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by meric 10y ago
The "communist country" has a capitalist economy. The "free country" has total electronic surveillance. The "federation" is run like an empire in a dictator-like fashion. And north korea, the "democratic r
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by meric 10y ago
I just take a shorter lunch and do the nap on my desk.
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by meric 10y ago
They are both very egoistic and unsuitable as presidents. One of them has a strong history of deliberate action fanning the flames of war which has led to the current refugee situation in Europe, notwithstanding the hundreds of thousands ki
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by meric 10y ago
I got some really bad looks in my office building when some people overheard me telling a colleague I rather Clinton lose than Trump lose, due to her preference for fighting wars. One person looked at me like if they could kill me, he would
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by meric 10y ago
>> But its the right thing to do, to increase the standard of living for the most vulnerable among us. Minimum wage decreases the standard of living for the most vulnerable. i.e. physically or mentally disabled persons, people who ha
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by meric 10y ago
Political power is concentrated among a small group of people. This happened because of centralisation of and amalgamation governments and corporations. To reverse it, logically you'd just have to reverse this trend. Break up the EU. B
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by meric 10y ago
I think he meant something really advanced like an ear piece that can directly connect your mind to the Internet. One wouldn't even need to look at a browser for search results. Think of a programming question, and you get the answer w
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by meric 10y ago
I think I mixed up Snowden and Assange when I wrote that late last night. Sorry HN.
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by meric 10y ago
No, Snowden is not a U.S. citizen. He has not be charged with a crime in the U.S.
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by meric 10y ago
Hey, if you like it, stick with them till they fail to pay you the last month's pay check. Then at the end of it all you can all go to a bar and cry together about the whole thing. I think the experience would be invaluable to you as a
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by meric 10y ago
I'd use separate libraries rather than monolithic frameworks. By the time you finished there'd be good chance the framework will be abandoned or have a huge backwards-incompatible update or two. With separate libraries you can swa
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by meric 10y ago
I have not started a startup: 1. $1,000 / month / person sounds sufficient, living with family. 2. I think paying off the loans are good idea, since the loans carry interest. 3. Your username is "trynabootstrap". What wo
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by meric 10y ago
Yeah, it sounds a bit extreme - but the point is once we're let go of everything, we get a clear idea of what needs doing, and what we need to leave behind. Last time I did it I figured out what I wanted to do in two days. The table&#x
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by meric 10y ago
Quit. Screw programming. Screw being a tech lead. Screw managing products. Screw moving the needle. Screw trying to be competent and/or being effective. Screw trying to figure out how to continue working. Screw retirement. Screw findin
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by meric 10y ago
Yes! If it's worth it to build planes, it's worth it to build a carrier, and if a carrier is going to be built, there's no point unless there are planes also. Planes and carriers go hand in hand.
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by meric 10y ago
Aircraft carriers require planes on them. A Ford-class aircraft carrier can carry 75 planes.
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by meric 10y ago
You could try implement monads in an OO language.
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by meric 10y ago
I like Michael O'Church. His comments are always interesting and insightful. The world is full of people doing bad things all the time, you and I included. I think he could write in a way that don't insinuate people who do bad thi
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by meric 10y ago
If we better understand how other species on Earth communicate, dolphins, elephants, other primates, and they show interest in our technology, and finally they build their own radios suitable for their own use, will that be enough to show y
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by meric 10y ago
Some of us think there are good people, who have rights, and bad people, who deserve to have rights taken from them. Some of us think there are people with power we need to impress and then there are people without power we can take from th
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by meric 10y ago
I live in Australia where Filipinos and Chinese work in 'Cheap jobs' paying $19 an hour, the standard minimum wage. The government busted a chain of convenience stores for under paying people on student visas who worked more than
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by meric 10y ago
The only times I read about Gaza is when Israel had just invaded it, pictures of dead bodies and bombed out buildings. Having never seen any description of what it's like inside, reading its name brings up thoughts of suffering and sad
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by meric 10y ago
Unfortunately 2 days now. I appreciate the time to settlement because I could buy my shares and pay 2 days later. Sometimes it takes time to get funds from other accounts, and I wanted to buy (or sell) today, for example, when the quarterly
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by meric 10y ago
Wow, that explains everything so perfectly. I am a Sublime user. Your comment has moved me to register my copy now. (I'm serious!)
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by meric 10y ago
Yes, you might have a big argument with your siblings, be very angry at them, and if they still got into a car crash you're still going to be at the hospital with them. There may be political differences but we're all human beings
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by meric 10y ago
I think that shows the expensive cost of automobile infrastructure. The city couldn't get the tunnels and roads built, people were stuck in the city and they had no solution. In the end they resorted to painting car lanes as bike lanes
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by meric 10y ago
Let's not violate the laws of physics and go back to the fundamental laws of nature. We know: 1. Entropy is always increasing. 2. Life is negative entropy gatherer. (It decreases it's own entropy by increasing the entropy of its s
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by meric 10y ago
We're all p-zombies. When we get poked with toothpicks we will scream in agony, the thought of being poked with toothpicks will appear internally, and we will in turn react to that thought, the reaction based on our upbringing. We have
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by meric 10y ago
A pair of conjoined twins can read each other's thoughts and see through each other's eyes. Are they two people, or one? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331769/Doctors-stun... A person has left
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by meric 10y ago
I have no idea what harbourmasters and oil traders do. But pretend harbourmasters look at maps and use the radio a lot, and oil traders like to look at positions of oil tankers, and charts of oil futures prices, a Yahoo Oil Messenger that l

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