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by nosianu 4y ago
> With this service you are not paying for the ink. As soon as somebody develops the technology they will make all the ink on your already printed documents turn invisible too. It's only half a joke, if this becomes feasible I&#x2
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> If money is no object the US healthcare system is as good as any I don't think so. The medical personnel are way too stressed. You having money does not change that the people that will see you suffer in an inhuman system. Even
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> Are you serious right now??? He (or she) is totally serious and I agree. Here is what I wrote here in some discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34454774 ----- TypeScript isn't another la
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> As a counter to your story How is your grabbing at straws, bringing in something completely different - politically persecuted - and making assumptions ("I'm sure") and looking for the worst outliers instead of what
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OP wrote in response to a very specific incident, and he wrote exactly about that specific incident before he wrote > This is unacceptable. This is Eastern bloc level authoritarianism. Police are out of control. So I would say my assumpt
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> This is Eastern bloc level authoritarianism. I know several other people already commented, but still I want to add my own view because this pains me. I grew up in the 1970s/80s in an area of two 35 thousand people towns (plus l
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That statement dopes not tell us much without you also telling us how that is handled in other countries. If you look at "List of countries by traffic-related death rate" the USA is far from the top of that list, so other countrie
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I don't want to give feedback for such minor transactions. I just want a coffee. Why do you want to make me do actual work? Giving feedback, especially if it's supposed to be taken seriously, is work, and worse, it feels so utterl
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by nosianu 4y ago
In support, the headline from four days ago: > 70% of drugs advertised on TV are of “low therapeutic value,” study finds > Ads often tout new, pricey drugs that are not much better than old, cheaper ones. https://arstec
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Just like with electronics, it all started with individual components. It only looks so incredibly complex when all those individual units are composed into a big whole. Underneath it there is order similar to the layering of software thoug
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It's not a different language as in "it's a different language". It's just types added. The actual executable code is pure Javascript. The type annotations have ZERO influence on what is executed, they are completel
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> If you're compiling from another language TypeScript isn't another language though. It is the latest official ECMAScript plus type annotations. Only some very, very few, rare, old stuff like enums really is different code. 99
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> what you think the chance of a nuclear war are, for any given year. Statistics is only useful if you actually have sufficient numbers. Otherwise you can just make any claim you want supported by any arbitrary model you can think of t
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> Beyond that things will not really be that bad. Apart from a gigantic global food crisis for at least a decade - see this comment for just a "small" nuclear war, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34448255
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by nosianu 4y ago
Which would replace all those humans producing perfectly valid sounding explanations that if you invest some research effort have no basis in (the usually far more complex, but also far more fascinating and infinitely deep) reality. So yes,
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It's also terrible for failure modes. Planets are independent of one another, this ring is one fragile entity. The largest destruction of life by a single unfortunate event in the entire universe made possible by one design decision. W
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> a glitching autopilot kills you. Or worse - others. You at least had control over the decision to use FSD (bad already, given human driver psychology) and then not pay attention to be able to intervene in a split second (which is ambit
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> What you call "small" advantages: car, pool, VCRs, bananas - put them so far about their average citizen that it was like having a private jet and yacht today. At this point at the very latest, if not your first sentence al
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by nosianu 4y ago
If you are truly interested and not just negative, I don't know how it was in the USSR apart from anecdotes, but I was born in the GDR in 1972 and lived there until the wall came down, and for that Eastern country I can speak. Some c
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Two personal anecdotes: (1) I grew up in the GDR (East Germany). During the standard ten year "polytechnical secondary school" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytechnic_Secondary_School ) when it came to deci
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> They do have an odor to them I never had an egg that smelled unless it was bad (which too hasn't actually happened to me). My sense of smell is pretty good, I smell all kinds of little things (incidentally, I think that loss of
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I think before accusing others you should have a hard look at your own comments.
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There are lots of great little training films from the past. In WWII especially they had to bring in a lot of people with little experience with the sophisticated new technologies that were often only developed during the war. Search Yout
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> the advice you reject as a platitude If you claim that, how about your own comment? And with > nothing stops you from building up a business to sell these skills directly you pretty much completely ignore what OP wrote. Sure, you ca
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I don't understand your point? The whole article being discussed is about tons of crap getting sold.
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You should look at the specific appliance and not just the brand. Even known "good" brands mess up. For example and speaking about grinders, I had a Mahlkönig Vario at first, 370 Euro ( https://www.mahlkoenig.com/de
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by nosianu 4y ago
Ah, true, I hadn't considered that. Now I'm just looking forward to see how more and more ubiquitous AI deals with real world language. When I look up "on sale" I get > 1. offered for purchase. > 2. NORTH AMERICAN
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I don't quite know what to say to what I found near the end in this article: > Recently, my wife needed a carrot peeler. She needed one rather quickly. Off to Target. The one she bought (the only one on sale)... I stopped at the p
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by nosianu 4y ago
> Seems like a language design flaw that this is slow I think stack traces take up much of the time, including converting it [1]. Without them it could probably be a lot faster. Also see hashmash's post. But other than that, there
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by nosianu 4y ago
Just FYI for those who missed it: The previous comments were referring to the famous and really hilarious Mel Brooks movie "Spaceballs", this scene in particular: https://youtu.be/a6iW-8xPw3k

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