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by maxxxxx 7y ago
But you have more opportunities.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
From my observation I believe that a lot of educated and less educated people don’t really care if something is fake as long it confirms their opinions. They don’t want to let go of their “facts” although they know they are wrong.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think the problem is that if we can’t trust video then there is really nothing visual left we can trust. Until now you could at least trust video recordings to some degree. Not sure if that a good thing or not.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
All the apps I have seen have terrible search. In Google I can type in "xxx Street Burbank" and will get a result. In OSM I have to go through state, city, zip and know all that stuff. Much worse than google Maps.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That's a little like Planet Of the Apes where they find out that they are actually on Earth.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
You are the guy who warned about anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison, right? So true and so fun.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I still don’t understand why they implemented this but it works very well. I wish OSM maps had the same level of offline search and routing.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think is just another example where we got a short term benefit from breaking societal norms but may suffer long term. Strong family bonds can be very confining so it's often liberating to weaken them. But then you also lose that su
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Somehow I was thinking about Shaquille O’Neal as the unit :)
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
It’s a little easier to set direction if you don’t have to ask everybody. There is a reason why successful companies are basically dictatorships .
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think the baby boomer generation did a lot of damage by eroding social systems and piling up deficits. But the question is whether whoever follows will do any better.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
“We're basically waiting for the boomers to die off at this point, before being able to fix the shit they left behind.” Don’t rely on the next generation to be any better. The brightest and best of the new generation are busy selling a
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think that’s a pretty natural progression. A well run dictatorship is probably superior to a democracy in the short term so it’s always tempting to give up freedom in exchange for efficiency. The question is how long the dictatorship can
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
As far as I know these things are designed for scientific value and not for producing cool pictures for viewers. I am sure they are getting the best possible value for their budget with whatever they designed.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
You should be happy that they don’t measure it in “baseball fields” or something like that. That’s how usually things are reported.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"the whole humanity together becomes a superorganism that could be seen as thinking its own thoughts." And at this scale it's already impossible to comprehend the motives of this organism.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Rationally this is correct. But when you talk to people and all inner alarm bells go off it's really hard to stay relaxed. That's how it is for me. I know pretty well that people mostly don't think badly of me but the thought
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
But: " A filesystem may place limitations on the granularity of the operation, in order to ensure efficient implementation. Typically, offset and len must be a multiple of the filesystem logical block size, which
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Does the whole sector thing still make sense for SSDs? Do they still work by sector or can every byte be addressed directly?
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
It looks like this will zero out data but not remove.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
In the book 2001 they don’t need rockets anymore but travel directly through space. Rockets are primitive ....
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
This is actually an excellent strategy. Doing grunt work in the trenches is good for business but very bad for the worker.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Very true. That’s why I also think that you could easily classify an anthill as a single living being.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Totally agree. A career should be a constant mix between learning and working. But only a few get the chance to learn on the job and going to school while working on a job (and making needed money) is very hard.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I am sure there is an algorithm to split the problem into smaller parts until you can use your lookup table :). Just use it multiple times.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Don’t you sometimes get angry at people because they cause you so much stress? Although that stress is self inflicted. I do.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
“An alien thought for many on HN, I know.” My sense is that most people here would be happy with a secure and intellectually interesting life. I think the people who want to be billionaires don’t waste time posting here.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I am often very shy and I agree that it’s a big handicap. It’s just like any other anxiety that limits your life so there is nothing good about it. Being an introvert is another thing though. If you are alone because if your choice instead
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Not more or less than you within the constraints you live in.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I always think what the perspectives of a being that could live for millions of years and had the computing power and memory and sensors of all of Earths machines would be. I don’t think we could even comprehend the thoughts of this being.

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