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by noonespecial 7y ago
>For starters, the dough preparation, sauce making and baking — the real art of pizza — is left in the capable, five-fingered hands of people. So all of the stuff that actually takes time is still manual. All this thing does is throw dow
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by noonespecial 7y ago
>Hacker News generally considers itself liberal but actually holds very conservative views... I'm not sure that's entirely true. We're(1) a bunch of programmers. We are very sensitive to unintended consequences in complex
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by noonespecial 7y ago
So what then? A few thousand humanoids would have picked berries for a few dozen thousand years until the next ELE wiped them out and be gone? That's better how? We've got exactly one planet's worth of resources to consume in
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by noonespecial 7y ago
If you ALAN you can't KISS. You won't know what the simplest thing is. You'll end up with miles of nested "ifs" instead of 4 lines of recursion. A gazillion "else ifs" instead of case etc. He's got on
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by noonespecial 7y ago
Yes but with fusion there is a zero. Warp drive etc is just walking away from the table. We put our bets on everything that might help, long shots included.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I once sold a car to a man for $500 more than my initial asking price because he made me mad with ridiculous haggling. I thought it would make him just go away. He produced the money instantly. I've always wondered about that...
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I always thought that "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." quote attributed to Richelieu was hyperbole (and so not likely to be an actual qu
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by noonespecial 7y ago
>If you're going to travel the world many times, learn to sail and favor trains. Don't do it just for "the climate". There's something magic about sail and rail. Traveling this way makes the world feel immense .
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by noonespecial 7y ago
Funny thing about that: Complainers always seem to think that the code that they could have written but didn't is better than the code that you could write and did. The trifling fact that theirs does not, in fact, exist never seems t
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by noonespecial 7y ago
>to use a weigher to weight itself. Flip it upside down. Like he said, be creative.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I started my kids with abacus as soon as they could count. It gave them great intuitive understanding of arithmetic later. Highly recommend.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
Ah. Thanks. Doesn't sound off to my ears but that makes sense. I'm going to try and soften that while I can. Thanks for taking the moment to answer.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I think examiners (and non-technical folks who don't think much about it) get fooled by "pseudo-novelty". Progress moves fast in the technology field, especially with computing. Every year things that were impossible last yea
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by noonespecial 7y ago
It also goes a long way to explaining why the leaders of so many open source projects are vulnerable when sleazy marketers come around waving life-changing amounts of money. When one gets little help and support and it feels like ungrateful
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by noonespecial 7y ago
Don't worry. Too much opulence and political meddling will see some rando show up and nail a list of "suggestions" to the door of the place. Then the real fun begins.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I think I might have just figured out where Daleks came from... and why they're so angry all the time.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
That's the big takeaway I wish more people understood. Health is broken not because of fat cats making obscene profits (although there are a few), but because we're fundamentally doing it wrong. Its not one guy digging a ditch and
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by noonespecial 7y ago
Well, it will, but the way it does so is to wait a long time and then deliver the solution all at once as a giant slap to humanity's face.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
One of my favorite (and most easily explained) unintended consequences of government actions. I call them "perfect or none" rules. They get together and vote in rules they think will force things to be perfect, forgetting that it&
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by noonespecial 7y ago
It's possible. But even if that part is true, the large investment might spur faster growth in electrification which might then be good enough to outweigh that initial downside. Unintended consequences are hard. I'm just getting a
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by noonespecial 7y ago
While I largely agree with you, decades on it seems that if the message factors down to "quick, everybody stop doing stuff" , it's hard to get political traction. Every step in the right direction is a good one. Perfect is t
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by noonespecial 7y ago
>we should be warning people who want to contribute to Open Source that they should probably spend their time doing their own studying and personal/skill ... Its Open Source that is chiefly responsible for every bit of that personal
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I was merely pointing out that if the argument is that a given class is underpaid or systemically has less opportunity, finding a single counterexample that became so by essentially pure luck isn't much of a refutation.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
The same would be true for anyone who won the lottery. Yes, extraordinary luck can radically alter normal circumstances, but that's a meaningless outlier.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I was a delivery driver for dominos in the 90s. It was monumentally bad pizza back then. It's gotten better. Not great. Better. If you haven't tried some recently, do so. You will be merely disappointed. But no longer hungry...
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I worked in a newspaper plant. We did everything you just described for all of the same reasons. The system delivered was worse in every way than the one we ended up building for ourselves in the end, didn't work right anyway, and was
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I'd just like to take a moment (in light of some of the comments here) to say that air-conditioning is neither a moral failure nor an ecological disaster. An incentive to replace aging gas and electric heat with high efficiency modern
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by noonespecial 7y ago
A little perspective. $40k/year is about what glassdoor suggests you should make as the manager of a 7-11. A little one. Don't be afraid of a temporary career change. I've done it twice to save myself from burnout. We get ove
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by noonespecial 7y ago
Upvote it. Click on your own HN username at the top of the page. "Upvoted submissions" is a list of all of the submissions you've upvoted.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I know that's a bit tongue in cheek there but what a fascinating idea. Programmatically transferring liability to different locations or entities that are better able to diffuse the consequences. Imagine a HFT bidding market like adwor

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