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by maratd 11y ago
> The difference between a well rested brain and a sleep deprived one is night and day. When I don't get 8-9 hours of sleep, I code exactly the way OP described. Things that normally take an hour, take a full day because I can&#x2
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To make people feel good. Inflation means raises (even if productivity hasn't changed) and higher prices (shop keepers always love when prices go up, manufacturers increase revenue, etc.). Deflation means pay cuts (even if you didn&#x2
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> but the actual policies arose from public outrage in the 1980's and 1990's about the government being "soft on crime." Bad laws are quickly removed from the books. Unless someone is pocketing money. > Law enforce
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> What kind of sense does that make? Makes perfect sense when you have self-interested parties (law enforcement, for-profit prisons, prosecutors, etc.) who benefit from the volume. We made it profitable to criminalize people.
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To add to your point, they have done this before and are still doing it. There is no guarantee of continued service. http://recode.net/2015/03/18/amazon-will-shut-down-amazon-we...
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Yes, you get rid of devops. You gain vendor lock-in. You are now tied to the Amazon platform. If they shut down or suspend your account, for any reason, you are out of business. You are also paying premium for the platform, with the cost of
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> in debt, maybe kicked out of your place because you can't pay rent, I'd say that rather terrifying. There are two types of businesses out there. Those that make money from day 1 and simply need to be scaled up. Those that req
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> It is very hard to take risks when you are not financially secure There's a caveat here. It depends on your responsibilities. If you have children, fixed expenses, then absolutely. If you have nothing to your name and no responsib
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> Wouldn't parasites be a constant factor in the death rate? How do you explain an exponentially rising death rate? I don't think the death gene works that way. It doesn't just turn on and poof! you're dead at the exa
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Minor nitpick. They care about results, a reasonable approximation of costs, and most importantly, the delivery date. Those are the 3 points of negotiation. Or rather 2 points. If a client is asking you to compromise on quality to reduce co
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> Evolution needs death to work. Hence death is built-in. Yes, but life duration is an equation. The main component of that equation is parasite load. > Here's how I see it: if an organism arose which had this "death gene&qu
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For reference to the conversation above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Declaration A declaration was made and unconditional surrender requested. The Japanese were warned that they would face complete destructio
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> There's plenty of apps out there written in PHP. Yes, there are. I didn't say there weren't. I think PHP is great, relax. In my professional experience, however, I don't see people start a codebase from scratch in P
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PHP today is overwhelmingly being used to augment/modify: > Wordpress, drupal, magento, phabricator, mediawiki, sugarcrm... Very few apps are built from scratch using PHP unless the intention is to share the application code like wo
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If a person is faced with a choice of ending ongoing bloodshed at a cost of participating in that bloodshed ... then it is a coward and a despicable man who doesn't act. Those who were a part of that mission acted with the intention of
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> but also that it could be accurately targeted I think it was more to prove that it wasn't a one-off ... that it was repeatable and could be used as many times as is necessary. But that too.
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> All new evidence points to the fact that the Japanese were thinking of surrendering and that the Americans new it, before the bombs were dropped. What new evidence? This doesn't even make sense. There were fighting until the last
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By your logic, it would be an even smarter use of tuition funds not to turn those funds into tuition for the sake of a worthless piece of paper. I happen to agree, but that's a different conversation.
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First, read over your post. You capitalize "Socialism" everywhere, but seem to purposefully lowercase capitalism. If you are so attached to ideology, rather than the results those ideologies bring, we can't have a serious con
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> Reading Lenin's letters in the Lenin museum in Tampere was very eye opening and educational. Since when is Lenin an authority on communism? He was a thug, same as Stalin. > cottage industries (local farmers and makers etc) exis
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Communism is state ownership of all property. The parent gave the proper definition of socialism. It is the state ownership of the means of production. Europe is not socialist. There were various attempts, but the means of production is sti
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> Capitalism at it's finest. The race to the bottom will eventually What are you going on about? If capitalism is a race to the bottom, we would have reached it a long time ago. Capitalism isn't new. It's been around for a
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You would be quite a few generations away from the originating event. Here, they're studying the very next generation. Obviously the effect wears out over time or we would all have these markers ... somewhere at some point, all of our
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> Evolutionary pressure has adapted us to an outdoor agrarian life. If that was the case, you would still be poking some rock with a stick covered in mud growing some wheat instead of typing on a keyboard, talking to somebody over the in
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> Being able to edit out the bits for hemophilia, Downs Syndrome, Parkinson's, or <the genetic disorder you're familiar with here>? Don't misunderstand, I'm totally for this. In the cases you mention we have a p
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> This is the next step of our species evolution. The ethical problem isn't necessarily with the individual or even the family. Genetic engineering isn't so simple. Genes frequently have multiple functions. You might edit a few
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> Lack of good relationships with the people you work with will put you at risk when the team or your manager are under stress. Bingo. If you just communicate in text, you don't have a relationship. You're just another fish in
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> You absolutely need to set yourself up for success. I have a home office in the basement, and it is _the_ office, not another room. This is the most important piece of advice. You need to have a space that is for work and for work only
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> One thing with the beverages is that if you choose to not drink them, you will most likely be the weird one in most social situations. Why are you so preoccupied with what people think about you? Just get a glass of water. If they ask,
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You have again failed to offer an alternative. If you are incapable of it, then eugenics was the right word to use, regardless of your sensibilities. It was not my intention to offend, but to accurately identify. If you have a better word f

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