cyberdrunk

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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Plenty of older people are not on the Internet and are not isolated from society. They tend to have richer real-life social networks though.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> I work on anti-DRM techniques for a living. Who's paying for anti-DRM work?
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> If you're rich, buying expensive shit is probably the most beneficial thing you can do for society. That's not true. You can go and pay people a 50 million dollars to make a yacht for you. Or you can pay that 50 million to ot
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
I wouldn't say that there's no reason, but it's just very unhealthy for democracy.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke He's not broke, he still has two million dollars (in a very advanced age). I wish I was that broke.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
See Richard Geldreich's Twitter (@richgel999). He has a lot to say about that (when he says "flat-structured tech company", he means Valve).
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> It looks like the cyberpunk version of GTA I'm affraid so. It looks like every NPC you meet is a primitive asshole, who just make me angry. I don't get why people would want to spend time in a game like that.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> The highest impact things an individual can do, roughly in order are: Don't have children. Don't own a car. Don't fly internationally. Don't eat meat. Don't eat dairy. Don't eat imported food. Living in a
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Try switching to Wayland.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> Social aspects in the sense of that we nowadays use them for cars only. Back in the days people traded on streets, had cafes and social interactions. Kids could play football and learn how to cycle. I still see some of that in my dense
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> This is not a problem of houses built that way since the were built pre-car times to allow max light into apartments Not the case in most of Europe IMO. The apartment buildings were built along very narrow streets to either fit inside
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Many/most flats in those cute old European cities have windows directly over a street. You can have cars making noise and pollution literally within 5-10 meters of your window. This is bad for physical and mental health. Soviet-style h
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Media, including the Internet. It just presents a warped view of reality.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
You can at least try discussing real valuations of various securities (aka fundamental analysis). Then, whenever current market insanity brings the price below the real valuation, you buy. Fundamental analysis looks like full time work thou
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
If it only were possible to tell the general impact of our actions... Maybe my vanilla open source commits will, down the road, enable Skynet. Or maybe they'll help finding a cure for cancer. Or maybe they'll have no major impact
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
True. These jobs also have very real drawbacks, but there are certainly some people for whom the drawbacks are not that bad (better than coding 40h/week).
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Probably, although maybe you can get a job in such shop as a software guy first and learn the ropes there. Anyway, my bigger point is, if you hate focusing in front of the computer, then software engineering is not a career for you and you
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
If you hate sitting in front of a computer, you might retrain to be a hardware engineer (e.g. in robotics, aerospace etc.). They can sometimes spend a lot of the time building prototypes or testing the physical component in a lab (of course
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
I'm an architect. During the pandemic, I'm still stuck 8 hours behind my laptop, just doing calls, presentations etc.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
You don't need domestic billionaires though, foreign ones can do as well. For example, there are trillions of petrodollars that go through City/Wall Street and fund various initiatives around the world.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
As reported in the link, median net worth of a white family is $171k. Which is just about enough to buy a median house... Meaning, that the median white family has a house they live in and little else. That's certainly not a position f
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Most white people have very little money and even less power.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Yes. We ingest all that data onto central Hadoop, where data science team can access all of it in an uniform way. This solves the physical access problem. Unfortunately, the DQ and meaning of data are harder to solve. They require essential
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> If you want a weirder launching off point, watch koyaanisqatsi and look up Philip Glass who made the soundtrack - that's an interesting avenue, albeit not very mainstream. Omg that film is absolutely amazing (maybe the best thing
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
In my company, the biggest issue is finding the right data sets in company's vast data landscape, figuring out the exact definition/meaning of each column etc. Then, it's dealing with the data quality issues. Then, it's
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> 2120: The environment is all full of poisonous gasses from the people of 2020. Each house needs its own air purifier to make the outdoor air safe to breathe. That's the case in much of the world already... I live in area where the
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> 100%, not the 70% Are these real numbers on the markup of e-delivery companies or just examples?
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
This book has rather mixed reputation among the art professionals. It's attractive to beginners because it allows you to fairly quickly become a human camera/xerox machine - you will be able to exactly copy what you see. However,
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Fun is more than nightclubs. Where I live, I have fun just by walking the streets, admiring the varied and pretty architecture (granted, I live in Poland), seeing the various characters which walk the streets, eating/having snacks at t
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Yes, from I've read it's definitely the issue of soil. The island was completely deforested a long time ago and the unprotected soil has completely eroded since then (the same thing also happened in Scotland and Sicily ?). There a

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