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by beefield 5y ago
Pathetic. You implied it is not unreasonable to attack another country and require "neutrality", which by definition means you think you are entitled to deny another sovereign country their freedom to choose. Just in case you ar
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by beefield 5y ago
Don't change the topic. You were the one claiming that requesting Ukraine stay neutral is not unreasonable (implying that it is fine to attack another country if they do not abide to the request). Why Ukraine should not have the freedo
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Russian TV channels hacked and are broadcasting what is happening in Ukraine(twitter.com)
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by beefield 5y ago
Ah, now I get it. So Russia is just liberating Ukraine from being used by West. How noble. Could you remind me why Ukraine as a sovereign country should not have the freedom to make their own choice whose pawns (if anyones) they want to be?
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by beefield 5y ago
I don't think it is sensible at the moment to take into account what Putin says or has not said. It is obvious his words have no resemblance whatsoever to his actions. He does not need excuses to attack other countries.
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by beefield 5y ago
> We’re witnessing a historical bravery of Ukrainian people, This. So much this. My hat's off. Don't know if this is propaganda, but I do not care. Awesome regardless: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world
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by beefield 5y ago
> Their militaries aren't. You might want to do some research on Russia's actions in Syria lately.
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by beefield 5y ago
> Yep! This is the fundamental "disruption" blockchain tech introduced. It doesn't require trust. Not a native English speaker, so I may miss some nuances, but can you explain how you do not need trust that you find tomorr
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by beefield 5y ago
I guess I am not your average skier. That said, I have had a snowboard now for over a decade and there is no way I am going to (ever) snowboard the most challenging terrain I can ski. To be fair, I easily snowboard way over 90% of the terra
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by beefield 5y ago
I wonder if someone is maintaining a non-SEO-spam bucketlist of things to do/see/experience before you die for a typical hacker/STEM/bookish geek?
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by beefield 5y ago
I'd like to have a good dumbphone. Here are my requirements: - good keypad (no accidental double presser, clear tactile feedback) - voice calls, SMS - 4g wifi hotspot - power management good enough to not run out of battery when used a
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by beefield 5y ago
> the only surprising thing about insurance is that people don't get more of it. That's a weird formulation. To me, the most surprising thing is that people insure... wrong things. I mean, there are exactly two reasons to t
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by beefield 5y ago
> That would mean only large companies would own patents. Wrong. If you applied a tax to IP that increases relatively fast over time (say doubles each year), you could "easily" select the parameters so, that it makes cheap to h
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by beefield 5y ago
Out of curiosity, how does your girlfriend react if you just start talking to her without asking attention? (Reason I ask, occasionally I think I might be on the spectrum, and my SO has a habit of just starting to talk to me. Most of the ti
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by beefield 5y ago
But of course they can - if they are the right persons, that is. (See DAO hack. Of course, that did defeat the whole purpose of smart contracts but nobody was willing to notice.)
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by beefield 5y ago
Thanks for this comment. It pretty much confirms my hunch that I would not be happy in a "developer" role. I have done quite a lot work that requires writing code. But often it has been projects with literally months before there
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by beefield 5y ago
Context was how to reduce crime, not whether a specific crime should yield jail time.
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by beefield 5y ago
There is large variation in the affluence of third world countries. And there are large portions of US and large portions of the more affluent third world countries that are comparable in many ways (e.g. infrastructure) - in my experience,
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by beefield 5y ago
And based on comments here, it seems that many of you guys seriously think that a solution is... arresting and jailing more people? Somehow brings mind the quote about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different resul
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by beefield 5y ago
Maybe Fujitsu? https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-techn... Of course, I assume lots of components for those are made in China. Samsung might make in South Korea? Asus in Taiwan?
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by beefield 5y ago
> Am I wrong? Is software really not that hard, and able to be learned later in life? As usually, it depends. If by getting involved in software you mean "passionately doing software for software's sake", they are likely l
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by beefield 5y ago
Well, well. I just realized. I think that apple sets by default that IOS Safari can't use location services without going into settings. Which for a really significant chunk (majority?) of iphone users mean that any web app using loca
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by beefield 5y ago
Okay, given that we have pretty successful examples of wikipedia as a general crowdsourced information storage and stackoverflow as a specialized domain crowdsourced Q&A site, would it be impossible to build a crowdsourced search engine
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by beefield 5y ago
> It’s important to have a meta conversation because the media and social media were actively hindering discussion (censoring) that examined the lab leak hypothesis. > One can’t have an honest investigation if one major avenue is shut
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by beefield 5y ago
Flynn effect has stopped during the last few decades. I have been wondering why. What are the environmental things that have happened in the last decades as oppoesd to most of last century? There is only a handful of possible explanations
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by beefield 5y ago
> The pace of innovation appears to have slowed greatly in recent decades. Nope. We as a society have just re-evaluated what is the innovation we want. In the old days it was moon programs and nuclear technology (for good and bad). Later
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by beefield 5y ago
> So the risk is limited as long as the loans can be liquidated in time in case of a price crash. If I may guess, it seems unlikely there are too many folks in DeFi circles who have ever heard acronym LTCM. (TL;DR: A bunch of actual Nobe
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by beefield 5y ago
Go and read "Stop reading the news" by Rolf Dobelli. No, you do not miss anything with any news source, but but you may want to take steps to avoid being in only this one echo chamber.
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by beefield 5y ago
> Internal politics are much more likely reason why they do not walk away. I think I need to add a couple more possible reasons here. One is that your customers know at that point how painful project it was to just make a decision on the
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by beefield 5y ago
> difficult client Olympics for the last 5 years. We've missed so many deadlines > many of our clients (banking). I have been a couple of times on the other side of the fence, feeling like difficult vendor olympics, same industry

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