Kenji

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by Kenji 9y ago
Oh, yeah, I forgot. Dollars are much better; a central bank (actually, any bank) can create arbitrarily many of them and flood the other banks and the market with cheap money, causing things like the subprime crisis. Much better than crypto
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by Kenji 9y ago
Let perfect not be the enemy of good. If you demanded that our currencies like dollars live up to your criteria, we would still be trading goods without currency.
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I have a SSD and fast internet with low ping. Besides, the start menu shouldn't need to connect to the internet.
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by Kenji 9y ago
Meanwhile on Windows 10 it sometimes takes 2 seconds until the start menu pops up, or sometimes a full second until a right-click context menu comes up. On a clean Windows 10 install on a 3.4GHz PC with plenty of RAM :)
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by Kenji 9y ago
Is it just me or are websites that implement these kinds of selective paywalls rarely worth visiting, let alone worth spending effort to get through the paywall?
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by Kenji 9y ago
I think the risk that terrorists detonate a dirty bomb in urban areas or poison the water supplies (which is actually really easy) is much higher and more alarming than anything North Korea has ever done or will do.
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At this point, you are literally trolling me.
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It was an example with simple numbers. My goodness, I forgot how pedantic people are here. If someone does not understand that average is not median, then I'm not going to talk about standard deviation...
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by Kenji 9y ago
> Not surprising, since the very definition of "IQ 100" is average. Average is not enough. If you have 10 people who have an IQ of 80 and one with an IQ of 300, that'd also average to 100. What matters here is the (roughly
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by Kenji 9y ago
> We can all be members of the intellectual elite, and then, only then, will a phrase "America's right to know" and, indeed, any true concept of democracy, have any meaning Come on. We cannot all be members of the inte
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by Kenji 9y ago
Yes, but I wouldn't want to spend time with someone who treats me better if I wear a suit rather than jeans, nor would I want to work at a place where such an attitude is common. I'd rather pass up on all the opportunities nice cl
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by Kenji 9y ago
Good thing Google lectures us on how we should design our apps and websites, they know how to do it.
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> What makes you think this deserves more compensation? They deserve more compensation because their work is worth more. It is that simple. Not everyone produces the same amount of value - in fact, how much value people produce at work u
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by Kenji 9y ago
>The problem is that one person makes $10,000 (or $40,000) while another makes $10,000,000. Explain to me, how is that a problem. Suppose someone invents a method to make lots of clean renewable energy very cheaply. They make a company a
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by Kenji 9y ago
It's actually much simpler than that: Never rely on the opinion of someone who can make immediate profit off your decision.
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Thank you for presenting an encouraging counterpoint. I think own game engines can work, but you'll probably have to stick to 2D or 2.5D because 3D introduces such great amounts of additional complexity - and even though 3D is not extr
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by Kenji 9y ago
As mentioned in the post, it wasn't about politics. Republican or democrat, it doesn't matter. It was about human psychology and how apologizing is a hinderance to getting ahead.
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If you keep your laptop open during class, you're not just distracting yourself, you're distracting everyone behind you (that's how human attention works - if you see a bright display with moving things, your attention is dra
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Can confirm. Also, Windows actually saves batteries compared to a vanilla Ubuntu install. I don't know why but Linux GUI is extremely wasteful for some reason.
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by Kenji 9y ago
When I skimmed your message, I read some-sexy-ass.io . I think that would be a more likely domain for people to look up ;) EDIT: C'mon, you know I'm not wrong.
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> You’ll never guess what happens next. One of the most annoying and overused phrases in the universe.
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That was a serious question.
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Did he do this beside working 100% as a software engineer?
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Without machines acquiring true understanding of what is happening, this is going nowhere. I applaud their effort but it is misguided.
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by Kenji 9y ago
The death penalty is barbaric. The only time when a criminal should die is when they immediately threaten another person's life and there is no other safe way to stop them. That's why I'm so impressed with how Norway handled
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It's never too late to bother trying. If you think it'll benefit you in life, just go for it and study it.
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That's what happens when your government dumps money into banks, which dump it into mortgages, to increase spending in a struggling market. It's like drinking alcohol to ease the suffering caused by a mental health problem. You ju
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by Kenji 9y ago
I am deeply grateful that something like WolframAlpha existed when I was taking calculus classes. It helped me soo much. I could make up integrals, solve them and see if I was right, just like that. It even has a function to show step by st
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by Kenji 9y ago
> The enlightened sit nodding along, while the unenlightened go away confused or misled. It's the same with maths. It's even worse when the concepts are explained in a circular way. Go to wikipedia and search for a random mathe
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by Kenji 9y ago
I also got Intel 2600K. Yes, it's still going very strong. No reason to switch until my motherboard breaks. Speed gains would be minimal, yet getting a new processor would be quite expensive.

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