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by ctolsen 11y ago
Many people tend to think of BI as a solution to a world where scarcity is no longer that much of an issue. In a world where a lot of wealth is created by automation, the picture starts to look different, to the extent that BI becomes not j
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by ctolsen 11y ago
"It’s hard to believe today, but 10 years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment run by utopian radicals." I have absolutely no recollection of this. Wikipedia has had some trouble, just like any other successful
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by ctolsen 11y ago
Perhaps you'd like to get some actual numbers behind your claims? And not stuff like "trains are very rarely entire full". Of course they're not. But cars are almost always entirely empty.
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by ctolsen 11y ago
What's this deal with people having to learn Python 3? For most of the things you do there is literally no practical difference.
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by ctolsen 11y ago
Using Python 3 in production with Flask here, and been doing so for at least a year now. Never had an issue whatsoever. The warning is frankly outdated.
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by ctolsen 11y ago
Awaiting an official release (and my PR being merged), I made a Docker image which is simply an upgrade of the official one: https://hub.docker.com/r/ctolsen/python/ Also, pytest users might want to use their
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by ctolsen 11y ago
It really isn't. Copyright is riddled with exceptions of many kinds, and the granting of it is completely in the hands of whatever a government wants to provide.
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by ctolsen 11y ago
I don't see why you can't go on vacation even if you take a couple months off on a sabbatical every couple of years. It's mostly about financial priorities, especially for most people on HN.
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by ctolsen 11y ago
Good for you, and maybe you're an outlier, but everything we know about work tells us that this is counterproductive. It's good for productivity, health, and well-being if people get to disconnect completely from work. As a compan
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by ctolsen 11y ago
You don't build a billion dollar business to cash out and retire. You would likely end up investing in new businesses and continue from there. In that perspective, a billion is exactly a thousand times better than a million. Even more
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by ctolsen 11y ago
I've been buying in continuously before the drop, and will continue to do so after. That's the best way of negating some of the risk. You can't really know if things are going to go down further, or jump back up again soon.
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by ctolsen 11y ago
Not suggesting that you're wrong, only that you're lucky: there is always a risk that things go in any direction. If you're in it for the long haul, selling your ETFs a month ago isn't necessarily the best thing to do –
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by ctolsen 11y ago
Ember is fairly all-encompassing. Sure, if you compare it with JQuery, it's big. But if you compare it to the full stack of libraries you need in order to run a reasonable React app, it's not too shabby at all.
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by ctolsen 11y ago
I definitely appreciate projects having Dockerfiles included, but yeah, that's not a good one. They should simply include instructions about how to link it to MySQL/Redis, or use something like docker-compose. The way it's do
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by ctolsen 11y ago
Sweden isn't very densely populated.
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by ctolsen 11y ago
Those who might want to migrate the other way, perhaps.
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by ctolsen 11y ago
You don't have to learn anything, but it's a fairly big step to go straight for a long sit. See http://www.dhamma.org for info on intensive Vipassana courses. For something a bit easier that you can do at home, check o
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by ctolsen 11y ago
The article compared meditation to psychedelics because the author is misguided. They may produce remotely similar states of mind. That does not mean they are equal. There is no claim of salvation in meditation. Only claims of personal bene
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by ctolsen 11y ago
You're citing from one meta study out of plenty. Also, it's ten years old. Many things have happened since then, especially things to address those weaknesses – MBSR ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness-b
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by ctolsen 11y ago
Except it doesn't. Vipassana courses are barely advertised, people come of their own volition, and participate for free. People are asked to try their method for ten days, not to change their lives without wanting to. If they did adv
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by ctolsen 11y ago
There's scientific evidence that meditation improves memory, cognition, grey matter, concentration, and so on. The same is not true for surfing or generally relaxing. Just because people feel like there are similarities between experie
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by ctolsen 11y ago
Anyone interested in the topic should read the LSE report on the Economics of Drug Policy. The facts are staggering, especially on the human and fiscal cost of internal displacement. I bet not many know that Colombia just a few years ago wa
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by ctolsen 11y ago
It's not putting them above a constitution. There is a process in place to resolve constitutional issues. In this case it worked perfectly. Punishing people merely for passing a law would itself be unconstitutional. There is no enumera
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by ctolsen 11y ago
Politicians can be forced out of office for anything. It's called elections. Most countries also have some kind of impeachment process. Are you saying politicians shouldn't attempt to do what their constituents sent them to do, un
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by ctolsen 11y ago
Leaders who do unconstitutional things might be. If you trample on your citizens sufficiently, you might live to see the inside of the Hague. But it would be completely ridiculous to imprison someone for passing a law. The process here did
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by ctolsen 12y ago
1) It's the other way around. Higher standard of living means longer lifespans via better resources and more room in the economy for healthcare and research. 2) I'm not sure what this means. We already have an inflation-controlled
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by ctolsen 12y ago
The marginal cost of a single dose is probably never very high, unless precursors required are extremely scarce. Still, it wouldn't be in the hundreds of thousands. The cost lies in the development of the drug, plus the ten other drugs
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by ctolsen 12y ago
I'm honestly curious here – not being an FE developer, but I've wired up Angular in a few projects in the recent past. I've felt like it's easy to use and to get the job done, not any harder to debug than JS in general,
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by ctolsen 12y ago
Good hardware, consistent experience, lots of development tools. I moved from Linux to Mac simply because it lets me focus on work and less on fiddling around. I would obviously have liked to use a completely open OS as well, but it's
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by ctolsen 12y ago
I agree with the people saying the new look is quite good, but it does need a couple of changes. Contrast has been mentioned, it's better on your "cards" (top toolbar that appears on some searches) than on the general results

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