mamon

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by mamon 7y ago
There's really no such thing as pessimism. People can only be: - realistic - optimistic (a.k.a. delusional)
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by mamon 7y ago
Socratic method is supposed to be done in person, between professor and students, with professor choosing next question based on student's answers that typically reveal gaps in their knowledge. Doing it in form of made-up conversation
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by mamon 7y ago
Ok, so are you saying that there should be no student loans on humanities degrees? Because that's the logical conclusion of what you're saying here. Would it make sense for the government to make a list of fields where they do bac
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by mamon 7y ago
Accusation of "withholding taxes" is weird. Generally accepted standard is that income is taxed in a country that it originated. When Apple sells iPhones in EU through the EU-registered subsidiary, it pays taxes in EU, as it shoul
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by mamon 7y ago
English has additional advantage of being painfully simple logical, grammar-wise. There's only a handfull of grammar rules to learn, and they are pretty consistent, exceptions are quite rare. This helps to write clear and concise text,
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by mamon 7y ago
Is that the reason why it is advised against washing down pills with grapefruit juice? I know that it can cause overdose of the drug, but I'm not sure if it works by affecting those gut microbes or by blocking some digestive enzyme tha
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by mamon 7y ago
Limited liablity only works one way: individual cannot be personally liable for the debt of the corporation. But if you, the owner, are in debt then there's a simple solution for your creditor: seize your shares in said corporation (an
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by mamon 7y ago
Christian Bale dropping weight for a role in Machinist, only to gain the muscle back for the role in Batman [1] seems like a classic example of this effect. [1] https://www.menshealth.com/uk/fitness/lifestyle/
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by mamon 7y ago
America will not only send its soldiers to burn your country to the ground, years later they will also make a Hollywood movie about how bad those soldiers felt about it, and how much they suffered.
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by mamon 7y ago
And hard science, like mathematics or physics relies on teacher helping you get unstuck. Learning the same thing from books takes significantly more time.
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by mamon 7y ago
RE: snails, here's the official document listing them as "fishery product": https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32...
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by mamon 7y ago
The title is misleading. Dell did not launch it yet, it still says "Comming soon" on their website.
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by mamon 7y ago
This scepticism is itself a problem. There's a whole branch of philosophy that claims that the objective truth is impossible to know. With deepfakes that's even more true, and might drive a lot of people into despair and apathy.
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by mamon 7y ago
It is not even about technology being revolutionary, it's about where they competitive advantage lies. To put it bluntly: SpaceX and likes are technology companies. Uber and AirBnB are "law-bypassing as a service" companies.
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by mamon 7y ago
Uber or AirBnB apps are not some revolutionary tech, they are something CS undergraduate could write, that's why it is inaccurate to put them in the same category as Google (which does some serious ML research) or SpaceX (doing actual
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by mamon 7y ago
But they work pretty bad from their shareholders perspective since they generate loss on every ride. Even if they avoid all the legal landmines, they still might have to shut down for the simple reason of running out of money (and sharehold
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by mamon 7y ago
Looks great, but will that happen in our lifetime?
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by mamon 7y ago
>> It's important to note that while this person seems, you know, not very smart, the laws against unlicensed securities exist precisely to protect this kind of person from getting themselves in trouble. Which is counterproductiv
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by mamon 7y ago
It is funny like some programmers, especially from Lips/functional programming equate term "design patters" with GoF book and their list of 23 specific patterns, and then proudly declare that "Lisp does not have/nee
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by mamon 7y ago
Plus, people usually have a better memory that they give themselves credit for. With reasonably short random password (say, 10-12 chars, uppercase, lowercase, digits) that you use often, you will memorize it after a week, at which point you
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by mamon 7y ago
Not only that, enough time without food can free you of all the worries that are common to mere mortals :)
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by mamon 7y ago
Those mosquitoes are innocent, in fact they have the same right to live on this planet as humans. Stop this mosquitocide!
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by mamon 7y ago
This sounds exactly like how communist economy used to work in Poland before 1989: Governing communist party claimed to represent the common people, so we had government-mandated full employment - state-owned companies (the only kind there
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by mamon 7y ago
Little offtopic, but I disagree that Tesla's touch screen makes it look "futuristic". In fact lack of more traditional displays, knobs, etc. makes the car interior seem very empty, giving you impression of riding something th
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by mamon 7y ago
Big backbones are only needed for commercial traffic, like Netflix. If it comes to war, I think the first thing US government will do is it will force all ISPs to cut off private network connections in order to 1) save the bandwith 2) stop
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by mamon 7y ago
I think from the client point of view the advantage of having "full-stack" developers is that it saves you some trouble of team management. With more specialized team you need some fronted developers, some backend developers and a
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by mamon 7y ago
why would you need to synchronize those cameras at all? Let them start at random times. Light is supposed to go in one direction, so you can tell which picture were shot ealier by comparing how far the light beam is. Of course sorting billi
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by mamon 7y ago
At 11% interest rate you can still make a lot of profit. I don't think banks are restrictive on issuing them, basically anyone who is gainfully employed can get one.
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by mamon 7y ago
>> Let's say you put $400 on a CC that has 18% interest rate Wow, that's a hell of interest rate. In Poland there's regulatory law that caps interest rates for credit cards (and all types of consumer credits, really) at
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by mamon 7y ago
>> Bringing a lawsuit is not an option for the vast majority of people. Doesn't that mean that the whole justice system in US is broken? Courts of law exist for this very purpose, so that every citizen can fight for their rights,

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