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by scandox 7y ago
I have a 93 year old colleague. I think it says a lot about my employer. They value people and experience.
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by scandox 7y ago
The ultimate crime
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by scandox 7y ago
Everyone's afraid to do anything on that machine at all. So even getting agreement to login or install software or run tcpdump or whatever is fraught.
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by scandox 7y ago
> because the one thing that I learn as I learn more about computers is that they're basically working "by accident" So true. Thanks this is good advice. As it happens it is a physical server. I'm not actually mandate
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Ask HN: Ever worked with a service that can never be restarted?
258 points by scandox 7y ago|188 comments
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by scandox 7y ago
> we don't get bored as easily as we used to You mean we have more distractions. The experience of boredom is subjective. We therefore require more distraction to remain non bored. > funnier/worthier things to do No we don&#
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by scandox 7y ago
Interesting. I'm also interested in how you imagine your indefinite life. Do you suspect that whole new avenues of existence and thought will open up? Or do you view it as essentially more and better of the same?
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by scandox 7y ago
Scientific progress may not continue indefinitely. We don't really know what will happen.
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by scandox 7y ago
No. In fact I suspect my feeling is that control is exactly what is not good for humans to have too much of.
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by scandox 7y ago
I think the number is possibly arbitrary. I am not making any argument about it. I am just at present trying to understand why temperamentally and instinctively I am against it. I am also seeking to understand if others feel as I do on this
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by scandox 7y ago
I'm interested if there is much anti-longevity sentiment here. I admit I'm very much against further moves to artificially increase human lifespan. Am I quite alone in this?
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by scandox 7y ago
In fact a motto is usually chosen to cover a weak spot. So "No Bullshit" reads to me as "We're Kinda Cowboys". "We Care" - "People Know We Don't care". Fujitsu – “The possibilities are infin
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by scandox 7y ago
Yes they discuss her name. But if you recall Jessie liked her name and enjoyed the secret thrill of its salacious implication exactly because she is quite a square in real life. However Elijah one day reads the Bible and gives her the more
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by scandox 7y ago
I have no idea why you would propose Tom Wolfe as an avatar for quality. No-one really knows whose work will continue to connect with generations to come. Tom Wolfe is, in my view, mediocre and a writer whose middle-brow popularity is large
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by scandox 7y ago
You said it: studying. That's why I say an Academic might be reading it. Some work becomes the preserve of specialists and other work continues to be read by people who love reading. We still read Dickens. Some of that work is almost 2
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by scandox 7y ago
You know it was quite common in those days for Pulp Sci Fi...but for example the character of Jezebel Baley in The Caves of Steel is so bad that it almost suggests actual hatred on the part of the author.... certainly contempt.
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by scandox 7y ago
Well his personal issues with women definitely are apparent in his work. His female characters are often shrieking ninnies. Also I don't think anyone but an academic will be reading his work in a few hundred years. As much as I enjoy h
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by scandox 7y ago
Ok. But even with a sensible investment strategy a major economic decline close to your retirement can result in you getting a lot less than you expected, right? It just seems to me a pension should principally offer a reasonable level of c
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by scandox 7y ago
> But actually, defined benefit schemes are less risky and far more appropriate for the average dummy than defined contribution schemes. Well, yeah because defined benefit actually makes some kind of commitment on what you're going
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by scandox 7y ago
Dignity is fragile and difficult to measure. We live in an age of obsessive measuring. Unrecorded experience has become an object of dread and suspicion. I would say dignity is almost an offense to the spirit of the age.
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by scandox 7y ago
Subtitle: At Your Career Stow the angst everybody.
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by scandox 7y ago
Well the OP was saying that poverty has a psychological dimension and it seems to me you agree with that. From your perspective that psychological dimension can be explained without much interiority (i.e. makes you do stupid things) but for
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by scandox 7y ago
Are you copying other poster's comments? What fresh spam hell is this?
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by scandox 7y ago
Well I as an innocent bystander have no idea what you mean either, unfortunately.
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by scandox 7y ago
Is that legal in the US? And what is the sharing mechanism? Word of mouth?
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by scandox 7y ago
Tell me more. How is this achieved? Do you mean sex workers? Or pornography? Or a real doll? Or what? Because if I've learned one thing in my life it is that there is no sex without a relationship. Everything else is a sliding scale of
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by scandox 7y ago
I loved these as a kid. It definitely advanced my reading a lot from an early age. The one that burned me time and again was Appointment with F.E.A.R. I kept dying and some of the clues required a calculation or solution of a riddle to know
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Putin Still Using Windows XP(theguardian.com)
5 points by scandox 7y ago|0 comments
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by scandox 7y ago
Somewhat ambivalent about that too! I can't seem to hold onto any that's for sure.
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by scandox 7y ago
I hate owning things

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