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901.
by berntb 14y ago
Give it another decade. I've seen people blaming NASA's need for protecting jobs (shuttle) for the stalling of the space age. Things seem to have started moving. For real bases, two-three decades. Fusion power? Check Polywell and General Fu
902.
by berntb 14y ago
A large factor is probably the oligopolies in the building industry, which earns lots of money with the present situation, despite little building going on. Regulatory capture in Sweden is still not counted as corruption, for some strange r
903.
by berntb 14y ago
If you add in the non-visible salary taxes ("sociala avgifter") and other hidden costs, the salaries are quite high... you just don't get any of that money.
904.
by berntb 14y ago
I live in Europe, here we have more left wing fanatics and fewer right wing fanatics. That said, some of the True believers (politics, religion, programming languages, etc) are the nicest people. As long as you can handle non-rationality. (
905.
by berntb 14y ago
I just went to technical death metal and free jazz. It is a really nice selection of music subgenres. (I did post a link on fb, but not the official reference. :-) Point is, depending on their music selection size, I'll have a window open
906.
by berntb 14y ago
There are other reasons you might stop functioning. From me and people I know, you might feel bad and just stop functioning (tiredness, lack of energy) from undiagnosed allergies without throat symptoms, iron deficiency and a simple bacteri
907.
by berntb 14y ago
>>I'm pretty certain the carriers do their homework before placing orders. The Android manufacturers cited deliveries to stores as sales for the first generation of pads too. That didn't exactly work out...
908.
by berntb 14y ago
Ahhh, the only driving games I really enjoyed in my "youth" was Carmageddon and Car Wars. If they add kids among the pedestrians and a non-Windows version, I'll invest. :-)
909.
by berntb 14y ago
Some free advice to the kids (and then get off my lawn! )... Remember that Buffet quote -- he has seen a few bubbles: "... try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." Edit: If it isn't obvious -- the meme
910.
by berntb 14y ago
Couldn't they classify that as a beauty product and get approval? (This was only half ironic. "Brown without soap... cough.. sun", etc.)
911.
by berntb 14y ago
You argue against building the tissue. I buy your argument. Small children can regrow fingertips, yes? Couldn't it be possible to use that mechanism for fingers?
912.
by berntb 14y ago
Hrm, I am mostly bald and use a beard trimmer for the remaining lint. If that baldness was fixed, it wouldn't be a bad thing for people cutting hair! (I don't really care about being "topless" -- teeth otoh are important .)
913.
by berntb 14y ago
I got the point, sorry if I was unclear. My point was, it is hard to print 300 chars wide code. Ideal code width for printing is < 80 chars...
914.
by berntb 14y ago
So Objective C programmers can't print code to read it? :-(
915.
by berntb 14y ago
It isn't that simple. I saw something similar for good developers -- that network very well and/or had a visible backlog. But sure, my data points might have been unrepresentative or the IT death might have hit harder where I was at the tim
916.
by berntb 14y ago
>>Being a skilled programmer is one of safest careers you could have in these days of cold economic downturn. This is temporary luck, which will probably be different in the next downturn. (Just consider the IT death, ten years ago.
917.
by berntb 15y ago
What I never understand when reading about Skylon, is why the project try to do single stage to orbit directly ? A reusable first stage would in itself be valuable and neither cost so much to develop, nor be risky by walking the edge of we
918.
by berntb 15y ago
I got an answer that looks good in another place. When I have some more time, I'll experiment a bit. http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/48043/how-to-ssh-fr...
919.
by berntb 15y ago
You argue like there is only two alternatives -- total war or that Iran's junta gets hundreds of nuclear weapons on strategic missiles. It just isn't true. 1. mc32 adressed this, so the historic precedent stands. You acknowledge that you ha
920.
by berntb 15y ago
I motivated that statement. You don't have anything to say about that, either? Edit: Sigh, the "answer" below just repeats the previous, it is still not touching what I wrote. AGAIN: 1. I killed an argument (rational is just not in "kings"
921.
by berntb 15y ago
>>all I was saying is that "Here is why people think this" 1. That would be more convincing if you could answer wolf550e's point that your argument was garb... less than coherent. 2. This is not your only comment with "logic" and "f
922.
by berntb 15y ago
>>, I'm not arguing that it is right that Iran gets nuclear arms. Sorry, but you do sound like you have an agenda. You made a claim that the Iran junta won't be insane, I showed it is wrong by trivial historical examples. Now you ma
923.
by berntb 15y ago
You made a claim. You don't have sources -- and when questioned, you attack the one asking. Why shouldn't we write you off as just another hate propagandist? And if I would write an argument, not that you deserve the chance to change the su
924.
by berntb 15y ago
I think kristopolous got your point, really. That is why he wrote such a long text about why Israel is evil, as an "answer".
925.
by berntb 15y ago
>>Saying that Israel engages in terrorism and is deeply rooted in terrorism based on actions of two small factions [...] not allowed anywhere in government is... strange. You don't usually read much from hate propagandists? :-( An e
926.
by berntb 15y ago
>>Yes, I believe that leaders who are able to control a country are rational players. Maybe you should read some history about some of the kings we've had in Europe? (Or of some of the African dictators over the last century. Same t
927.
by berntb 15y ago
>>poorly selected operation to do in a benchmark. Considering the history of benchmarks, it is quite likely the opposite: The library was selected very carefully, to argue a "point". :-(
928.
by berntb 15y ago
I compare with the heuristic, that when even mainstream newspapers start writing about investments in the stock market, it is time to leave. Just like 1999. Computer programming is, in my experience, a cyclical job market. And not always in
929.
by berntb 15y ago
I just don't get that memories of bubbles are so short. This everyone-learn-to-code is just like 1997 or so, a few years before the big IT death.
930.
by berntb 15y ago
You are probably correct, but... well, what is the fun in that? :-) I found this http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-...

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