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by Pamar 10y ago
Ok, fair enough. I am in my fifties, so I automatically assumed people 30+. Your clarification makes sense.
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by Pamar 10y ago
I agree with most of your comment, except the last part. In my opinion if you actually ask for help to put together a written answer you are way beyond "shyness" and would have serious problems functioning in society. (Also, how w
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by Pamar 10y ago
Something I did not find addressed in the article, but I think is relevant: would you agree that text communication (email/forum posts/chat) are making things easier (possibly "too easy") for shy people? I mean, how fr
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Whatsapp extremely popular among diplomats(theguardian.com)
6 points by Pamar 10y ago|3 comments
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by Pamar 10y ago
I totally reject the conclusion that the workforce will be significantly reduced by any imminent technology. Your main point is correct, but take in account this, too: So far technology has replaced or created new jobs requiring not much
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by Pamar 10y ago
Maybe you will like this, then: https://aeon.co/essays/forget-prophecy-the-i-ching-is-an-unc...
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by Pamar 10y ago
I am pretty sure they know how to design (and maybe build) airplanes. This will not automatically mean they will be good at selling them, or build a business around them.
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by Pamar 10y ago
Has anyone read the actual book mentioned in the blog? Opinions?
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Technical deflation to fund Basic Income(medium.com)
3 points by Pamar 10y ago|0 comments
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The Failure of the Euro(newyorker.com)
2 points by Pamar 10y ago|0 comments
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by Pamar 10y ago
Some have interpreted the DOJ fine to be a sort of retaliation for fines applied by EU to Apple/Google (especially the first for the Ireland tax rebates). I have no particular authority in saying if this is actually the case or not, bu
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by Pamar 10y ago
I am in Germany. The NSA debacle made a lot of important people quite unhappy here, not to mention the current tensions between DBank & DOJ and so on... - so I am afraid we would interpret this a bit like Apple's labels, except in
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by Pamar 10y ago
I work in an European company. I doubt this will get any traction outside of US.
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by Pamar 10y ago
I only read philosophy in the boudoir so I am far from an expert on De Sade, but in the book I cited above he took a long (and quite abrupt) detour to illustrate his ideas on "proper, rational" way to organize public life - it i
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How to think like Shakespeare(chronicle.com)
2 points by Pamar 10y ago|0 comments
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by Pamar 10y ago
I therefore suggest a corollary: "When Battridge's law does not apply, you can safely answer the headline with It depends ".
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by Pamar 10y ago
Not exactly sure why this is a Hacker News thing but... Godel, Escher, Bach had a whole chapter on translation, and of course the topic keep cropping up after the specific chapter. So if you agree that Hofstadter's work can be discus
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by Pamar 10y ago
Would you mind giving an example of such a curriculum?
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by Pamar 10y ago
Unlike I am mistaken the pidgeon foot is defensive/camouflage but cannot be used to cause damage to a target.
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Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy causes turmoil in global sea freight(theguardian.com)
2 points by Pamar 10y ago|0 comments
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Dumb tricks to save database space(kev.inburke.com)
4 points by Pamar 10y ago|0 comments
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by Pamar 10y ago
I am not the OP but I interpret "research is stuck" as follows: Remember Altavista (and similar search engines from the era?) it worked, but everyone was using the same approach so you got the same results when you searched for a
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by Pamar 10y ago
I suppose you are too young to have used Altavista? Or Yahoo "curated" link lists?
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by Pamar 10y ago
When you say 1. You could have a table for every variant of the form do you actually mean one table for each version of the form, or more like one table for the 15 fields you care about+1 field for the form version # (sort of a base class
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Productivity for the depressive Polymath(plus.google.com)
3 points by Pamar 10y ago|0 comments
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When Economic Doomsayers Stumble(wsj.com)
2 points by Pamar 10y ago|0 comments
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by Pamar 10y ago
Just one note... maybe you should also try to factor in (maybe it's impossible, but do keep this in mind when comparing the two buildings) that probably some things were added later to the original 13-months building, like better therm
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The Illusion of Germany’s Jobs Miracle(wsj.com)
2 points by Pamar 10y ago|1 comments
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Graphophilia(playboy.com)
2 points by Pamar 10y ago|0 comments
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Germany to chart first civil defence plan since Cold War(thelocal.de)
1 points by Pamar 10y ago|0 comments

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