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by beaker52 13y ago
I may impart what I have come to understand on others, but I will always convey the strength of my knowledge, especially if it is not strong, even if I appear foolish. It is called responsibility. This responsibility is at odds with pride
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by beaker52 13y ago
Captcha?
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by beaker52 13y ago
me too.
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by beaker52 13y ago
I agree. The faded orange needs to be a few % less gray/white.
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by beaker52 13y ago
So someone in another country asks: What happens when we actually catch Barrack Obama? It's all a matter of perspective.
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by beaker52 13y ago
Through one method or another, sex is still taboo. We can't talk openly about it. It's something that generally happens behind closed doors. Making this filtering opt-out is a "soft ban". People will have to take that &q
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by beaker52 13y ago
People may find these links interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisexualism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_repression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libido_(Psyc
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by beaker52 13y ago
Consider pornography: + Huge industry + An illusionary experience which brings joy + Prays on man's desires and drives and the inclination of man to give in to them
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by beaker52 13y ago
Being unable to believe in a theory the author cannot see with her own eyes (evolution of life on our planet is generally regarded as a relatively long process), the author jumps to a conclusion that the story in a book is more likely, on t
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by beaker52 13y ago
Knowledge without inquiry is dead and lifeless. If HN was full of lifeless knowledge, it itself would be lifeless, stale, inanimate and cold.
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by beaker52 13y ago
I switched to Colemak in December last year so I'm 6/7 months in. Anecdotes and tips within. At the same time I picked up KeyboardRemap4Macbook (not just macbooks, but osx) which has some other interesting features. One important
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by beaker52 13y ago
I wish there was a decent alternative out there. They all seem to be a bit unpolished. The most polished alternative I've seen is Feedly. I wrote to the founder about this many moons ago explaining that in trying to be 'innovative
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by beaker52 13y ago
My bias is towards there being a lack of connection between ones marketability and their skill based on my biased and limited observing of people performing roles they are believed (by people who put them there) to be better at than it is r
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by beaker52 13y ago
You have reduced the discussion to what, subjectively, makes a good plumber. I will try to bring this back to my original point - One that is not necessarily a good marketeer may be far more suitable for the job, yet good marketeers but uns
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by beaker52 13y ago
Knowing "a good plumber" is no longer knowing a genuinely skilled plumber. It's knowing a person you have an affection towards, one that has been marketed well to you. Perhaps I am naïve but I believe that in the past people
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by beaker52 13y ago
We have been employed by how well we market ourselves for at least two generations now. It's no longer about our skill in our work, but by how well we market ourselves. You can see this when you see people doing jobs they are unqualifi
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by beaker52 14y ago
I'm amazed that the ball leaves circular hole in the bat. I'm no supersonic ping-pong ball physics expert but I'd have expected the ball to have deformed on impact and left an irregular shaped hole and left a more destructive wake than a pe
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by beaker52 14y ago
Very much in keeping with recent Google and Microsoft design direction. I quite like it.
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by beaker52 14y ago
The only problem is that they're motivated to reduce your consumption to mask their price increases and reduce their costs to maximise their profits. Just like petrol/gas, spend your money to buy fuel efficient cars, petrol costs more, no n
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by beaker52 14y ago
Just wanted to say that this isn't just any F1 technical blog, Scarbs is -the- best technical blogger and has uncovered and written about several innovations before any other source. He's a technical sleuth, who delivers great articles.
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by beaker52 14y ago
Good spot. Freeloader?
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by beaker52 14y ago
Hmm. That he planned to get others to pay for his retirement through fundraising is quite depressing/worrying. Building the tree house was a nice story, but I'm waiting for the 'fundraising' to buy the land and obviously plenty of err... ad
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by beaker52 14y ago
A quick piece of eye catching news to bury the security flaw that came out yesterday!
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by beaker52 14y ago
tl;dr Time Warner decides to begin charging existing customers a rental fee for existing (previously free?) broadband equipment.
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by beaker52 14y ago
I'm not surprised. I'd doubt few readers here would be. That doesn't make it acceptable though. I fear more for the people who've had private photographs 'automatically' uploaded to Google+ via their mobile devices. Even if they weren't pos
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by beaker52 14y ago
Quite a difficult piece of writing to follow actually, lots of we/our/their/the company/they ambiguity. the tl;dr is a fair summary.
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by beaker52 14y ago
I too have found great satisfaction with being content with things the way which they are. I use a train of thought along the lines of: All of my suffering comes from a desire to be somewhere I'm not. Consider a captive. Imagine the isolati
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by beaker52 14y ago
The solution is quite simple to achieve individually, but near impossible to get everyone to achieve at once. Stop being insulted. Stop being offended. Let things go. Life is too short for it. If you're not offended, it doesn't matter what
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by beaker52 14y ago
"Ours" - Used to refer to a thing or things belonging to or associated with the speaker and one or more other people previously mentioned. I do hope we are guests to what we call space as well as other planets. Exploitation should certainly
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by beaker52 14y ago
Space will not be ours. The earth is not ours. The portion of earth that you and your neighbours inhabit is not yours, nor mine nor my neighbours. Your possessions are not yours. They are simply in your presence for a brief period of time a

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