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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I've seen projects where there was a perverse inversion of this principle... after winning a relatively nebulous contract, our own PM would say "We can do that." without consulting the developers... surprise surprise, ended u
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I tried to get my friends who use WhatsApp to switch to Signal during the big Delete Facebook movement... I got a lot of pushback. It did not happen. :(
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
For computer scientists, the SICP is comparable to the Bible.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
GP was saying _if_ you removed the salt from what was previously a sausage, it would crumble.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
It's hard to tell, isn't it...
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/brainwashing I'm going to go with: No.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
The problem is confusing. You are looking out on different sides of the graveyard, so you know there is no overlap in statues, and the caretaker informs you that the total number of statues is either 18 or 20. So you know your friend can on
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
>the overwhelming majority of people currently on the internet are completely unaware Generally just this.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
It was really easy to be an egalitarian before social media caught on in a big way... Now more and more elections are going the way of populism and truth has taken a back seat. I currently try to employ mitigation methods 2.3 and 2.4. If yo
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I'll see that and raise you a playground.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
It's not "just something that happened 20 years ago" it's "pretty much everything they've done over the past 20 years"... I think skeptics are just (and rightfully so) waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I enjoy it each time I come back across it. :)
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
You're off by at least 2 orders of magnitude. You don't need to measure your annual income in the dozens-of-millions to be "financially independent".
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Source?
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I know non-technical people who, when they think they are hearing anything remotely technical, seem to shut down and go into "I don't know technical stuff!" mode... Not that flashcards are going to cure _that_.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I'm not sure what the connection was, exactly, but this story talking about coyotes and raccoons in finance gave me an epiphany of understanding about Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Well, blatantly lying in the very first meeting / discussions is a huge red flag... If they were so knowledgeable / likable, why the ruse? Why all the extra effort to create a fake past?
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I feel like this issue, and others like it, cannot be thrown in people's faces enough. People need to get angry to affect change. If we want our industry to take privacy seriously, we need people to take a principled stand. Making them
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
As a millennial, I can proudly say that I never cut the cord, because I never even signed up.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Why??
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I'd argue that "incel" is a specialized label, just like "antifa". If you identify as an "incel", that's a more loaded point than just saying you are "involuntarily celibate". Similarly, you
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Huge new Facebook data leak exposed intimate details of 3m users(newscientist.com)
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Screeps does that, and it doesn't have "classes" per se, but modular bodies... so you can look at an enemy and see that they have some HEAL body parts, so you know they are a healer. You can even calculate how much healing pe
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
What a great game. I really should get back into it...
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I die inside. But any suggestion of "mincome" or the like is met with such a harsh reaction... What, effectively, is the difference between goon-bloom and mincome? Is it just that one is too obviously a subsidy?
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Keynes was a little more direct: "The government should pay people to dig holes in the ground and then fill them up."
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I suppose you are more likely to die from exercise than from brain cancer... but I think it's also true that you're much more likely to die from lack of exercise than from exercising.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
The list was "common argument by American's against the Canadian system", so why would they argue what you are saying?
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
The list was "common argument by American's against the Canadian system", so why would they argue what you are saying?
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
You forgot: 3. Canadians pay for their health care in tax, anyways. (However: https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0411/do-canadian... )

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