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by qznc 6y ago
I like it. Is Bitcoin mining comparable to gold mining? It should rather be compared to the logistics and trading of gold maybe?
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by qznc 6y ago
Recently, i realized my reddit frontpage is full of self links. It isn't a link aggregator anymore for me. Not primarily. It is a forum.
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by qznc 6y ago
Remind me if Venkatesh Rao where he writes that people over forty are mostly busy organizing meaning games for the young ones. It also connects to Terry Pratchetts Hogfather quote about kids learning the little lies so they will accept the
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by qznc 6y ago
If anybody is looking for a book, I'm half way through The Leader's Guide to Storytelling by Stephen Denning. It focuses on business use, explores different use cases, and provides actionable advice. It is somewhat lacking in scie
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by qznc 6y ago
If you have a solid reputation, the promise of speaker fees is enough of a bribe. "A Lannister always pays his debts."
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by qznc 6y ago
I have no experience with that private mode. The creator says, he tried WordPress though: > I tried using WordPress but it took too many custom plugins and configurations and I still got bombarded by spam signup requests.
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by qznc 6y ago
Here is a reasonable overview from 2012: https://lwn.net/Articles/491509/
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by qznc 6y ago
The Kelly criterion tells you how big your bet should be.
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by qznc 6y ago
If people cared about correctness, they would use CompCert instead of GCC or Clang.
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by qznc 6y ago
Why? What is the strategy behind competing with Arduino?
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by qznc 6y ago
You are not alone. I'm on TiddlyWiki as well: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/tiddlywiki_notes.html I love my two columns UI and seeing many notes at once. Why does Drift only show one note at once?
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by qznc 6y ago
I wonder why people conflate notes with recall. The root is probably that note taking is introduced in school for things you have to recall in exams later. For me the point is that I do not have to train the recalling because I can search m
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by qznc 6y ago
How are any of the others violating GDPR?
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by qznc 6y ago
It would be great if https://media.ccc.de/ would switch to PeerTube but they have their own stack. Still, conference videos are one way to resolve the chicken egg problem.
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by qznc 6y ago
I was fine until Corona home office. Apparently I'm now too old to ignore these topics. Thanks to some inspiration from https://old.reddit.com/r/flexibility/ I'm ok again but not yet as good as a year ag
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by qznc 6y ago
No surprising news but I learned about https://signalstickers.com/
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by qznc 6y ago
Still annoying is that all groups disappear. Only once someone else writes something, they are available again.
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by qznc 6y ago
Everybody looking at Johannes Casper who fought it in 2016: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-bans-whatsapp-data-transfer-to...
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by qznc 6y ago
Closing schools did help a lot last spring: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/12/15/scie...
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by qznc 6y ago
Even individuals are capable to hold contradicting opinions. > There are lots of contradictions in people’s strongly held beliefs. Someone might preach self-sufficiency in politics, but coddle their children. An individual might oppose a
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by qznc 6y ago
...and if someone naive enough steps up to take responsibility, they don't provide enough authority/resources to achieve the task. This is how organizations destroy autonomy in their employees.
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by qznc 6y ago
It becomes a definition game. I'd say that most managers are not leaders but administrators.
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by qznc 6y ago
For a counter example, I read Buford is a very humble yet successful leader. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._C._Buford
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by qznc 6y ago
> If it now works correctly, then congratulations; you found the problem! This notion if “correct” is “finished the current example as intended”. Running a suite of unit tests would give me more confidence. Even that is only for programm
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by qznc 6y ago
When I switched to a different team a year ago, I talked with my ex-manager and asked what he considers be strengths and weaknesses. I found the answer quite funny because it was a random sample of mostly minor things. It showed my that my
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by qznc 6y ago
Shame is only partially good. Most people feel shame if they take advantage of someone else which is good and keeps your society together. Some people feel shame if they get abused which is bad because the abuser can continue. I wonder what
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by qznc 6y ago
> I’m also short, bald, and near-sighted. People try shaming me for that stuff on a regular basis. But it doesn’t work because I lost all sense of shame some time ago. In my world view, shame is nothing but a filter some people put on th
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by qznc 6y ago
As one hypothesis what has changed: Attention can be monetized (or weaponized) more easily today. I'd also question if this is actually that new. In medieval times, the court jester used a similar strategy to influence.
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by qznc 6y ago
For an article which aspires to clarify safety I would expect a good definition of the term. Is it "preventing a system from reaching dangerous states"? In my opinion, you should start with defining what harm to humans you think a
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by qznc 6y ago
I found https://insightmaker.com/ which looks quite capable and polished.

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