jbjohns

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by jbjohns 13y ago
Site is down for me: "Error establishing a database connection"
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by jbjohns 13y ago
For me, the goal of passive income is flexibility. Sure, I would hope that I wouldn't have to work if I didn't want to. But it would also mean I could work on anything that interested me. I have a huge list of projects I'v
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by jbjohns 13y ago
Do you have a blog or something where you talk how to get started? I think many of us want exactly this but haven't been able to pull it off yet. At least that's my case. I have about $30/mo passive income but it would tak
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by jbjohns 13y ago
Why are you so worried about "much bigger impact on society"? I like the quote from Star trek first contact: "don't try to be a great man, just be a man and let history decide".
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Maybe 20 years ago. Now those large corporations are likely to find a way to let you go sometime before retirement.
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by jbjohns 13y ago
That part isn't dangerous at all. The US would simply say no.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
>Perl comes out best according to Tom Christiansen It would be hard to find a more bias source.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
If someone is making a consulting agency that gets clients, deals with most of the risk, etc., then that is worth something to me and I'd be willing to take a less then I could get if I were doing the same work freelance. I'd give up, say
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by jbjohns 15y ago
I think you have me wrong as well. I'm not for making deteriorating 90-year-olds suffer in bed for another 10 years to bump some stats. I'm talking about eliminating aging and natural death. As things stand today, of course it doesn't mak
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by jbjohns 15y ago
>Do you actually believe America is a fascist country? If it were we wouldn't be having this conversation. But likewise, I don't think it's the greatest country on earth either (nor can I think of any way such a concept would be meanin
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by jbjohns 15y ago
>That's even worse. No rational person would risk their life in warfare if they otherwise stood to live forever. Think about what you're saying here. You think no one in Germany was rational? They would have had the same risk of dying
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by jbjohns 15y ago
I'm american myself. Please go read what pg has to say about ID.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
>Or somebody watching their third hour in a row of reality TV? Don't throw out the Einsteins because of people like this. People who throw their lives away will end up killing themselves anyway (e.g. through horrible eating habits, smo
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by jbjohns 15y ago
>Because one eventually realizes that your conclusion here is incorrect. You have constructed "meaning" as a very particular thing here. There are other ways to see meaning in the world. But what you're describing sees no meaning in any
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by jbjohns 15y ago
>I think in your scenario everyone lives through the evil dictator, including the dictator No, I'm talking about the elimination of aging and natural death. People would still be able to kill themselves and others.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
>It is really sad to see normally intelligent people go batshit crazy and start spewing nonsense. And nothing seems to make that happen faster than nationalism/patriotism.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
> see the new AirPort Utility Minor nit for those who don't know: The AirPort utility was not supposed to be dumbed down, this is simply a complete rewrite and they haven't ported all the functionality yet. Apple created a new version
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by jbjohns 15y ago
>The problem being it's hard to prevent people from hanging out for your 12 months of training, and then jumping ship to do their own thing afterward... It's pretty easy actually: pay them well.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
Personally I chose to ignore this point of view as it would imply that absolutely everything is completely without a point. What's the value in following such a line of thinking?
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by jbjohns 15y ago
If the people who lived through the first evil dictator were still around they'd recognized the signs of the next one.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
>So what if we had unlimited time? Would you pursue greatness and projects that take hundreds of years to complete? Absolutely. Being an idea guy I'm always coming up with new ideas. It's really depressing knowing that I just don't ha
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by jbjohns 15y ago
>Not only is death necessary for new generations Not necessarily. Look at the problems in the world. How many of them are because we've forgotten history? Every time I read something new in history I'm struck by how this has all happ
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by jbjohns 15y ago
I hate this view so much. How are we better off not having people like Tesla, Newton, Einstein, etc. anymore? They had to give way so we could have Dragonball Z and reality TV? The notion that we gain something by people dying is beyond
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by jbjohns 15y ago
Forget cost. The important question is quality. In cameras, extra megapixels can mean the sensor sites are so small that they have a harder time distinguishing electronic noise from actual light, leading to worse pictures. Likewise, what
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by jbjohns 15y ago
> Both need to be pleased, I disagree with this. Users are not customers, we are the product. Google need only be slightly better than the second best option. Now that they have such momentum in search I don't see any reason why they
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by jbjohns 15y ago
>Google has an incentive to be nice: they only make money and continue to exist if people use their products. So, the same motivation as big Pharm, Oracle and Monsanto, then? That incentive doesn't appear to work very well.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
Mark Zuckerberg?
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by jbjohns 15y ago
I disagree. The bigger the company gets the more influence it is likely to have on one or more states. Both corporations and governments are dangerous and should not be trusted with privileged information.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
People tend to expand out the work to match the time. If you have people working 10 hour days expect them to move really, really slowly. I've only seen 7 hour days once or twice but I didn't see any people "taking it easy" there.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
>The adult thing is to not be a child who thinks flipping the bird in his profile is something to be proud of. That's the adult thing for him to do. But the adult thing for the rest of us to do is mind our own business. If I start t

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