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by Strom 6y ago
I think it's important to differentiate between the effect of LSD and the experience of the subject. The effect is always the same (for the same dose) but the experience is different. The differences in experience come because LSD is j
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by Strom 6y ago
Pointing out the age here is a low effort way of saying that this person is giving advice about things she doesn't really have experience with. Startup grind, big company ladder grind, marriage, university. Advice is given on all of th
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by Strom 6y ago
It means he was bribed (the new job) to help with a transaction (sell .org), but to not raise suspicion the bribe delivery was scheduled for a later date.
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by Strom 6y ago
Indeed it is. I have an European Apple account and all my purchases get billed by Apple Distribution International Ltd. [1] which is an Irish company. -- [1] https://www.apple.com/ie/contact/
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by Strom 6y ago
> How many more votes would the party in second place at the last election have needed in order to have won instead? 5.8% of the total votes [1] but winning the election is just part of the game. This time around the winning party isn&
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by Strom 6y ago
That's pretty interesting, because in my experience [1] Telia is by far the best ISP in Estonia. However this is historically the government ISP that Telia purchased, so some of the culture might still be rather different. To contrast
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by Strom 6y ago
Rigging (digital or not) would be hard to hide, because it could only be a minor adjustment to remain plausible. All the election results end up roughly similar to all the various independent polling results. If some party suddenly receives
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by Strom 6y ago
It's definitely copy-pasta. Google shows the same text in some old Quora answer. You can search for " Linear Growth VS. Quantum Growth ".
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by Strom 6y ago
Yes a lot of behavior happens due to lower level thinking than consciousness, but that doesn't mean it can't be influenced. Yes failure has a cost, but it's also a great way to learn. If you're not going to do anything b
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by Strom 6y ago
For one, everyone isn't fluent in English. I guess it could also be a low bandwidth input situation.
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by Strom 6y ago
> Is it just me or are all these delivery apps pretty much the same thing, just with different restaurants? They're surprisingly different in both how good the software is and how efficiently they operate. I'll give three exa
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by Strom 6y ago
> How much will it take for users to stop using Windows? When the benefit of doing so is greater than the cost of switching. That may be true already for some group of users like web developers. However most other user segments are cri
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by Strom 6y ago
Everything can search inside files too.
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by Strom 6y ago
Replacing an addiction with a void won't work. So instead of focusing on "how do I stop doing this?" focus on finding a different activity. If it's something you're truly interested in, then you'll spend your
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by Strom 6y ago
Shippments of desktops/laptops doesn't tell the whole story. I'm still using a 2009 desktop (with some upgraded components) and wouldn't show up on any of those stats. Similar story for a lot of my friends. They still us
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by Strom 6y ago
That's heavily dependent on who we are talking about. A solo founder with 20 years of marketing experience but zero programming experience won't find writing the software to be the easy part.
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by Strom 6y ago
Netflix doesn't host its actual content on AWS. They built their own CDN and have their own dedicated servers all over the world. https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
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by Strom 6y ago
The Windows kernel is mostly C, but also parts in assembly and C++. [1] It also helps to keep in mind that back in the late 80s, when development work on the NT kernel began, C++ was still the new kid on the block. NT kernel work began even
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by Strom 6y ago
The hacks you allude to are based on the fact that GIF also allows you to use: * Transparency in a frame, which will show the previous frame underneath * A different color palette per frame * An infinite frame rate (no delay between two fra
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by Strom 6y ago
> Further, and I don't know if this has been fixed, but I know what one time they only billed once month so bad users would sign up in the middle of the month, download everything, then cancel their patronage and avoid having to pa
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by Strom 6y ago
> Habits are easy to change. I agree that habits are key to success, but I've also found that habits are extremely hard to change. That's why they are so powerful. Once you're in a habbit of doing something it's ver
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by Strom 7y ago
Guitar Hero [1] and Rock Band [2] were hugely successful [3] and required bigger and more expensive accessories than a simple gamepad. -- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Hero [2] https://en.wikipedi
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by Strom 7y ago
> I also don't understand how do freelancers stay calm, don't they basically have to be in a job, client-seeking mode all the time? It becomes the new normal so it's no longer anxiety inducing. You also get better at it,
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by Strom 7y ago
> community driven project Check out the contributors page for this project. [1] This is not a community driven project. It's a one man show. -- [1] https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/graphs/contrib
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by Strom 7y ago
You can get past the FT paywall by having a google referer. Usually as simple as googling for the headline.
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by Strom 7y ago
PowerShell is a shell - a program that takes input, does work, and returns output. Alacritty is a terminal - a container that transports user inputs to programs (like shells) and prints program outputs to the screen. The terminal owns the a
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by Strom 7y ago
> Ime past a certain point years of experience doesn't seem to improve one's programming ability. [..] Yes you can continue to gain experience in new tech but the fundamentals of thinking through software solutions doesn'
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by Strom 7y ago
Bank transfers in Estonia did get slower when SEPA first arrived, but not horrendously so. I think the transfers used to be every 15 minutes and during most of the day. With SEPA it got downgraded to every hour and only during normal workin
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by Strom 7y ago
> They're after you. They desire you. They don't know you, so they're actually after some imaginary you that's perfect for them. Combining desirable known properties of you with a truck load of imaginary properties
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by Strom 7y ago
Claim 1 is 100% true if we're talking about end-to-end encryption where Dropbox doesn't have the key. That is more likely what the parent meant.

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