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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Growth is an international arms race. I think the biggest problem is that economic growth gives countries a (military) advantage. If you opt out of growth-based economic system, your neighbors will have more army or resources or manpower. T
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Name half a programming library that originated in Poland. Much less a programming language.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
My point exactly. In my neighborhood these fenced homes are often at the cost of public walkways, built from public taxes. I used them to go to school. Public spaces in general are bought out. What used to be a soccer field is now a gym, pa
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Speaking of Ukraine, make sure to visit Lwów (Lviv), the city of coffee. I have especially fond memories of an Armenian coffee shop in the old city. They brew coffee using hot sand. The higher education system is about quantity, not quality
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Even in big cities today, a common word for a bag is still "siatka", which translates to "net" or mesh, which was what bags were usually made of.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Modern Japanese use bath water in a very similar way. Kids first, then parents, then grandparents. The Japanese are very frugal with water. In a toilet you may see a sink placed right on top of toilet tank, so the water you use to wash your
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
The situation the article describes is similar to present day Ukraine. You don't see that much recycling, but you don't see litter either, and forests in particular are trash free as opposed to Poland's. Also opposite to Pola
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
That's true, also water was super cheap so if you had a garden you would leave the hose pouring water under trees for hours or days. Today, courses like that are very popular in Finnish schools. Every Finnish school has a serious works
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Nowadays in Poland fenced neighborhoods are very popular. Houses with a gate, an intercom and a fence. Beaches are also fenced and claimed with folding screens.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Alas, Warsaw, the capital of Poland, now has more cars per capita than New York. A car is very much a symbol of status in Poland now, and that's in part thanks to American movies. American hype in Poland is still very strong. You hav
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
If you like Spelunky, check out Catacomb Kids. It's similar in many ways, but has fundamental differences such as no terrain destruction (by design). Check out youtube videos to see if it's for you. It's harder than Spelunky.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
I struggle with the same thing, and I don't appear to have Aspergers. Where are my superpowers?
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
You may be interested in this article then: http://www.thedistilledman.com/how-introverted-men-attract-w... (How an introverted man can attract women naturally). I found it interesting but haven't tried it in practice
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Which is why it demonstrated high confidence on the part of the marketing guy. I agree with you it's risky. Charisma is my dumpstat.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
I sympathize with the author, but who really likes a 100% web of documents? Me and a couple of other nerds. Is that enough to reach critical mass? Vast majority of internet users loves the engaging , interactive, animated web and notificat
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
RSS is a good illustration of the problem. In theory, it can be used to do that. In practice, it isn't because >Read the full article<. RSS used to be a solution for people who liked simple content. But there's no guarantee
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
In theory, dynamic syntax highlighting done via Javascript lets you customize it on-the-fly, for example by choosing a syntax highlighting method that suits you. In practice, I've never seen a website with syntax highlighting that does
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
From my experience, I would start with a more compact implementation first in hopes that it would save me time . This usually ends with me having to do more complicated operations in my head to plan the code. It's tempting. It's
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
This essay, "Advertising is Cancer on Society", makes many good points about advertising subverting and infesting traditional means of communication. Pull, not push doesn't help you anymore if articles you find are advertisin
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Strongly agree. Keyboard interfaces can be very fast and efficient, but their weakness is having to learn a separate keymap (or set of options) to use a new program. Vim keys is the closest console programs have to a common language! I seri
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
...and I've been postponing buying an E-ink device in hopes of getting a color one! One of my main excuses has been the fact color is useful for programming books because you have syntax highlighting. Now I'm realizing reflective
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
I get a boner looking at graphics like this, and always have. I loved doing isometric sketches on grid paper, but never became any good at it. Does anyone know good books for learning mosaic art?
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
I was a bit surprised when I found out a couple of my (board)gaming friends actually like pixel art. I'm talking guys at least 10 years younger than me. I guess they simply don't remember the times of VGA graphics and they don&#x2
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
I very much like Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, but this blog is some kind of creepy personality cult. Reynolds this, Reynolds that... Also, the author seems to be into conspiracy theories and extrapolates A LOT. This is the latest quote
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Another compromise could be a micropayment to get a photo. All else is free.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Do people using languages like Chinese, Japanese or Korean read faster? In Chinese and Japanese a single character often means a word. In Korean, a single character is 3 letters. It's very simple: words use much less space in languages
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Testing the notion that subvocalization slows you down should be reasonably easy. Just test people deaf since birth. Do they read faster? Visit some deaf communities. It's not immediately obvious, but many deaf people don't know h
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
>My biggest complaint about Python is that it somehow doesn’t get flak for having the same (if not worse) scoping as JS, which gets endless hate for its function-scoped variables. (So much so that block scoped variables are the new norma
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
There is an old observation that I found striking at the time: Newer methods of storing information tend to be progressively easier to write, and progressively less durable. (The following is not really in chronological order) You'
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
> Too Much Data > It becomes virtually impossible for the company to get back to everyone who submits their résumé. This one seems like "blaming it on the victim" to me. You get too many candidates, you're unable to giv

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