HappyDreamer

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by HappyDreamer 5y ago
That's in the shadows, right?
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by HappyDreamer 5y ago
> ultimately I burned out Can I ask, does that mean you got so worn out so you couldn't work, had to stay at home / away-from-work for some time? I wonder what happened afterwards. Seems you now work as an independent contracto
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by HappyDreamer 5y ago
> My ADHD and Autism I can understand if you feel bad about the article, then. Autism is a bit often discussed here at HN, is it? At the same time, the article focuses on borderline (BPD), which is very different from autism or ADHD, is
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by HappyDreamer 5y ago
> Short of war, there’s absolutely nothing that can be done Here are some things that can be done: - Stop exporting weapons and military and police equipment. - Support women and them starting their own businesses, so they'll make m
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by HappyDreamer 5y ago
I wonder, isn't it 1) obvious for the CCP what this amount of overfishing will do? And, 2) > These distant-water fleets mainly fish for shortfin squid, which are vital to Argentina’s economy 1 and 2 combined make me wonder if destro
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by HappyDreamer 5y ago
Another thing cold be if costs for transportation and preparing the fish, storing it etc, grocery store salaries, as of now outweighs the cost of fishing it up from the ocean? (But if so, maybe not much longer.) (I don't know, just won
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by HappyDreamer 5y ago
Why do so many / "all" people at Twitter seem to agree with the most disappointed people who quit? Whilst here at HN, different people have different viewpoints (not all of them the same) -- there are 1) some who think like t
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by HappyDreamer 5y ago
This hate is a bit present, still today. In Stockholm, Sweden, 5 years ago: "Death to the Armenian dogs", said B. Leylani, who was, back then, the vice president of the Turkish National Association of Sweden. The spectators (Turk
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by HappyDreamer 5y ago
In a dictatorship, it doesn't matter so much if you use it in a legal way or not -- what matters, is instead if the dictator does not like it (or if he likes it). If you use such a proxy in a completely legal way, but that the dictat
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
The dictionary: "immigrant: a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country". Note: permanently . But expat can be temporary. So, if you haven't decided that you'll stay permanently in the new country, but m
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
What about an option to expire the message X hours or days after the first access ? So that if one forgets to save / make-use-of the secret thing, and accidentally reload the browser tab, or power off the computer -- it'll still
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
That's what I was thinking too. > the stream of evolution will wash the greedy and lazy out Are there ways to speed up this tens of thousands of years of evolution? I can think of some things On the other hand, is there a risk that
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
> non-technical companies sometimes strongly undervalue IT or programming expertise They might also be unable to know if a job applicant is good at IT or not? And listen mostly to how he/she describes him/herself, and how confi
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
Ok thanks for explaining :-)
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
What were you going to call it? The competitor, was it DigitalOcean? (Or am I misunderstanding :-) )
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
How are such contracts awarded? Would you have time to explain? I was just thinking that the executives at the prison, are clueless about software, and likely couldn't hire a competent consultancy agency, even if they wanted to. And al
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
Or phrased differently, Why should [different religion countries] care less? (I cannot imagine that there's any good answer to that question)
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
Yes! That rock band came to my mind, having read about them here at HN. But I couldn't remember the name (Van Halen, see below) or "brown m&m". Now, because of your reply, I found this old HN post: "Why Van Halen&#x2
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
> [If you don't know yourself] if you are asking a for something stupid, who will know? No one will. Makes me think I could intentionally ask for 1 or 2 stupid things, and see if the supplier tells me about it?
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
I think I'm not secure , when people in the military or police etc can get my exact location that easily. I could get arrested too easily, by law enforcement who skipped some steps in the process and got the wrong person? Maybe LEOs m
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
> they've encouraged non-compliance in every imaginable way > Now they're stuck: they need to turn it around and do so quickly Situation about the same here where I live (also in Europe). Thanks for having written a bit more
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
If they enforce the legislation far away in the forests or countryside, whilst ignore people walking in crowds in London on Christmas Eve [1], then I'm thinking this will lower the trust in the police and make people inclined to ignore
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
Then what happens? Edit: Maybe this is part of the answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25681432 One more likely dies from cancer, because any treatment likely won't start until too late.
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
Yes definitely (at least some? many? of them). But how do you know they do? How did you learn this? If I may ask
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
Don't be surprised that there are people who believe such things for real. There're organizations for the 1 in 50 or 1 in 1000 brightest people, but there's the other end of the spectrum too. A friend/acquaintance of min
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
Also, one might not understand if the things someone else is doing, is mediocre or really bright, when one doesn't understand the topic well, oneself. Let's say someone X cannot understand much mathematics -- then, if someone else
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
Better than the average driver, but maybe not the median driver
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
> I can't help but think the posters have a chip on their shoulder from being rejected by Google I think so too, look at this angry (it says "fucking" 3 times) comment over at Reddit: > It’s a waste of fucking time. I
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
Or "curiosity crime" too?
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by HappyDreamer 6y ago
How does only 2 hours sleep a night affect you? For example at work, or studies / learning new things? Or when together with others? (Personally I get upset at the computer more easily, if I'm tired. Hmm maybe I should stop wor

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