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by exergy 10y ago
That's not a question easily answered though. Assuming complete objectivity, it would mean that you might save an order of magnitude more lives in the future discovering a cure for cancer, for example, at the expense of lives today. Th
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by exergy 10y ago
Really great discussion. To my complete layperson mind, perhaps a good middle ground is that if you are the person who discovers a big security bug, you first go to the company in private, but with the caveat that you insist on being inform
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by exergy 10y ago
I'm not OP, but this is an interesting moment to ask: would you not consider the "I worked harder than others, therefore I'm more successful" sentiment self evident? In my experience, people in my group whom I'd cat
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by exergy 10y ago
I disagree that this is an avenue open only to the upper class [1]. Not everyone can do everything, sure (if you're working two jobs, for example, the climate can rightly go fuck itself) but a lot of people can do a lot more. I also di
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by exergy 10y ago
Yeah, you're right of course. Any solution requiring humans to change at large scales through raw appeals to emotion is itself Dead on Arrival. This is where I'm really happy that the cult of mustachianism[1] is spreading as viral
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by exergy 10y ago
IF you can buy an acre, please definitely do so. That will do more to help than almost anything else. On the other hand, the typical 2.5 kid family in Suburbia that drives even to the grocery store? They're better off moving to the cit
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by exergy 10y ago
Forgive me for the forthcoming rant, this is not a slight at you, but I really dislike the kind of attitude that you are projecting here. Al Gore famously said in his documentary that a lot of people go from Denial to Despair without pausin
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by exergy 10y ago
To me, that statement sounds more like "Clutching at straws, it might be an outlier extreme case of year-to-year variability, but it's probably global warming; if you want a definitive answer, wait a couple years".
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by exergy 10y ago
Wait, Spotify UI is terrible? How would you alter it? I ask because I find it to be really good, especially since I came from playing my music on Windows Media Player and occasionally VLC(!).
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by exergy 10y ago
I was in Manchester Museum recently, looking at samples of Mars and Moon rocks etc., and in classic British wry humour, there was an all caps sign exhorting us to "PLEASE TOUCH". Problem solved :)
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by exergy 10y ago
I'm going to go off on a tangent here, and will happily accept downvotes, but I feel like venting for a bit. I love the NYT. Years ago, when I got into it, I was blown away by Krugman, Kristof, Friedman (yes), and even David Brooks. Th
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by exergy 10y ago
Can I asked something? Why are iPads popular? Genuine question. I will admit first that I also use an old iPad for watching YouTube, but that's because I run Linux on my surface pro 3, and YouTube sucks my battery dry faster than you c
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by exergy 10y ago
And yet, everything seems to point to modern living not exactly being good for you. Not going outside gives Vitamin D deficiencies. Not sleeping properly means our brain is less sharp. Being constantly connected online means that I'm
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by exergy 10y ago
How is that stereotyping? He didn't come out saying "all Americans are dumb, iliterate, and about 100 lbs overweight". _That_ would have been stereotyping. By contrast, his post was a fairly mild and inoffensive "in my e
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by exergy 10y ago
And yet, your post added even less. He clearly mentions that Europeans he knows are more cultured than the typical American he deals with (caveat: I lived in DC and now live in Geneva, and this is my experience as well). Obviously, we&#x2
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by exergy 10y ago
Curious, but what else would you have it be? A detailed, scientific comparison of jobs, club memberships, languages spoken, schools attended...Academic to the point of tedious? I thought the whole point of a blog was personal experience? Th
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by exergy 10y ago
I don't exactly have the surface book, I have the surface pro 3, but I'm able to dual boot with Xubuntu and Mint without too much trouble. Of course, it wouldn't be Linux if wifi wasn't tricky to set up, but touch works,
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by exergy 10y ago
> If you don't want to cough up the required rigor... Forgive me, but this sounds absurdly elitist. Mathematics is not a subject reserved for a select set of chosen elite. It is a very necessary tool for almost every scientific ende
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by exergy 10y ago
Apologies. I'm not judging anyone here. My implication was more "different strokes for different folks". Some people like to take work home, others prefer to have a drink in the evenings. Some manage to combine both :-) I&#x2
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by exergy 10y ago
Would it be possible to somehow run this on Windows?
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by exergy 10y ago
As an Indian guy, I've met my fair share of the type of developers you described. They don't take work home, don't have any particular passion for the job, and are biding time before they can go do an MBA and move on to inves
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by exergy 10y ago
OMG, give me an example for crying out loud! If I'm young and have owned more than one smartphone, I more or less know how they work. To suggest that the poor are somehow too dumb and stupid to appreciate the mysterious, multi-layered
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by exergy 10y ago
Christ. Sorry for continuing to belabour this, but that's another tired old cliche of iPhones being somehow "simpler". The settings menu of an iPhone is idiotic, the API is more restrictive, meaning that there are things you
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by exergy 10y ago
And that's not problematic? I'm from India, and in general, the Indian attitude towards money is "you only spend it if you have it" and even then, essentials came first and then money saved in a shoebox for a rainy day.
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by exergy 10y ago
Huh? By then same logic, you can get a used Android phone for cheap as chips too. I'm not entirely sure if he's the one bullshitting or if it's you. Lost time? What does that even mean? An iphone makes you more productive? TH
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by exergy 10y ago
I'd say the author's voice shines through even clearer in fiction though. Authors certainly can exercise flair when writing history or something, but even more when they invent a fictional world and develop and atmosphere and char
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by exergy 10y ago
So, you would say smart watches are "ready"? Despite the abominable battery life the Apple Watch gets, even though it isn't Always On? Would you say the Internet Of Shit is ready? Even though you can't get a decent cup o
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by exergy 10y ago
Depends on what you account for as feedback. If we are narrowly talking about plot twists when writing an entertaining thriller, than yeah, by all means, make sure the audience gets it. Also, there is much to be said about a sharp, crisply
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by exergy 10y ago
Yes. Born and brought up on India. In only the most extreme case of a car breaking down miles from the pump would you ever get petrol in a can. Otherwise, the vast majority goes to the pump to refill.
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by exergy 10y ago
It seems "Discover popular books" would be more accurate? Within my specialisation, it didn't uncover the hidden gems, as much as the usual suspects of academic textbooks that are dreary as hell.

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