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by piokoch 6y ago
Misinformation coming from some random youtubers is not dangerous as nobody really cares what they say. The problem starts when you have a Yale educated doctor telling publicly that eggs (or butter, or fat) are unhealthy and then you have
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by piokoch 6y ago
I think there is some difference between working as a guard in concentration camp and as a toilet cleaner or programmer in HSBC, although HSBC bank was laundering money for drug cartels that also murder people.
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by piokoch 6y ago
I think the point here is that once we learned how to handle Covid, it will not be more dangerous than flu. The main question for me is if someone who got Covid and recovered can get sick again. I haven't seen any answer for that quest
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by piokoch 6y ago
I understand all this, Norway is able to print money as they sell oil (so others can freely emit CO2), and they don't really need those taxes, but this point: "Allowing holders of driver licence class B to drive electric vans clas
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by piokoch 6y ago
For me it worked in the opposite direction, the more I learned how all the World elements are connected, how laws of Physics made live possible, how those laws are connected with the logical rules that our World has to obey (like causality)
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by piokoch 6y ago
This posts makes Mozilla problems better understood. One thing are slightly overpaid bosses, but there is more... "After leaving MDN, I took on a dual role: WADI (Web Advocacy & Developer Initiative) and Firefox OS for TV Partner E
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by piokoch 6y ago
Hmm, I was really surprised about the part on woman creation, as I've never read such version (in Polish), but, indeed this https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+2&versi... (very) strange transl
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by piokoch 6y ago
I am not sure if in that particular case going with electronic/internet solution is really make any sense in view of potential risks. Voting happens once a few years only - it costs, but comparing to overall costs of running democracy
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by piokoch 6y ago
Principle #2 always bothers me. "Model the data part of the entities of your application using generic data structures (mostly maps and arrays)." and example function createAuthorData(firstName, lastName, books) { return {firstN
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by piokoch 6y ago
Are you sure that forbidding non-competence clause was really a big factor in Silicon Valley success. This sounds a little bit to simple. I was reading that it was all about initial founding from the military, access to large capital invest
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by piokoch 6y ago
And a little candle for Lotus 1-2-3, grand predecessor of Excel, killed by bad design and management decisions.
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by piokoch 6y ago
Same you can say about global warming. Is this immediate threat? This year? Next year? In 10 years? Violation of privacy might lead to the situation that someone will be unemployed forever because of something that he or she wrote 20 years
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by piokoch 6y ago
Maybe playing with derivatives was considered to be something similar to gambling and that's why it attracted regulators attention. There is a lot of "currencies" like loyalty points, games currencies, etc. which do not requi
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by piokoch 6y ago
What you mean racism is problem in Poland? Since early '90 there is for instance a growing number of people from Vietnam and I've never heard about any attacks on them?
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by piokoch 6y ago
The point is that this is not just a problem of Hacktoberfest - there are some automatic quality assurance tools that check if libraries used in project does not have bugs and they do this also by searching GitHub for reported bugs. If ther
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by piokoch 6y ago
This resembles me "tactics" of many book selling sites. They keep in their catalog books which they don't have on stock just to get traffic. User arrives and see that a given book is not available. Really annoying.
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by piokoch 6y ago
I think this is great introduction for kids to learn what is corporate bullshit, what are buzzwords, etc. "These are the only tools you will need to embark on this incredible journey to get your child prepared for the next IoT generati
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by piokoch 6y ago
"Still only 2% of men take the leave, while 42% of women do [1]. I can only speculate as to why." I thought the answer is simple - father cannot breastfeed a baby (even though gender is only a social construct, as some people clai
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by piokoch 6y ago
"the issue with nuclear is cost" the cost is the problem indeed, but the cost is something that can be lowered with sufficient amount of innovation - see how SpaceX managed to lower cost of sending satellites or people to the spac
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by piokoch 6y ago
Yeah, like it or not, but technologies that changed the World and gave tremendous boost in adoption of IT were C, SQL, Visual Basic and Java.
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by piokoch 6y ago
I don't understand what is the purpose of this theater? Is there any doubt that UK will send Assange to the US? Why bother doing this kind of show, where it is not "legal" to say that US tortures people in their concentration
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by piokoch 6y ago
This is the dawn of new era, where freedom of speech is gone, even though in theory you can stand on the corner of the street and shout to people about things. This starts to be much worst than communistic censorship - in communistic Poland
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by piokoch 6y ago
Good question. Note, however, that before Snowden we have also been saying - look on those idiots posting about mass surveillance by NSA on their conspiracy maniacs forums. So good FB/Google/Twitter are removing all those crap.
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by piokoch 6y ago
"Frequently they don't get called during their week at all and it's free money." That's, I think, is a wrong perspective, when people are on call, they have to be somewhere near their computer/internet connecti
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by piokoch 6y ago
Compare "java jdk 15 what's new" search. DDG shows the same first result like Google, however next ones are not good: 2. What's New In JDK 14 Latest Release? 80 New Features ... - I was not asking for JDK 14 3. What&#x27
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by piokoch 6y ago
Not surprisingly, underground house wasn't such a great idea, our predecessors learned this lesson when they abandoned caves, burrows and mud huts ages ago.
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by piokoch 6y ago
Frankly K8 reminds me more J2EE EJB 2.X. Horrific complexity that provides not that much after all.
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by piokoch 6y ago
I've tested a lot of those note taking app, Athens does not seem to be particularly better than the rest. My the most favorite app is https://www.zettlr.com . It has a simple concept that I really like: this is just markdown
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by piokoch 6y ago
Very true... And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites. So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; for all these ou
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by piokoch 6y ago
Here we go again. If someone searches for a good example of journalist reporting scientific results in a very wrong why, here it is. Not understanding difference between in vivo and in vitro study, not understanding that there are multiple

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