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by blunte 5y ago
> they never ordered anything illegal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos You can't have it both ways. You are either responsible for the management and oversight of your organization (corporation, cou
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by blunte 5y ago
It's not about oil from Afghanistan, it's about a more solid presence in the region (and in some cases, about preventing an enemy/competitor from having that presence). Most countries around Afghanistan have oil. If Afghanis
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by blunte 5y ago
Perhaps the first line of defense against such an invasion would be to agitate the farmers, causing them to drive all their tractors back into town. It's pretty difficult to get anything done with them ruining all transportation.
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by blunte 5y ago
Until the full report of the investigation is released to the public, it's pointless to speculate on the decisions made after 9/11. There certainly appears to be indication that the real people behind it were not targeted for ret
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by blunte 5y ago
Key figures in US military and US leadership need to be held accountable. Same as with CEOs, if you only punish the organization and not specifically the leaders, there is no disincentive to doing it again. Clearly the US is exempt from the
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by blunte 5y ago
Just wait until this gets rolled into GitHub Copilot...
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by blunte 5y ago
I see a lot of people taking issue with the idioms presented, and rightfully so in many cases. Add the ability for people to improve or debate the solutions. Ultimately we should have a large curated cookbook (with additional variant selec
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by blunte 5y ago
This last point is key in the modem connected world. Before internet, you marketed by being in the right places with the right people. Now you have to have a global internet strategy and compete with companies who have nothing but marketing
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by blunte 5y ago
Fascinating. Motorola has been part of some very significant things in history (not just because I'm multi-Amiga owner). From my outsider view, it seems the companies who really invest in R&D make the best things happen. Unfortun
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by blunte 5y ago
Or, how about this: the projections have always been absurdely inflated and were effectively predicated on not having to follow any local rules, thus avoiding the time to market and legal overhead that traditional companies face when doing
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Ask HN: When will VR reach mass adoption?
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by blunte 5y ago
Myself and a number of people I know have flatly said they will not return to the office. Occasional visits or team meetings are ok, but regular office time is off the table. But the place I work has publicly announced that they surprising
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by blunte 5y ago
It may be practical fact, but its is not any sort of wisdom. They claim to have rules and are expected to follow their own rules. But that's a bit like the legal system. A government or civil case against you may be completely unwarr
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by blunte 5y ago
This topic really needs a good documentary. It should scare the hell out of people. If you build up a library of your creations, your email, your communications, whatever, and the masters can just flip a switch and make it all unavailable
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by blunte 5y ago
Somewhat tangential, but people like this author amaze me in their deep knowledge AND ability to communicate it well. Also, none of this topic is something I would want to deal with.
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by blunte 5y ago
Indeed this is all very true, but if you have a big publisher, “fun” is usually focused on a large target audience. That’s why it’s so great that we have good tooling nowadays which allows indie developers to aim for the niche that they lik
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by blunte 5y ago
Obviously the author of the code didn’t know or understand the bit shift operator and came up with a less optimal solution. I cannot believe that was done just to be cool.
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by blunte 5y ago
The point is not to be historically accurate. Ideally you strike a good balance of fun, challenging, and historically accurate - in that order. I can't speak for the games listed, but for the one AAA game I had the opportunity to work
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by blunte 5y ago
I cannot believe that Archegos was "too busy" to read a request for additional collateral. They knew exactly what was going on, and they were hoping to buy more time and pray that the market would change in the direction they nee
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by blunte 5y ago
Can we just be honest and say that Amazon - it's leadership, especially Bezos - is greedy/sociopathic and frankly detrimental to long term human survival (based on the zero-sum approach to success), but that it's so convenien
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by blunte 5y ago
I saw this exact thing a couple of months ago not so far from Arhnem. (I thought it might be a crane, but it was moving very fast... so I could be mistaken.) This bird was diving at about 30-45 degrees from fairly high, and it suddenly inv
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by blunte 5y ago
Some things not mentioned in TFA: Avoid debt. Don’t buy a new car with a 48 month loan. Don’t buy a house. Don’t get a high limit credit card. All these things work against your ability to live the lifestyle he describes. So if you already
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by blunte 5y ago
Question for you. When you want to change the landscaping, or say the land is sold and is going to be repurposed... what exactly do you do with all those blocks? And have you ever had packing material that over time had more and more corne
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by blunte 5y ago
If there ever was an example of "f-ck you, future generations", it would be this. These blocks will eventually need to be disposed of, or they will become rubble which will "naturally" decay - and by decay I mean gradual
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by blunte 5y ago
Does this study consider the modern ease of getting a work to be publicly available? Publishing, in some form, is so much easier now than it was 20 years ago. Is it possible that publishers of the past just said, "no, we don't w
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by blunte 5y ago
Relative to TFA, _any_ consistent movement and activity is a net gain. In that perspective, it really does not matter what program you follow as long as it gets you moving. This wasn't about optimal. If you ask me personally what I t
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by blunte 5y ago
I'm a huge proponent of weight lifting. I hate cardio. But I do know that if you only do lifting and don't do cardio, stretching, and the other boring stuff, you will get less value from your lifting. You do the cardio to build
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by blunte 5y ago
I have read the same. It does seem that modern advice is to just do some warmup movements rather than static stretches. After, however, stretches are really important. Without proper post-workout stretching, you can wake up with muscles s
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by blunte 5y ago
Stop licking the weights when you flex in the mirror. A simple bicep kiss should suffice, and you don't get the lead poisoning.
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by blunte 5y ago
As other's mention below, weight lifting really is its own special thing. But definitely, just getting moving, consistently, is an excellent place to start. A lot of people in wealthier countries work until retirement age and then par

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