overkalix

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by overkalix 6y ago
Nice sophism you got there
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by overkalix 6y ago
> wars mostly affected the 'state' and not the people that much How do you exactly think armies are fed, armed, and paid? There are innumerable examples of revolts ignited due to the abuses of the local or occupying army. This
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by overkalix 6y ago
And cutting 3.93701 inches in thirds is somehow easier? Even with 4in, you end up with 1.33 inches. Not very different from 3.33cm is it? You're just taking arbitrary numbers that are easier to operate with using the imperial system. T
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by overkalix 6y ago
But your case what enabled the emergence of mobile apps and associated markets was the apparition of affordable smartphones -that's what created a new ecosystem for tech and pseudotech companies to grow in. What new market is 5g enabli
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by overkalix 6y ago
This is such a remarcable piece of writing. I'm sure among americans this is already somewhat of a classic but if you haven't read yet it do yourself a favor and take half an hour to read it.
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by overkalix 6y ago
I don't know how accurate this information is but they way it was completely explained to me, the Japanese government and population were not that affected by the first bomb in terms of morale. They had already suffered horrible large-
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by overkalix 6y ago
> My projects have fewer and smaller dependencies than typical Taking a look at your at your github projects and build.sbt... this is quite an understatement.
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by overkalix 6y ago
Isn't that the basis/point of the actor model? Actors can message each other and processing the message can trigger state mutation of the recipient, but they can't directly mutate each other.
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by overkalix 6y ago
I wouldn't say admire. When I stumble upon code from many years ago I (somewhat painfully) realize I've lost a lot of the ingenuity I used in my early days. I read the code and find myself thinking "how the hell did I come up
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by overkalix 6y ago
Never had this problem with Scala...
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by overkalix 6y ago
> the state pays 80% of your salary. Eventually...
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by overkalix 7y ago
On the other hand, I'm completely unsurprised to see archie on the bottom list.
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by overkalix 7y ago
Not the first time I quote The Jungle in HN but... "During the summer the packing houses were in full activity again, and Jurgis made more money. He did not make so much, however, as he had the previous summer, for the packers took on
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by overkalix 7y ago
That's not why a lot of times you can find Aldi, Lidl, Rewe, etc stores together. It's a combination of zoning regulations and Hotelling's Law.
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by overkalix 7y ago
"To understand yourself, Study your childhood."
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by overkalix 7y ago
Very successful? AVE routes, including the BCN-MAD one, are not financially sustainable. Spanish and European taxpayer money devoted to the comfort of businessmen and bureaucrats and the profits of contractors while metropolitan lines fall
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by overkalix 7y ago
$300 for the simplest keyboard...
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by overkalix 7y ago
Thomas theorem: "If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences."
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by overkalix 7y ago
> Sacrificing these benefits to bring attention to human rights might actually be harmful So we have to tolerate human rights violations so that in the future _maybe_ there are no more human rights violations?
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by overkalix 7y ago
> Do your morals and conscience have a price tag? Read his comment again. It's pretty clear that's the case.
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by overkalix 7y ago
This might be one of the most obnoxiously deluded things I've read all year.
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by overkalix 7y ago
Just nuke the fucking thread.
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by overkalix 7y ago
Catalan here (and not exactly rich). I think OP's comment was completely out of place, but trying to disregard the independence movement as rich guys entitlement is a an extremely distorted representation of the political reality of Ca
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by overkalix 7y ago
"Nobody rose in Packingtown by doing good work. You could lay that down for a rule—if you met a man who was rising in Packingtown, you met a knave. That man who had been sent to Jurgis' father by the boss, he would rise; the man w
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by overkalix 7y ago
Of course it is a specialty. In romance languages (at least Catalan, Spanish, French and Portuguese) we call them otorhinolaringologists - otorrino/otorhino for short. I have to say, the ENT doctor thing has always seemed very silly t
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by overkalix 7y ago
Commodification of nature. Get in the car, drive for a while, do something for 2 to 4 hours, get back in the car and drive back. In this case the activity consists of walking, but the summit/lookout/whatever can't be more tha
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by overkalix 7y ago
Then the places that you've made accessible will be also swamped. It's a textbook case of induced demand.
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by overkalix 7y ago
At some point your family is not so much the people you were born to or grew up with, but the people you've chosen to be with, build a live together... Also, if I had to guess, no one has ever looked back on their life and said 'I
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by overkalix 7y ago
That was embarrassing to read. I can program decently in Scala and a bit in Elixir and I'm a goddamn moron...
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by overkalix 7y ago
Are all their books really that good though? The Rust book is excellent (I ended up buying a paper edition) but a the few others I skimmed a few years ago were extremely average (some of them are included in the bundle).

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