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by hi41 8y ago
>“I do take 100 percent seriously the idea that the world is a figment of the imagination,” I can’t take anyone seriously if he suggests that. Is hunger figment of imagination? The war crimes and multitudes of unspeakable injustices? Nat
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by hi41 8y ago
Wow. I did not know that there was such a thing as crab effect! I thought was anecdotal similar to the story of frog doing because of water heating slowly. Would you know if the frog story is true or anecdotal?
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by hi41 8y ago
I have great admiration for Frederick Douglass. He must have had great drive within to be a self learner. His writings and speaches are so good!
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by hi41 8y ago
$500k per is a rounding error for Google. Why didn't they do this earlier?
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by hi41 8y ago
This incident reminds of a post Nicholas Carr wrote. We are offloading critical activities to automation but at critical times human expertise is needed to resolve dangerous situations. The driver put too much confidence in the automation a
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by hi41 8y ago
Hehe. Offer he can't refuse. Lol.
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by hi41 8y ago
Why is Tesla doing this? It is riding high on the success of its electric cars and Elon Musk is so famous and is considered a visionary.
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by hi41 8y ago
This makes me very sad. When I saw him on the show he came across as a person who had achieved great success. Doesn't so much travel and meeting people make one more enlightened? How did this tragedy occur. I for one sometimes feel I s
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by hi41 8y ago
Could you please elaborate the features in Excel you have come to love.
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by hi41 8y ago
Isn't a negative Yelp review protected by Freedom of speech? Inspite of that the lady had spent a fortune defending herself.
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by hi41 8y ago
I find awk so beautiful. I written many scripts in awk. It is so good at data transformation. I used it write a script to delete old and unused records from tables. The book is so beautifully written with amazing clarity of thought.
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by hi41 8y ago
Could you please explain what #!/use/bin/env bash does? Why is it better than the other statement? Thanks!
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by hi41 8y ago
very nice!
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by hi41 8y ago
I have trouble imagining the rotation. If Earth is still and sky rotates wouldn't it still be counter clock wise at North Pole and clock wise at South Pole?
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by hi41 8y ago
I read this many years back at joelonsoftware. Joel is such an amazing thinker. His ideas are so original. I don't know how one thinks such original thoughts. I can follow orders but thinking for myself is very hard.
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by hi41 8y ago
>a software change that it said could be accomplished for pennies per vehicle. In the face of auto industry opposition, the agency let the plan languish, though it says a rule is still under consideration. Why the car industry would oppo
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by hi41 9y ago
Wow! This is something ... getting evicirated by Amnesty International!
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by hi41 9y ago
Radio, a technology which most us would consider old, was used extensively used to brainwash the populace in Rwanda to commit grave crimes. How is the current technology any different this time,
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by hi41 9y ago
No, I was not sarcastic at all. I admire the programmer. I was just trying to understand something which was far outside my own experiences. I couldn't fathom how he was able to a successful programmer without the tools most of us use
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by hi41 9y ago
This story is very inspiring. How is he able to do his work without looking at block diagrams, complicated entity relationship diagrams, writing on paper to clarify among other things which I as a sighted person normally do?
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by hi41 9y ago
There was a post on the 13.7 blog at NPR. It said that it is ok incorrect to think of time as an illusion or an emergent property and that scientists are doing a disservice by doing so. Time is real it said. I looked but couldn't find
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by hi41 9y ago
The constant comparison to others really hurts. One is never happy, always looking at the next move to bring happiness which never happens.
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by hi41 9y ago
Math is terse and biology is verbose. Normally a person good in biology dislikes math and a person good in math dislikes biology. He has done extremely well in both! How can one be so good in both?!
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by hi41 9y ago
Thank you much!
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by hi41 9y ago
Since the universe is 13.8 billion years old, we are able to see objects which are 13.8 billion light years away. How are the physicists able to say that the diameter is 93 billion light years? Shouldn't it be closer to 27.6 billion li
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by hi41 9y ago
Speaking truth to power! I like it! I so scared of saying that I never understood git and was getting by using only the most basic of the commands. Now Sqlite has called out!
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by hi41 9y ago
I was diagnosed with ocd and depression. You said it took a year to catch youself doing the pattern. Please tell me how you learnt to catch yourself. I need that skill desperately.
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by hi41 9y ago
This is my story too. I dropped learning and got laid off. I spent 4 months looking for a job. I joined a team that did j2ee but couldn't handle the complexity of it. Got laid off again. Spent 4 months looking for a job. Now I got prod
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by hi41 9y ago
This post is so well written. It must have taken a lot of time to do this write-up. Is it written by many people or just a single person?
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by hi41 9y ago
I find it very hard to remove soap scum from bathtub if I don't use cleaning sprays. Can someone please suggest a better way.

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