Sorgam

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by Sorgam 12y ago
How is being tied to a clunky text editor different from being tied to a clunky GUI? No matter which alternative text editor you use, apparently it's still clunky (slow) according to that somewhat limited research.
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by Sorgam 12y ago
My programming is a hobby that turned into a business. It's just one application that I write and sell online. I think the reason it works (just about) is that my market is a niche of professionals. Usually their boss pays for it, so
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by Sorgam 12y ago
My day job is a school teacher in China. You sometimes have to find a country that suits your lifestyle to do the low hours thing. I'd guess 90% of HNers could very easily walk into a job just like mine too.
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by Sorgam 12y ago
It was unskilled laboring work. Others in my situation had criminal records and drug habits but they could do it too. Now I do programming for my own business so no clients to worry about, just self-pressure to give customers what they want
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by Sorgam 12y ago
My opinion is that people who are motivated to do things or make money work as much as they can to work towards what they want. Sitting around would be frustrating. That doesn't mean they need to work so much to survive, they just want
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by Sorgam 12y ago
This is a nonsense attitude. If you vote for a party, then you 're acknowledging that you want them in power. If you don't want them, stop voting for them. Sure, your action won't get a 3rd party elected, but neither will you
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by Sorgam 12y ago
It's sad that after 20 years of the web, it still doesn't work properly. These kinds of bugs should have been solved years ago.
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by Sorgam 12y ago
It's good to see conservationists admit that their task is mostly killing. Too often people confuse conserving a species with being nice to animals. They're diametrically opposite ambitions. Conservationists sometimes try to tap i
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by Sorgam 12y ago
How is this bad for anything except Uber's public image? If prices remained the same, cars would be unavailable. If you want that outcome, then simply don't order a ride. There's absolutely nothing wrong with surge pricing wh
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by Sorgam 12y ago
An attacker could advise your trusting church-mates to download and run an application that turns out to be a virus while they believe it's from you. A real but milder story - a customer of mine once complained about the advertising on
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by Sorgam 12y ago
If it's only systematic abuses, then the rogue police torturings in Brazil that the article described would count as "crime" and not be human rights violations. I think it's a grey area between the government allowing it
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by Sorgam 12y ago
Indeed. Restrictions on women in Muslim countries sound bad, but western countries don't allow women to go topless in public and don't allow prisoners or children to work for money at their own discretion. They even have compulsor
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by Sorgam 12y ago
As well as being vague, human rights prioritize actions of the government over those of ordinary people - the high murder rate in America is not a human rights violation (what right could be more true than the right to not be killed?) but t
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by Sorgam 12y ago
It's better for a soldier to die than a civilian. This is why they statistics are always separated.
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by Sorgam 12y ago
Keep in mind that every alternative free library to do something adds cost to the task of selecting a library. Some open source projects (not suggesting any specifically) actually do make life worse for people because they spend time studyi
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by Sorgam 12y ago
It does represent the will of the people. The people aren't voting for change and didn't do so when any of the "draconian" laws were passed, despite it being public knowledge. So this is perfectly what democracy is - pop
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by Sorgam 12y ago
The USA is only number 10 by that measure, so nobody would care if China got to number 9. Go to Singapore or Quatar to find the richest average people, not the USA.
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by Sorgam 12y ago
It absolutely, positively hurts local labor - naturalized citizens - etc. Without a doubt. I agree. But that's not a bad thing. That's the market operating more efficiently. The flipside is that it absolutely, positively helps f
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by Sorgam 12y ago
What if the H1B visas were not for foreigners, but for US people from other states? Would people still be making the same arguments? California companies hiring cheap midwest talent and disadvantaging the rightful locals of their jobs and h
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by Sorgam 12y ago
The Romans did - be the most powerful nation. We often see America compared to them, not as a bad thing, but as a good thing that might fail someday. The cruelty of the Roman circus is seen as a curiosity now, even appearing in children&#x2
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by Sorgam 12y ago
When will it be acceptable to be a Nazi sympathiser? It's been 80 years now. We know that being a Roman or Viking sympathiser is acceptable 1500 years later. There must be a cutoff time beyond which we think it's not real people a
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by Sorgam 12y ago
He didn't claim lower mortality, nor that they wanted it. We assume living long is important, but some people value their lives less than others, just as some value their possessions less. It's the nature of tribalism to not value
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by Sorgam 12y ago
You're certainly losing torque with the gearing but that's not a problem. The problem is losing energy. Energy loss can be made arbitrarily small at increasing cost to build the transmission.
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by Sorgam 12y ago
Gold is about 20g/cm^3, and although it sounds expensive, there's a lot of gold just sitting in storage. Why not store it underground here instead? This is in contrast to tungsten which has direct commercial value and would be was
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by Sorgam 12y ago
What advantage does this provide over combining all your weights together into one big one? If you want to limit the tension on the cable, just use more cables. You shouldn't be so confident that you know the only "sane" way
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by Sorgam 12y ago
He doesn't have a strong argument. Perhaps he knows more than he's saying but most of those tasks could be done in advance or by remote (not time critical, like navigating around storms), or by suitably trained flight attendants (
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by Sorgam 12y ago
Even if computers never save the passengers in these emergencies, as long as they do save them from more pilot error emergencies then it's worth it. Sure the Hudson river passengers may have died, but at the same time the 9/11, Ai
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by Sorgam 12y ago
It's capital cost for providing 1kWh of storage for an imaginary 1 hour. I don't think that makes much sense, since you wouldn't be able to scale down the capital costs in proportion to the storage time. $103/kWh*6h = $6
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by Sorgam 12y ago
Yes, the Shanghai maglev is about the same speed and distance, and it does spend almost the entire trip accelerating and decelerating. You get to 430km/h for maybe less than a minute. Average speed would be a more meaningful number to
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by Sorgam 12y ago
It sounds silly, but that's how it really is. Treason is often a crime with the harshest punishments, yet also one that's most unclear if it's very bad or very good. Somehow it doesn't seem to get the attention it deserv

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