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by GuiA 8y ago
“Eat whole fresh food, not too much, mostly plants.” https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t...
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by GuiA 8y ago
It’s a tad condescending. It asserts authoritatively that is a misreading of computer science history - in history, there is rarely a single “correct reading”, but rather many interpretations that at time reinforce and at times weaken each
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“We are all smart here. Distinguish yourself by being kind”.
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by GuiA 8y ago
Alan Watts: “You do not know where your decisions come from. They pop up like hiccups. And people have a great deal of anxiety about making decisions. Did I think this over long enough? Did I take enough data into consideration? And if you
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Dozens Arrested in Marriott Worker Protests in San Francisco(nbcbayarea.com)
1 points by GuiA 8y ago|0 comments
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Ergonomics are a weird thing. There’s a huge variation in human anatomy and preferences. What is amazing for you will be terrible for someone else. You can invest a lot of man hours into trying to come up with a solution that works well for
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by GuiA 8y ago
Heh. While it’s a bit silly in this case, your argument isn’t very solid. Your ability to resist doing something you’re tempted to do is directly related to how easy it is to do. Try living with a bowl of M&M’s on your beside table, and
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by GuiA 8y ago
Nope, France. My grandparents grew up during the nazi occupation though (and one of them fought in the resistance) and raised my parents as such, so perhaps that had an impact.
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by GuiA 8y ago
Add up how much a nanny, preschool, etc. costs and compare it to a non upper tech salary, and you will quickly realize that stay at home parent != failed breadwinner. Especially when you’re starting to account for more than one kid.
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by GuiA 8y ago
This is such an important point. I have friends who routinely go out for $300+ dinners, and then complain about having near empty savings account. It’s honestly quite shocking, coming from software engineers who are (supposedly) analyticall
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by GuiA 8y ago
I’m 28, from Europe, have worked for a well known large tech company in Silicon Valley for over 4 years (and a few startups before that). I currently have a bit under $500k “in the bank” (mix of cash, stock, bonds, index funds). I intend to
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by GuiA 8y ago
Your point #4 will be magnified to the extreme in Tokyo.
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by GuiA 8y ago
I turned to Google Translate in search of a French translation for the English word “geek.” There wasn’t one. Maybe ask a French person then. “Intello” (dismissive diminutive of the word “intellectuel”) is in very common usage amongst sch
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by GuiA 8y ago
I was in a PhD program, I dropped out. I have been working in R&D at a large company for a while now; many of my best colleagues have PhDs, many others do not. As far as my personal experience is concerned, a PhD has no bearing whatsoev
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by GuiA 8y ago
Thanks for your comment. This was not to detract from Jeff Dean's work in any way - obviously he is a talented, hard working engineer. This was more to share with 'halflings that comparing one's achievements to someone else&#
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by GuiA 8y ago
I put a lot of effort in my undergraduate thesis, but none of the professors on my committee had much interest in advising me; and after my defense, the only professor who really gave me his undivided attention came to me and said “I’m glad
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by GuiA 8y ago
If userland software can soft brick the camera, the problem is not the userland software.
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YC needs a suit who will let them convince the PRC that they should be allowed to have a slice of the Chinese economy. They could not have chosen a better person.
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Can the same argument be applied to adopting children over biologically conceiving them?
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You are getting downvoted because you are assuming everyone has similar living conditions and environments as yourself. Many have children to take care of. Many have other family members (disabled relative, elderly parent, younger sibling,
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by GuiA 8y ago
Brian Eno: "I was an art student and, like all art students, I was encouraged to believe that there were a few great figures like Picasso and Kandinsky, Rembrandt and Giotto and so on who sort-of appeared out of nowhere and produced a
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by GuiA 8y ago
As a software engineer I have some vague notions of why voting software is a slippery slope to get on; but can anyone sum up the main arguments/ELI5 why we can trust avionics or elevator software to an acceptable level of confidence, b
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by GuiA 8y ago
I still shoot a tiny bit of 35mm - mostly with a Rollei 35S, which is a wonderfully compact camera that fits in any pocket, and makes taking casual snaps when going out with friends etc. a breeze when lugging a medium format would be a pain
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by GuiA 8y ago
On a roll of 12 medium format shots, I usually get 3-4 tops that I'm happy with to print. On a 35mm roll of 36 shots, it was usually around 8 or 10. So from a quarter to a third. It's been years since I intensely shot digital, but
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by GuiA 8y ago
Information asymmetry.
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I have lived intermittently in Japan, and grew up between French and US cultures. Their society is inscrutable and profoundly weird to you, (I presume) an anglophone westerner. To a Chinese, Thai, or Korean, their society isn’t that inscrut
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by GuiA 8y ago
Fantastic comment. The feedback loop between some Japanese people arguing that Japanese culture is unique in some fundamental and unique way amongst all other human culture, and non Japanese people lapping it up, is a little insane.
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Baghdad Battery(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by GuiA 8y ago|0 comments
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Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, "I'd like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream." The waitress replies, "I'm sorry, Monsieur, but
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by GuiA 8y ago
(Can't edit anymore, but finally found the relevant Wikipedia link for the phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox )

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