Morg

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by Morg 14y ago
Not really, if I bug my colleagues anymore, they'll realize I'm not working that much.
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by Morg 14y ago
Not really. It's about short term vs long term - mostly the path of least effort is a short term view, long term is more about the path of maximum potential imo.
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by Morg 14y ago
My alternative way is to learn to develop our brains first. I know I'm several orders of magnitude less smart than I could be, and that could've been very different with better nurture - although I was born in a University, both my parents
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by Morg 14y ago
What I mean is trying to do without training their brains. I know I'm far below the potential I had when I was 10 in terms of raw intelligence, and I believe many people could've been a few thousand times smarter if we had only tried making
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by Morg 14y ago
I find it quite humorous that humans will end up plugging chips in their brains to make them "better" before even trying to do it without - once again the path of least effort is the way.
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by Morg 14y ago
That would be because we don't just allow them in> when they get in they get social protection, not just the right to pay taxes. Racism imho is one of the minor issues though, I'm far more concerned by the police state aspects of the US
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by Morg 14y ago
Indeed. I believe we totally agree him and me on the main point: neither China nor the US have a clean record and they're more or less each as dirty as the other.
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by Morg 14y ago
Totally, China is a communist country and the motto is get over it. America's motto is not "rape countries for oil" - it's not "censor the internet" and it's not "IP infringement is more important than violence". The thing is, both countrie
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by Morg 14y ago
I've been in very safe places in America alright, and it's more or less the same here in Europe, just less crime - What I mean is if we're going to talk about countries, we take country-wide data and not cherrypick.
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by Morg 14y ago
Yet you wouldn't dare to visit some parts of the ghettos your biggest cities are famous for. The various movements of the 60s and 70s are completely impossible in the western world now, the brainwashing is far too advanced for that. Unioniz
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by Morg 14y ago
Taiwan and Hong Kong and Tibet have been claimed by China years ago, get over it. Not like Western countries didn't invade Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya to put governments that favor them instead. The japanese and the chinese is an entirely d
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by Morg 14y ago
You can talk and it makes no difference, I doubt that is as relevant as knowing your children are safe.
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by Morg 14y ago
"you have the potential to change the system peacefully through argumentation / debate / voting etc." Sure, by voting for one of two parties that have existed for centuries and been sponsored by the same 1% for as long. You have the potenti
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by Morg 14y ago
Man is it going to burn when you open your eyes ...
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by Morg 14y ago
With all due respect, you are blinded by the kool aid my dear. In the US the government controls the entire internet, as well as every information every company holds, including facebook, twitter, google and apple - as well as Intel and Mi
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by Morg 14y ago
China is incredibly larger for same culture/language population numbers, yet it doesn't have half the issues. While this is all propaganda and the article clearly avoids some details, the truth is the situation is really bad and Chinese peo
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by Morg 14y ago
EITHER you made something great OR you have nothing to show and then it's really personal In the end, once you have something to show, noone cares about your resumé and they all want you on board because you have shown that you can deliver
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by Morg 14y ago
I'd say it depends. I could easily say sysadmin, Xen virt, SQL server, postgreSQL, jQ, Illustrator, python, java, html5/css3, extensive hardware understanding, infrastructure design and I've been working for 5 years or something... The diff
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by Morg 14y ago
like all discriminatory anti-discrimination laws ... I don't see how you can fight discrimination with positive discrimination tbqh.
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by Morg 14y ago
Try postgreSQL next time, at least it's ACID compliant ;)
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by Morg 14y ago
not really. because you can over analyze what the right abstractions can be. it's only a matter of how abstract you want it to be, believe me. Analysis Paralysis is inevitable as long as you want to write the RIGHT thing. As soon as you acc
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by Morg 14y ago
In the end, while the author makes interesting or even compelling points for those who jailbreak phones, most consumers do not give a flying duck about all that and that makes it unlikely to change.
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by Morg 14y ago
Or do like corporation style, quote 3 to 5 times the time it takes your engineers to complete the work and accept the 5% reduction after much talk on how it's breaking your balls (cartman).
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by Morg 14y ago
Decreasing rate is financial suicide imho, once you've done it there's no reason to stop. My point of view is I'm offering great value and if they don't want it, someone else does and I couldn't care less. In the worst case, I'll take the o
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by Morg 14y ago
It's wonderful how people make money from distractions which in turn enable others to exploit the increasingly unaware. But truly it is scary. I lose days just reading HN, Paul Graham, Rodgers and that's after closing 20 tabs of webcomics,
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by Morg 14y ago
Not that expensive, I have many friends with bands and records and I can tell you a "good enough" studio is dirt cheap nowadays, you can get pro sound for a few K at most - still takes a lot of editing work though.
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by Morg 14y ago
What's the difference, they're all still trying to ask ten times what they'll give the artists, for no reason and while taking 30% profit on a download that's at most worth one ad showing.
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by Morg 14y ago
I like the idea, but 10 bucks for an album is a total steal. It's the same price as a CD if you count out one and a half links in the retail chain. It's expensive enough to make one hesitate. IMO it should cost what it brings the artists t
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by Morg 14y ago
I recently almost completely stopped using youtube. Then I downloaded adblock video plugin - was using firefox at that time. Ads can be a major pain, and any business that requires them is probably going to fail, intolerance to ads is build
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by Morg 14y ago
I think that's the main issue for anyone who wants to best google. I'm not particularly disapointed with google search, and if I try something I don't like, I won't try it again unless a friend tells me it's changed a lot. That business is

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