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by berntb 10y ago
Sigh, I cleared up a bad grammar and made it worse. :-( Change: My point was partly the horrors of a failed societal experiment of the left wingers. But also not that the most other utopian attempts also failed -- but not generally with ten
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by berntb 10y ago
I can't hear Krugman argue what you claim in that video? Are you bluffing or did I misunderstand? Can you transcribe exactly what support your extreme claims (without taking it out of context from where Krugman said he supports globali
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by berntb 10y ago
>> but saying that there have been failures in the past is not an argument against trying to fix those failures by systematically identifying them. >>You can't simply dismiss every other model that society may be fitted to
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by berntb 10y ago
I would ask for examples of alternative economies being built up and creating nice and democratic countries, but we both know that if you had any supporting data you would have started with it. :-) Please note that experiments with alternat
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by berntb 10y ago
This article by Krugman changed my world view: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/19... It is almost 20 years old and notes that industrialization and modernization is a process. It doe
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by berntb 10y ago
Uh, what article are you reading? Or do you think bombing a generator is to "blow up the dam"? The quote is: "the dam had been built to survive an aerial bombardment. (In fact, during the Gulf War, American jets bombed its ge
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by berntb 10y ago
I'll order Koss Porta Pro from the manufacturer next time. If the physical quality isn't utter crap, like I've gotten from Amazon UK the last couple of times, I'll stop buying physical things from Amazon.
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by berntb 10y ago
Since 1980 this globalization happened, which literally added billions of low paid people to the work force. Many of them educated. So of course there will be a global pressure on salaries. It is just market economics. (You can't coord
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by berntb 10y ago
Informative about the Eastern heavy cavalry, thanks! But it was 500+ years between the fall of the Roman empire and heavy cavalry owning the battle field in Western Europe?
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by berntb 10y ago
Of course. But my point was that most of the modern web seems to be mobile friendly or even "mobile first". (And hence not depend on effects being able to use effects like that).
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by berntb 10y ago
>> Much of the web still assumes that you're using a mouse. Not everything is mobile friendly yet, but do you really meet many mobile un friendly web sites? Most problems I have on phone/tablet are company internal products
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by berntb 10y ago
<Cough> HN used to downvote stupid jokes like mine in the previous comment, not upvote them. I humbly submit that I deserved downvotes. It is better to disincentive us hopeless clowns on HN, even when we manage to be funny. Edit: That
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by berntb 10y ago
I got just one extra spleen (small, one percent of the population or so have that. Edit: at least that was what the doctor told me; TFA said 20%). I call myself "splenically superior" and argue that it obviously explains my mean p
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by berntb 10y ago
You need to add to the calculation that if a few states changes, there will be a momentum for more to change. (That said, for drugs I only use Dark Souls, coffee and a few beers now and then. Maybe a glass of wine sometimes, mostly because
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by berntb 10y ago
Firebombings cause a lot of ash with little boom. And TFA talked about a nuclear winter from burning cities when using a hundred Hiroshima bombs, not the US/Russian arsenal. We ought to have learned about those effects, just from WW II
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by berntb 10y ago
I keep all notes in Org Mode, stored in a simple and shallow hierarchy in my Dropbox. (~/Dropbox/orgs/w for job notes. Etc.) Since I have Emacs open anyway, the notes are just a few chars away. (The best feature with Org Mode
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by berntb 10y ago
So if it was burning cities -- how much worse were Hiroshima/Nagasaki than the firebombing of Tokyo, Dresden and so on? The years of WW II ought to play in the same division? Edit: Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by berntb 10y ago
Please explain to me -- how could 50 measly “Hiroshima-size nuclear weapons” (in TFA) have an effect multiple factors of ten worse than Krakatoa, with ca 200 MT...? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa#1883_eruption
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by berntb 10y ago
My model for notes is converging on Org Mode. But... With a review process every day and every week, GTD-style. I see this need from my notes over the last couple of years from the job. Not usable for documentation (as I had planned) or hel
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by berntb 10y ago
I am not an economist but Krugman is, a left leaning one at that which spent a large time arguing against Bush/Trump. And he is arguing a similar position: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_sci
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by berntb 10y ago
>> given the number of developers society will need in the future It really is 1999 all over again. :-( :-)
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by berntb 10y ago
Right now it is the same as in the Millennium bubble -- programming is a simple way to get a well paid job. But sure, some of the people jumping on the train then and now are lifers.
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by berntb 10y ago
I had to think about this, which is a bit weird in itself. My attitude is that I hope to choose at least one thing -- the stack or the problem area. If I can do that, I should be quite happy. To not want to leave a geographic location is of
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by berntb 10y ago
Use another scripting language if you are too allergic to code structure through white space (see -- narcissism of small differences, they are more similar than some people want to admit :-) ). The indentation works, more or less, but imho
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by berntb 10y ago
I guess the real reason for a scripting language programmer to go Java is that you want to use the JVM? Otherwise, wouldn't it be simpler to just profile to find the slow places in your existing code -- then rewrite those in C? You can
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by berntb 10y ago
Funny but really out of date. :-) I used to do some sysadmin stuff a long time ago, but am losing my UNIX/Linux skills -- because the Ubuntu (and follow ups) desktop just works with very little trouble, since lots of years. It seems
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by berntb 10y ago
Exactly. That said, Facebook could be better with very small updates to catch paid propaganda. I am Swedish, a country with a small population close to Russia. On public people's open FB accounts you will often find a lot of comments w
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by berntb 10y ago
Fun idea. I find that rather unlikely. Some points. Are there any evidence for a period without meat in the diet, to start with? Considering that teeth are hardy, this will probably be testable in our lifetime. I've rather seen claims
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by berntb 10y ago
A simple reality check: Considering the large energy needs of the brain, there is an evolutionary pressure to make it smaller... so something pushed it the other way.
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by berntb 10y ago
Well, todays work music is selected. When I heard Portal before, I was more into a bit faster.

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