jonnypotty

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by jonnypotty 7y ago
The sun doesn't only rise and set once a year at the north Pole! Is this a joke? Edit: -3 for correct science. Good work HN
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Loads of my friends deal with stress by actively confronting it and none like numbing themselves..weird. Its almost like they chose amphetamines cos raving on herion doesn't really work.
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"It doesn't make sense?" A "much better health care system"? I encorange you to think what,would happen in a scenario where airborne ebola is burning through the world at the same time as most of our antibiotics sta
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by jonnypotty 7y ago
If you killed yourself at 10 you could avoid the difficult teenage years too.
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You would have been better off writting that in rust
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Pretty light? You're generous. Glad hn was here to fill in the gaps. Lol.
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Is bird song music or just a guy sat on a fence shouting at all the other guys to fuck off out of his yard?
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by jonnypotty 7y ago
I feel like you are using the word transend to suggest this very thing - that impirical data will reflect our political and cultural aspirations. We belive our children and our technology are both blank slates onto which we can pile our hop
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by jonnypotty 7y ago
I "learnt" java from youtube and got a job doing it. Took me 2 years of experience to realise what low quality materials I had been using. Number of youtube views is ZERO indicator of quality. I had been mislead and held back in w
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The boundry between informed and uninformed decisions becomes blurred doesn't it. Very interesting.
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Teach AI using our behaviour, AI learns our behaviour. A bit like our children. I'm genuinely confused as to the alternative. The objection seems to be based on the falasy that technological progress equals social or political "pr
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Doesn't typescript complile to std js?
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Priorities!
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Come on my man, you can see why it's a big deal. Maybe one day it won't be, but today it is.
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by jonnypotty 7y ago
Watched an aljazira documentary about falling standards at a Boeing factory a couple of years ago and been waiting to see if something like this would happen. Now they're gonna sacrifice a lamb, keep same corporate struture and philos
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Anywhere you are unable to leave is a prison.
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This commentator is appealing to the idea that existential threats basically aren't real because they aren't measurable. Look: measurement a,b,c,d all show things are improving. So this is the truth. It's one point of view. T
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by jonnypotty 7y ago
Its fine because we're good and we get more money and Ethos are just simply good guys so that's good and nice so I voted "Yay" and now things are better because my organisation can keep me in a good job doing basically n
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In a world where everyone seems to think solutions to problems are always about manipulating the way people think and feel it's very hard to trust mainstream discourse.
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>most founders bring experts on-board You have way too much faith my friend. How does bringing an authentication and security expert into your organization make you more money? It doesn't. What people like this tell you change is al
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I agree - and you're probably right but I think we should hold ourselves to the same standards of evidence we expect of others.
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I find your certainty regarding the reasons we have increasing incidents of cancer to seriously detract from your previous points.
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Wherever my boss thinks of first
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by jonnypotty 7y ago
In my opinion it's about keeping your priorities straight. That dispatcher had been given a script and told that they had to get people to answer a certain set of questions. The dispatcher had decided that people who called had to conf
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by jonnypotty 7y ago
Really like that last paragraph, toally agree. I'm not sure I agree about the clear progress on reduction of greenhouse gases thou. Expanding consumerism and population in a carbon economy would seem to preclude this. Can you explain y