nix-zarathustra

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by nix-zarathustra 15d ago
Technically not a Nobel prize since it wasn't one of the original that Nobel created, it was created much later.
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by nix-zarathustra 5mo ago
Flexible sprint durations defeats the purpose of sprints. One of the main selling points of sprints is having a fixed time period of work, allowing teams to better understand the amount of story points they can complete in a sprint. This wa
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by nix-zarathustra 6mo ago
>"There is a great deal of ruin in a nation." That is a quote by Adam Smith when one of his students lamented at the "ruin of the nation" when the American patriots had won their independence.
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by nix-zarathustra 7mo ago
>assuming, browsers are his thing IIRC he used to work on the Safari browser engine at Apple.
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by nix-zarathustra 8mo ago
Government would also effectively collapse because they would have significantly decreasing revenue with increasing obligations. The problem is that the elites will realize that they are better off if they cull excess humans. Any UBI or red
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by nix-zarathustra 8mo ago
I think the iPhone and the rise of the smartphones are what made the web popular.
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by nix-zarathustra 8mo ago
I don't think moral licensing is the correct term here. Moral licensing is when you justify doing something that is morally bad because you did something that was morally good. For example, if my wife spent the whole day cleaning, then
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by nix-zarathustra 8mo ago
I agree with this take. A lot of old boomers tell me how there was a lot of pressure to get married and have kids because it was the thing to do. Nowadays, there is less pressure for people to do that.
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by nix-zarathustra 8mo ago
Bill Gates has always been a lecher. He was a well known womanizer in his early Microsoft years and I believe he has cheated on Melinda a few times too. This behavior seems par for the course.
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by nix-zarathustra 9mo ago
What do you mean by "not so huge agricultural sector (Slovakia)"? I thought Slovakia had a more agrarian economy compared to the more industrialised Czechia.
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by nix-zarathustra 9mo ago
I don't think Europe is willing to go all out war over Greenland, especially with Russia pushing from the East.
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by nix-zarathustra 9mo ago
I disagree. This doesn't really change anything. It's not like China needed justification to invade Taiwan, they already do, nor it is not like China or Russia follows the rules based order, see South China Sea or Ukraine. From th
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by nix-zarathustra 10mo ago
RubyMine is free for non-commercial usage.
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by nix-zarathustra 10mo ago
That's foolish. If Russia wins in Ukraine, they would have the two strongest armies in Europe. European states simply don't have enough ordinances and gear to survive a long war.
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by nix-zarathustra 11mo ago
More AI blog slop
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by nix-zarathustra 1y ago
Trump is also "buddy-buddy" with a lot of the Gulf States, in fact, he probably likes them more because they have more money to give him. If Israel does something they don't like, such as bomb Qatar, Trump can swing against I
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by nix-zarathustra 1y ago
BlueSky is more a shopping mall than a public square: anyone can enter, but security can escort you out if you start causing an uproar.
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by nix-zarathustra 1y ago
You can be malicious and incompetent. The only reason we know about project mkultra was because parts of the project were misfiled in the wrong place and were stumbled upon by accident.
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by nix-zarathustra 1y ago
No, but it has a stutter.
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by nix-zarathustra 1y ago
>he came up with the laws of robotics and then cases on how they don't work. There are a few that I remember, one where a robot was lying because a bug in his brain gave him empathy and he didn't want to hurt humans. IIRC, none
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by nix-zarathustra 2y ago
> Food for thought why Egypt and Jordan refuse to ease the sufferring of Gazans by offering them temporary refugee statuses, until Hamas is eradicated and they could live in Gaza happily ever after. Historically, Palestinians have destab
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by nix-zarathustra 2y ago
The President is effectively Head of Government, since he can veto any bill (unless rare ocassion that congress overrules, but requires large majority). The President basically sets the agent for policy about what can get passed in congress
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by nix-zarathustra 2y ago
1. You've said that the UI system is tightly coupled with the text editor. What are the benefits to this? How difficult was it to use the UI system with sublime merge? 2. How are you able to maintain stability of the application? Do yo
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by nix-zarathustra 2y ago
>It's the language with the highest ratio of (useful work / LOC), so it's the least verbose language Why doesn't clojure fit the bill here?
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by nix-zarathustra 2y ago
A lot of the names of the pubs came from the depictions of highly recognisable objects (given that the population was illiterate) that they would use to attract customers.
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by nix-zarathustra 2y ago
The Roman Catholic Church is more of a country than an enterprise, given the Holy See.
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by nix-zarathustra 3y ago
Steve Jobs got fired from Apple, but was rehired 11 years later.
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by nix-zarathustra 3y ago
>Well, they are not sustainable, but Ireland no longer relies on them, so it's a moot point. Not true. Foreign companies are 80% of Irish corporation tax, 25% of Irish labour, 25 of top 50 Irish firms, and 57% of Irish value-add. &g
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by nix-zarathustra 3y ago
I'm pretty sure Yandex removed all borders was because the Russian government annexed territory but they hadn't clarified the territory borders that were annexed, so Yandex decided to be on the safe side and remove all borders to
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by nix-zarathustra 3y ago
My presumption is that government spending has drastically increased since then. There are so many more services that the government provides. If you look at government spending, healthcare and social security are the two biggest spenders,

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