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by pushpop 7y ago
I was talking more in terms of it being a memorial to your living self rather than talking about it’s capabilities. I fully expect we’ll eventually hit the technological singularity.
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by pushpop 7y ago
You’re argument is a metaphoric one; yes we do change and evolve as people. Whereas the GPs point was a literal one; if you upload your consciousness the “physical you” will still quite literally die. The uploaded version is really more of
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by pushpop 7y ago
As a long time BSD and UNIX user, I disagree with the premise that containers have only recently been usable. Even on Linux, solutions like Proxmox made containers incredibly useful in the pre-LXC / pre-Docker days. And that’s discount
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by pushpop 7y ago
> Also, traveling to the US for treatment is still a thing, because new, advanced treatments are developed and first implemented in the US, so all that money spent give you something in return. It sounds like you’re saying America is t
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by pushpop 7y ago
Thankfully most other developed country’s healthcare system doesn’t penalise individuals quite so significantly as the broken system you Americans keep voting for. I’m not saying the UK or other European counties have the perfect healthcare
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by pushpop 7y ago
I feel you’re talking about the date in brackets, which most people agree is useful. However the GP is discussing a different behaviour on HN where the word “How” is automatically dropped from headlines when it is used as a prefix. This beh
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by pushpop 7y ago
As much as I think VisualBasic gets a lot of unfair criticism, I really don’t think the OCX model is something worth admiring. Sure, when it worked it was great but all too often they would fail between OS updates, language patches or even
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by pushpop 7y ago
Thanks for the correction. I’ll update my post. The first language part is definitely what matters in this context rather than which English speaking country he was born.
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by pushpop 7y ago
Honestly, I think Elon came off pretty badly. One the one hand you have someone who’s first language isn’t English but is basically giving a long, hard to prepare for, interview on topics he openly admits he’s not a subject expert on; and o
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by pushpop 7y ago
DOSbox will run Windows 3.x. I’ve seen people running classic Windows games (pre-directX stuff) on a Raspberry Pi using this trick.
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by pushpop 7y ago
Maybe the US is different but in the UK there is lots of social activity in the suburbs and plenty of people do go out mid week knowing they have to be in work the next day.
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by pushpop 7y ago
The idea of treating email addresses as secrets is a nice idea in theory but given the plethora of databases where it’s already stored as a user name, including those that have already been compromised, and how email addresses are published
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by pushpop 7y ago
> to be honest the budget thinkpads have always been crap (as have most of lenovos non thinkpad laptops) Depends how far back your memory goes. I don’t recall such issues when IBM owned the brand.
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by pushpop 7y ago
Not really. At least not in the way that blog post has been presented. Normally you’ll be told as you install things if there is any manual amendments to configure files required. So it’s all quite discoverable. That said, if you’re used to
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by pushpop 7y ago
That wasn’t what I was querying. My confusion was because I misread the GPs post and thought he was literally quoting the saying when he said: > not all publicity is good publicity. ...rather than that being part of his own commentary
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by pushpop 7y ago
Ahh yes, you’re right. I completely misread the GP. Thank you
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by pushpop 7y ago
I thought the ways was: “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” Which has the opposite meaning to the good publicity saying you’ve quoted.
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by pushpop 7y ago
Curious why I’m getting downvoted for something that is factually accurate.
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by pushpop 7y ago
Not to mention most of those hypothetical 40hrs a week (assuming they can get that much work) would be unsociable hours because that’s when demand is at its greatest (eg people leaving the pub).
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by pushpop 7y ago
> And it always had a single official and complete reference implementation in the form of the Sun JVM and later the OpenJDK. True though even in the mid to late 90s there were other JVMs available from companies such as Microsoft and
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by pushpop 7y ago
You can’t guarantee good people will always be in charge, even in “good” countries. Public opinion changes, new politicians get votes into power, etc. Which is why I’m against tools like this. Sure, it might mean I’m in favour of a few bad
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by pushpop 7y ago
I agree with you to an extent but genetically engineering life to suit us doesn’t strike me as any less cancerous.
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by pushpop 7y ago
It’s worth it for any car when you think about how much more expensive they are than a laptop.
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by pushpop 7y ago
Not really. It’s just the memorable examples that are. An advert in your local paper saying “Handyman Bob, ${phonenumber}” is fine. However once you start to scale things the rewards for dishonesty become greater (as does your budget to pay
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by pushpop 7y ago
Being “very good at marketing” also doesn’t mean “honest at marketing”. I too would prefer it if every professional had the same moral compass you and I have; but that is a separate issue. Hence why people can be both successful and arguabl
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by pushpop 7y ago
> I felt like you were talking about pure content quality You probably just skimmed my post then because I’m really don’t know terms like “multimedia”, “games”, and phrases like “It wasn’t just a mass of text” could be confused with “p
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by pushpop 7y ago
Again you’re only discussing things at a textual level. Encarta wasn’t like other encyclopaedias - Encarta was a fully interactive multimedia experience. The issue yourself and others who haven’t used Encarta is that you’re thinking about i
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by pushpop 7y ago
Also Encarta was much more engaging. It wasn’t just a mass of text with a few token images thrown in. It was a carefully curated compilation of multimedia, interactive content, educational games as well as textual write ups. It’s content wa
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by pushpop 7y ago
I might agree with you if it were even possible to be an expert on every subject. Sadly the only thing MPs are experts on is being MPs. Which is why we are in such a bloody mess: the general public are, generally, ill informed; MPs don’t gi
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by pushpop 7y ago
> Here I just put something rough together to demonstrate that it can be done even with the thin devices if the motivations were in the right place: https://www.ypson.com/hn/battery-thin-device.png Took me a few mi

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