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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>Python is Lisp with syntactic sugar and Lisp is Forth with syntactic sugar. Those languages have nothing in common other than being pleasant to work with because there isn't too much boiler plate. Python is dictionary based, lisp i
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>Frankly, I'm not sure why so many on HN are surprised by this. The scientific data on asymptomatic carriers coming out of Italy, Germany, South Korea, and Iceland has been very clear on a majority asymptomatic frame for this virus.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
What if I told you that North Korea has their own OS?
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>They’re simply not capable of such things. Google and Facebook are not cutting edge technologies. They are in the position of IBM in the 80s and Microsoft in the 90s, a legacy technology with huge market share being able to charge monop
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
Remember that Greece's economy will not recover to it's 2008 for 20 years because of an excel spreadsheet with errors in it.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
Do you know why there are no Jews left in Holland? They had the most efficient census of any European country. So when the Nazis came in and replaced the moderate Democratic Monarchy all they had to do to round up all the Jews was to select
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
There is no such thing as a 'toxic person'. There are people who do not fit in a team, there are people who don't fit a companies goals, there are people you can't stand. The most difficult lesson I've learned is ev
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
> He went on to ruin digg.com (the rewrite everything guy) and I promised myself to never be a dick to people I interview. Sounds like the interview process worked for you. You found out that you don't want to work with him and didn
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
Please provide the doi for the articles which tell us the prevalence of covid-19 in the general population.
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
I find it incredible that no one has done these studies before issuing the lock down orders. Without knowing what the proportion of people who have been exposed but aren't sick any response is the wrong response. If it turns out that i
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
>I'd definitely rather risk that than risk a couple million people dying over the course of a few months - 1% of 70% of 320M, and that's just in the US. What effect on the economy do you expect would come of that? A hugely posi
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
A natural outcome when you have 30% unemployment in the worlds largest economies. Who knows, maybe we will get lucky and it will only be civil wars in China and India with only hundreds of millions dead.
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
Now do a calculation that includes a world war with nuclear weapons, because that's what happens when you hit 30% unemployment.
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
The US has destroyed nearly one trillion dollars in wealth for the bottom 50% since 1989: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
If it makes you feel any better I'll introduce you to the brain vat basilisk. It tortures anyone who doesn't contribute to it's creation for an eternity, and as the name suggests it's a brain in a vat. So now the only et
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
When you walk into a crocodile pit do we blame the crocodiles for eating you?
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
I too am much happier when Chinese/Russian/French spies quietly infiltrate a presentation on power grid weak points from a mid sized private firm with no security to speak of. Trolling is gods way of teaching basic opsec to idiots
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
I hope Coronavirus kills open offices.
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
>Should someone present at almost any shelter now their case will be assessed on whether violence occurred rather than gender. Domestic abuse does not begin and end with violence. My friend was never physically hurt, yet he was still tor
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
When do you think there will be shelters for the victims of domestic abuse from women? I had a a friend bullied to suicide by their mother but there was just no support for someone who wasn't physically abused by a man in the 00s.
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
In any sane world euthanasia would be legal and everyone could chose a painless death. But of course we can't have that freedom.
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
>It's a mercy you won't be held to this when you get sick, and find it's somewhat easier to talk in the abstract about coming to terms with death than to face the imminent possibility. It's unfortunate that you'r
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
>I'm curious how many people who now say "give me privacy or give me death!" will change their tune in a hurry once they are themselves, perhaps for the first time in their lives, in real danger of dying. Already had the v
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
I have a bunch of letters before my name that have something to do with physics and what you're asking is far to open. If you want a general grounding have a look at Fundamentals of Physics any addition and work through some of the pro
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
I would welcome us holding the gatekeepers to higher standards. The only people in the media fired for the debacle of the Iraq war were the ones who called the lies of the government out. When we let everyone speak at least the average of a
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
>In a healthy democracy, there are appropriate mechanisms that hold censors accountable than the average layman, so that they do not abuse their office. For this reason they are granted a louder voice. The majority of the world does not
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
And what happens when the censors are the ones lying? This is how the virus spread so far in China in the first place.
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
The sewers have put all the nightsoil men out business, yet I say society is better for automated toilets.
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
Have you seen the patriot act? Hell, it was written by the oppositions party current presidential front runner.
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by buzzkillington 7y ago
Yes, so the only way to increase profits is to increase automation. A much better use of human brains then using them to flip burgers.

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