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by fpig 6y ago
If you need a computer for serious (long hours) use, I would always go for desktop, as you can get a vastly superior machine to any laptop, with massive amounts of disk space, memory, tons of cores, screens, etc. If you want a Mac, I'm
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by fpig 6y ago
> So now we have 4 languages that are in spoken version basically the same, but standard languages differ. It's actually the other way around, the standard languages are very similar, but spoken language differs greatly, even betwe
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by fpig 6y ago
My issue here is this is not really a honest conversation most of the time. Wanting to work from home generally means just that, wanting to work from home. Not wanting to work from home however usually really means "I don't want
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by fpig 6y ago
I mean a bad actor can easily use stolen/free wireless with a randomized mac on a machine that’s used for nothing else and not access any “usual” services while doing it. This is more about ordinary people maintaining privacy in their
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by fpig 6y ago
This veil of ignorance is such a simple concept, yet it never occurred to me. It’s actually making me reevaluate my worldview. Thanks for linking it!
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by fpig 6y ago
What do you think would be the solution for, for example, CS teachers being incredibly unqualified? I'm asking because based on my country, I think there literally is no solution and we just have to live with the fact that CS education
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by fpig 6y ago
I don't know, that's why I asked since the original commenter seems to know, but his original comment doesn't really answer it as it basically says "they used to deny clearances to secretly gay people, and today they gra
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by fpig 6y ago
Wow, that's an incredible story! Write more please!
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by fpig 6y ago
In my case, it was a series of fortunate events. When I was 8-9 years old, my dad, who knew absolutely nothing about computers, decided to buy a computer "for himself". It was a 386 machine, which he never really used much, but I
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by fpig 6y ago
If it’s just about social issues specific to the US, why is it exactly the same in so many other countries? In fact the US did try to make alcohol illegal but it was a shitshow. In my country they’d NEVER touch alcohol yet weed is illegal.
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by fpig 6y ago
So were they denying clearances to openly gay people back in the old days? Because there wouldn’t be potential for blackmail in that case. Sorry I can’t tell what you’re saying changed about the policies.
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by fpig 7y ago
I guess the question is, if people lived to 200, would that mean a 50 year old's approach to new information would be the same as that of a today's 50 year old, or that of a today's 25 year old. Basically are we just keeping
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by fpig 7y ago
And we often hire people who have no clue how things work even for low-level management positions. Can you imagine in construction, the lowest level manager being someone with no clue about construction but is just supposedly really good at
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by fpig 7y ago
> This is the issue rent control is trying to solve. I don't think you fully understand the issue. You focus on one specific case: richer renters displacing poorer renters because they're willing to pay more. But there is so mu
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by fpig 8y ago
Another thing is that suggestions from users often suffer from the "XY problem" issue. So even when a user has a ridiculous suggestion or request, there might be a legitimate issue behind it.
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by fpig 8y ago
> (maybe Edge on Windows?) Edge feels like poor man's Safari. However the rest of Mac OS (in terms of GUI, not underlying OS) feels like poor man's Windows. :D
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by fpig 8y ago
I am not Swedish, but I find it hard to believe this is your only option. Can't you pay yourself a smaller salary, and pay out the profits as a dividend, which is likely taxed way less? I have a (non-Swedish) LLC and it pays me dividen
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by fpig 8y ago
The reason why the world doesn't work the way you're suggesting and why shortages do exist is nominal rigidity. And it's much more complicated than "the boss is reluctant to pay the worker more". The client might al
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by fpig 8y ago
If you pick 4.73% or 17.23% as the cutoff point you will reach the same conclusions, the numbers behave as you would expect. I read a similar article once that focused on the top 20% by income, this one focuses on top 10% by wealth... The r
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by fpig 9y ago
I group them together as the biggest MLM schemes in the world which sounds pretty much correct according to your own numbers They are grouped together by size and by the fact they both prey on children as their main recruitment targets Do y
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by fpig 9y ago
I don't need to take a "world religion class" to know how incredibly retarded the religion I grew up in is. And your post is for sure a shining example of "intellectualism".
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by fpig 9y ago
Because the followers are supposed to make kids and recruit them into the church at the earliest possible age. They don't want it to be about preference, they want to "lock them in" before they start thinking for themselves
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by fpig 9y ago
You're right, relatively few adults these days convert because someone "sold" them on the religion and in my majority-catholic country the church doesn't even make any serious attempt to do this or tell their followers t
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by fpig 9y ago
That's a worthless post without sources. I don't believe statistics would prove that, I am guessing they would prove the opposite, that most wealthy people don't blow their money.
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by fpig 9y ago
He did not say that. Generating the HTML for the initial page load server-side does not make HTML "just a document format". It improves loading and search-friendliness of your web site.
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by fpig 9y ago
Every person I know who got wealthy is still wealthy except one (stocks). None of them blew any significant part of their money on consumption. I assume this holds in general, too, if you count all people who get rich, not just lottery wi
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by fpig 9y ago
That looks great! Both the speech recognition and the eye tracking look really impressive. You should make this into a commercial project or something. Is there any popular application that already does this stuff and is as good (I am not f
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by fpig 9y ago
Yes, but that is a different issue as you said in your original comment. Statistically it is irrelevant. The "is it a choice" part also belongs in the "completely different issue" basket, so to speak.
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by fpig 9y ago
I used my iPhone 4 for 6 years. I was very happy with it and it was virtually indestructible. The battery was also pretty decent even after 6 years. The iPhone 4 felt like a device that "lasts forever", like some pre-smartphone de
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by fpig 9y ago
I said that even if it was scientifically proven it still wouldn't be OK to discriminate. Reading comprehension. And the discussion was NOT about systems using correlation as a heuristic for causation. If a company filters users base

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