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by mamon 6y ago
Somewhat related example: requiring unanimity in parliament is what drove Poland to it's fall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto
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by mamon 7y ago
Even the user that cares can sometimes forget to do it. With Apple solution you'll never forget to switch microphone off, but on the downside, you now have to trust Apple.
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by mamon 7y ago
Are you arguing grammar? Or is it about how those deaths are counted? I heard that some countries will not put COVID-19 as the cause of death if the patient had some other serious condition, like coronary disease, for example. If Italy is d
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by mamon 7y ago
Not to mention that airplaines usually have TWO pilots onboard, so one can use touch screens while the other watches the sky ahead. Cars, on the other hand, have just one person in driver's seat.
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by mamon 7y ago
Solving global warming, overpopulation and income inequality, all at once!
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by mamon 7y ago
Billionares say things like that all the time but that's just for publicity. Truth is, if he really wanted to be taxed more, he could. There's no need to change any laws for that. His Berkshire Hathaway is already claiming a lot o
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by mamon 7y ago
Thunderbolt 3 ports are multipurpose: disks, external GPU's,etc. Just because you have 3 of them does not mean you should plug in a monitor to each one. And if you really need 4 screens that eGPU will probably handle it.
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by mamon 7y ago
Addition of LiDAR seems consistent with my theory that Apple is actualy a branch of NSA: * first they put fingerprint scanner in the home button, so they could collect fingerprints of all their users. * then they put FaceID, so now they hav
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by mamon 7y ago
>> Personal finance and monetary policy are not similar even though they both involve money. That's what central banks want you to believe: that what they are doing is something special, "God's work" - as some drun
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by mamon 7y ago
>> "Test everyone!" To what end? You don't need to test people in order to know if they need an ICU. The ICUs are not full - and you don't need more testing to tell you that. The main benefit to more testing would
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by mamon 7y ago
>> For example a CEO that buys another company, the result of which is hitting a milestone that triggers a big bonus for them but saddles the company with a bunch of debt and expense that drags down its productivity. That is bad. Vers
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by mamon 7y ago
>> They are providing short-term loans If I want to give my friend a loan, I need to earn that money first by working hard. FED does not conduct any profitable activity that would earn them any money, they DO PRINT that money from th
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by mamon 7y ago
what if we add: "with one's feet firmly on the ground and legs bent at knee at more or less right angle?"
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by mamon 7y ago
It seems reasonable at first: if you weren't able to spend all the money you've got that means you've got too much of them. But you're right, that does create the incentive to needlesly spend. Also, it is not limited to
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by mamon 7y ago
You know what would the "middle ground" solution be? Government buying masks at those spike prices to give them away for free to people who need them. This way you get all the benefits: everyone gets a mask when they need one and
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by mamon 7y ago
Yeah, right, government intervention and totalitarian control is the solution to all social problems... I very much prefer the free market solution of rising prices.
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by mamon 7y ago
It doesn't really matter how much he owed, and for what reason. Believe it or not, my country has a poll stations even in prisons and psychiatric hospitals, because every citizen has a right to vote. EDIT: no, not babies. Every citizen
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by mamon 7y ago
For now. But the very fact that the code compiles and does it's basic tasks is already an achievement.
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by mamon 7y ago
You cannot really predict that. Number theory was once considered "pure mathematics" in a sense that one could not even imagine practical applications for checking if a number is a prime or not. And then someone invented cryptogra
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by mamon 7y ago
Smart, nerdy people tend to spend a lot of time alone with books/computers/hobbies, so they simply do not spend enough time with other people to properly develop their social skills.
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by mamon 7y ago
How will that automation verify that certificate is issued to the legal owner of the web site and not a hacker? Are the challenges used by Let's Encrypt secure? For me, automating certificate issuance will lead to less and less verific
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by mamon 7y ago
As Mark Twain once said: "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
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by mamon 7y ago
Isn't that kind of the point of open-sourcing your internal tools? You don't want to be bothered with maintenance and support, so you're hoping that some anonymous volounteers will do that for you :)
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by mamon 7y ago
Getting started with Kubernetes took me one evening spent reading the docs. I see this "Kubernetes is complicated", "Kubernetes is overkill", "You should not use Kubernetes" posts on HN every now and then and I
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by mamon 7y ago
U.S. government just has much better PR, thanks to Hollywood, but it isn’t that much better than Chinese one.
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by mamon 7y ago
That every Git commit would take few hours and cost you transaction fee in Bitcoins.
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by mamon 7y ago
>> withholding fruits of labor from worker How much of the worker output actually is his personal accomplishment, and how much is synergy effect coming from the fact that the employer gave them tools, materials, support of other work
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by mamon 7y ago
Progress also means that we can use resources more efficiently, e.g. by recycling them. By limiting progress (and growth) you're also making resource use less eficient, so that we'll run out of them faster.
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by mamon 7y ago
This is understandeable: Both AI and corporations are psychopaths - they have no emotions to get in the way of rational thinking, with ultimate goal of maximizing their personal gain. Question remains: how do we teach AI empathy ?
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by mamon 7y ago
Not confuses, just gives fuller picture - the whole deal between old and new EU members was: open up your markets, and we'll give you access to our "cohesion funds" from EU budget. Now you can see who won and who lost on this

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