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by jfk13 5y ago
> it's the top few percentile that you need to restrain, not the masses And how do you propose to "restrain" them, if not by enforcing a speed limit?
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by jfk13 5y ago
You're ignoring the fact that many people's perception of what is "a safe speed" is not at all reliable. (Compare: what percentage of people would claim to be better-than-average drivers? https://www.smithlawc
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by jfk13 5y ago
> all the problems it has ... can be solved. I'm not sure I see much reason to share your optimism about this.
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by jfk13 5y ago
I suspect many (most?) conversations in biographies and non-fiction books are not necessarily quoted verbatim. In most cases, the author may at best have had access to diaries or other notes from the time that recorded a summary of what was
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My wife used to have one day a week when a succession of music students would come to the house. She insists that on that specific day of the week her cats would line the front path with "offerings" for the expected visitors. Th
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by jfk13 5y ago
Interesting idea. What tax rate are you ready to pay? Oh, and who defines "needs one"?
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I wonder how humans survived for the first, oh, 99% or so of the time we've been on earth?
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Sure! Pre-pandemic, my company used to bring people together a couple of times a year, and I agree there was considerable value in it. But every 8 weeks? Maybe that team are all young, energetic, and family-free, but at my stage of life I w
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> We recently introduced doing some planning every 8 weeks; plan is fly to the home office, spend a week having those spontaneous in person conversations You plan to have everyone fly somewhere for a week, every 8 weeks?! Wow. Really gla
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> The automatically rolled out browser specific method described in this article is really directed at users that don't know this is even a choice... So it's intended to benefit 99.9% of everyday users, then, despite the risk t
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The amazing thing is that despite being a money pit, it still manages to deliver better overall value than the US "system".
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Discussion from a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30915923
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> Elon Musk is kind of obnoxious. He lies (or "exaggerates"). But what Tesla has done is insane. It's happened so quickly, and that's leaving aside the rockets. The hard evidence that we can build new things, that we
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by jfk13 5y ago
Alternative that seems at least equally likely to me: a student took them, either as a stupid dare/prank or with the thought that they could sell them; then realised they had no idea how to go about fencing such an item, and stashed th
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by jfk13 5y ago
That's not a misspelling (though it is a less-common variant). https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/147965/cipher-vs...
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by jfk13 5y ago
And why do people insist on assuming that the behavior of the worst companies is the standard that all companies necessarily follow?
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Seems like every time HR comes up here, someone says this stuff. It's really tiresome. I get that there are doubtless places where this is essentially true -- particularly, perhaps, in the US scene, given the overall culture there -- b
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by jfk13 5y ago
Used to be that shilling snake-oil (or penny stocks) to gullible citizens required you to spend significant time and effort (and money) to be present in person. And the reach of any given huckster was limited by the strength of their voice
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by jfk13 5y ago
So as usual, the cryptocurrency story here is that a few people may be finding an opportunity to make money, while it's acting as an overall negative for the society in general.
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The idea that ordinary people will (reliably, securely, safely) manage their own cryptocurrency holdings without using an exchange (or similar service) is ludicrous. This is blind techno-utopianism at its worst, and does nothing for hum
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It was "Windows Teletubbies" to us...
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I've done "pair programming" a few times, with (I think) great effectiveness, but (a) it's been in a very specific context, where we each brought substantial but not-fully-overlapping expertise to the task ( not pairing
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by jfk13 5y ago
Perhaps some contact involved was acting as a "cat's whisker" detector. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_detector
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Dyson headphones come with air vacuum for mouth(bbc.co.uk)
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by jfk13 5y ago
We get regular HN threads about "company X auto-terminated my account and there's no way to get a human involved". Is that really a better way to run society? Maybe local bank managers having connections to the local communit
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by jfk13 5y ago
Somewhat of an aside, but as a non-American, I find it quite weird that it seems to be common to pay rent with a monthly check. Every place I've rented, I've paid automatically by standing order. (Oh, except in a couple of third-w
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by jfk13 5y ago
Sounds like there's more than just an IoT hub built in: > "... the M8 also allows users to enjoy a variety of OTT services, including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and Apple TV via Wi-Fi without having to connect to a PC
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Via a web app.
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by jfk13 5y ago
I wonder what proportion of these "creators" will ever make a living through it. I bet the distribution of that $10 billion is hugely skewed towards a few.
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by jfk13 5y ago
For communism to actually work well, I think you first have to fix human nature. And if you could fix human nature, maybe capitalism would work out better too.

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