_naming_conventio...
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The guide seems to have been written a while back by someone from Argentina. Is it possible that the concerns you raise here are geography/time dependent? E.g. maybe Argentina doesn't have much of a parasite problem, or that when
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by GuiA 7y ago
The comment promotes awareness of the problem. Your interpretation does not stand up to that.
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by GuiA 7y ago
Your comment made me think of a great comment on the topic I had read here a few months ago. After some digging around, I found it, and it turns out to be a post of yours, too! :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1992485

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