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by paulluuk 4y ago
Interesting. How would deflation affect people with zero or negative assets, though?
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Ask HN: How would I send 1 dollar to everyone on Earth?
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by paulluuk 4y ago
It would be cool if the source code under "examples" could be viewed in the browser, rather than having to download the .sil file
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by paulluuk 4y ago
Or worse: "If nobody convicts me, I must not be doing anything bad."
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by paulluuk 4y ago
Ha, I chuckled
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by paulluuk 4y ago
That sounds really interesting! Good luck!
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by paulluuk 4y ago
I've actually been "playing"/"reading" a lot of them from https://www.choiceofgames.com/ . They also offer a scripting language called "ChoiceScript" that allow anyone to make their ow
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by paulluuk 4y ago
I'm surprised this doesn't mention Mongolians or Kublai Khan anywhere, as they ruled China at the time and were the ones who introduced Asian printing techniques to Europeans in the first place, and allowed Gutenberg to make his f
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by paulluuk 4y ago
Dairy products are usually high in fat and cholesterol, and are generally considered to be unhealthy. They are high in calcium, but the absorption rate (how much calcium you actually get from consuming it) is very low, and according to some
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by paulluuk 4y ago
I'm also one of those people who jumps between companies every 1-2 years (not as a contractor but actual employee) and it's meant about a 15% increase in salary every year, vs 4% that my ex-colleagues usually get for their "l
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by paulluuk 4y ago
Why do you use the word "sheeple"? What is the intended effect you wish to have on the reader? Is it supposed to be half insulting and half funny like people saying "no shit sherlock", or does the word have a more profou
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by paulluuk 4y ago
The problem with Netflix, Disney+, HBO, etc etc is that a lot of people are going back to pirating video content or abusing their "family" accounts, all because each platform insists on having exclusive content. If this trend cont
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by paulluuk 4y ago
There are way more games than just Chess that have been learned by AI, such as Go, Monopoly, Risk, etc. But my point was a game where a neural network is trained by you, while playing against it. Preferably in an RTS setting during a long c
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by paulluuk 4y ago
Small note: in most (if not all) countries, you can refuse an inheritance if it's debts. Might be good to consider!
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by paulluuk 4y ago
Had the same feeling from Outer Wilds, great game! Never did get around to finishing it though, by the end it was insane how little time you had each loop to actually make progress.
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by paulluuk 4y ago
Here's a list: - start a personal robotics startup. - start a foundation to solve global poverty. - write a video game where your enemy player is a neural network that slowly but surely learns how to beat you.
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by paulluuk 4y ago
I never use the walrus operator but your second example is pretty typical and it does indeed look a lot cleaner with the walrus operator.
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by paulluuk 4y ago
The problem here seems to me that apparently none of the remaining devs know how to use Python, not that Python itself is hard to read. Or that for some reason the original devs had no style conventions or good practices whatsoever, which y
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by paulluuk 4y ago
I think that even if we found that children who play difficult games tend to be more intelligent, that still makes it hard to separate correlation from causation. Do children become smarter because they play difficult games? Or do smart chi
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by paulluuk 4y ago
Dutch person here. Not sure if I can actually post the translation here due to rules/moderation, but the dutch term basically means "women in the process of copulating". Likewise, the german one means "panties for copula
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by paulluuk 4y ago
> The only realistically important optimization is bring you big O down. That and understanding when big O doesn't matter for your problem size. Of course, understanding big O is still very important and being able to apply it to re
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by paulluuk 4y ago
Besides niche languages, there are also niche roles. For example, Data Engineers and DevOps Engineers are both in low supply and high demand. I've worked at two companies (Apple and Spotify) that I'm pretty sure I would never have
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by paulluuk 4y ago
I think it's also good to mention that actual production code is _rarely_ ever about being optimal. Making something that actually works, can be easily understood, and rarely ever breaks is much more important in almost all cases. Ther
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by paulluuk 5y ago
Well, nuclear has a much higher cost per kW than solar or wind, so it's not a very efficiënt alternative. The only real benefit of nuclear, as far as I can tell, is that it takes less physical space. And mining for nuclear materials is
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by paulluuk 5y ago
You think you need more than 170k per year to own a yacht, travel the world and dress fancy? I'm guessing you haven't actually done any of these things before, then. Outside of silicon valley, 170k per year is a huge amount of mon
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by paulluuk 5y ago
Then couldn't you just move somewhere else? I live in the Netherlands, near amsterdam. It's one of the most developed places on Earth (more so than most of the US) and my yearly salary is only 100k USD, which puts me in the top 1%
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by paulluuk 5y ago
Any tips on how to solve them? I start off with words like 'piano' and 'lemur' to get some idea of which characters to include, but after that it just seems like a brute force challenge? E.g. let's say 'piano&#
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by paulluuk 5y ago
Zero trust is an impossible way to live. Do you trust your neighbour with your spare key? Do you trust your doctor with your medical history? Do you trust your pizza delivery guy to deliver you pizza's that aren't poisoned? Being
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by paulluuk 5y ago
Couldn't you already do that right now? If you put your wealth into S&P 500 you should be able to live from roughly 170K USD per year.
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by paulluuk 5y ago
To be honest, AWS cloud support isn't that fantastic either. Responses to tickets usually come in 48 hours, if not more. I don't know about you, but in 48 hours I've usually already built a workaround and moved on to other pr

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