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by grawprog 6y ago
To be fair, I would imagine, each apple on the tree has a slightly different nutritional make up then every other apple on the tree. Plants don't spread nutrients evenly throughout themselves. They push more nutrients to areas with mor
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by grawprog 6y ago
Agreed, decision maker seems like a good stand in. A good decision maker is able to take, as you say, people whose >skills are fragmented into so many specialties. And successfully organize those people into a functioning unit to accompl
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by grawprog 6y ago
I've worked for both kinds of leaders. The companies with the kind of leader I describe above were by far the better places to work. The businesses always ran more smoothly, employee turnover was low, there was never usually interperso
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by grawprog 6y ago
I've always felt the concept of leadership is looked at the wrong way. Whether in the workplace or even in politics. Leaders are not at the top, they are the foundation of everything. A good leader is the base of the team. The foundati
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by grawprog 6y ago
I'm a bit confused, reading through comments here, this seemed like some nefarious issue, reading the conversation thread in the op though it seems like an error with the .nomedia file in the folder that's fixed by either appendin
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by grawprog 6y ago
Not so much a streaming service, but I use bandcamp for any artists I listen to on the platform. They take a 10-15% cut on sales, but sales go to the artist otherwise.
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by grawprog 6y ago
Honestly, right and left is pretty nonsensical, at least the current beliefs that qualify as right or left. The average person likely has beliefs that would fall on both sides and this incessant need to categorize someone as either left or
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by grawprog 6y ago
But I mean I could probably make a similar raspberry pi build for around the same money and have a more powerful machine capable of doing much the same things and would have the experience of a hacking out a build.
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by grawprog 6y ago
After reading the title I got kind of excited, unfortunately this device is sadly underwhelming especially at the price points listed. It doesn't seem like it would really be all that useful for gaming, it's fairly small for doing
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by grawprog 6y ago
Most of them were instated after the US occupation of Japan post-world war 2. At the time they served the purpose of asserting America's control over Japan. What purpose they serve there now, who knows?
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by grawprog 6y ago
I've got a real life case I can provide an anecdote for. I recently got to try out a candy depositor with a temperature controlled hopper. The machine costs about $12000. The machine consists of a base depositor that can be purchased o
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by grawprog 6y ago
For a long time I was a righty that used a mouse left handed. It was just how I learned. It wasn't until I got older and fps controls changed from the numpad or arrow keys as default to wasd for movement that I eventually just switched
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UK lawyers uneasy about plan to prosecute hate speech at home(theguardian.com)
17 points by grawprog 6y ago|10 comments
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by grawprog 6y ago
Everyone else said therapy, i'm going to recommend a specific therapy. If you can find a therapist offering Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-cognitive-behavior-ther... Or just even if y
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by grawprog 6y ago
I agree with this. The results and discussion are usually the least interesting parts and figures are usually meaningless without seeing how the data used to generate those figures were collected. The methodology tells you exactly what the
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by grawprog 6y ago
Not sure of the exact model, but we had a brother laser printer at my old work. A few of them actually. They were fairly reliable most of the time. It would jam occasionally and figuring out errors with it was sometimes frustrating. But i n
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by grawprog 6y ago
I played with termux a bunch. I found it to be lacking when not rooted though. If i remember right it also lacks a lot of access to most of the android api, making any kind of serious development not really practical. The one i really miss
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Google Play bans third-party app for YouTube alternative BitChute(reclaimthenet.org)
92 points by grawprog 6y ago|31 comments
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by grawprog 6y ago
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-hancoski-b342aa53 This guy looks like a clean shaven version of those pictures. Noses look the same. The eyes. No updates to the account since 2015.
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by grawprog 6y ago
Not necessarily. There's a site I use with a star based karma system. A bunch of years ago there was a glitch in the site that led to a bunch of random members getting ridiculous amounts of stars. People still ask questions about it to
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by grawprog 6y ago
Stack overflow i've got mixed feelings about. I've seen it work well sometimes, with the highest quality answer being voted to the top. Other times, it seems the top answers are not the best or just a bunch of pointless arguing. I
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by grawprog 6y ago
I dunno, I usually go out of my way to avoid looking at people's scores on places like that. Even my own if I can help it. HN is hard, it's right in the corner there, but I really don't tend to look at anyone else's scor
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by grawprog 6y ago
>But it did make me think about just how easy it is to farm karma on Reddit, and how useless it is as a proxy for "trust" or "reputation" or anything other than what it is - fake internet points. I have to say, do peo
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by grawprog 6y ago
>However, they can use tools such as VPNs to access them in locations where the platforms and content are not licensed. >For example, if Netflix is not available in country X, people could use a VPN to make it appear they come from co
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by grawprog 6y ago
The 'healthiest forest is one with different ages of stands mixed throughout. Though, this all depends on where you are and what the natural disturbance type and frequency is as well as the natural age of the trees. Speaking of coastal
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by grawprog 6y ago
>I also don't think we truly understood how susceptible so many people are to made up nonsense until recent years That's not true, that's been the basis behind marketing and advertising since it existed. It's been fai
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by grawprog 6y ago
I understand the worries behind deep fakes, but i'm going to be a bit facetious here, hasn't getting the most realistic, lifelike images always been the goal of computer graphics? Wouldn't deepfakes be the ultimate culminatio
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by grawprog 6y ago
>I've posted this before, but I see terraforming other planets as a necessary step to learn how to take care of the Earth. This thinking seems backwards. How can we learn to take a totally dead planet and make it living when we can&
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by grawprog 6y ago
I gotta admit, sometimes I take things a bit too literally on HN. But yeah, that would be pretty awesome. Never really thought about that before.
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by grawprog 6y ago
I don't follow. That was a clip of the Cat from Red Dwarf. A British sitcom from the 80's and 90's set in space in the far future.

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