guard-of-terra

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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
The solution here is to build new communities. Find a place with no residents but within commute radius, and build up. And ignore all the environmental bullcrap that existing home owners will try to astroturf. People won't hurt environ
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Asking people about churches in 198x USSR was probably not the wisest way to go around for a CIA spy. Better stick with libraries.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ciagov/30849056096/in/album-72... If it's a tourist map then probably so, but I assume CIA would like to see something more substantial on their map. They're not i
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
1980s CIA album has map of central Moscow. On it, subway stations and embassies are marked (that's the expected), gas stations (okay) and also churches (what's weird). Nothing more, just embassies and churches. Would like to hear
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Which one?
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Solr source code is a mess and sometimes worse than that. Test coverage is pretty good tho.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
I wonder if they ever tried mounting one of those on top of CPU.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
> "well, tough luck - they had the money, and they still couldn't manage, so it's their responsibility to figure it out" - well, that's not really going to work politically. Why isn't it? If you have medical
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
They might have significant others depending on UBI - parents, children, friends. So they would not like cutting basic income, even if it recovers slightly more money for them. Compare this to situation with poor: Most of middle class don&#
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
- Remove zoning restrictions. - Make it easy for individual enterpreneurs to open small shops. This ought to help. Small corner bodega will survive if operated by its owner.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Well, Stalin used GULAG to dig river channels (Moscow channel for example), design planes and rockets. He just replaced HR department with arrest squads. One can argue he had quite similar result in mind to the proposed electric-vechicle-en
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
I think the solution here is Human Rights and also Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative. You can't use people as slaves unless situation is so that everybody has to become slave. Also, you can't use people as a tool (withou
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Saving the world by exploiting Tesla factory workers seems equally impossible.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
This is so true. You will think that robots do not strike, until this day when you forget to renew your license with robot-maker.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
> It would be sensible to sacrifice the well-being of a small group in order to save the whole Why then we don't revert to capturing slaves in poor countries and have them "save the whole" (like, recycle garbage by manual
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Is it still on that floating rock when there's nobody to see it? "If a tree falls in a forest"
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Full audit trail is the first thing you should put in when building a back office system.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
The problem here is trusting the machine and not trusting the actual human and not giving human any leverage to do anything extra. In all cases where machine and human are assigned to a job as a unit, human should have authority to override
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
"New stations have been built outside city centres" Is it only me who has problems with this attitude? As if we didn't have enough frustration from airports located an hour away.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
I've just noticed that the list in question has multiple cities within the USA. So it is an international list, really.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Because there's no commonly used word in English to represent "not American"? UPD: there is Then you'll run into the new problem, that in context of kinda-international HN it will sound a bit off.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
You can always ask on Expatriates Stack Exchange but I assume it wouldn't be easy. If you plan to work you're usually assumed to work for a local company. You could probably pull it applying for a business visa and then registerin
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
It was the first personality cult that outlived the persona. We assume that we should stick with that Jesus considered right. But we can't ask him, so we have to interpret whatever sacred texts available. We assume that only one interp
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
When you're fighting over politics, you can usually convert most of the losing side before resorting to slaugter. When you're righting over religion, people are very reluctant to convert (which is usually a sin), and to accept the
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Most of those aren't particularily funny. Compare with the good selection from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_jokes
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
I have this notion that Abrahamic religions are the worst single thing that happened to Homo Sapiens to date. And that they're also trying to appropriate human progress for themself, but now we know the real achivements of Greeks and R
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
I actually think your father made 10-20$ at the time. Don't laugh, it's the reality of post-soviet states. I gather that today, $200 is a nice salary in Ukraine (and some parts of Russia too)
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Russian definitely had conplex flow, similar to German I think. Most songs therefore have to be unusually heavy on vocabulary and plot, Dostoevsky-style. If you try to make lyrics simple it sounds awful.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Specialization only works on seller's market, i.e. when there's more demand than capacity. If there's more capacity than demand, it makes sense to try and capture bigger share of the market while being less efficient at deliv
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
β-Lactoglobulin.

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