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by richardw 8y ago
Nice thing about e.g. EA is that your aren't just drawing pictures. You're able to collaborate on models that are surfaced on views, so a change is global and you can see where else e.g. a component is used.
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by richardw 8y ago
Natives weren't wiped out in Botswana AFAIK. White population is only 3%. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana
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by richardw 8y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_industry_of_Russia I don't own an S-400 but they seem to do ok. "Russia's defense industry employs 2.5 – 3 million people and accounts for 20% of all manufacturing
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by richardw 8y ago
The firearm problem can fail a few times and it'd still be better then what we have. It's like Tesla crashing a few times. Still better than not having it. How sure do we need to be that we're safe from evil AGI? Once it&#x27
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Initial stress-derived noun(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by richardw 8y ago|0 comments
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by richardw 8y ago
Make more stuff from wood. Replace lots of throwaway plastic goods with wood that lasts. Slow the rate at which it rots. Engineer landfills to retain the carbon.
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On top of the earnings to Western arms companies, every billion that doesn't flow to Russia for arms sales is a double win for the US. It's hard to squeeze their economy when you're leaking money to them on arms. Supporting R
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Old Concept Cars(oldconceptcars.com)
203 points by richardw 8y ago|51 comments
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by richardw 8y ago
Thanks for the bug report! I was testing Jekyll and then Hugo as static site generators after moving from Ghost, and there might be a few issues in translation.
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by richardw 8y ago
Correct! Both on opinion and it being for me. I'm not optimising for "HN participation", rather my own enjoyment of the site. The participation experts are exactly who I'm (sometimes) trying to avoid, since their motivat
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Opinion vs. Skill on Hacker News(richardwatson.co)
137 points by richardw 8y ago|73 comments
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Look at the distribution of votes. Unless the City managed to influence outlying areas while having no effect on its own neighbouring areas, I'd say it's more likely that it was for remain. Banks can be blamed for a lot, but not B
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by richardw 8y ago
Apple can choose to enter the market when it's good and ready. That is, when it knows it has a very solid product that brings clear advantage. If it can't find that, keep looking or stop. Tesla is on a death match to outrun the re
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by richardw 8y ago
This is important enough that you want to get it right, which means you want most voters absolutely sure they want the outcome. Take three votes over five years to be sure. A one-off referendum with an issue of this magnitude is like voting
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by richardw 8y ago
NYC seems like a good place to have autonomous electric taxis. No ownership, no streetside storage. When battery drops, it goes home and swaps with a charged-up car.
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by richardw 8y ago
Read this about rewriting: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... It's possible to rewrite but you incur risk when you do. Add tests and then refactor. Measure twice, cut once. O
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by richardw 8y ago
As long as the wood isn't burned it's still removing carbon from the atmosphere, which is our primary goal. When the carbon was in the ground it was still fine, we don't need it off-planet. Metaphor: water as carbon. Thick pi
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by richardw 8y ago
Hearth.com Crazy fireplace people. They love getting a fire running just so (upside-down of course). Chop down their own wood, split the logs, build their own wood shed. Look: https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/sh
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by richardw 8y ago
There are massive variations in what people get from it and what they'll pay. I live in South Africa and I'd pay $50 a year. Throw in a few paid-only features and I'd be quite happy. All my friends use it. We use it at work f
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by richardw 8y ago
I generally ignore those updates. If you can't take the time to sell me on it, the current version is fine. Flash degrades on writes. There's not that much space on a phone so why spend writes on weekly updates with no visible ben
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by richardw 8y ago
SMTP had been letting servers talk to each other in cleartext forever. How many email providers send to each other over a secure connection? Certainly not all.
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by richardw 8y ago
Probably because of people like me. Had one on a few keyboards (including current Lenovo) and I was recently wondering why they still have them. I've never found one second of benefit, it just irritates me to even try it. Not that it&#
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by richardw 8y ago
That sounds crazy. Can you bring kitchen cabinets with you, or are they re-installed brand new each time you move? If the latter, sounds like good business for installers! Is there a rationale or just habit?
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by richardw 8y ago
Probably because it's far less risky to mess up a dinner order than trash the good name of a company. But once it's working, they'll be coming for the call center jobs...
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by richardw 8y ago
"Ah well we charged a bit more than we should have and we were a bit weirded out by working with the mafia, but we didn't actually kill anyone so really we were basically angels." The Gupta's are known crooks. That'
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by richardw 8y ago
Jira, Confluence, email, WhatsApp groups. So much email. So, so much. Some Rocketchat usage but not huge.
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by richardw 8y ago
Googled, am surprised: "FedEx recently stated that only about 3% of its revenues are derived from Amazon, while an estimated 7% of UPS’s revenues come from Amazon." https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculatio
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by richardw 8y ago
For web pages, folders on my bookmark bar in chrome. A few major ones as links on the bar, the rest in folders. E.g. "services" for links to swagger files, "stack" for Jenkins, docker, admin UI's. "Topics"
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Old Concept Cars(oldconceptcars.com)
3 points by richardw 8y ago|0 comments
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by richardw 8y ago
> "on autopilot" Pilots don't let planes on autopilot take off and land. They don't just turn it on and go for a beer. Same with boats - there's still a human despite the fanciest autopilot on a ship, especially

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