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by m0nty 11y ago
I'm a bit reluctant to post this, because nobody here is going to be able to fix your situation for you, but a few thoughts. As someone pushing 50 this year, if I had your freedom to just do anything, I'd be off in a heartbeat. Of
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by m0nty 11y ago
So they've jumped the shark anyway? Kind of hard for me to judge, because all I ever get is a blank gray page when I try to look at their articles.
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by m0nty 11y ago
I can do without Forbes. The problem with saying "switch off adblocker or no article" is that so many people are using adblockers, that those websites face an inevitable decline in influence if they continue that way. Because, des
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by m0nty 11y ago
I prefer reading the "new" stories more than the front page. For convenience, I also have this running on my Linux box: rsstail -l -i 600 -u https://news.ycombinator.com/rss | tee --append ycombinator-rss.txt So I
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by m0nty 11y ago
> surprisingly tiny number of active editors Nothing surprising about it, given the arcane rules and the likelihood of being told to "f--- off" if you try to edit an article someone has camped out on. Gave up trying to contribu
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by m0nty 11y ago
We all get tricked by the "useless use of cat" thing occasionally :)
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NSFW tag would help.
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by m0nty 11y ago
> ad-blocking isn't about being privacy conscious There are two kinds of readers in this world: those who can read with a bunch of gyrating monkeys, dancing squirrels or flashing crap in the sidebar, and those who can't. I&#x27
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by m0nty 11y ago
I think people are excited about this because it seems to mesh so closely to the Trolley Problem, which has been an important thought experiment in the study of ethics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem (Th
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by m0nty 11y ago
> Anyone who looks at self-driving cars from an engineering perspective know that there are still many challenges. I'm not an engineer but (having started as an optimist about autonomous vehicles) I detect the whiff of vapor-ware ab
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by m0nty 11y ago
> Actually there are several other "facts" that author states that I disagree with Well, you could perhaps do as the article does, and state what your arguments are, and put some facts and figures to them. In particular, if you
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by m0nty 11y ago
Another issue is, would people board a fully-automated plane? Similarly, it seems many people see self-driving cars as a solution that other people should use, but they are, themselves, the competent drivers who don't need that kind
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by m0nty 11y ago
> As software is so cheap to duplicate, why can't all cars be self-driving? Given the magnitude of traffic deaths, why can't all cars just be self-driving immediately? I'm still feeling surprised by the number of intellige
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by m0nty 11y ago
> Self-driving cars are not a silver bullet for congestion If only we had self-driving cars. Everyone talks about them as if they are a done thing, but they're still under development and it seems there are still huge problems to ov
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by m0nty 11y ago
I think Schneier's (and my) mistake was assuming people know to value their passwords. It's getting bad when the Head of IT, however, is one of those sticking the password to his desk :(
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by m0nty 11y ago
> We're all good at securing small pieces of paper. Not true, as it turns out. I created passwords for my users and put them on a laminated card as a courtesy, with instructions to keep it in their wallet, purse, etc. They were turn
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by m0nty 11y ago
> In May, we launched Google Photos as the home for all your photos and videos. ... In an effort to ensure everyone has the best photos experience we can deliver, on August 1st we’ll start to shut down Google+ Photos I just don't tr
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by m0nty 11y ago
> Data on helmet use in all jurisdictions were available from the 2009/2010 CCHS via the following questions: "In the past 12 months, have you done any bicycling?" and if yes, "When riding a bicycle, how often do you
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by m0nty 11y ago
> more than eight out of ten admitted using an ad blocker As if we should feel guilty about it.
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by m0nty 11y ago
Where I work it seems to be a bit of a cargo cult, rather than an ethos of actively solving problems. We do standup meetings because sit-down ones wouldn't work. We use post-it notes on whiteboards because just writing on the whiteboar
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by m0nty 11y ago
I clicked out as soon as that blue rectangle completely obscured my view of the page, which I was already struggling to read anyway (not just because of the contrast - it was a very listy article). Why do so many publishers think a popup is
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by m0nty 11y ago
> to get rid of them again is really obnoxious I've recently taking to switching off Javascript for just this reason. The Chrome extension "Quick Javascript Switcher" does it on a site-by-site basis. No more interstitials,
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by m0nty 11y ago
> The clock is altered by adding and removing old coins from its pendulum to change the rate at which it swings. British engineering at its finest. I understand they have a stock of discontinued six-pences and ha'pennies which weigh
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by m0nty 11y ago
Thanks for this - I've been working my way through it, and it's fascinating, far more so than I would have imagined.
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by m0nty 11y ago
I missed the joke :( Hills are more rewarding, I suppose because they end and you get to come down them for almost no effort. There's that other joke about getting a headwind on the outward journey, which is still a headwind when you c
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by m0nty 11y ago
> "cyclists understand gravity, but not wind resistance" I can assure you that cyclists very much do understand wind resistance.
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by m0nty 11y ago
I can sometimes get 20 minutes at work but there are few private places where this is possible. I got a 10 minute nap once and woke to find two very concerned people wondering if I'd had a heart attack or something! If you haven't
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by m0nty 11y ago
I got five hours last night, I'm grateful. I try to hide it from others but that's tricky when you can't stay awake at your desk :-}
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by m0nty 11y ago
I share that frustration. Also the assumption that increasing sleep time by 10% would be helpful - 10% of zero is still zero. My last marathon of chronic insomnia was 96 hours without sleep. Not being restless in bed, but just not sleeping
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by m0nty 11y ago
Let's face it, studios liked sex scenes because they were low-cost and (for many people) compelling. Often the most boring and irrelevant part of the movie, though. Conversely, I am struck by how much really unpleasant violence there i

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