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by quoderat 17y ago
Also, it helps to be ethnically homogeneous, as much as that displeases some people.
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by quoderat 17y ago
From what I've observed, those with an IQ more than two or so standard deviations above normal have social problems because they relate to others poorly. Especially if they are introverts. Extroverts do better, but often have hidden difficu
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by quoderat 17y ago
Exactly. Powershell is some improvement, but still a pale imitation. Windows feels fragile, and often is when you try to do anything difficult. How to bring an ethernet adapter down then up with a script in Windows? Very difficult, WMI call
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by quoderat 17y ago
This piece is more fluffy than a cat in a dryer.
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by quoderat 17y ago
In a sense, cheap oil (in the US and other countries) allowed the creation of far-flung suburbs that enabled the rocketship of suburban debt to launch. Without those suburbs enabled by cheap oil, the housing crisis never would've been so se
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by quoderat 17y ago
There is some truth to this. Socially marginalized people do tend to IT (I know, I am one of them!).
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by quoderat 17y ago
The problem is that the whole system is corrupt, not just one individual. Corruption is how you get buy-in, in our current arrangement.
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by quoderat 17y ago
I am not an anti-Microsoft person, but after having used Linux now without even Windows installed for two years straight, it is actually mentally painful to use Windows. Yeah, use whatever works best for you -- but using Windows these days
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by quoderat 17y ago
Or maybe Congress should meet for a few days every few years, so only the really important things ever get worked on.
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by quoderat 17y ago
Some people really don't understand the concept of "digital," do they? Someone ran a test where they used wire coathangers vs. the best audiophile cable there was. No one could tell the difference.
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Reality check: You're not going to make money from your blog(blog.penelopetrunk.com)
2 points by quoderat 17y ago|1 comments
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A second life for Biosphere 2(blog.wired.com)
3 points by quoderat 17y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 17y ago
The iPhone and iPod Touch are already better netbooks than most netbooks.
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by quoderat 17y ago
I think it's an attempt by companies to hold down costs, but it doesn't work; most people within six months of working anywhere, if they are clever at all (no hacking, other than the social kind) knows what everyone else makes, thus causing
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by quoderat 17y ago
I've wondered about that as well -- and it is strange to me. Hackers are widely-known for their impish pranks. And even when humor is used in the service of a point, that comment is usually voted down. I know we don't want the place to turn
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The Peter Principle lives on(inc.com)
3 points by quoderat 17y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 17y ago
More than anything, it saddens me how corporations have assumed so much control over our lives -- or that we've ceded it to them. I am no anti-capitalist, but I want some kind of balance that's definitely tilted in the wrong direction. And
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by quoderat 17y ago
"Email from others in your office should continue to operate." We use hosted Exchange where I currently work. Sounds good until you actually want to do anything useful. Today, I got in a battle with their support because I wanted to forward
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by quoderat 17y ago
Twitter is a sign that I am getting old, because I just don't get it at all, and I doubt I ever will. Oh well.
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by quoderat 17y ago
So many things are converging at once on the AI front. I think it's probably likely we will have human-level AI in my lifetime (I'm 32). Of course, AI, like nuclear fusion, is perpetually 50 years away, but this time I believe it's differen
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There aren't 450,000 full-time paid bloggers(wordyard.com)
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by quoderat 17y ago
I've used them with no problems. Generating a certificate isn't very expensive, really, and I am surprised the prices didn't come down sooner than they actually did. It's about time, though.
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by quoderat 17y ago
Yeah, the closed nature of the app store and of the device itself.
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by quoderat 17y ago
Of course it was all a scam to raise prices. When I can get a TB of month of download on a server for $20, that tells me they planned on overcharging massively.
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by quoderat 17y ago
But strangely, so many things in the tech world are ugly and useless. They often seem to go hand in hand, in fact.
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by quoderat 17y ago
HN would probably be against any Sarah Connor jokes, so I'll just observe that I think we are near the nexus where AI and robotics have a (hopefully) harmonious merger. And if not, I hope someone listens to Yudkowsky.
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by quoderat 17y ago
Sorry for the exaggeration, but it wasn't just aimed at your comment. The idea that piracy can in many circumstances increases sales is opposed religiously by some (and not just those in the content industry), so those type of comments pop
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by quoderat 17y ago
I am skeptical of the numbers in this article. I'd like to see the data that's backing this up, and how it's gathered.
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by quoderat 17y ago
Well, to be fair, in this case a "full recovery" is relative, but still good to hear.
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by quoderat 17y ago
I thought it was news because every time someone posts about The Pirate Bay, etc, and someone says, "Piracy increases sales of most media," someone always comes back (it happened with the last major TPB thread on HN) with, "But no study has

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