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by gbog 13y ago
Interesting short story. The part on robots rings well, but there was one thing about parenting at the end that rang not so well to my ears: "children grew up more attached to their robot nannies than to their actual parents. This was
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by gbog 13y ago
> It was an editorial mistake that caught pg off guard I can't understand this. "Guarding oneself" should mean to be carefully watching one's own word in order to avoid saying bad things, right? Then this would imply
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by gbog 13y ago
It is not absurd, it is plain dishonest.
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by gbog 13y ago
Your comment triggered again a thought of mine: What if we had a perfect data store? What would it look like? I think it would have these properties: - instant access to the most current data from anywhere in the world (no need for replicat
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Ask HN: How to show support for Paul?
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by gbog 13y ago
I must be wired differently. I can get a for loop right the first time I write it in C, JavaScript, php, specially python, even if I do not use them daily. I think I never got a for loop right in bash. And ifs are always weird too. And lett
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by gbog 13y ago
Posting unconventional views is ok in HN, in fact it is the only place I know where it is possible. My unconventional view is that sport is bad for health. If you count all the injuries, the health issues, etc that can be attributed to spor
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by gbog 13y ago
You know that running is as bad for health than staying on a chair all day long, right? For example the marathon is extremely stressful for the body and my friends w who do it all admit they are sick for one month afterwards.
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by gbog 13y ago
people have a lot of kids in tiny houses all over the world.
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by gbog 13y ago
Motions: we already have too much of them. For me Wikipedia had the best content and very high ranking, and its "un-designed" interface is telling strongly that making things "designed" was often unnecessary. Sometime a
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by gbog 13y ago
It is not there anymore, maybe there was a bug?
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by gbog 13y ago
> Go: C is the prefect language, except it's too low-level. I feel go is more like "It would be nice to have a Python-like C that would also be a C-like Python"
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by gbog 13y ago
Just go build bridges, open source software, medical tools, civil aircrafts, gadgets, computers, etc. None of these engineering tasks require you to meet war things.
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by gbog 13y ago
I think you are both a bit of in nitpicking mode, right? I think the easy and normal and common path is to have canonical uri for ressources, and to serve agregated content for convenience or speed on other entry points, while adding to agr
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by gbog 13y ago
Don't agree. Something like "because my kids can receive great education here" would be a great answer, but just "lovin' it" means nothing. And having good friends is not a good reason either, because real frie
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by gbog 13y ago
I like the Taleb way to decide on these choices: if you have a very low return on a new medical thing (eg drug) and is supposed to use it often, the very tiny risk inside becomes actually quickly bigger than the benefit. On the opposite, ev
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by gbog 13y ago
I concur. In our shop we also use MySQL without the joins. That's like an efficient key-value store, but there must be a better solution somewhere: all the joins are done in client code, and caching too. That's a great amount of e
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by gbog 13y ago
And farting, too? Seriously, if you want even more restrictions on what your fellow human beings are allowed to do and enjoy, you should be very happy in North Korea and I can only invite you to prepare your visa application papers. Wait, U
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by gbog 13y ago
I'd go further: - I want everyone to own an amount of clever metal molecules that group together to form the object I need right now: need a bowl to eat rice, molecules migrate to form a bowl in a few seconds. Need a helmet? Here it is
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by gbog 13y ago
I think you're misguided here, the most difficult to handle truth has to be written in a book. Movies are not good at explaining real things because they focus on short snippets of life, and direct knowledge do not scale. For example t
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by gbog 13y ago
No, the "teach me about the world and myself" is not a criteria for being a good book, quite the opposite. It is not because a book teaches you something that it is good, it is because it is good that it teaches you something. But
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by gbog 13y ago
Mine: - Jules Michelet, History of France (pg suggested somewhere to read books about history. I now fully agree, it is a way to get the best possible understanding of today's world. As much as we have to understand how a cell has grow
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by gbog 13y ago
Mine: Good books teach you about the world and about yourself.
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by gbog 13y ago
Many seem to dismiss the issue too quickly. You can't tell kids to learn to hack their devices if you do not do it yourself. I'd say 80% of education is just giving the example. If father and mother both have locked devices or com
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by gbog 13y ago
I got started with my current language of choice from a book I bought almost randomly at a book fair. This book is a reference of the language but is written in such a clear and precise language, showing a deep love for the language and gre
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by gbog 13y ago
Have you seen Burgundy vineyards or Longsheng rice terraces? Would you say these are scars over the landscapes? In the old world at least, humans have created with their hands most of the countryside landscapes and it is not always ugly.
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by gbog 13y ago
Poetry, art is our only umbrella in the shitstorm that we call life, how can you say it is a pointless distraction?
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by gbog 13y ago
Well I can fairly believe other writers which have a nearly physical block and can't write a single word without trashing it immediately to the bin.
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by gbog 13y ago
??? "I have never had the problem of a writing block."
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by gbog 13y ago
One door: sure that's a difference but not that significant. You can measure it and try in mentally in different positions. You have to think twice before sawing but actually in code you also have steps where thinking twice I'd re

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