dailyvijeos

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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
And improbability drives powered by cheese.
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
BTC can be redeemed for tulip bulbs. ;)
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
Mensa most often attracts the deeply insecure and insufferably arrogant. I worked with several IITians and multiple PhD/MD’s... how many joined Mensa? Zero (0). Sure, IITians reminisced about rank every now and then, but they didn’t ha
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
I have perfect vision now but massive genetic risks for ARMD and glaucoma; when I get much older, blindness is likely without proper lifestyle and care. I’m fine with periodically going to optometrists who’s expertise will catch such issues
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
Ted Liew is always on-the-ball and challenging DC bozos. Props.
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
Truth in headlines: Apple is close to to acquishuttering Shazam, say friends of Shazam founders to shake the bushes for a bidding war.
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
Conspiracy theory bullshit rhetoric has no place on HN. Go back to Alex Jones.
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
It’s smart because holding BTC in a Tulip-bulb crisis is insanely risky. This current crisis is due to elastic demand based on short-lived, fashionable attention of a tiny currency, whereas common currencies are more inelastic because their
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
Advertising/PR manufactures beliefs, values, preferences and consent every day. Most people these days forgot or were not aware of how they were brainwashed by content or by other people into internalizing what they believe.
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
The longer-term solutions to home delivery are refrigerated and non-refrigerated storage pods with universal app access. These can either be built into a house / garage or be free-standing. This reduces the risks of having delivery peo
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
Hypocracy is a bikeshedding dimension. China and the US both serve the politically-connected first and the people last; China does it by force and the US does it by manufacturing consent. Regardless of political system, the people must rise
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
It’s a heckuva improvement on “clean” coal which produces the most greanhouse gases per BTU of any fuel. Nuclear still suffers from the distributed waste issue without a permanent storage facility or closed-loop reprocessing. Solar and wind
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
Nope. I remember when MTurk came out, used the API and tried some of the work units. For the most part, it really is moot though for most tasks now, except for insanely complex ones or new business processes that haven’t been automated yet.
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
LOL. They must also have a patent on quantifying qualitative BS while badmouthing their competition. So professional too.
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
Tulip bulbs anyone?
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
Yup. Also, Stanford abuses temp workers for years and years as standard practice to avoid paying benefits.
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
New grads need to realize $100k/yr gross (~$70k net) at 100 hr/wk is ~ $13.50/hr net. So either get a better comp. package or refuse to work like a slave.
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
Apple along with a decline in product utility, reliability and quality, their software has been getting buggier every year post-Jobs. The QA people should be fired and replaced with a team whom insists on perfection. Otherwise, these embarr
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
It’s no surprise because helicopter parents also don’t have their priorities or common-sense in order.
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
My mom’s family were Dust Bowl refugees, and my grandfather had to hustle to not starve to death. On a lighter note, check out this Canadian using a large backyard as a profitable farm: https://youtu.be/KO-OuqbR3EE Here’s a
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
You can say that again. Cities are, for the most part, where humanity (i.e., compassion and community) goes to die. I’m seriously contemplating migrating someplace where people aren’t 80% deplorable jerks, like suburban Oregon or New Mexico
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
I worked at a nuclear consulting co. where network hostnames were Simpsons’ characters and people backed into parking spaces out of habit.
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
Yuck. :( Sellers need a “Maker Strike” like YouTube channels to keep folks honest. Also, raise the bar such that sellers have to put in mental, creative and time investment and are cut out if they repeatedly sell junk. Can’t just sign up as
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
I wish eBay, AliBaba or Amazon would buy Etsy and integrate the site well while keeping management and the right amount of operations independent. Etsy is, right now, a dingy in the storm of a double-ended marketplace without the reach of t
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
Maybe not because it’s a confederation of peers. As for ISP’s, Australia is not a good example because it’s poorly run, which it doesn’t have to be. Instead, perhaps a GSE value-for-money internet, TV and mobile provider that’s a non-profit
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
Yup. Increased lifespan with increased ageism results in less productivity, less income, less taxes and more unhappy, idle people.
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
Online comments are like online petitions: ostensibly “listening” to keep the masses from calling/mailing their representatives or the FCC directly. Persuasion requires messages that are difficult/impossible to ignore: culturally
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
It’s unreasonable to reason with unreasonable people whom hold magical thinking memes with unquestioning beliefs, a priori.
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
London already has that. ;) (I’ve seen the sun around Victoria Station plenty of times.)
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by dailyvijeos 9y ago
Neat. Seems like a powerful way to do most common key remapping without a kext like Karabiner Elements.

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