Tycho

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by Tycho 4y ago
What’s the true value of the civil service pension though? Rough calculation (probably wrong): 40 years of pensionable pay with an average of let’s say 65k. Divided by 80. Equals pension income of £32k yearly between retirement and death, i
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by Tycho 4y ago
The interesting thing about food is that most people in the country probably spend 10x on food than what they really need to (including eating/drinking out). We pay for convenience and luxury, but if push comes to shove there’s a lot
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by Tycho 4y ago
I suppose it’s a good anti-competitive group strategy. Without the hassle of setting up a guild, the experienced developers can prevent new developers from gaining the skills/experience/tutelage necessary to compete with them for
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by Tycho 4y ago
My theory is that it’s an evolutionary adaptation to preserve awareness of threats when a group/camp of humans are sleeping at night. If some members of the group are in REM sleep at any given moment, then they will have constant aware
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by Tycho 4y ago
I said to our CTO that I found the Agile practices we had recently adopted a bit annoying, and his reply was “look, Agile is bullshit, but what it gives us is standardisation across teams.”
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by Tycho 4y ago
It’s funny how many contributions to classic records are uncredited, eg. the opening riff of My Girl .
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by Tycho 4y ago
You say they can decide for themselves, but in reality the troops are conscripted and forced to fight at the behest of the leadership or its suzerain. Massive agency problem.
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by Tycho 4y ago
Are you suggesting that nations wage war on a sort of copy-cat, meme basis?
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by Tycho 4y ago
Even if Russia withdrew its forces, they would still have the potential to attack again. So the the choice is really between pursuing a compromise now, or losing perhaps a million troops trying to weaken Russia’s future negotiating position
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by Tycho 4y ago
Not the ones who are being conscripted and sent to the frontline to be slaughtered. I wouldn’t really say it was “up to them.”
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by Tycho 4y ago
It’s a good heuristic.
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by Tycho 4y ago
I find it so bizarre that there’s bonafide HN users who so keenly want to protect a narrative that they demand an interesting article with detailed claims be removed, rather than just accepting that many people will want to read it make up
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by Tycho 4y ago
The argument is probably that Judaism was the first religion to introduce concern for the victim into its moral teachings, and therefore inevitably there would be people hijacking that to differentiate themselves, boost their status throu
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by Tycho 4y ago
No, I am not.
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by Tycho 4y ago
Does anyone ever have an audio hallucination of their name being called out? (probably by a familiar voice) Like you can just about tell it's in your head and not a real sound, but at the same time, it seemed to come out of nowhere, no
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by Tycho 4y ago
Even if something only exists as hard copy today, who knows if it will stay that way. Some new regulation might come along requiring practices to digitise all their records.
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by Tycho 4y ago
I use the word Reddit as a pejorative. “I stopped watching after the second season. The writing had become so reddit.” “The steak itself was good but this sauce is a bit reddit.” “Rose Street is a good night out but Raeburn Place is compl
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by Tycho 4y ago
Maybe the future is everyone working on their own AI worker and licensing it out to companies to deploy in the cloud.
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by Tycho 4y ago
I heard that animals usually have teeth in excellent condition, and the suggested explanation was that eating soft, processed, cooked foods is not what our teeth evolved to do, and so ours fall into disrepair.
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The army of maths prodigies who helped Brighton conquer the transfer market(uk.sports.yahoo.com)
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by Tycho 4y ago
The problem is not so much the roles themselves, it’s the number of non technical people who are staffing them. If someone has “paid their dues” as a developer, it’s easy to trust their product vision, their roadmap, their design, their arc
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by Tycho 4y ago
Weekly is a bit too often. Bi-weekly should be sufficient. These meetings just guarantee that every employee at the firm is getting regular guidance from their manager, and giving feedback. It reduces the risk of people doing undesirable th
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by Tycho 4y ago
They must love how all the corporations are rushing to run their software on either Amazon, Google or Microsoft cloud.
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by Tycho 4y ago
It's very useful for writing and explaining regular expressions. But the holy grail would be if it could write all my unit tests...
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by Tycho 4y ago
Going to give everyone some frank advice. Instagram and TikTok - Delete this nonsense if you have any self respect. Why would you, a grown adult, be engaging with a platform where people share information via frivolous pictures and video cl
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by Tycho 4y ago
Actually it’s quite good - because he spent $40bln we got to see detailed evidence of government agencies working hand-on-glove with corporations to censor information and shape political outcomes (a few years ago it was trendy to refer to
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by Tycho 4y ago
I think we need more Elon Musks, yes. Although, obviously, we don’t want more people who got rich by being politicians.
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by Tycho 4y ago
This is why societies should strive for more “inequality” (as in, more families with large fortunes). The rich have a safety net that allows them to take risks that ultimately benefit all of society. Let’s say with the best execution, a sta
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by Tycho 4y ago
Funny how the Daily Mail considers this sort of thing to be worth reporting, but the likes of WaPo and NYT are curiously mum on the subject.
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by Tycho 4y ago
One thing about the The Great Gatsby (and I do think it's a masterpiece), is the famous closing paragraph - does anyone else find it just a bit overwrought?

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