JauntyHatAngle

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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
As a German-Australian, and ignoring that this is anecdotal, but I've often noted the big difference in levels of smoking when I visit German cities vs Australian ones. Smoking just isn't popular in Australia among my age group (l
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
"Social systems are much more complex than this simplistic reductionism." Bit of a misnomer that, surely, as reductionism is all about simplifying things into digestable components. Also this is an interview piece, its not going t
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
Because they had kids 20 years ago back when they were young and attractive. *note that this is a joke, just like (I assume) the post you were replying to.
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
>Miner centralization is still a huge issue for Bitcoin. That's a fair call, there is a little too much faith in the large pools being "rational" participants.
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
No it isn't, its undergoing a schism related to protocol. The mining part has worked fine.
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
We should also ban people talking to their passengers.
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
>This works, but make sure they spend the 2 hours in your office and not 12 hours at home solving a 2 hour problem.. Did you read the article? That's what the article author is saying not to do, they prefer to see a well worked solu
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
You know, not everyone needs to do a degree to be good in a field. There is such thing as a traineeship. Yes, they lose out on a lot of the concepts and focused study, but I'd take sharp trainee over a hand pressed graduate any day.
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
I don't think that's limited to designers. That sounds a lot like dealing with B2B consultancy companies too. IBM eat your heart out.
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
Marketing. I've never heard of slimfast, and if I had I would immediately discount it because I'm not overweight, nor do I eat badly. Soylent was simply the first product I heard of that did the meal replacement "with everyth
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
Well yeah, armies didn't really have much else to entertain them back in the day. We have enough other stuff in our lives to look forward to that we can sacrifice one part of it. Not that anyone should if they don't want to, just
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
Well yeah, you don't eat one meal your whole life. You have multiple meals in a day. But regardless, they went for that angle in the early days because it got them the advertising and funding. It got the attention, it's good marke
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
....you realise people are living longer than they ever have before, even though we all live in bigass cities - the literal antithesis of nature.
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
True that, it helped them get the funding and the interest so it was a great marketing strategy. But now that people understand the theory (ie you can supply someone with all the nutrition they need from the one product) they are going a bi
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
Huh? What part of his post is trolling?
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
Those are concept cars, concept cars always look like that before the final designs come about. Fashion does the same thing.
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
Uh, I thought it was the wild bees that we were concerned about. And from the article about wild bees: "Of course, the discussion above concerns only commercial bees that are managed by humans and businesses. Wild bees — whether they&
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
You can bring bottles of water onto airplanes...
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
I mean, from many people's point of view, it usually is.
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by JauntyHatAngle 10y ago
Pair Programming is just another tool to add to the set. It works very well with the right environment and the right situation, the same as every other tool/methodology works in its own environment. The trick is getting the combination