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811.
by abtinf 7y ago
The title reminds me of this promo for the movie Prometheus. The fictional company made an ad for their latest generation robot, with new emotional features. They claim it will work much better with humans. https://youtu.be/
812.
by abtinf 7y ago
I was put off of these because, the first time I saw them (in Washington state), they were advertised as “bikini” coffee shacks. I had a visceral reaction to this—it felt both creepy (What kind of person would work in such a place? What kin
813.
by abtinf 7y ago
This has improved a lot even since the 80s. I remember road trips as a kid and the difficulty of finding vacant lodging. Now, there are groupings of multiple large hotel chains with vacancy at least every couple hours, even in relatively re
814.
by abtinf 7y ago
If GNU is there to signify all the surrounding tools that make Linux a usable system, then the conference should've been titled "San Jose Convention Center/LinuxWorld".
815.
by abtinf 7y ago
A hundred million dead in the 20th century wasn’t enough for you?
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Ayn Rand on Apollo 11(newideal.aynrand.org)
4 points by abtinf 7y ago|0 comments
817.
by abtinf 7y ago
> It's a language intended to have few primitives with an emphasis on code being transparent and errors being values, requiring you to think about what they might be at each point as you're forced to carry them up the chain. Al
818.
by abtinf 7y ago
Go is the only language where I look at the standard library source instead of google whenever I run into an ambiguity in the docs. I think there are three reasons for this. First, the docs link to the actual line in source, so it’s just a
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How to Share Power Without All the Drama(forbes.com)
2 points by abtinf 7y ago|0 comments
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by abtinf 7y ago
BitWarden gets so many things right that using other password managers can only be the result of inertia. And its has an open source client, plugins, and server--with instructions on how to setup your own instance if you want to. This is vi
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Apollo 11 (1969)(courses.aynrand.org)
2 points by abtinf 7y ago|1 comments
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by abtinf 7y ago
Yes, within the bounds of your ability.
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by abtinf 7y ago
“He was widely credited with saving the company from bankruptcy by persuading Congress in 1980 to approve federal loan guarantees of up to $1.5 billion.”
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by abtinf 7y ago
I recently listened to this podcast and found it very clarifying. The main point is about how to organize life around a central, organizing purpose in order to find joy and happiness. https://youtu.be/B1rNtdfOpNY
825.
by abtinf 7y ago
Light Year has a technical meaning, but it is so large that I can't relate to it at all. So I tried to figure out a different unit of measure, and I came up with what I call an "Earth Escape Year" or EEY. From Earth, the esca
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by abtinf 7y ago
Well, that’s just a matter of time. But I was referring to the parent comment’s system.
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by abtinf 7y ago
Or perhaps that’s ultra-hard mode. Multiple fantastically different independent intelligent species evolving on planets within shooting range of each other with basic industrial technology. If you’ve ever played civilization, it is a helluv
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by abtinf 7y ago
Depending on a country’s level of development, yes. In areas where child labor is prematurely banned, children are forced into more difficult and dangerous work, especially the sex trade. In the west, effective bans on teenage labor leave g
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by abtinf 7y ago
What a bizarre use of the word "exploit". The government is prohibiting migrants from working, to the point where their only option is "stealing or begging on the street." So of course the NYT places the blame on peopl
830.
by abtinf 7y ago
Agreed, azlyrics has the cleanest site and most accurate lyrics. I’m baffled by their low ranking—why aren’t they always the first hit?
831.
by abtinf 7y ago
I would expect a far higher failure rate, maybe closer to 80-90%, especially at a successful company with happy employees. The engineers will be focused on building actual systems and be totally unprepared for technical interviewing. Engine
832.
by abtinf 7y ago
That saying is wrong. Newton’s Laws are absolute in a typical human context. A better model must explain everything covered by newton and more. Discovering that better model doesn’t make newton wrong.
833.
by abtinf 7y ago
Another (now dead) comment here called country clubs the domain of rich racists. So I thought I might share my story. When my family immigrated to the US in the 1980s, my parents had limited English fluency and familiarity with the culture,
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by abtinf 7y ago
If that information is wrong, Yelp would be open to massive defamation liability.
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by abtinf 7y ago
Perhaps we are rich because, in this and a thousand other small decisions, we are not forced to make the economically inefficient decision? Cables are underground where it makes sense (higher density neighborhoods where you have to dig duri
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by abtinf 7y ago
NSA seems to be pretty happy with regulated networks.
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by abtinf 7y ago
This is precisely the form of argument made by religionists.
838.
by abtinf 7y ago
The universe is everything. By definition, there can be no evidence for anything outside, before, or after it. Any such evidence would be in the universe. There are no valid questions about it, nor valid answers. Any claims about something
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by abtinf 7y ago
Logically, cause and effect precede time. The concept of time integrates your perceptions of cause and effect. We observe various causes and effects require variable amounts of time, we omit the specific amounts of time, thus inductively id
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by abtinf 7y ago
Time without causality makes no sense. Time is an identification that entities move and change. The entities themselves cause all actions. The nature of those actions is determined by the nature of the entities.

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