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by fapjacks 7y ago
Can you please decompress your short comment into a fuller one? I am interested in your thesis, but I still do not understand.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Maybe you would be surprised to learn that previous generations were also quite free with their love. They just expressed it differently and of course, having grown older, now understand that not everyone who says "I love you" is
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by fapjacks 7y ago
This is exactly why it never will be attractive, though. Because emotional detachment and opacity is how you kill and survive on the battlefield.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
I think you're reading the wrong books, then. I wish the books I read were 100 times longer.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Except... Chrome is a non-starter because it fails on the one axis I care about as a user -- along many many other users -- which is the axis upon which Google has every intention of enforcing filter rule limitations in order to neuter adbl
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by fapjacks 7y ago
It's a modern emphasis, considering modern American military science derives heavily from the successes of WW2. I'm particularly interested in this but I don't think this is the crowd, if my other post wasn't very popula
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by fapjacks 7y ago
However thanks for not using referral/affiliate links. :)
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by fapjacks 7y ago
My post was partially a poke at subjective meaning, but if pressed to defend my point, I would say politics is logistics, because logistics is about managing resources, and everything is about managing resources. Napalm to me seems a natura
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by fapjacks 7y ago
No, leaders talk almost exclusively about logistics, and it becomes truer the further up the chain you go. Strategy is for the rifle company commander and his officers.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Well, for starters, now they're tracking that you are willing to pay a ransom. That's the same kind of knowledge value as spammers get when a user clicks the "unsubscribe" link in one of their emails.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
These are precisely my thoughts, too. I try to keep myself from falling prey to the ultimate human indulgence of claiming to live in some kind of moral decline preceding some end times, but this is exactly the kind of thing that scares the
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Long-range wireless communication necessarily limits you to shortwave bands, exclusively if you don't have satellites. Earhart most certainly had a shortwave transceiver onboard. It is totally plausible and unsurprising that hams in th
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by fapjacks 7y ago
From my understanding, there's also a caveat that you have to live in the home. Or have a tenant or something similar. I think it has (had?) something to do with preventing outside speculators from holding properties while the struct
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by fapjacks 7y ago
I agree that the FDA is a huge problem, and that Something Needs To Be Done, much like the CPUC in California which is really just an arm of industry. I don't know how to approach implementing a complete overhaul of the FDA without som
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Because automation trims excess, which I think is something they want to avoid at all costs.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Yeah let me tell you about something which people in the Quality Assurance industry might call an "indicator": The US Army doesn't do much more than what you're describing for hearing aids.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
People seemed to have invented writing to keep track of grain inventories, and to record for all eternity the great moral decline of the world caused by the doings of the author's political enemies, and if only they had the tools to st
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Well, you're not convincing anybody with a story about Ukrainians damaging roofs in Lithuania, because that's not what I'm talking about, and you knowing a guy in the UK that told you at a BBQ he was "conned left and rig
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Don't be discouraged. No company is able to hire only experienced, talented technical staff. Every company needs juniors.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
It's a great question! One thing I might suggest is human migration displacing garum, or displacing the people that had a taste for it. Between "Antiquity" and today, you're as likely to find an immigrant population as a
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Sorry :( When or if you figure this out, please do a Show HN.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
I see what you're saying, and I'm on board with that. But isn't it sort of a tautology? I mean, these seems to be a pretty universal human value, to want some measure of positive, affirmative things to happen to us. Even to t
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by fapjacks 7y ago
But that's what I'm saying: Nobody would be fooled by that. It's not a believable story because anybody with any kind of business and/or reputation would not do that, and everybody knows that to be the case.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Not even liens, but imagine what would happen to the person (and their business) if they were caught intentionally and maliciously building failure modes into the thing they were hired to build as a means to ensure they got paid.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Not only that but the PR from this story will bring a ton of sales and buzz. They won the lottery.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
I agree that machines will probably write most of the software one day. I disagree that this will cause all "programming" jobs to disappear. I disagree vehemently that all programmers are fungible with "cheap guys in India
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Sure, management is a fine career goal, as good as any. But when many people say, "I wanna be the boss!" in the best case, it's some fantasy about control, and in the worst it turns out to be pathological. And those are the l
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by fapjacks 7y ago
There is something to be said for these kinds of vestigial remnants of technologies past. I've always been fascinated by them, and in fact this kind of thing in computer folklore -- for example parts of the docs that explain something
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Well, I'd say anybody that can't find a fun vacation staying at a hostel in Europe and walking around the middle of pretty much any city must surely have no imagination and/or also hate life in general.
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There's basically zero chance that glass bottle belonged to anyone that wasn't super wealthy. Also, "middle level" "decision makers" were essentially all assigned to a specific legion, or e.g. veterans with lan

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