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by ponderings 3y ago
more than twice the size of the line in saudi arabia
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by ponderings 3y ago
The Antikythera mechanism suggests quite a bit of previous art. Making a device for counting wheel rotations wouldn't be very difficult. You could do the billing on a wheel too! One set for each customer! But it would be easier to just
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by ponderings 3y ago
I'm told good economists make crazy money and bad ones get a teaching job. He gets his conclusion from US workers (who he refers to as American workers) while in stead he should be wondering why all of the (I'm sure equally greedy
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by ponderings 3y ago
...wait, didn't we have taxi's before computers? Rickshaw, Japan, 1860?
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by ponderings 3y ago
I cant remember the last time I've uninstalled anything.
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by ponderings 3y ago
It's about margins. We have a box of paperclips that costs 10 euro. 100 people sell it for prices ranging from 11 to 100 euro. 11 is probably to low to build a reliable business, 13 is within reason, 15 would allow for some advertiseme
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by ponderings 3y ago
We wouldn't know which products to buy! We would all be standing there at the entrance of the supermarket, hungry but not knowing what to buy. We would wait for that old lady then follow her around talking amongst our own (on our phone
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by ponderings 3y ago
There is always an exchange of good and bad deeds between employees and employers. If you are a dick you should be treated as such. If you are a saint you should be too! You never just go to war with your employer or your employees. I had o
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by ponderings 3y ago
compete with them
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by ponderings 3y ago
We could make a slow human friendly machine code, show how it abstracts electronic components and then get into physics and chemistry. It would be as fascinating as unproductive.
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by ponderings 3y ago
I don't like answering questions with questions but how would you know it is mine? How do you firmly tie the license to the art work? How do you tie parts of a remix to different licenses? How do the songs on my security camera work? H
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by ponderings 3y ago
My theory is that nature implemented a timely death so that one can stop bothering the following generations.
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by ponderings 3y ago
I'd say lets run the experiment in production. "Stop" the music! We could have the year "without" music then do more similar experiments. On the other end of the spectrum we could charge royalties on the sales of in
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by ponderings 3y ago
do you mean archive your contacts log? (their conversations with others) It could be a per user option with new layers of encryption applied to the log at some slow interval. You would get something like a soft delete that would take n hour
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by ponderings 3y ago
At least in NL, the final version becomes irrevocable when it is send to the customer (or supplier). Corrections are done with a new number (or more than one) Sometimes you need more than one sequence.
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by ponderings 3y ago
Our intellectual curiosity is a very powerful thing and with great power comes great responsibility. If anything is applied it becomes a defining ingredient of our society. Products we buy and services we use partially define who we are bot
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by ponderings 3y ago
To share my ignorant thoughts on the topic.... It would be an entirely unconventional war.(I imagine) I suppose it would have to start with an extensive legal investigation to map out what kind of public attack apple can get away with witho
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by ponderings 3y ago
apple will declare war on the uk
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by ponderings 3y ago
That is some great advice. For me the brainwashing diagnosis works like this: If you have control over someones mind the first thought to program into it is to have them think it isn't so. The false thoughts are locked into place with
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by ponderings 3y ago
That is because you are not suppose to talk about it either because people get mad or under the assumption they won't be able to understand. Without asserting truth, where the topic goes wrong often Ill attempt to do a simple example,
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by ponderings 3y ago
On HN we are basically farmed for content. A good post leans more towards an informative article but the real kicker is that this "forum" will never cultivate any project. You cant start a topic that aims to write any code, build
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by ponderings 3y ago
> exploiting and preying on narcissists It one time struck me how lame it is to expect empathy from people who have to fake it. I'd much prefer to accept them for who they are. If you are kind and generous to them they consider you
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by ponderings 3y ago
If I play chess against Carlson every move is my own choice, I'm really good at the game but he will manage to dictate the entire course of it. The only way to not lose is to not play. There are so many mind tricks available to game ma
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by ponderings 3y ago
I fear it might be the other way around. The ingame rewards are real while the payout pretty much doesn't happen. It's a carrot on a stick, the donkey gets nothing. It seems to me that one can have a much greater sense of progress
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by ponderings 3y ago
Let me explain why you are completely wrong.... Playing video games I use to joke about people getting angry about cheats, I argued the game must be really important to them if they get so emotional. A thing I keep thinking: A culture isn&#
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by ponderings 3y ago
With practice one is able to carve out a stable pleasant mind mind set that is like an art work, a sculpture, a statue, a bit of music or just like a song, only it is constructed out of a carefully measured mix of moods and emotions. It is
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by ponderings 3y ago
some 40 years ago in the Netherlands we had no TV broadcast at night because people should be in bed. I wonder if an ISP could forge a product like noon till 7 (or even 4am till 9am) when few people use bandwidth. Perhaps combined with a ve
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by ponderings 3y ago
I at times still write spaghetti code. I switch to functional if the repetition justifies it. It can be quite beautiful. OT: I remember someone noting that he tried to have modular code with as little functionality per module but reached a