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by normalnorm 6y ago
You forgot to include some more details from the Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware ) from where you borrowed your definition: > A wide variety of types of malware exist, including computer viru
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by normalnorm 6y ago
Premium experience comes at a cost because it is expensive to produce. You need good materials, you need to hire the best people, you need to take your time, etc. And you need to be free from cheap "feature factory" thinking. The
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> Your manager is not your enemy. Your manager making a joke is not kicking you down, he's trying to breed camaraderie. This is getting strangely personal. If you are joking, well done on the subtlety!
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by normalnorm 6y ago
It is more or less universally recognized that jokes are only funny if they are punching upwards. Someone in a position of power making jokes about using that power against someone with less power is more akin to bullying.
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by normalnorm 6y ago
One of the victims is in love / obsessed with the other, and this is a misguided attempt to stay in touch and have something unique in common.
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> I think the only way Amazon or Google ever start to stagnate is if a similar fate befalls them. Google has been stagnating for more than one decade. What have they created since 2010 that is even remotely interesting, let alone in the
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> There's a tendency among hardcore europhiles to blame the nasty british for all questioning of the European ideal, as though if it weren't for perfidious albion Europe would be of one mind. Perhaps, but that was not what I sa
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by normalnorm 6y ago
How do you figure that? The EU is an economic and political union. It might not be complete or perfect, but integration has been happening decade by decade. We now have a single currency, a unified supreme court, a single charter of citizen
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by normalnorm 6y ago
Because "Artificial Intelligence" is a label forever applied to the effort of replicating some human cognitive ability on machines. A well-known lament goes something like: "once it's possible, it's no longer AI&quo
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> "Quickly" using the JavaScript tooling is somewhat akin to watching one or two episodes of the 6th Game of Thrones season without watching anything else. You really need to watch season 1-5 to understand what's going on.
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by normalnorm 6y ago
Right. Is this the situation you imagined when you started?
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by normalnorm 6y ago
I understand that. My point is that too much attention is given to what corporations think or prefer. In the US, citizens enjoy almost complete personal freedom in principle but most of their lives are highly restricted in practice . Thi
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by normalnorm 6y ago
Who cares about the preferences of the corporations? Are you a slave?
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> This post is not about politics This is a strange disclaimer. This post is absolutely about politics, and there is nothing wrong with that. Politics is not some dirty word. Politics is about the ideas, values and decisions that govern
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by normalnorm 6y ago
Well said. I believe this to be the fundamental realization that would change the world for the better, if enough people had it. So many of the ills of the world can be traced back to childhood trauma and mediocre education. I think we have
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> I'm just easily triggered with language :P Me too! It makes me irrationally angry when people regurgitate linguistic clichés. I was already mad with: "python does not have a go-like concurrency story" when it would be en
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by normalnorm 6y ago
It's a war of attrition, let's not be simplistic.
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> How is Amazon overriding the sovereign decisions of a democratic republic in this case? They are not, but they are aiming at leveraging their near-monopoly status to create public outrage against the decision. What else would motivate
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by normalnorm 6y ago
Not really. Businesses that sell essential goods (the ones allowed by the court order) are still operating. The others would too, if they could. They don't have the deep pockets that Amazon has to try and override the sovereign decisio
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> The court gave a short deadline for meeting an ambiguous target Everyone in the world is trying to meet an ambiguous target. You know what happened to all the small businesses in my neighborhood? They are closed until further notice. A
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by normalnorm 6y ago
I love computers since I can remember, and started learning to code when I was still in basic school. This lead me to think that the tech industry was the obvious career for me. During my time in the industry, I felt miserable. I would say
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by normalnorm 6y ago
> It looks like you need to find someone who can help make your post feel more professional - perhaps Ask HN for help or just directly email one of the clued up people here that are open to cold emails (patio11?). It would probably have
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by normalnorm 7y ago
> Modern medicine, with the way hospitals and health insurance are run, do not and cannot address, for economic reasons, a pretty important aspect, albeit subjective, which is well-being. The "economic reasons" are just the pre
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by normalnorm 7y ago
What are the consequences? Have you ever experienced them yourself?
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by normalnorm 7y ago
Scientific theories are not "proven", that is not how science works. All theories are always and forever open to falsification. The scientific attitude is one of eternal doubt. "Proof" is something that only exists in th
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by normalnorm 7y ago
How do you "slowly lift it"?
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by normalnorm 7y ago
Thanks, but I'll stay with Email 1.0 for as long as I can. It is one of the last remaining corners of the internet that is not infested with all the human-hostile behaviors you call "features". Centralized walled garden, boun
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by normalnorm 7y ago
The pie chart is fine. They can be bad when one wants to compare several similar categories, but they are fine when used to compare a part to a whole. Also it has a hole in the middle, which mitigates the problem of visual angle comparison.
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by normalnorm 7y ago
This has been the mainstream position for most of those 50 years. Working on the "foundations of physics", which is what you call "arguing" was considered disreputable and career-destroying for a long time. Read, for exa
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by normalnorm 7y ago
> First, there's no "no pandemic" case. Not anymore. I am not saying that the analysis is correct, but information that is disclosed now has no bearing on an explanation of the actions of actors in the past. > Last but

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