krisgee

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by krisgee 7y ago
>There's also a fighting culture in North American professional hockey which would be destroyed by mandatory full face protection. Having grown up playing hockey in a pretty rough league that's not true. You just hook your hand
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by krisgee 7y ago
>Based on my experience, nothing quite kills the joy for exploration and learning like school. I thought I hated Math till I got to university. I had to take a bunch of remedial courses on high school level math but ultimately ended up w
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by krisgee 7y ago
Final Fantasy 4 and Stairway to Heaven are inextricably linked in my mind for a similar reason.
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by krisgee 7y ago
We'll have another "piracy epidemic" where streaming services have hysterics and try to ban piracy. This will predictably not work as it hasn't the last few times. Someone will make purchasing content easy again and ever
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by krisgee 7y ago
I replaced Messenger Lite with Disa which is a (when's the last time you heard this) multi-protocol instant messenger platform. Works pretty well for those of my friend who can't get off messenger.
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by krisgee 7y ago
>It's hard to believe that a one-year suspension in modern times would stand, but resolving it would be messy. It'd be a pretty much immediate constitutional crisis but I don't doubt at all that it'd end up with the h
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by krisgee 7y ago
>But it can't be as simple as that. If a prime minister asked the Queen to suspend parliament for a year, she wouldn't approve it. It is actually though. We had a similar situation in Canada a few years back where the PM prorog
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by krisgee 7y ago
Universal Postal Union is a UN body that manages the relationships between different national post offices. They set standard rates and stuff for all member countries so that each country doesn't have to negotiate a treaty with any oth
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by krisgee 7y ago
They don't. The biggest thing people on HN tend not to realize is that they aren't the target market for this kind of stuff. Alerts drive engagement, otherwise devs wouldn't waste the time to put them in. Same with ads and an
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by krisgee 8y ago
The third party reddit apps are a lot better. I prefer Reddit Is Fun on Android but I know there are several good options besides that on both mobile platforms.
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by krisgee 8y ago
I'd argue politics has probably always been just as corrupt, if not more corrupt than it is now. We just know about it because they found out that when exposed the average person just doesn't care.
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by krisgee 8y ago
Firstly as pointed out in other comments they were measuring income. People at higher incomes in the 80s were probably more likely to retire early or "on time". A more representative number would be wealth which I would imagine is
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by krisgee 8y ago
I've had good experiences with my SJCam alongside my GoPro and I know they have a Session sized/shaped format. You could try those out.
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by krisgee 9y ago
Really good story. I didn't really agree with the eco-primitivistic moral when I read it but I finished it all the same which should say something about how fundamentally good it is.
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by krisgee 10y ago
I posted in a sibling comment to this one about how this argument reminds me of one that happened in hockey. Specifically I claimed that one of the big reasons that possession became more prized is because of Hockey Canada changing their de
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by krisgee 10y ago
Not really up on Football (soccer) but this reminds me of the puck possession vs dump and chase zone entry debate from hockey. For a lot of reasons (up to and including global geo-politics) North American teams for a long, long time over-em
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by krisgee 10y ago
>you can use equipment that will make it easier for you, but then others might not feel as impressed. Put another way if do something in a non-orthodox way (free ascent w/o oxygen) that might be MORE impressive than a traditional as
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by krisgee 10y ago
>and have it only be valid if you or the computer can prove that it meets that specification (and have the specification be complete and correct of course Hasn't this just moved all the issues with writing code over to writing the s
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by krisgee 10y ago
Sort of except instead of one person being responsible for each of their plots all of the plots are tended by a small number of farmers with electronic assistance.
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by krisgee 10y ago
> i.e planting crop x and y in rotation, or interrow with crops a and b. I think this will be the real win of this technology eventually. Most if not all first world farmers understand that over the lifetime of their farm doing proper cr
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by krisgee 11y ago
To make it clear we're on the surface of the sphere, not inside it. I misunderstood this analogy for a long time.
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by krisgee 12y ago
>It's interesting to note that we're expected to lose our minds over the first human death with New Technology Y, when Old Technology X is typically killing humans all the time. Exactly, call me when they're killing 1.2 mi
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by krisgee 12y ago
>Is the USA likely to go to war against anyone with sophisticated weaponry any time soon? A military is like a parachute. It seems pretty useless until you need it.
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by krisgee 12y ago
Could you share any examples? I'm really interested in this.
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by krisgee 12y ago
They're real time, that's the whole point of demos.
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by krisgee 12y ago
Another boring black square. I want someone to innovate on the Moto 360 already.
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by krisgee 12y ago
In the context of the thought problem it works 100% of the time.
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by krisgee 12y ago
As a complete outsides I don't see why anyone would be surprised, going to the doctor is quite often an expression of powerlessness, you have no idea and no control over what is going on in your own body and you need this powerful se
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by krisgee 12y ago
To be fair there are lots of "snack food" articles around these days but few three course meals. I try to appreciate the long form articles that I find interesting for what they are.
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by krisgee 12y ago
Yes and as a person in a culture with technology comparable to ours it seems like, miners for instance would be pretty ticked off if they were falling into old pits of unmarked radioactive waste all the time.

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