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by mamon 8y ago
This is the MacBook Pro's touchbar done right :)
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by mamon 8y ago
Now I know why Intel has named its latest mainstream processor i7-8086 :)
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by mamon 8y ago
So China has redefined CEO to mean: "Chief Executable Officer" :)
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by mamon 8y ago
Why not abolish Title IX completely? College students are adults, so the most serious (and possibly violent) sexual offences can be prosecuted according to criminal law, and the rest is just something two adults should be able to figure out
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by mamon 8y ago
They are not graphics card - no video outputs (HDMI,DisplayPort) and they have no SLI support. So for gaming the best you can get is Titan V
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by mamon 8y ago
>> the children belong to society That's the dangerous way of thinking that we should avoid. Children belong to their parents, until they come out of age when they start "belonging" only to themselves. Seeing children a
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by mamon 8y ago
Alternative approach by USA today: add and tracking free site for EU users :) https://eu.usatoday.com/EU-learn-more/
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by mamon 8y ago
The problem with that approach is that market cycles serve important purpose: they faciliate best allocation of our resources by ensuring that inefficient companies will go bankrupt. Smoothing those cycles out enables poorly managed compani
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by mamon 8y ago
Or to buy a shredder.
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by mamon 8y ago
Good advice, even if it's common knowledge, is usually unpopular, because people want quick fixes, advice that does not require any effort on their part.
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by mamon 8y ago
There’s a joke that lectures are how professors are doing spaced repetition of their basic knowledge :-) It also gives them the opportunity to advertise the books they’ve written
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by mamon 8y ago
Lectures as a form of teaching made sense at the time when they were first introduced: the Middle Ages. That was before printing press was invented, books were rare and expensive items so the students would gather in a big hall and the prof
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by mamon 8y ago
>> Pretty sure murder was punished with death, as one example. Depends on social classes of the murderer and the victim. If peasant killed a noble it was punishable by death. And sometimes they would also torture said peasant before k
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by mamon 8y ago
>> I have to give away the keys to my account (routing & checking number) in order to transact with my checking account. What a strange country you live in! :) I do a lot of payments and I had to google what a routing or checking
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by mamon 8y ago
That isn't requirement for most people. Furthermore, ordinary people consider "government influence" a good thing, because they trust their government more than some random piece of technology such as Bitcoin.
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by mamon 8y ago
My conclusion about cryptocurrncies is: they can never take over traditional payments. People want payment methods to be: - secure - fast - cheap While traditional payments do relatively well on all three accounts Bitcoin cannot. Yes, we mi
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by mamon 8y ago
I hope I can live long enough to see the rehabilitation method that prevents recidivism in statistically significant number of cases, especially for violent crimes like murder or rape. I think that rehabilitation is something we can try on
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by mamon 8y ago
Not GP but I think that the point is that the whole "corporate culture" is mostly bullshit - you wouldn't expect factory or farm workers to form a "culture" and "take pride in their work" or "share co
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by mamon 8y ago
Making up for slow hdd speeds was kind of the major reason Hadoop was invented: if you spread your data around 100 of slow disks and then run MapReduce job that reads from all 100 of them simultaneously then you effectively get 100x read sp
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by mamon 8y ago
Do such earphones cancel just background noise (like street traffic) or are they also effective against human speech? I ask, because the kind of noise I'm most interested in cancelling is my coworker's chit-chat.
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by mamon 8y ago
Any value of UBI higher than 0 creates positive feedback loop: 1. government announces UBI 2. retailers, in anticipation of higher demand raise prices. 3. UBI beneficiaries see that they cannot buy as many goods as they want/need so th
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by mamon 8y ago
In my country I've seen it mostly as a charity before Christmas: some teenage volunteers would ask you if you want them to pack your groceries, expecting a small donation in return.
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by mamon 8y ago
This approach comes with hidden cost of adding unnecessary complexity. Think about B2 bomber design: it looks like some "artist" wanted to recreate a Batplane, or other sci-fi spacecraft and then it took a lot of engineering effor
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by mamon 8y ago
>> in football/soccer the Fifa World Cup is considered more prestigious than the Olympics That has nothing to do with number of viewers though. It is just a dirty trick from FIFA to eliminate competition: national teams in Olympi
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by mamon 8y ago
If you think that Bitcoin transactions are anonymous then you are grossly mistaken. All transactions are part of PUBLIC ledger and are there to stay forever. The illusion of anonimity comes from thr fact that you don’t need an ID to create
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by mamon 9y ago
GDPR is about protecting human rights. My personal info staying safe is non-negotiable prerequisite, and your 3-person startup making money is totally optional. If you are unable to comply to GDPR then you shouldn’t be allowed to touch othe
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by mamon 9y ago
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if Purism itself was a secret NSA division :) That would be the smartest way for them to target specifically the people that are actively trying to avoid being spied (so, logically, they have something
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by mamon 9y ago
Wait until you hear how BTC transactions are taxed in Poland: they are subject to a 1% tax on civil law transactions (TCTL). The worst part isn't that you pay 1% on transactions where you lost money. The worst part is that you are supp
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by mamon 9y ago
Are we suddenly living in some alternate universe where former Google engineers have any trouble finding a new job? They are after all top 1% (of the top 1% :) of the talent pool. So what you say might make sense for smaller/less respe
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by mamon 9y ago
If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent" - Dijkstra

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