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   by bena 8y ago

   I'll vouch. It's cheap, black, and hot. All a proper coffee really needs to be. McDonalds is also focused on churn. Get up, say what you want, get out. None of the half-pump soy chai latte no whip cinnamon dust in the freezer for
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   by bena 8y ago

   The problem is defining "value". Some would say entertainment provides some value, some would say otherwise. I'm focusing on something approaching "minimally viable society".
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   by bena 8y ago

   I mean, we could form that group anyway. Viva la revolution and all that. And it's good that you're uncomfortable with it. It's an uncomfortable thing. I am not talking about the redistribution of wealth per se. I'm talk
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   by bena 8y ago

   While 51% can be defined as "most", "most" doesn't necessarily mean "at least 51%". I was being rather vagueish, because requiring 100% acceptance is likely to be impossible. For instance, I really doubt t
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   by bena 8y ago

   I understand this. As a single guy, if I want to get drunk, play my guitar, and/or watch It's Always Sunny, I can do that. Whenever the fancy strikes me. If I want to go drive two states over just to ruminate. I can do that. If I
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   by bena 8y ago

   Only if I need/want widgets. Which isn't included in the hypothetical. Because the point is to highlight what happens when I sell you something and makes the distribution unequal again. If I come out the same whether or not I sell
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   by bena 8y ago

   It's close. My point is that we need a clear definition of what's fair to start from. And it has to be a definition that is satisfactory to most people.
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   by bena 8y ago

   I think it's turned me into a bit of a nihilist. I worked initially as in-house for a doctor's office trying to break into medical software while running his solo practice. So I figured a little "spit and glue" is par fo
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   by bena 8y ago

   Reminds of something I read here not too long ago. From what I understand, it makes the rounds every now and then. https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/
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    by bena 8y ago

    Yeah, don't dump on the trades. When you get down to the real nitty-gritty, most jobs are technically bullshit. If everything were reduced to rubble and ash tomorrow, CxOs, lawyers, programmers, HR, police, teachers, entertainers, sale
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    by bena 8y ago

    I think working a bit as a consultant/contractor made me realize just how many very prominent companies are being held together by the equivalent of spit and glue.
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    by bena 8y ago

    Let's break it down to something simple: I have $3, you have $1. Is it fair that I give you $1 so we both have $2? Is that rational? Now let's say that you work 3 hours a day and I work 1 hour. Now what's fair? You're wo
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    by bena 8y ago

    Wouldn't surprise me. Code that works has a tendency to stick around longer than people think. There's a lot of institutional knowledge built into that codebase. It would be like firing an employee of 20 years who works for nothin
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    by bena 8y ago

    It's not people who get up early and brag about it that are the problem. It's people who brag about useless stuff that are the problem. It's the same with people who go to bed really late as if it's some kind of achievem
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    by bena 8y ago

    That was the point I was trying to make.
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    by bena 8y ago

    I also get a little eye-rolly when they went into the whole "we see things differently" bit. The whole "I'm so special and unique thing" just grates after a while. If you're like roughly 30% of the population,
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    by bena 8y ago

    I did say that a 40 hour a week job should be able to provide you with a basic existence, did I not? Of course, there is going to be some disagreement as to what "a basic existence" entails. But that's a discussion for anothe
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    by bena 8y ago

    It feels more complicated though. Let's say I have only enough work for 8 hours a week. Should I hire someone for 40 just to give them "full employment"? What benefit do I get from that? Or let's say I only have enough c
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    by bena 8y ago

    Kind of, "women laughing at salad" is a very odd (possibly unintentional) category of stock photography. https://www.thehairpin.com/2011/01/women-laughing-alone-with... So when he mentioned women sipping
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    by bena 8y ago

    C'est la vie. I mean, effectively anything you can do with a GPU shader, can be done by the CPU, so it seemed reasonable to me that you could make something functionally equivalent for the CPU and call it a shader. It started feeling l
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    by bena 8y ago

    It's best to think of it as a real limited thread you can shunt off some of the work to. Effectively, a shader is no different than any other bit of code you have. Anything you can do in a shader you can do on the main program thread (
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    by bena 8y ago

    I wanted to be careful because shaders don't really just shade anymore and I was pretty sure if I limited to just graphics cards, there will be someone that pops up that says the first shaders were actually blah blah blah. Basically, I
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    by bena 8y ago

    Shaders are basically transformations performed by the graphics card. Or sometimes not. It gets real vague at times because like a lot of things there are no hard lines. You take a point and figure out if it needs to be colored differently
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    by bena 8y ago

    I've never liked the Fermi paradox. It seems terribly contrived. It assumes way too much. That space colonization is inevitable and/or that strong AI is also inevitable. What if it's not? What if it's an intractable prob
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    by bena 8y ago

    I mean, the biggest failure of prediction is that women seem to laugh at salad rather than champagne. It always seems as if we're just 50 - 100 years from "the future". Lost in Space takes place in 1997 when we were about to
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    by bena 8y ago

    iPhone buyer. Seems simple enough
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    by bena 8y ago

    Thanks for that. I've started playing guitar a few years ago and my ring fingers are pretty weak and dependent. I can't do the Vulcan salute for instance, my ring finger is kind of "tied" to my pinky.
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    by bena 8y ago

    And I'm saying there are likely things you missed. Because while it's never going to be 100% accurate, even for values from the USDA for 'generic foods', it won't be wrong to the tune of 75%. And that's what yo
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    by bena 8y ago

    So you can eat 2000 calories worth of lettuce in a sitting. Or 2000 calories worth of celery or 130 whole cucumbers. I didn't say a diet that isn't calorie dense. I implied foods. As a lot of the "named" diets happen t
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    by bena 8y ago

    Congratulations on your success. However your story doesn't jive. If you were eating 2000-2200 calories a day before and after losing the weight, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. The difference between 200 pounds and 350 p