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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"I don't know why this is even a mystery: These people want to win, and they will do everything, including get as legitimately good as they can, AND cheat if they can get away with it." That's a good point. Top athletes
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
As far as I remember the dev tools for Windows Phone weren't free back then. I think this was another reason why a lot of hobbyists didn't touch Windows Phone.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I am inclined to think of an ant hill as a living being. In that context they show a lot of clever behavior. A single ant is not very smart though but the same applies to parts of my body. Without the other parts they don't get much do
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
We have the same problem in Southern CA. I also find the cleanest way to get rid of them is to get rid of the food source. This can be a dead fly or a piece of dog food. Remove it and the area is clean within a few hours. In the summer it&#
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think the problem now is that some programs make improvements but the OS is stagnating. With Windows 95 the OS provided all the widgets like toolbars, menus and help system so most applications were pretty consistent. The first break was
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Agreed. There is this call for term limits but think it would have the opposite effect of what people want. If politics is not a long term career then politicians need to be either independently wealthy or keep a foot in the industry they
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think it’s not just nostalgia. Windows 95 was a huge step for MS and introduced most of the UI elements that we are still using now. Since then I have trouble seeing any fundamental improvements in newer Windows versions. I’d be happy to
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think you are overthinking this way too much. A right to roam would have no impact on road building or other public projects.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
When I was in Scotland two years this was a breath of fresh air and “freedom”. In the US there are lots of areas where it’s really hard to hike because people close off their land completely. Or they mark the land as private and now you hav
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
In Malibu they also try to close access to the beach with fake security guards and signs.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
So you end up with most of the land being a private park for the rich inaccessible for the rest.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
At least we should have a law that people can pass through that land like they have in Scotland.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I don't think so. You cant steer a parachute well and you don't want some bypasser to get hit by a heavy battery on a parachute. The descent speed on a parachute is very high so it will hurt or more.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Agreed. How we can create laws. Weh also can't roll back the capability of people to steal things or kill each other so we have laws. For example I strongly believe that face recognition in public spaces should be outlawed with maybe a
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I am all for GDPR. I am not sure if GDPR will stop the trend towards surveillance though.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I was just thinking about something autonomous. Basically a battery with wings. That way you don't need a plane with pilot.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That's the thing: A few people in government and private companies will have full information about citizenry whilst at the same fiercely protecting their own secrets.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"You don't have to know if you don't use implicit type-casting. Make it explicit and you won't really have to worry about it. " Correct. Unfortunately a lot of people use implicit casting a lot and have no idea tha
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Once you work with several languages it’s really hard to keep track of all this stuff. I never know what exactly evaluates to true vs false in PHP or JavaScript for example. Add to that sloppy programmers on your team who don't check t
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
How about a battery that can glide by itself? You attach a big battery for the launch and once you are up you disconnect and it glides back to the airfield. That should be possible today technically. Not sure how safety would work.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Stuff like this is what drives me crazy when I work with dynamic languages like JS or PHP. I have seen a lot of code that looked perfectly fine but suffered from unexpected casts or defaults. I much prefer languages like C#, C++ or TypeScri
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
A lot of people are uncomfortable with mass surveillance but there seems to be an unstoppable wave to implement it. Same with climate change. A lot of people want to do “something” but there s no will to really change things so we will just
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That the path of pretty much all mature industries. They got big because they did something novel but once they reach the top they have to spend all their energy defending their position and can’t/don’t want to do anything innovative.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
You have stated no arguments.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
It connects negative traits to a group of which some have that trait and many don't. It's stereotyping.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"But this behavior stems from toxic masculinity. The culture of overwork in Japan has been predominantly a male phenomenon which is why Karoshi tends to occur among men." It stems from overambitious people who don't care for
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
True! "Proprietary Phase Fresnel technology" on the 500 PF. It looks very different though.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
the logic of your argument was " Wealth redistribution doesn't work and never has.". there wasn't much subtlety in that. Are you saying that Western societies don't work and never have worked?
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
So we are trying to get rid of stereotypes by using stereotypes?
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"Masculinity isn't an unchangeable trait though." I am masculine. Can't change it unless I take hormones. I can wear a dress but that doesn't change anything.

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