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by ed-209 4y ago
Everyone agrees socials are the scourge of the net, amplifying the most hyperbolic trash available, but they (seem to) increasingly just accept this to have been inevitable (or more erroneously, they blame human nature itself lol). This is
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by ed-209 4y ago
lol no, totally different person
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Ask HN: Have a Fallen Hero?
2 points by ed-209 4y ago|2 comments
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by ed-209 4y ago
-d
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by ed-209 4y ago
I think the golden age of piracy ended when it became impractical for individuals to collect digital media. The streaming services deliver a convenience to consume anything, anywhere which is cost prohibitative for laypersons to replicate b
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by ed-209 4y ago
Amusing and yet I worry it's a straw-man for the contemporary issue of automation replacing human workers more generally (which I find decidedly less amusing).
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by ed-209 4y ago
This impending downturn is why I've tolerated a most unsexy project reassignment from my current employer over the last 9 months. Instead of data-driven green-fielding in AWS I've been brown-fielding in Azure where the current pri
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by ed-209 4y ago
Serious question: why isnt online play excluded at this level of competition? Why not restrict these "pro" matches to regulated conditions as in any other pro competition? We dont generally place full trust in online job interview
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Ask HN: How do you take breaks?
6 points by ed-209 4y ago|3 comments
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by ed-209 4y ago
I didn't downvote but there appears to be an unprecedented energy crisis on the horizon and I suspect this story is a taste of things to come. In that sense, being logically correct in assigning blame to the peasants might still be a b
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by ed-209 4y ago
What if an AI is observing?
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by ed-209 4y ago
I'm not seeing the central issue (imo) discussed, ie. is there a conflict of interest given that the party facilitating death is reducing cost of operation by doing so. You can't come to consensus (imo) without factoring the answe
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by ed-209 4y ago
Remote work has made me even more introverted than before and I'm actively searching for an in-office gig to help me muster the motivation to shower and dress. Perhaps you can relate. Finding the right career path is hard and sucks but
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by ed-209 4y ago
Live a balanced and meaningful life now, via programming, rather than deferring satisfaction/contentment for some imagined future. If I retire some day, it's a bonus but I'm not waiting to be nearly dead to begin living in ea
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Ask HN: Who is doing “remote” well?
5 points by ed-209 4y ago|5 comments
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by ed-209 4y ago
Shifted my stonk holdings to the new (artificially) scarce things.
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by ed-209 4y ago
What's the name of the phenomena wherein people who once mocked the idea of this occuring now act as if it's obvious and unremarkable?
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Japanese Man Lost a USB Drive with Entire City’s Personal Data After a Night Out(vice.com)
1 points by ed-209 4y ago|0 comments
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by ed-209 4y ago
I don't even believe that consciousness can arise from matter let alone code, but IF this really transpired then color me impressed.
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by ed-209 4y ago
This seems self evident and im sure literature is the least valuable of the treasures lost to time.
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by ed-209 4y ago
Fascinating (if biased) history on Keynesian economics for the layperson. Certainly _feels_ relevent to the post-COVID economy though I'm not too sure on the "bitcoin will fix everything" conclusion. Malthusianism and eugenic
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Why the Cantillon Effect Creates Communism(bombthrower.com)
27 points by ed-209 4y ago|11 comments
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by ed-209 4y ago
And that is how headbanging was invented
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by ed-209 4y ago
Not much pre-www experience here but I'll say "usually not". As a software dev, my approach has always been to just start doing the thing and search only when I get stuck on a specific concept. And I say "usually" b
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by ed-209 4y ago
It sure is a fine line - putting your thing out to the world & trying to make more of the world appreciate the thing more. My hobby being an art, I get to experience this internal tug-of-war with each new work. If I do nothing, I may be
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by ed-209 4y ago
This will never backfire. Yep.
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by ed-209 4y ago
Maybe a useful (if redundant) part of a multipronged approach for self-medicators but can't touch the reality-avoidance component of addiction - that maladaptive behavioral pattern which has more in common with personality disorders th
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by ed-209 5y ago
Neat historical overview followed by bizzare conclusions based on a narrow sampling of second-hand experience. Author seems to lack awareness of their own knowledge gap here (Dunning-Kruger?), conflating specific cultures and implementation
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by ed-209 5y ago
The idea that someone should (or could) avoid this, or conclude that it had something to do with being boring is strange to me. When you have "writer's block", you step away and stop trying to force it. When one creative outl
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by ed-209 5y ago
TLDR: Programming is all about mental mapping and text-based IDEs are not well suited for the task (agree). Go is especially well suited for this activity (disagree but irrelevant). We can leverage 3D modeling to better facilitate this mapp

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