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by loopz 5y ago
Lab-leak was always a possibility, but remains unlikely when the pandemic virus is so unlike the lab viruses themselves. If this research was tolerated and condoned, then what agenda is pushing for throwing good people under the bus? This r
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In many social democratic countries citizens will only pay a small fixed fee for necessary operations. For private bills, or if your travel-insurance doesn't cover medical bills in other countries, you could still get stuck with a heft
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You ask to rely on evidence, and then quote a Twitter post. It's true journalists often get things wrong. Anybody who has been part of something newsworthy, will learn that what is written is hard to recognize after the fact. Reporting
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The graph in the middle of this page shows for last 2k years. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-temperature-graph-18... It's not like we didn't get any warnings or didn't see it coming.
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Those are classic! Of course every department and unit within departments, need their own set of such documents, all following their own standards and competing for attention. Prod is down becomes a sanctuary, compared to the politics and s
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It's especially funny when projects and tasks have already been allocated, managers find they need something to do. So they make up long lists of "extra special" tasks and further distribute those while people are neck-deep i
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It's just the idea behind Test Driven Development, that tests drive development. It won't be very effective as a handover, though could be used as acceptance criterias if that is needed. The adherents really want tests to be the s
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The output of TDD is not the tests themselves, but the process of designing beforehand what is expected behaviour using up-front tests. The tests then acts as a guide to later development of code. Both should be adjusted during the discover
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Building software for the one developer vs building software for the company and customers ( company first because they will support the customers). What went wrong with agility is that it turned into Agile, a concept sold by consultants t
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Law of Cost Centers: The output of complex organisation will, given time, become delineated arbitrarily between cost centers. Attempts to meet in the middle will have to deal with asymptotic costs, inevitably overshooting diminishing gains
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It's just too easy to troll people online these days. No fun anymore when they just do it to themselves anyway. There's a time and place for all speech. It needs the correct setting, and this is nothing new. That you can use algor
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This is the classical squeeze of the employees, between management and vendors, neither of which have incentives for improvements of software due to costs. So it is in many cases up to each customer to discover all bugs, and often even spec
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The key is what is the right question: The right question is not wether it's more expensive to fix bugs in production or earlier. The key question is: Who bears the brunt of the cost of fixing bugs at one stage and another? This is
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Not to mention warming and acidication of the oceans: https://www.quora.com/When-will-the-world-s-oceans-lose-thei... https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-co... https:/&
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Do you speak respectfully when you speak to others, and can you respect others while you speak to them? The problem might be in how you speak, what words and phrasings you choose, rather than the contents of opinions and perspectives. A stu
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It's not about you. But about what each person in the mob projects out into the world. When enough people would be insincere themselves, no matter what you say, they just can't believe your sincerity. Mobs are mindless and proje
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It must not be Aikido you practice then. Anyway, people will downvote posts that break the HN guidelines (read the link on bottom).
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Quite funny to see all posts about love being transformational going ignored. What's the better option? Well-thought out arguments? These people will piss on your discourse and rile up the mob against you with their own sins ! They li
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IMHO people take all the garbage written online too seriously and personal at times. It's mostly all just opinions and random rants. People's opinions do change at times. It's just not very visible to anyone.
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Where there are witch-trials, there will be those in power who seek to manipulate the mob, for their own personal gains over everyone else's detriment.
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Turns out ocean warming and acidication is already happening: https://www.quora.com/When-will-the-world-s-oceans-lose-thei... https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-co... https
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by loopz 5y ago
This is exactly right. Producers get hyper-optimized on change, while users want either no change , or obvious improvements. Majority of incentives and goals of producers rarely align with every individual user. In this regard, I find Linu
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The point is to stabilize and calm the body-mind-spirit complex, a harmony which is called yoga. Taking drugs, even alchohol, stresses the body and mind, and may distort and cloud the spirit. This work against yoga / equanimity /
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I wouldn't take an online post as credible source of anything. Whatever people say in posts may often be bragging or arrogance, or at least exhaggeration or situational. For example the point about understanding all of this, when you r
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Of course, different traditions will have different meditation techniques of varying lengths. There are many, and best to follow one path where people don't experiment too much on you and themselves. That the same techniques have been
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A lil' bit of both actually!
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From the article: > "I spent my last day in Los Angeles riding on a Segway, buying legal marijuana and staring at some turtles in an on-campus pond at UCLA. I was unsettled yet intrigued by Britton’s message. Some of the adverse exp
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That's quite an accusation though. Have you even looked for the information you seek yourself, or do you expect to be spoonfed the information that you currently feel you are missing?
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Maybe part of the problem is this: People read paper as paper, something somebody clearly has written. We know that it was printed in 1980 and full of flaws compared to today's knowledge, but maybe also some insights. Online material w
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Sorry, I misunderstood the question then. This article goes a bit into it, so might be an interesting lead: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151130-how-hot-could-the-ea... Since Earth is not like Venus now, this w

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