rimliu

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by rimliu 7y ago
Also having very little effect.
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by rimliu 7y ago
Sun is also non-renewable. But it will not matter for a while.
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by rimliu 7y ago
Not before Sun scorches the Earth (and Mercury and Venus on the way).
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by rimliu 7y ago
I pretty much always have my phone with me, but I have almost all notifications disabled. I do use facebook, but I don't have an app for it, just go to the website, so no notifications here. I do have the messenger app, but I do not co
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by rimliu 7y ago
"Near-zero“, really?
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by rimliu 7y ago
Don't worry, in this case we are running in circles.
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by rimliu 7y ago
Do you really think maintaining infrastructure for electronic payments and internet banking is "near-zero cost"?
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by rimliu 7y ago
Reddit is way more enjoyable than HN. On reddit you can have serious discussions and you can have fun. HN is trying too hard to be serious. It may be interesting, but rarely it is fun.
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by rimliu 7y ago
Google does not have a very good record of maintaining their non-core projects.
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by rimliu 7y ago
And what makes phones "general purpose" computing platforms?
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by rimliu 7y ago
> iOS, is the most closed general purpose computing platform > in history. Overall it's second only to things like game > consoles for being locked down to everyone including the > owner. So, overall it is not
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by rimliu 7y ago
Define "smaller cameras". I (not so) recently replaced my Nikon D7100 with a collection of pro lenses with Olympus cameras (OM-D E-M1markII and OM-D E10markII to be specific). I could not be happier. The first one is small, has o
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by rimliu 7y ago
OS X/MacOS is dead?
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by rimliu 7y ago
IMHO, the best one.
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by rimliu 7y ago
Remember Knol? Me neither.
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by rimliu 7y ago
A bit of topic, but thank you for helping me to find out that one of my favorite anecdotes has a name (and even Wikipedia entry!)
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by rimliu 7y ago
> Use ASCII and other character sets. We have tried that before. It did not work, and it was not pretty. You may not know, but there is a huge demand to be able to use characters from different sets in the same document. How do
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by rimliu 7y ago
With age comes wisdom. But sometimes age comes alone.
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by rimliu 7y ago
But mostly in places that try hard to imitate SV.
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by rimliu 7y ago
That's diffused vs. focused modes of thinking. I see it like a river entering a new landscape. In the focused mode the landscape has defined hills and valleys so the river has little choice where to flow. The Diffused mode is like a v
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by rimliu 7y ago
I enjoy long walks (30-100km) so they take me from 4 to 18 hours. I see them as a kind of meditation so I don't listen to any podcasts or even music during that time. I feel it would be wrong somehow.
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by rimliu 7y ago
> to bring freedom thru privacy to people "The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment" vibe is strong with this one. For the record, the part I quoted is from, I believe, most downvoted
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by rimliu 7y ago
After a brief glimpse at that page I am glad we were taught the Eurasian method. I had no problem with it.
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by rimliu 7y ago
IE6 was the best browser by far when it was released. We got IE6 partly because of that: why to work on something, that is the best in the market. So the team was disbanded. When alternatives started to appear, one of them, and quite popul
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by rimliu 7y ago
+1 for Creativity, Inc . (haven't read the others on the list). I also liked both books by Ricardo Semler a lot ( Maverick and Seven Days Weekend ).
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by rimliu 7y ago
Often what people need is just plain thinking about what they read/hear instead of having knee-jerk reaction to the topic.
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by rimliu 7y ago
This always pop up and always amuses me. Like, they do teach you reading, math, and algebra in school, right? Believe it or not that it enough to be able to do taxes.
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by rimliu 7y ago
Actually I think just making the underground part cone-shaped would be much better and simpler solution than that lip.
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by rimliu 7y ago
Steel cable with a diameter of 1inch has a breaking strength of 47 tonnes. Give it a safety margin and assume it can hold 10 tonnes. So you need 10 cables per meter. So I assume in case the "lip" being just a sheet of steel it can
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by rimliu 7y ago
I am still not getting that someone else would not come up with these or better ideas.

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