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by restalis 8y ago
Casus belli doesn't matter that much. There is something else that, in lack of a better term I'll call it "salesmanship", is usually at work. It shouldn't be so hard to imagine a crafty sales plan, with ideas cateri
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by restalis 8y ago
This looks like a hunt for culprits, even if such course of action does not make much sense. Please be aware that these are suicides, not murders. The workers, even the suicidal ones, are free and self-responsible people, presumed to be cap
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by restalis 8y ago
I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean. The table knives nowadays have their blade end rounded and present no greater risk of causing harm than a fork or a chopstick.
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by restalis 8y ago
This is the context in which companies end up with slick players who's primary skill is to reframe the metrics and sell the idea of progress regardless of what's going on in reality.
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by restalis 8y ago
Here's my opinion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17124643
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by restalis 8y ago
"a language that was super awkward for the first 6 months or so, but turned out to be a keeper" I wonder, do you consider the language's awkwardness somehow related to its quality? Do you see it as a prerequisite to avoidin
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by restalis 8y ago
Taiwan has quite a lot of (hardware) tech companies. I'm curious, how much exposure by being there can one get from that fact? Is it like an open ecosystem or is it more like a cluster of (Chinese) forbidden cities leaving you wonder a
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by restalis 8y ago
I work even if I don't have to. It's about using one's potential, if nothing else. In the grand scheme of things, I'm grateful for all the progress other people worked on to achieve before me and which I'm benefitin
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by restalis 8y ago
I think you don't quite understand how things work. 5G may be efficient but the exploitable bandwidth is still limited. In cities the density of cellular mobile communications antennae is higher which leads to a reduced areas covered b
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by restalis 8y ago
Wow! First, is Vladivostok that bad to be called "a hellhole" (that is, if you're referring to it, of course), and second, if it was only to make your parents shut up, couldn't you somehow done it with much, much less (s
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by restalis 8y ago
"Felix Baumgartner intentionally missed the free fall time record by a few seconds to not take every single record away from the previous holder, Joseph Kittinger, who held them for 52 years." Although this shows respect and adm
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by restalis 8y ago
"Why do we think that way when we're young, that we're immune to damage? What changes?" I see you've received a lot of answers already, but not an explanation (worthy by my standards). Here's my stab on it: 1
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by restalis 8y ago
"He invited about 20 of us" then "instead of owing 5% I ownwed 0.00086% of the mine." Have you made explicit the share you will end up with or you just assumed that all of you would get 100% / 20 people, i.e. eq
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by restalis 8y ago
This really irks me. Are you my customer or are you some kind of onerous business partner so that I have to share the consequences of your business decisions? Sorry, get a bank loan and pay me, then solve the rest of your problems with your
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by restalis 8y ago
"I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there? Google tells me it is currently 4:25am there. Does that mean I can call him? I don't know." Google can also direct me to other very intuitive tools like th
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Mental Models(jamesclear.com)
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by restalis 8y ago
The first such phenomenon that I remember was with Pandora Radio. It is a solution. However, Pandora did that to satisfy a USA requirement, not out of its pure own choice. Is your resolve political in nature or is just a preventive measure
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by restalis 8y ago
"This is laughable." Is it? Copyright enforcement was happening for a while now even "on content uploaded by users", where the take-down of reported infringing content got to be the norm. Are the lawmakers and regulato
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by restalis 8y ago
"Do you want to try to build a startup today taking on YouTube knowing that the legal system is a complex mess and if you make any mistake, you'll be sued out of a company?" Yes, it's tough. Try to build a car company.
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by restalis 8y ago
That looks to me like an apology for a lousy job on the requirements engineering side. Of all possible use-cases the port-tethering behavior stroked them as the most logical? The question that should have been considered is how often can it
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by restalis 8y ago
This reminds me of Incorporated (TV series), with a similar idea of using the deserts for seawater adapted crops. This is so fascinating to see being developed in real life and even more so to be marveled at in an exercise of forecasting th
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by restalis 8y ago
Yes, we risk turning that wasteland into a desert! /s Considering the crop's nature, we probably have to assume that it won't be used sand for maintaining rice puddles but rather clay or something which can hold water. For hi
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by restalis 8y ago
Another free market solution (well, kind of), is for the price of CO₂ to rise enough so it may be economically feasible to "buy the rainforest [to] let it be rainforest". This also should of course come with some mean of allotting
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by restalis 8y ago
"where a massive rogue planet enters into the solar system and interposes itself between the Earth and Sun, thus shading the Earth and dropping its temperature the required amount. Sort of like a month long solar eclipse" For ou
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by restalis 8y ago
I thought that the volcanic activity is a phenomenon happening only in orbiting planets, due to a number of forces that include star's gravitational one.
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by restalis 8y ago
"periodically fire one laden [rock] with electronics/optics/quantumics at the target star at near light speed and receive its transmissions for recon" These would act as space weather beacons, forming some kind of illu
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by restalis 8y ago
I hated this language (and I'm saying it knowingly, despite the fact that this is most definitely a Prolog loving group). I found its working model difficult for me and the ROI quite low. I wanted to make my critique a bit constructive
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by restalis 8y ago
[5:16] "...oh, I didn't die having go in there messing with the hydrofluoric acid. My bones do feel a little gelatinous though." I'm not sure if I should admire or condone this kind of attitude in a science related con
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by restalis 8y ago
"the proverbial "rat race" isn't really about about money; it's about social status. Most people don't real care about money, they just need it to buy status symbols with." My thought is that money helps
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by restalis 8y ago
Healthcare was one of the things I've counted as important for the elderly people, I don't understand why you deemed necessary to repeat me on this. If it was to put the proportion in prospective, then whatever amount is necessary

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