mamon

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811.
by mamon 9y ago
By leaving MS Windows out of the equation you've just ignored 90% of computer sales worldwide...
812.
by mamon 9y ago
Also, metaprogramming is no longer exclusive to Lisp, other languages are adding advanced features all the time, so there's fewer reasons to move to Lisp.
813.
by mamon 9y ago
It is quite obvious that living organisms are not build to last - we are supposed to live just long enough to produce and raise some offsprings.
814.
by mamon 9y ago
Doesn't VPN make things WORSE for you ? When you start using it you create a single log of all your internet activity that is outside of your control. What if your VPN provider gets hacked (and they make much more valuable target for h
815.
by mamon 9y ago
Serious institutions, like banks or VCs usually want your financial history for at least a year back, so no, two months won't cut it.
816.
by mamon 9y ago
TL;DR: democracy is „full” when elections are won by politicians The Economist supports, and „flawed” otherwise.
817.
by mamon 9y ago
Accounting and stuff costs you around 40$ per month, so that's negligible. Gym membership? that's maybe another 40$. Not to mention that you get tax credit for those, and other business-related expenses. Pension plans are all gove
818.
by mamon 9y ago
At least with literature you can reasonably expect that each participant had it as high school topic, so some knowledge about literature was forced down on them. With football it's more binary: you either are interested in it, or not,
819.
by mamon 9y ago
I'm not sure which post-communist countries you're talking about, but at least in my country virtually every job offer gives you a choice: full time employment or self-employment contract with daily rate. And for your employer&#x2
820.
by mamon 9y ago
Ok, so Musk is basically doing the job of the Chinese companies of the past: producing cheaper copy of other people's inventions. And yet, some call him "visionary" or "genius" :)
821.
by mamon 9y ago
Space rockets are 1960s technology, so I think we entered that era 50 years ago.
822.
by mamon 9y ago
The whole reason for apologies is emotional: person who was hurt feels a relief knowing that the offender understands their mistake, regrets it and intents to avoid similar behaviour in future. Offender feels a little better knowing that th
823.
by mamon 9y ago
>> both sides want a positive outcome (which shouldn't be surprising at all) Well, it is suprising to me. In my country, when there is some audit by government agency, be it tax office, or stock market regulators the usual appro
824.
by mamon 9y ago
I thought that those insane transaction fees and processing times were due to technical decision to use too small block size, and to hashing algorithm used. But I'm no expert on technical side of Blockchain so I might be wrong about th
825.
by mamon 9y ago
>> I have had fully meaningful (if not exactly deeply philosophical) conversations Any conversation can easily become "philosophical" when Google Translate messes up and inserts random garbage instead of intended meaning, an
826.
by mamon 9y ago
>> Bitcoin isn't really attempting to fulfill the currency use-case anymore ... because it failed miserably at it, due to technical limitations. Now we hear a story about "digital gold", but you know what that story rea
827.
by mamon 9y ago
It is exactly the same way in Poland - second set of pedals for the instructor. You are supposed to do your whole course and exam in such an adapted car.
828.
by mamon 9y ago
Previous drops of Bitcoin price were pretty random. Current drop is fueled by events such as governments passing, or at least considering, regulations that would make Bitcoin illegal. That's why this time it won't be so easy to bo
829.
by mamon 9y ago
How about "eleven"? :)
830.
by mamon 9y ago
>> well... you can write a patent that is so obfuscated that the public cannot learn from it... In such case the patent office should reject your patent claim as patent laws usually require that the description of the invention being
831.
by mamon 9y ago
It was worth it before the Ryzen premiered. Now all the current and future profits are already incorporated in market price. Currently, you stand a better chance of earning money if you short the AMD stocks. The old "buy the rumor, sel
832.
by mamon 9y ago
What is the domain of your PhD? If it's computer science or mathematics then you might find that ML class on Coursera too easy, way below your level of competence.
833.
by mamon 9y ago
Espionage might have been the official charge against Pilecki, yes. But Soviets used that as an excuse to kill pretty much everyone they didn’t like so I wouldn’t take that charge too seriously. And how can they view Pilecki as a spy when h
834.
by mamon 9y ago
Actually, it is pretty well documented that Germans forestalled Soviet offensive by just few weeks, maybe months. Red Army’s initial misfortunes after Germany’s attack in 1941 were caused by the fact that all the troops they had in proximit
835.
by mamon 9y ago
You're probably just a troll, but for sake of the others reading this: Pilecki was the officer of Polish Home Army, which was a branch of Polish Underground State - which in turn was basically the pre-war Polish government, with its t
836.
by mamon 9y ago
So Polish Resistance soldiers who so bravely fought Nazis are considered "foreign spies"? That's basically what Soviets were doing in Poland: arresting all the members of Polish Home Army [1] they could find and sentencing th
837.
by mamon 9y ago
Dresden only stands out due to relatively short time in which all the destruction was done - it was just a few nights of heavy bombing. If you compare overall damage then Dresden had less than 50% of its building destroyed, while Warsaw had
838.
by mamon 9y ago
We are kind of lucky that Moore's law does not apply anymore and computers are not getting much faster these days. It might be that such mass surveillance will never become possible, or at least will remain too expensive even for US go
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by mamon 9y ago
But what if smart kettles would became so popular that regular kettles would not be produced anymore? How would you replace it then? Or, more importantly: how about "smart" lightbulbs, door locks, refridgerators? Those are much ha
840.
by mamon 9y ago
I don't think that suicide (logicaly following from "not propagate its genes further") is an actual objective of depression. It is probably more about forcing an individual to think their problem through - that's what yo

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