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by mmjaa 7y ago
Greta was the subject of the OP I originally responded to. I think she is relevant, since she is the #1 figurehead for climate change responsibility at the moment. Anyway, I hear your point about Germany, but .. so? We can't go bac
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by mmjaa 7y ago
"Okay, the climate is burning .. but can we please calm down and stop throwing water on the guys starting the fires .." - doesn't seem like a very productive response. I think, also, you have to temper your hatred of Greta
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Who is shutting down discussion? As far as I can see, Greta is promoting more and more discourse than there ever was before..
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by mmjaa 7y ago
You might change your ways. If enough of us do that, we might have a chance to survive. Currently the ship is sinking - do you want to pull out a deck chair and behave as if everything is just fine, sipping on cocktails while the sharks f
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Perhaps you ought to be afraid. Massive climate change is going to disrupt everything we take for granted today.
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by mmjaa 7y ago
I had the realization yesterday while waiting for a train that the Notes app on iOS contains all the functionality I'd need in order to be able to build a small organization/business .. as long as I standardized my form of note-ta
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by mmjaa 7y ago
He did all that. The judge decided he needed to pay child support anyway. The rights of the child were greater than that of my friend. Anyway, he fought back and is now a very dedicated father. He has visitation rights, and soon enough t
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by mmjaa 7y ago
He did go to court. She lied and said she got pregnant by him when they were dating.
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by mmjaa 7y ago
My friend didn't lie. The reason he is liable is because he dated her, a fact she kept evidence of, in order to present at the alimony hearing. The judge assumed this was enough to prove his responsibility for the child she then conc
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Here in Vienna, it works great. Its often quite amusing to me, as I ride a slow moped - about horse speed - and get passed by irate drivers all the time. However, I ride that green wave, while they are constantly stopping/starting at
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Why should he care? Because there is clearly a lack of regulation over the sperm-donor industry. It is extremely dangerous for men to make these deposits. A friend of mine made a deposit in a sperm donor bank prior to getting a vasectomy
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Why should Iran be sanctioned while Saudi Arabia isn't? This double-standard is precisely why people don't trust the USA any more.
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by mmjaa 7y ago
I was once in the hackrrspace in Pristina, Kosovo, where ingenuity and DIY-culture reign supreme.. the group has a beer-brewing project, which turns out to be quite popular, and as a result the freshly brewed batches don't last long. S
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Another great way to learn 6502 computing: get a retro-computer back up and running. I have a suite of Oric-1/Atmos machines that are in use for precisely this purpose. Its wonderful to return to a simpler era of tooling and methodolo
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Nice! Yeah .. I've found as I've aged, I really need scenery somewhere, scrolling by in the background, if I try to travel-work. I guess I get claustrophobic without it ..
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Just look at history, its very clear: safe spaces are unsustainable. The petroleum-economy is a safe space, and its rapidly killing us all.
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by mmjaa 7y ago
There's nothing more inherently 'trustworthy' in HN than there is in Fark. What there is, is a downvote button and an understanding that, if someone says something 'unpopular to the community', the community will d
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Love these trains ..
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by mmjaa 7y ago
I've taken similar train rides as you describe, albeit all over Europe. Trains are a delightful way to travel - and as well, get some good work done. Some of my happiest code was written while castles and rivers and villages scrolled
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by mmjaa 7y ago
We have well and truly defined cake. I mean, words have meaning don't they? Or, if not, then what's the fucking point?
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Until we can define intelligence, we cannot create artificial intelligence. We still do not know what intelligence actually is - bloviating academics clambering for subsidies to support their habits, notwithstanding.
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by mmjaa 7y ago
I completely concur. I've been programming since I was a teenager, practically grew up with computers, and I'm 50 now. I'm still just as productive as I was in my 20's, but now I've got decades more experience than
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by mmjaa 7y ago
In those days, having a clocking mechanism which produced consistent time - i.e. a monotonic clock - was of quite high value. On boot up, it was typical to ask the user what time it was, and continue with the program. But then how do you m
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Wow, congratulations. I was 11 years old when I read this article, and many others like it. I learned to hack in a shop called Computerland, in Perth, WA. Immediately after school, I'd march through the heat from school down and into
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by mmjaa 7y ago
My first (and best) 8-bit machine cost me $400, but I had to literally drive across the nullabor to get it (Perth->Melbourne). I suppose the fuel costs could have been put into a full-blown Apple system, but then I wouldn't have dr
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by mmjaa 7y ago
No, the Apple was expensive, and you still had to wire up this cheap junk to get a working clock. He's literally taking the piss out of Apple, because it was expensive even then .
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by mmjaa 7y ago
This is why I never work in a technical capacity where I am being 'managed' by lawyers and other non-technically competent means of business org. I truly do believe, as do you, that the TOS and Warranty world is another desperate
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by mmjaa 7y ago
I build software systems which integrate a software front-end app with hardware, and I don't think I agree with the supposition that using an app to set up hardware is a negative. Its just that I think that an app/hardware integra
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by mmjaa 7y ago
>a lot more than just a clock, it's a cheap way of doing a lot of expensive things, right in line with Apple tradition. Ah, for the Apple of 1981.
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by mmjaa 7y ago
I have been a regular visitor to the USA, and lived there for some time in between, and seen it over most of my life as a visitor. A time period of 45 years, almost. Whenever I'm 'back in Cali', one of my favourite places to

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