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by NhanH 11y ago
Happiness and fulfillment can be argued to be just as vain/unattainable/not a good goal etc. as any other criteria.
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by NhanH 11y ago
> I'm very efficient with my time but if I made every second worthwhile, I'd go nuts. Sometimes BS time (videogames, the pub, etc) are necessary. Be careful with equating "unproductive" and bullshit. Society at large
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by NhanH 11y ago
> By no means am I a right-wing/vigilante militia supporter, but this type of behavior from the police makes me support having a heavily armed citizenry. Do you mind elaborate how firearm would help with combating civil forfeiture?
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by NhanH 11y ago
The dislike of academia - specifically of higher education post B.S - partly stems from the archaic admission process that strictly limit the opportunity for the majority of people to participate in it. You have to be doing the correct thin
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by NhanH 11y ago
> What if I say X is we must all stop working and you say Y, we should carry on as we are? > Do we fire half the company? If we can fire half the people currently working in the economy, stop the pretense that "job" is somet
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by NhanH 11y ago
There is definitely some kind of sampling biased here. I can't imagine rational people regrets having kids will ever say that out loud without being burned at stakes. Besides, regrets tend to come in the form of "wish I've do
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by NhanH 11y ago
> I believe it is a flaw of the human personality that makes us want to hide information and eventually lie about it. At the very basic, we want to hide things because other people do not like it (which leads to reaction from shaming to
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by NhanH 11y ago
Pushing a bad analogy, it means that you should remove the cancer, not skinning human altogether ...
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by NhanH 11y ago
Even at 0% GDP growth, the total assets of the nation is still growing, so the pie of wealth is growing as well. Did I miss something?
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by NhanH 11y ago
The new piece of information is that you also know everyone in the tribe know about that information. That was not a given before the statement.
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by NhanH 11y ago
> The reality is that this program exists so that companies like Google and Microsoft don't have to face the natural law of supply and demand in the job industry. The "natural law of supply and demand", specifically, the s
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by NhanH 11y ago
> During the 2015–16 school year, colleges and universities are expected to award 952,000 associate's degrees; 1.8 million bachelor's degrees; 802,000 master's degrees; and 179,000 doctor's degrees [0] Every year, the
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by NhanH 11y ago
> Do you really think everything the TSA does is literally 0% effective? Yes, for the purpose of "protecting American at large", it's approximately that. And it's very simple to see too! The most effective way to prev
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by NhanH 11y ago
I've always wondered about this: is the machine physically incapable of blasting you with a stronger dose than it's supposed to, or is that software controlled? Because there is no way I'd believe the software on that thing d
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by NhanH 11y ago
I'm not sure about that specific instance of Japanese culture, but for East Asia I'd say fixed mindset was much more relevant. I grew up being told that I will never do anything great with my life (not in a mean you-are-stupid way
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by NhanH 11y ago
My main problem with org-mode is the lack of good display for math notations as well as multimedia (picture/video etc). Did I miss something that I can use with it?
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by NhanH 11y ago
I'm not trying to be pretentious here. But all big companies (Google etc.) I've interviewed so far asked me to code, what should I make of your advice?
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by NhanH 11y ago
Out of curiosity, on the taxonomy of programmers, is that supposed to be mostly exclusive, or can they overlap?
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by NhanH 11y ago
Arguably, first class higher order function (and immutability) is defining characteristics of functional programming. Although, I don't think the functional/ imperative is necessary a good axis for categorizing languages. There ar
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by NhanH 11y ago
I'm happy to response that I'm neither 14, nor old enough to have realized the idea on my own before I came across it. >And as for the schools, they were just holding pens within this fake world. Officially the purpose of schoo
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by NhanH 11y ago
The purpose of school is to lock up kids and adolescents in order to free up the adult population. Any education happening is incidental.
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by NhanH 11y ago
No disagreement here. I was just pointing out that what the GP wanted already exists in the form of Lisp (with different flavors of macro being different "API" to the parser, so to speak).
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by NhanH 11y ago
You just sang the song of Lisp programmers all over the worlds.
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by NhanH 11y ago
Pretty good from what I've seen. I've been using one for the last year. One notable thing is that if you're using more than one monitor, you might have issues if they have different resolution (it's unlikely you can do 2
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by NhanH 11y ago
I don't think that's necessary true. The whole thing is a pretty new mentality, previous generations of companies/ founders doesn't seem to have too much of that attitudes (Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon etc.?). And th
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by NhanH 11y ago
Right, risk estimation would be a probability distribution by itself. It won't be a five sigma confidence in the estimation. But if one was to do the work and actually calculate the estimation distribution, I'd find it hard to bel
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by NhanH 11y ago
Wouldn't the set being chosen just resulting in different probability profile, and you get to pick one depending on your personal characteristics? Ie. 2.5 micromorts is your risk if you're a French citizen, (153 + other death from
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by NhanH 11y ago
Everyday passing by is a sample day that you can use to estimate the risks. Even if you argue that terrorism is a relatively new risk in the past few decades and start your sampling from September 2001, we still have more than a decade of s
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by NhanH 11y ago
They have an API now that allows you to push code into the game directly. There is also a grunt task for it, so you can just work on your local box and a simple "grunt screeps" will update the code on the server.
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by NhanH 11y ago
In the game, you would be writing script that controls a bunch of units called creeps. Each with limited information about the world (you have access to more, though). If you have ever played all the city building game (Zeus, Pharaoh etc),

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