jernfrost

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by jernfrost 8y ago
When we hear the word "owner" we associate that with full ownership, as if you own a car, house or whatever and take care of it and use it. This kind of ownership is much closer to lending money to someone. While they are technica
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Really? What makes you conclude that? Elon Musk is kind of like Steve Jobs and Wozniak molded into one person. Musk has deeper technical knowledge than Jobs ever had while he also has some of Jobs intuition about design and products.
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You talk of a subset. A lot of casual games on iOS a very good: Cut the rope, Angry Birds, Bad Piggies, Simple Rockets. Civilization for iPad was very good. I can't remember all the stuff I've played but a lot of games are not the
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Tailored to their hardware, more modern and is written in Objective-C which makes it much easier for Mac developers to integrate in their projects, since Objective-C interface nicely with Swift and most script languages.
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Does it matter anymore? People are using less and less of the higher level stuff of OpenGL. Most of the graphics code is now in the engine. OpenGL is getting very outdated, who starting a project today would chose it over Vulcan, Directx or
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"Okay, but truck driving is a job. You don't do it for fun or as a hobby. " I knew a software developer who purposefully became a truck driver because he enjoyed it. That was long time ago when conditions might have been bett
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How is "just raise wages" more simplistic than "just lower taxes?" Somebody has to foot the bill no matter what you do. Do you think tax cuts are free? They are no less free than wage increases. When you cut taxes somebo
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Yeah I see this a lot. Like in the US they seem to go after individual doctors for mistakes. In Norway it is more the hospital which gets punished. Also economical compensation for medical error is something you apply to the government to g
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I’d also like to add the social democrat view of welfare as practiced in nordic countries. We try to avoid the American solution of a huge patchwork of small individual programs. Instead we prefer broad non-means tested rights. The reason i
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But a solution that works isn’t worth it, if the abusers don’t get punished and humiliated for their moral failings. /s
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The opioid crisis is an outcome of out of controll capitalism in the US. It was drug companies and doctors through sheer greed who made it happen. This crisis has not happened in other western countries were money isn’t in full controll of
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I can respect that we have different views on how to reach the same goal, however I take issue with the conservative propensity to judge people. All too frequently conservatives rate people with some sort of failing as lesser people. There
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In Norway, we tend to follow a non-aggressive approach to prison and despite much higher standards than say in the US, the cost per prisoner isn't significantly higher. Prison guards in Norway are essentially university educated social
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Sitting on the other side of an interview, I was so annoyed with the guy I was doing the interview with because he insisted on these algorithm challenges. I told him these tasks are bullshit, because the job we do doesn't involve codin
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Fake news is what got Hitler into power. The fake news Hitler banned was the “fake” according to the same standard as Trump: news he didn’t like. This issue is not as cut and dry as you think. As Theo van Gogh said: a tolerant society can n
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In Norway the media has an ethics organization they vuluntarily join, which may make rulings on whether a news organization has abused their power or not. It doesn’t carry any actual punishment to my knowledge but it is a public embarrasmen
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Fake news is what got us dictatorships like Nazi Germany. Spreading lies about socialists and jews was how they gained votes. In fact the nazis did just like the fox and the trump crowd today and labeled all mainstream news fake. I don’t th
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I turned 40 this year. It is definitely a time you start thinking about your past and the future ahead of you. I think about health problems you can develop, like bad back, bad knees, obesity etc. My dad was very slim and fit in his 30s, bu
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I am Norwegian and I believe we also have problems with loneliness in Scandinavia, but perhaps not this severe. While living in the US I did in fact feel very lonely. It was easy to make lots of friends, but most friendships felt fairly sha
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I thought Panasonic only made the cells and that tesla assembles the batteries, cooling system, electric drive train etc.
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Something has to change. Hollywood movies are just so receipt oriented. I kind of like super hero stuff, but I hate most of the super hero movies coming out. I loved kick-ass, and I think the various super hero series on Netflix such as Jes
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I wonder what happens when China becomes more environmentally friendly than the US. What sort of excuses will the Trump crow come up with then? Usually whatever is done in Europe is ignored in the US, with the reason that China is so much w
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In practice however democracy doesn't work in the US. The system allows a duopoly of two parties which have long ago been bought by corporate interests. You actually need laws in a democracy to prevent government from being taken over
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Yes which is why efficient public transport start with city planning. American cities are not built for public transport. They are built for cars. You need to redesign American cities. The most obvious thing to change is zoning laws. Reside
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Partly agree. It is fine when it puts low demands on you. It is much harder to get people to do the right thing when it is a significant burden. It is also a question of habit and social norms. A lot of what we claim is internal moral value
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Agree, that is why one should advocate taxation and subsidies which promote green lifestyles rather than moralizing and pestering people. Just make it economic to be environmentally friendly. Now I don't drive but I use public transpor
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It doesn't make sense to compare Tesla to other car companies that way. The others have much higher volumes to spread costs on and they have been doing this stuff for over 100 years. That means the basics of car manufacturing has alrea
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Nothing in the car industry was EVER revolutionary. Cars have naturally progressed from earlier related technologies. In fact I would claim most technologies are like that. Hence to call something revolutionary, it makes most sense to talk
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That is belittling SpaceX accomplishments. They were told by all the "big boys" in the rocket industry that what they were doing could not be done. Nobody had landed a rocket that way before SpaceX and Blue Origin did it. There is
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Yeah I also read about how American car factories used super sophisticated and expensive computer system back in the 80-90s only to realize that the Japanese accomplished the same with just people and some cleverly placed sticker symbols. I

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