OldSchoolJohnny

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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
Emotion is not a real legitimate source of information, it's an inspiration to tell the brain to pay more attention to something and then work it out logically (like when you have a bad feeling about something), but to make any non t
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
"they" is a historic and accepted gender neutral pronoun.
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
There is no such thing as "willpower" and there is also no such thing as "motivation" ( https://medium.com/swlh/theres-no-such-thing-as-motivation-e... ). These are both complementary pre-scientific
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
Wow.
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
> At the point you care about backups and standby nodes, you're already sort of outside the cheapo hobby tier WTF? Why would anyone ever not care about backups?
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
Yes. You get to interact with real people and stretch your legs.
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
Thank you for asking this! I honestly never considered it before as we offer a free trial up front to combat refunds and make it harder to refund; but it makes perfect sense after reading all the other answers and has changed my mind comple
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
Because no one would care if it was too far in the future?
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
This part is concerning though: "Under the arrangement, the company has also agreed to test DNA evidence for the FBI in its private laboratory." I hope the FBI will corroborate whatever results the private company comes up with la
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
> This is one of those HN threads with a lot of misinformation by people who don't know the subject area well but have a strong opinion anyway. So essentially just like every thread in every online discussion group then?
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
I can't imagine a company not mining the info from support for exactly these kind of improvements as a standard operating procedure; it's a gold mine of information, anyone ignoring it doesn't really care about the quality
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
Absolutely great post and analogy but might be lost on those that started some ways already up the hill as they probably have little to no idea what the bottom parts of the hill are like.
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
If you want to bring complex applications to market quickly then use .net Core for the backend, Vue for the front end, Postgres for the db server. We researched this to death recently and unless you have prior affinity or are saddled with t
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
The flour company?
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
Judging from the article I think it's a proof of concept or similar stage.
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
“the only motivational advice anyone has ever needed: You don’t have to feel like getting something done in order to actually get it done.“ https://medium.com/swlh/theres-no-such-thing-as-motivation-e...
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
Yup, good science shows that potassium is far more important than people seem to generally realize but people have been so busy demonizing salt for so long that it's sunk into the collective consciousness of all those people who don&#x
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
Because there isn't any proof of such a link? High blood pressure goes hand in hand with low potassium intake and many people don't eat enough potassium rich foods. People keep trying to push their anti meat morality by finding al
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
Seriously?
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
And don't forget about the myriad expenses that most people don't realize are a major ongoing part of owning a house. Rarely do people factor in that a house is disintegrating daily and you need to spend serious money on a regula
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
I think you're vastly underestimating the enormous pressures that will be put to bear on solving literally every other problem if it means even the possibility of eliminating a majority of the drivers entirely and their huge cost to th
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
That's no longer a requirement with the latest release of .net core.
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
Cannabis in both cases works well for a great many people.
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
If you don't feel like you know less and less every year that you are doing something then you are not gaining any wisdom and will likely never be truly great at it.
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
Yes! This is a healthy attitude. Others say don't beat yourself up about it, I would say it's not about that, just not making assumptions that are useless.
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
How cool if they could though?
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
The end game used to be wealthy retirement because it paid extremely well. And on a side note people's bodies can and do handle that kind of manual labour for 40+ years. Not all of course, some get hurt, some are not cut out for it
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
I think companies have enjoyed historically high profits for a long time now and are simply loath to give that up. What is a reasonable, sustainable level of profit that benefits everyone? It's certainly not what we've seen for
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
Many of these news stories about labour shortages could alternatively be summarized as "Company expects perpetual huge profits and people to continue to work for next to nothing"
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by OldSchoolJohnny 8y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/5paqh5/putins_...

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