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by npsimons 5y ago
Would you consider someone delegating tasks to a personal assistant on a billable hours basis a multi-person company? How about paying a freelancer once for the initial design of the website? Both these tactics are discussed in "Start
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> A lot of people hate systemd. I did. I'm still not happy with the way it was forced in, and how the predictions of teething pains of a from scratch init system being developed by inexperienced developers came true. I still remem
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> I've been using Debian for both server and desktop work for years (wow, actually decades) now. Same; I've yet to find anything more stable and well put together.
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Your comment is down at the bottom because you got here late, but everything you said is true. In order to get any truly deep thinking (or masterful practice of anything for that matter) done, you need to have focus and that almost always m
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> Naturally there is room for both, but I have learned a ton from practitioners (for lack of a better work) who are decidedly average compared to Warren Buffett's mentors (or Isaac Newton). That's fair, and it might even lead
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> Long-form written works tend to have more room for breadth, depth and nuance. I find that's where much of the value sometimes comes from, e.g., I didn't get anything much out of the main text of the last non-fiction book I re
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> [Graham] didn’t go to lunch that day—he just sat there and talked to me [Buffet] for four hours like I was the most important person in the world. When he opened that door to me, he opened the door to the insurance world.” The Snowball
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Yeah, it rubs me the wrong way, and I'll admit it might be because I value (perhaps overvalue) reading. Part of what bothers me is that he lumps together all "reading" (in his defense, often defenders of reading do the same).
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by npsimons 5y ago
Nice anecdote. Here, I'll add mine: My wife at the time bought an SUV, a Toyota Highlander. She never went off road, we didn't have any children, she never hauled anything. 90% of her driving was to and from work on paved roads, a
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I am actually very much in favor of this, mostly because I believe the true cost of FF is orders of magnitude higher than the lifetime cost of batteries. Just the cost of deaths from burning FFs alone would make using them as fuel unfeasi
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> The negative tone of the comments feels like a an old car salesman trying to sell you a diesel engine instead of an EV. Considering the top comment when I got here was almost exactly that, I'm not surprised one bit. There's
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by npsimons 5y ago
Yes. I've heard this in so many places, it's kind of disappointing that a crowed normally better informed (HN) is being so reactionary about EV batteries. Oh well, guess I can toss EVs as another collective HN Dunning-Kruger domai
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They get recycled. Next question, and thanks for the scaremongering of a technology that irrefutably is better for the environment than the way we're currently collectively shitting all over it (ICE vehicles).
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> The web platform standard as we know it essentially specifies that the browser belongs to the website operator (within some sandboxing guarantees), not to the browser user. And that is precisely the problem. Once website operators ge
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I've gotten a little more paranoid in recent years and started blocking outgoing requests, just as a defense in depth. So I would prevent clients from connecting to anything but 22, 80 and 443 (to start; I added more for things like We
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Let me add that blocking outgoing requests to non-standard ports should also not break payment systems, yet I've encountered exactly that. If your checkout system connects over anything but port 443, you done fucked up.
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Yeah, given that we're talking about the guy who wrote "On Lisp" I think it's fair to say he has technical credibility. He may be a dealmaker these days, but that doesn't take away that he is a luminary in the nerd
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by npsimons 5y ago
See this: https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths
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> about 70% of the world almond production happens there 80% actually[0], and that only uses 8% of agricultural water in California. Given that dairy consumes 15% and only produces 1.4% of world yield (plus it can easily be done elsewher
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by npsimons 5y ago
Shh, you'll upset the meat eaters, beef/dairy shills, and people who have been brainwashed by the almond hit pieces put out by the beef/dairy shills.
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It's not so much that almonds aren't water intense, as that things like beef and dairy (which are also heavily produced in California) are so much worse: https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths Yet we n
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> and most foods require as much if not more water per calorie. Yup. Beef and dairy are far worse, yet almonds get shit on: https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths
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Beef and dairy are by far worse than almonds, in every conceivable way, yet we don't hear people bitching about production of those in California: https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths
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> through the growing of insanely water-needy crops like almonds[1] Deal with beef and dairy first, then we can talk about almonds: https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths
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> If you're suggesting that feed requires less inputs This is the thing that really gets me. It's so bloody obvious from the second law of thermodynamics that animals are going to require more resources than plants. There'
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Deal with beef and dairy first, they use far more water for far less output: https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths
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> Or a pair of eyes. Snowpack gets worse and worse every year. Yup. I spend a good deal of time training for and rescuing people in the Sierras. Snow pack is very obviously lower than a decade back. Sure, sure, we'll get the occasio
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Beef and dairy use more water, use more land, generate more GHG[0]. Deal with animal agriculture first, then we can talk about the fruits and nuts. [0] - https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths
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Asking innocent questions is okay, good even. Five whys comes to mind. But stating opinion as fact or "just asking questions"[0] is not conducive to understanding. [0] - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_as
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by npsimons 5y ago
> I think "attacking" Crazy New Ideas is how we develop them, iron out the kinks and test our understanding. Criticism is the crucible in which crazy new ideas are forged into crazy viable ideas. > However, the main problem

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