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by david927 7y ago
There's a funny story in Dealers of Lightning [ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1101290.Dealers_of_Light... ] where a person driving in fog saw those laser flashes and, in a panic, called the police
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by david927 7y ago
I would counter that all currencies in major countries will become digital but that blockchain will not be behind any of them and will have died out.
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by david927 7y ago
> It is important to know what's happening in the world. The dose makes the poison. If it's important, you'll hear about it. 99% of what you think of as important you will have forgotten in ten years. Look at old news
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by david927 7y ago
I'll give Paul credit for trying to be a thinker in a time period where fewer make that effort. The problem that he faces is that he's an exemplar of the thinking of his location; he's the embodiment of the Silicon Valley min
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by david927 7y ago
As someone who knows nothing about boats, I don't understand understand why there hasn't been more breaking of tradition. Why we don't use modern materials and methods to create boats that are much more resilient to extern
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by david927 7y ago
It would be amazing to clone it. I wonder if the DNA is preserved well enough to do that.
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by david927 7y ago
Bernie Sanders is more popular than Warren, will also forgive student debt, and has great plans for addressing climate change. >student loans taken out by bright college students who surely knew what a loan is That's not quite fai
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by david927 7y ago
No slaves were used...
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by david927 7y ago
It's worse than that, though...
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by david927 7y ago
Sometimes the best place for your shipping boat is not out at sea making money but moored in the harbor staying safe.
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by david927 7y ago
In other words, if you're American, it can be next to impossible to get a work visa.
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by david927 7y ago
And lower liability limits so that if you, say, pollute a river, all owners are personally liable.
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English Is Not Normal(getpocket.com)
1 points by david927 7y ago|0 comments
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by david927 7y ago
I have been to Ivrea many times for their (highly recommended) annual orange-throwing festival. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Oranges It's a stunning town, like many in Italy, and it's nice to r
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by david927 7y ago
It doesn't seem silly at all. I agree with Michael Burry; I think passive investing is a bubble -- by definition. If you spent $10 million to make a cafe in your small hometown, you would never get that money back for the obvious rea
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by david927 7y ago
Before I learned Czech, I pronounced it like most English-speakers: da-vor (rhymes with door) zhak (rhymes with shack). Now that I speak pretty decent Czech and can throw down a respectable 'ř'(which is one my great life accompli
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by david927 7y ago
I couldn't disagree more. Literally no one has a problem pronouncing yet another great Czech: Dvořák. And I defy you to turn that into a phonetical spelling that isn't a abomination upon church and Christ. We shouldn't be a
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by david927 7y ago
As an American who has lived in France, I can completely confirm.
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by david927 7y ago
> ephemera and arcana and details that will be irrelevant in a year Personally, I like this one.
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by david927 7y ago
> if you stick with it and don't sell, things will turn out pretty well I think that thinking is at fault, at least in part, for the massive loss that's pending in terms of a deep market correction, because it's valuing
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by david927 7y ago
Hey Chris, yeah I know. I’m not planning to publish the results, I just wanted to get a sense of US vs non-US views on it.
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by david927 7y ago
That’s ridiculously untrue.
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Survey HN: Did the Moon Landing Happen?(glinnt.com)
2 points by david927 7y ago|4 comments
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by david927 7y ago
But... that's huge. And it is a big step toward a necessary reinvention of the web. There is more that's needed but that's absolutely a big piece of it.
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by david927 7y ago
Gmail confidential mode is not secure nor private
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by david927 7y ago
I also like this one: "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell
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by david927 7y ago
This is a funny article. The author essentially says, "Alan Kay says software is bad but he isn’t being entirely fair; he's missing things -- small, incremental improvements in some tools." and "The future will be visua
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by david927 7y ago
Here's another great documentary that reflects the efforts of the Catholic Church historically to not only hide the offense and move the alleged perpetrator, but would often move them back to positions where the abuse could take place
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by david927 8y ago
That's a nice explanation but doesn't it give the impression that if we could find a better way to do that experiment, we could find a way around the problem, when instead it's a fundamental limit on what we can know about a
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by david927 8y ago
Yes, I think our jobs (as software developers) are threatened but the technologies that will replace what we do are still off the radar.

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