Joe-Z

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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Of course the remaining sin being treating animals like a commodity, making them suffer, driving them around in crowded conditions for hundreds of miles... It‘s not just the environment that suffers from our industrialized way to produce me
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
I have an anecdote which I found quite interesting: Last week I got to meet my cousin’s daughter for the first time. It was a family dinner and after everyone had eaten she pulled out her barbie dolls to play with. Since I‘ve been on HN for
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
That‘s insane! Doesn‘t change the fact that most people who know her name also know that she‘s a woman though.
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Look, we disagree on how tax avoidance should be dealt with on a personal and a corporate level and that‘s fine. But you‘re constantly conflating a valid point (which is a proper distinction between the two terms and which I agree with) wit
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
I don't get it. On the one hand you say you just wanted to make clear the distinction between the two terms, on the other you claim when facebook and Amazon are avoiding taxes that's the same as when ordinary people try to save fo
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
While it may be a problem that people „unthinkingly do what they are told to do“, I don‘t think requiring engineers to take an ethics class will fix that. What it does is give people the tools to properly articulate thoughts they are alread
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
I don‘t think people will use this research to „optimize“ their time to fund. If you have an idea and things align you will do that regardless of your age. I think it provides an interesting contrast to the idea of young-genius unicorn-star
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
FYI people will downvote you for suggesting someone hasn't read the post. (And I don't think it was necessary to make your point.) HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >Please don&#x2
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
I know, I know... I wasn‘t referring to this part as being pleasant :)
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
I of course don‘t have data to back this up. But, I think, a lot of it comes down to how you approach these sorts of situations. According to my experience, how open you are - and stay - in kind-of-sketchy situations will get you a long way
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
>writing off tons of people as untrustwothy... I think that‘s what most people do. I‘m actually waiting for me to be „completely duped“ one time and deliberately exposing myself to this risk. However, my experience so far has lead me to
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
>I think it would take ten dedicated developers ... if they would agree on common goals and focus on those Well, then it will never happen :D
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Exactly. The other day I was carrying 2 relatively heavy boxes (furniture; I just moved into a new place) and suddenly a guy comes up to me and asks if he can help me. At first I was kind of flabbergasted, but after a second I was like &#x2
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Not solely maybe, but I agree with you. Some of them are more in-between-tree-houses. Still nice to see what people come up with!
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
>but if you spent 10 years in prison for a bank robbery, you're probably are not going to get hired at a bank after the background check I kind of find this example hilarious. It‘s not like people rob banks out of passion. They prob
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Thank you for the follow-up and the links! I wonder if your suggestion would hold if it were put to the test and one were to implement a big and complex software strictly with the independent processes+pipes model. I could well see that you
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Thank you for the insight. What you're describing reminds me pretty strongly of pure functions. Which I guess makes sense, since "Functional languages can do concurrency out of the box!!" (well yeah, but you need to learn how
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Would you mind elaborating on "why separate address spaces connected by pipes are such a powerful abstraction", or point me to some sources? Likewise if there's something you can recommend for reading up on the Actor model?
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Is this really the problem though? The author claims her reason for not being able to „mingle“ with a room full of people is that she‘s afraid people won‘t like her. For me at least, the reason is more like missing relevance. Why should I t
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
>This kind of problem just doesn't trigger an existential threat response where we throw everything we have at it. You're right, I think it's because the consequences are too abstract / too far in the future. I still
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
I don't think living like that is a conscious decision though. It's probably more likely for someone like the closet-guy that he's an outsider anyway and at some point along the way just thought to himself "fuck it, I mi
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
I think you underestimate the size of the space of "patentable ideas" :)
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
This has to be one of the more depressive sentences I've read. More and more I find myself being really glad that I work in software, where flexible working hours and companies that try to offer something to their employees (because th
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
What some people pay to go to concerts is just insane to me. RHCP? Huge fan, but €100+ for a concert? No way! I‘ve been to a lot of concerts, but I think I never paid more than 50€ for a show (and even that was an exception, think „Rancid i
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Ooooohh, alright guys, wrap it up, finally someone came up with a solution. And here I was, thinking it's not so simple as to just tell people what to do and everything will fall into place...
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
No the "small subset of players" was referring to top players that would be affected by people misusing blocking other players. As for all the players "affected" by this problem: People should learn to chill out. In a vi
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
I'd much rather have a system which may fail for a small subset of players, than having a game company tell me what constitutes good or bad behaviour. This is a problem which _can't_ be solved by a central authority. That's l
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Going on and on about issues you already brought up in the past, while they may be sensible, but for which you don't have the time or resources to fix just yet doesn't do any good either. So a constant complainer would be someone
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Your situation seems considerably less weird too me though. Another important difference is you moved in with „a bunch“ of people whereas the woman in the article was alone. I‘d sure as hell not want to be on my own if it turns out my new 3
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
>...a courtly gentleman, he was very respectful. Actually that's the thing that threw me off. I mean why would a successful, well-adjusted "gentleman" even be in a situation where the best option for him is to live in a sh

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