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by hyggetrold 3y ago
For anyone not familiar with Orbital, if you listen to only one song, make it "Halcyon+On+On" - a timeless classic.
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
> a twist, in the fabric of space, where time becomes a loop Are you referring to the theory of the mobius, Mr. Worf?
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
I don’t see a way to read what you wrote other than condoning genocide. You are making excuses for when it is okay to make others go away. Argue that it’s not “genocide” - whatever - if the outcome is the same and you are saying it’s okay,
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
Um...wow. Might makes right?
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
Upvote if it made you laugh?
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
It is actually known that indigenous people in the Americas drove certain species to extinction.
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
Means pretty much the definition: "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group." So yeah...in my crazy conspiracy theory (which I don&
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
Counterclaim: the ideal PR is the one that's never opened. Instead, have high test coverage and do trunk based development.
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
"Internet commenter! What is good in life?!" "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to watch their posts get heavily downvoted."
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
“Sir, I think it’s hardly fair to condemn an entire program just because of a single slip-up!”
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
Amon Tobin has lots of great music. Another one to check out by him is the Adventures in Foam album that he did under the Cujo moniker. Very heavy on jazz samples. Easy Muffin has to be my favorite song of his as well as Get Your Snack On
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
In my experience (two decades) you don’t have to play politics or participate, BUT - you do have to understand what’s happening and how it affects you.
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
That makes sense to me. I'm not sure how to articulate what I got out of that book exactly but I did enjoy it. Some of the more 'spiritual' books I find, the value of them doesn't really hit you until you're older o
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
Did you read the whole book yourself or just skim it? (asking sincerely)
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
Yes! Christopher Alexander is a must-read for engineers. Notes on the Synthesis of Form is also very excellent.
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
Another great translation is by Witter Bynner - the book is titled The Way of Life rather than Tao Te Ching.
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
I read it last year and it is fantastic - super absolutely ultra highly recommend that everybody read it. Run, don't walk, towards this book!
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
“The difference between God and Larry Ellison is that God doesn’t think he’s Larry Ellison.”
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
This struck me as a form of early DRM with pretty heavy handed enforcement. Today nobody gets excommunicated for piracy I don’t think.
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Book Curses(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by hyggetrold 3y ago|2 comments
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Locked Out of Meta(arstechnica.com)
2 points by hyggetrold 3y ago|0 comments
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
Hacker News used to show "points" on comments and it was removed quite a while ago.
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
I wish we could ban this kind of argument on HN. It is so short-sighted and absolutely ignores reality for everyday folks who are totally uneducated about tech (and don't care to be). It always strikes me as a 'caveat emptor'
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
The radio program This American Life did a program on ibogaine a long time ago. A former addict kicked heroin through ibogaine and made it his mission to help others do the same. Great listen. https://www.thisamericanlife.org&#x2
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
I read a great article about the making of the show and there were many real-life stories they couldn't include because they felt people wouldn't believe it was real. I think their go-to example was meeting up with a Google X pers
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
> Google allowed their engineers 20% time. I once heard that this was more like 120% time? Meaning, 'extracurricular activities' on company infra was allowed and encouraged, but not at the expense of regular productivity&#x2F
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
> “What this advertising boycott is going to do is kill the company,” Musk continued. “And the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company, and we will document it in great detail.” You tell 'em Elon!
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Amazon will bring Warhammer 40K to the screen(nytimes.com)
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
It almost seems like social media should be an adults-only thing. At this point I simply don't trust the current corporate powers to be looking out for the human side of things. And it strikes me that regulating social media to be only
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by hyggetrold 3y ago
Yeah I think what they actually called it was "network database" which I thought maybe was like a graph.

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