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by crpatino 11y ago
Link-bait-y and extremely poorly argumented. tl;dr - Author claims medieval Europe hates cat. Author picks and chooses examples of people in medieval Europe that wrote bad things about cats. In the last paragraph, Author summarizes and down
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by crpatino 11y ago
I not an expert on the science behind it, so please correct me without freaking out if I get some detail wrong... but herbivore' manure may be applied directly to the soil. Pet's (dogs and cats) manure must be composted first. The
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by crpatino 11y ago
Well, that makes the list go up to 3: Intelligent brain + stereoscopic vision + opposing thumbs. As you point out in your example, many intelligent species have been observed using rudimentary tools. The conventional explanation is that we
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by crpatino 11y ago
> otherwise whales would have fusion-powered underwater cities. No, no, no. Why do you have to assume that intelligent beings must always develop complex technology. If you define "intelligent" to be "like us", you wi
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by crpatino 11y ago
Mostly, that it's not worth your bosses' time to micromanage you if they are going to extract merely 5 hrs/month worth of labor out of you. But nothing prevents you from working 50 hrs/week for one decade and then retire
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by crpatino 11y ago
Probably wishful thinking... :(
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That sounds eerily reminiscent of the Climate Change Denialist camp: bribe some unscrupulous scientist to push whatever narrative you want people to believe, then use the media to frame the conflict as a matter of opinion. If the facts says
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by crpatino 11y ago
> This paper offers no insight, only excuses to accept that software will always be buggy. The paper does not address the problem of buggy software, though it is related. It addresses the problem that software is complex. And the insight
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by crpatino 11y ago
This is required reading for every promising young hacker. The more promising, the more required.
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You must be a heck of a disappointment!
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by crpatino 11y ago
Until the nerds learn that they don't need to ace in every assignment to get a passing grade. I confess having being delighted of get a failing grade on purpose, with the full knowledge that I but not my peers was able to take the hit.
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by crpatino 11y ago
You don't know me. How could you possibly know if I am a real man or not? Ditto for the attention (or lack thereof) I get from women. Of course if you want to argue that any women that happens to fancy me is not real by definition, you
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by crpatino 11y ago
The key is in "tightly knit workforce". Back during the Big Recession of 2008, my then-bosses announced that they were going to require mandatory unpaid timeoff* from every employee in order to minimize the number of positions bei
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by crpatino 11y ago
Thanks for all the down-votes. But could you please explain why is it politically correct for women to complain about the admittedly unfair gender mores that society saddles them with, but if a guy does exactly the same thing, people just
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Valuable for whom, or for what? If those did what they claim to do, sure: They would help to allocate resources to invest in projects that created the most goods and services to raise everyone's standard of living. There is certainly v
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> Not sure I follow. If I die in war at 18 as a male, I can't pass on my genes either. Men, specially young men, are genetically programmed to not think about that. A typical 18 year old that goes to war does not think he's go
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by crpatino 11y ago
Sorry to hear about your wife predicament. Unfortunately this is how society views roles, and it won't change anytime soon. Maybe when all the old people die and the younger ones learn to view things differently... But rest assured tha
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by crpatino 11y ago
To some degree, yes. Still, there were cell phones in the 90s. Are the current smartphones that much more valuable than those early mobiles? Remember we are talking about 2 orders of magnitude here. There were also PCs, and with Word Perfec
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by crpatino 11y ago
No, money is only numbers. If you cut down a tree, cut it in boards, cut the boards and nail the pieces into a bunch of chairs, that is value added. It did create wealth. Same, if you write a bunch of code that did not exist before, and the
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by crpatino 11y ago
I confess I am ignorant, so I don't know what you are talking about. But, I do not see that many more hard assets (I mean physical... I am sure finance has a technical definition that has nothing to do with what the intuition of lay pe
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I find it hard to believe that there are 2 orders of magnitude more goods and services being bought and sold in the economy that 25 years ago. Rather, the complexity of financial instruments is the one that has gone up and up, but there&#x2
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by crpatino 11y ago
> t's really hard to eat properly, I don't see how it can be done without growing your own. This attitude is worse than useless, it is actually damaging!!! There is a quite large subset of the population that, once having accep
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by crpatino 11y ago
Right, my bad... I think I did not made myself clear. It is not that the Talibans are angels. I was thinking more along the lines of Ender's Game... when at the end it is reveled that it is humans, not insectoids, who are playing the r
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by crpatino 11y ago
Or preventing unfriendly third parties from gaining access to such resources. Both China and Russia are better positioned geographically to take advantage of those territories.
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Not that I disagree with you on the morals of this comment, but a lot of confusion would be avoided if everybody just accepted that the US is a normal empire; an empire with geopolitical interest in the region and every reason to keep happy
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by crpatino 11y ago
Has to make you wonder if the Taliban have not been the "good guys" from the very beginning?
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> software engineering negotiations aren't adversarial There's a certain book you should go and read... I think the fact that it does exist is proof itself of how adversarial relationships can get in Software Engineering: http
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You know what they say... scratch your own itches. ;)
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If you are going to ask for an explanation, and then deny what people is trying to tell you and twist their words, you might as well take the down votes with a measure of dignity.
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Are you implying that the ancients never had access to weapons capable of killing thousands/millions of people when unleashed? What about chemical/biological weapons? I faintly recall some stories of the Bible where rats were used

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