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by kirse 10y ago
the core feature of their jobs is their own economic exploitation. Ugh, I know, being "economically exploited" is so rough -- making six figs in a top-tier profession with low single-digit unemployment that provides for a home&#
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You're like the auto mechanic I talked to that was bemoaning this generation and how automotive tech has basically "stayed the same" since the 50s... "MacPherson struts, you ever heard of those boy!? Yeah - invented in
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Having used all sorts of Amazon automation programs, that's pretty hilarious if someone actually used AZ to counterfeit their own goods. Like printing more 3D Printers with a 3D Printing service or something. It's pretty cool th
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It clearly costs different people differently, in terms of mental energy and willpower. Comparatively speaking, we are all wimps anyway. A Kenyan elite marathoner can run my old mile PR twenty-six times over. An elite powerlifter reps o
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Some people simply don't understand that other people hate exercise. It is extremely unpleasant for me. I'm going to let you in on a little secret: If done at a proper relative intensity, everyone finds exercise extremely unplea
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I'm pretty sure they just took the Bing Maps "Bird's Eye view" concept and then applied their existing Google Earth 3D-mapping tech to it. Most of what was exclusively in Earth years ago has been slowly integrated into
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The interested question is what the humans are doing that lets us solve the problem so rapidly. The need for strategy is eliminated with tactically perfect play... Since computers are not yet to the point of having "solved" ches
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So what are the expected benefits of a bitcoin ETF? The expected benefit is that the Winklevoss twins can now cash-out the $11m+ of Bitcoins [1] on the backs of public sucke-... I mean investors. There's not really any other immediat
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Pick up some F# and use FAKE / Paket? I'm not sure I'd call Maven a "godsend" though, it has its own class of annoyances. http://fsharp.github.io/FAKE/ https://fsprojects.github.io&
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This was an old Runner's World article that I remember on this topic... Lot of great infographics and speculation: http://rw.runnersworld.com/sub-2/ As much as it would be nice to see a sub2 done as a team-effort
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This is where Wikipedia really fails. It makes a statement with huge implications, like: A century of research by archaeologists and Egyptologists has found no evidence which can be directly related to the Exodus captivity and the escape
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Yea I realized after my lament that is probably the case, we have reached "peak smartphone" until the super-flexible screens can become a reality... Maybe then we'll see the return of the physical keyboard and cool things lik
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Why does every phone these days come out looking like the standard rounded-corners slate? Have companies stopped innovating on phone design anymore... are rounded-corners superior for deflecting drops or something? I yearn for the days whe
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"The Overhauling of Straight America" seems to be eye-poppingly accurate on first read because one can easily trace back the past 10-20 years and identify events that fit much of what was written... However I think I'd labe
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There's a new F# project out there to utilize ASP.NET Core, which has got Kestrel under the hood. I just discovered it and have yet to do any performance testing, but I'd imagine it's pretty in-line with C# results. https:&
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Functional ASP.NET Core using F#(dusted.codes)
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languages that used brackets looked like voodoo to me at the time Hah, exact same here. I started with VB5/6 and it was so much easier to build a graphical Windows app than using scary C++ MFC. In VB6 you could just drag your &quot
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Dr. James expects John Henryism can now be seen across Western democracies, wherever people are inculcated with a Protestant sense of personal responsibility and belief in self-reliance. This is garbage. What actually is the source of al
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Just because some dudes in suits or some bureaucracy academic had not talked about it yet Well, as you know, things aren't true or factual until Science™ has confirmed it as such with a statistically significant quadruple-blind place
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Learning a second language once you're past 20 is hard. I don't buy this, at least in terms of kids "learn faster". Adults have the benefit of both motivation and 20 (or more) years of communication experience, same as
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I started to read TFaS awhile back and quickly got bored of it, because the conclusion was very obvious and needed no more explanation beyond the $1.10 example provided early on. It became quite obvious that it's hopelessly impossible
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for me is a symptom that he simply can't finish it alone It's tough to be a finisher, in just about anything. The Bible calls the concept of finishing "perseverance". So whether it is running a race, a personal proje
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It's not that huge of a win, roughly 9-10 of that extra 13 percent is spent in the bathroom. Study finds relaxing on the throne decreases mortality?
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However, the Saudis will soon raise the price of fuel to exorbitant levels They don't have that much control. The US would increase fracking / shale ops and bring the cost of oil back down. We have incredibly massive oil reser
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all the super-annoying gimmicky animations (rippling text inputs, wiggly text, excessively stretch-and-squashing motion) I like to call this trend "Flanders Computing" -- where developers and designers increasingly create obnoxi
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they'll happily enter lines where their pawn structures are shattered... Makes you wonder if computers will essentially ruin all the novelty of innovating and discovering new tricks/strategies in age-old games. No more will gen
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Neither of those things is required for evolutionary processes to occur. "Evolution works like a Yahtzee dice game minus all the Yahtzee rules"... How does that make sense? "Chess works like checkers except you remove all t
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But if you start throwing the dice and you keep all the sixes you get along the way, Yahtzee-style, we expect you'll have 20 sixes in about 25-30 throws. But this scenario has the implicit assumption of a deterministic outcome (all 6
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if they decide they're done being the US's manufacturing state? What you're suggesting is essentially reverse-sanctions, and that would be a foolish move. The economic "essentials" based on innate human needs are
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They were passed to me as a "here, I've got this person who needs work." It's not so much that I wasn't open to it as I generally just assumed finding semi-clones of myself (passionate about all-things computing, s

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