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811.
by scandox 7y ago
Try The Futurological Congress - that is brilliantly funny (avoid the movie however which is abysmally unfunny). Lem is the master of books where nothing happens. It's definitely an acquired taste. His Master's Voice and Fiasco ar
812.
by scandox 7y ago
I often write comments before I write the code as it helps me think it out. Then I leave the comments there even when they are not necessarily highlighting critical points. Often I find them a useful reminder later on. I don't think I&
813.
by scandox 7y ago
In Ireland we've just agreed a 5 billion euro rural broadband scheme which will involve laying fibre that goes to 540,000 rural homes. 3 Billion is the cost to the state, 2 Billion is the private investment and the private company will
814.
Ask HN: What's the most valuable SQL Query you ever wrote?
1 points by scandox 7y ago|2 comments
815.
by scandox 7y ago
In terms of the monster I want living in my attic, I won't swap the US for China any day soon.
816.
by scandox 7y ago
To me it's strange how he can apparently think at an almost cosmic scale about the future of computation but at the same time can only imagine a financial and social future more or less grounded by the status quo. That's weird.
817.
by scandox 7y ago
What exactly does this figure mean? I see in Wikipedia this interesting line: "Ireland's instantaneous wind power generation fluctuates between near zero and 3,071 MW[1] due to weather,[6] with an average capacity factor of 32.3%
818.
by scandox 7y ago
I was hoping it some means of stopping issuing paper at all
819.
by scandox 7y ago
They might have credited the intern: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3zfadv/til_t...
820.
by scandox 8y ago
Is a desktop a production environment?
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by scandox 8y ago
I'm amazed Ireland is so low on the bullshit scale. I feel like we're amazingly good at it. Actually I would say that the country is full of quite subtle bullshitters. I think they gamed the test.
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by scandox 8y ago
Yes but this is an argument about the whole job. Washing, drying, folding and ironing. It's basically the worst thing in the universe. I can be philosophical about death...but not about laundry. In my Utopia everyone wears a kind of bi
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by scandox 8y ago
This is from 2016. It is included in a collection of Rebecca Solnit's essays the name of which escapes me right now.
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by scandox 8y ago
In the world of small medium projects often the major issue is that software engineers give estimates for writing the software but customers take that to mean time to actual delivery in production and a lot of the time have no idea how big
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Chaosnet(dspace.mit.edu)
46 points by scandox 8y ago|12 comments
826.
by scandox 8y ago
I think there has to be a spectrum for this? I can visualize but the impressions are I think weak and fleeting. It's more like a visual thought and I only do it when I concentrate. I'm not a visual thinker at all and I don't
827.
by scandox 8y ago
To my mind this always seemed the likely default...I was going to say psychologically convincing but of course there isn't a cosmological theory of psychology (or is there?). Lem's Fiasco is a good exploration of how we project ou
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Psychosomatic Concepts in Chronic Pain [pdf](archives-pmr.org)
2 points by scandox 8y ago|0 comments
829.
by scandox 8y ago
Perhaps relevant previous article on same subject and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17589349
830.
by scandox 8y ago
Doctor: Here's a drug that may improve your intelligence but it's relatively untested and since we don't have a good understanding of the nature of human intelligence or how it interacts with other personal characteristics or
831.
by scandox 8y ago
Where does that info come from? I went to school with people whose wealth can be traced back more than 20 generations. They didn't seem to getting poorer.
832.
by scandox 8y ago
Happens to pedestrians where cyclists are the majority too. It's dehumanizing turtles all the way down.
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Ask HN: How to work with a developer who avoids reading?
45 points by scandox 8y ago|62 comments
834.
by scandox 8y ago
There are stories about someone losing a five pound note that are more interesting than this. Guy blatantly steals loads of money. Celebrity. Spends it on bullshit. Celebrity. Large number. Celebrity.
835.
by scandox 8y ago
The way you tell it everybody has some moment in life where they're confronted by a pile of cash and then their true nature is revealed (conveniently letting greedy people everywhere say "hey you see you're just as base and m
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by scandox 8y ago
That turn of phrase is the key indicator in the original comment. It means they think of poverty and wealth as unrelated phenomena. Generally it is our most casual statements that say the most about our underlying assumptions.
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by scandox 8y ago
> no matter what social position you may have happened to find yourself in People don't "find themselves" in a social position. It isn't like they wandered into the wrong part of town. People suffering poverty are ang
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by scandox 8y ago
> I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings o
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by scandox 8y ago
With regard to the story-telling approach to discipline...My mother told me that if I didn't brush my teeth that small birds and lizards would come in the night and eat the sugar off my teeth, but also accidentally eat some of the enam
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Openspf.org Website has been down for a couple of weeks(openspf.org)
2 points by scandox 8y ago|1 comments

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