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by dragonsky 5y ago
I think you are right and debate is needed, but unfortunately on online platforms debate is really hard to keep civil and respectful. On platforms like HN where the audience is somewhat selective and moderation is possible you can have a re
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by dragonsky 5y ago
I am so tired of people implying that they believe in science. Science is not a religion requiring belief. Science is a way of postulating that something may be real given the a available evidence. A true scientist should be ready to chang
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by dragonsky 5y ago
Looks like a drone with legs more than a walking robot that can fly. I’m sure there is a use case where this type of agility is required, but I’m not really seeing a vast advantage over a drone or a legged robot for most usages. Most took
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by dragonsky 5y ago
Looks like an RV minus the wheels. Why are these things held up as something "new" when caravans and RV's have been around for many a year.
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by dragonsky 5y ago
I wonder how many of these feature requests are because the client does not understand how the software should be used? It could be that it is not designed to solve there problem, and having purchased it they are trying to get some util
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by dragonsky 5y ago
Just wondering what type of thing were you doing that would make you self conscious about your location? Please don't read anything much into this, just interested in what type of things people feel uncomfortable about having recoded.
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by dragonsky 5y ago
The personal reveal on this is just how clueless I am about how many different definitions of religion there actually are. Who would have thought that religion was broken down by skin colour? That said, this information is meaningless unl
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by dragonsky 5y ago
This article is both amazing and shocking. That some random person could make a case against an ageing individual and with little evidence assert their incompetence and thereby become their guardian with full control of all aspects of their
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by dragonsky 5y ago
I've got 60 year old ops people in my workplace, we're certainly going to miss them when they leave. It may be that certain parts of tech consider 30 something to be old, but not everywhere.
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by dragonsky 5y ago
Thank you. I just can't convert.
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by dragonsky 5y ago
I'm guessing that you have never been on the receiving end of an explosive device. This scares the shit out of me. Call me naive but the idea that somebody on the other side of the planet can set me as a target in a device that they ju
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by dragonsky 5y ago
Looks like a guided claymore mine... Scary as hell.
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by dragonsky 5y ago
with 4 hours talking nonsense to our colleagues and another two hours in coordination meetings. Lets do that two hours work a day and get out into the garden. Is that ok?
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by dragonsky 5y ago
One of the problems with how people consider the Vietnam war is that they don't understand that it was not the US military (and partners) against the North Vietnamese military, it was the US et el against the entire North Vietnamese po
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by dragonsky 5y ago
The point is that you start to think how your words could be taken, not just assume people magically know your intent. Yes people should consider your intent as part of how they parse your words, but you are the one talking, it's up t
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by dragonsky 5y ago
My thought is that anything that forces you to think about how your words and actions are perceived by others can only be a good thing. People commenting have spoken about freedom, and related it to personal responsibility. I think this la
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by dragonsky 6y ago
Here they are talking about putting a significant time limit on solving the problem. I'd classify myself as being a reasonable programmer (and I get paid for it), but I generally don't dive from reading a specification into compl
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by dragonsky 6y ago
Individual freedom trumps community welfare. Who cares if my action causes problems for anybody else, yeah Freedom FREEDOM!!!! I'm the most important person in the world!!! ME ME ME ME ME My rights!!!! Freedom, oh and anything else is
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by dragonsky 6y ago
It's not just NZ. Australian states have carried out similar decisive actions. An example. We had one person in Brisbane (capital of Queensland) who was infected with the UK variant whilst working in one of the isolation hotels (used
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by dragonsky 6y ago
Yep, and Melbourne had it's "second wave" in the middle of winter. Locked down and got it under control. We've had the opportunity for things to go pear shaped, but due to decisive action, an educated and thinking publi
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by dragonsky 6y ago
As a member of the "Free World", not a citizen of the US, can I please be exempt from being lead by the US and any of its leaders. There was a point in time when the US was seen as having some degree of leadership, mostly because
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by dragonsky 6y ago
Why don't you try ensuring that everybody votes? Seems to work for Australia. You end up with politicians who are interested in appealing to the broadest range of voters rather than trying to make it difficult for the people who woul
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by dragonsky 6y ago
so it comes down to education. Without an properly educated population who have been taught and encouraged to think for themselves we are at the mercy of those who peddle falsehoods for their own benefit. It's not enough to have a com
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by dragonsky 6y ago
I'm not actually sure of that the news media are willing to carry every message. From where I'm sitting (In Australia) the US news media seems to be quite free and happy to limit their coverage of output from the White House. Now
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by dragonsky 6y ago
Smarts are what you rely on to get by whilst you gain experience.
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by dragonsky 6y ago
In my experience there is a correlation between income and inability to deliver on projects. Seems some people spend all their time convincing management of there value rather than delivering on their jobs.
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by dragonsky 6y ago
When you consider the complexity of the act of driving I'd say a majority of people driving are pretty good drivers, the alternative would be a significant accident rate resulting in impassable roads.
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by dragonsky 6y ago
You might want to explain who Limbaugh, Glenn, Orielly, Carlson etc are for those of use outside of the US bubble
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by dragonsky 6y ago
I've observed and participated in a reasonable number of projects, both IT and otherwise. In my experience there are two problems that seem to exit in every project that either failed or had to go on to life support: 1. The deliverabl
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by dragonsky 6y ago
But the job needs to be done, so supply and demand comes into play. In a resource rich world Why should somebody doing a shitty job be paid low wages. If you need the job done and because we are not resource constrained you are going to ha

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