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by seren 11y ago
What I found interesting and maybe relatable was the angle of a "technician" putting his skills at the service of particular ideology, and then being judged for it. Nothing very original, but it made me reflect that is the next fe
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by seren 11y ago
It could also be people flagging. The US presidential elections certainly have a worldwide impact but not everyone outside of US is interested by the minutia of the campaign, especially when reading HN. Edit : I interpreted that you were ta
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by seren 11y ago
That's one of the topic of the latest encyclical from the Pope : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudato_si%27 So things are slowly changing.
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by seren 11y ago
I am not sure that having a strong cultural identity as anything to do with drugs consumption. For example, I am pretty sure Russians also have a fairly homogenous population with a strong identity, and they still have an alcohol problem (f
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by seren 11y ago
> You need a lot of western ideals to make this actually work: free speech, open markets, powerful banking, strong monetary policies, anti-isolationism, free trade, employee protections, anti-corruption, capital protection, strong pro im
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by seren 11y ago
It is a tortuous but great book. I would even say that the obsession of the narrator and his close friends can look a bit like people completely involved in their startup (and their own little world).
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by seren 11y ago
I am not saying this is the case for YEC, but usually when you hold and defend some fringe belief, you often have books, videos on Youtube, dvds to sell, conferences to give, in some case museums [1]. (See conspiracy theorist Alex John film
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by seren 11y ago
That is why I mentioned "not tied to your job" which seems, from my very European viewpoint, a bit saner. I heard at least one horror story of an expat who went to work in the US, got a cancer, lost its job, and then had to come b
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by seren 11y ago
It is hard to compare European salaries to their US counterpart. You have to take account they have much less holidays on average, you have also some sort of "free healthcare" that is not tied to your job, a state pension plan, ac
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by seren 11y ago
The automatically cleanable bathroom already exists. I have used them years ago in cheap hotels. After taking a shower, it locked the door once you exit and it rinses the whole room with some detergent and water for 30 seconds.
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by seren 11y ago
If we look at agriculture mechanization, we went from 80% of the population to 5% to feed everyone. While this is good for everyone, I don't think farmers are living some sort of utopia. Rather most of them are indebted for decades to
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by seren 11y ago
There is some truth about orthographe being a social marker, or a metric for intelligence (whatever intelligence means). But simply removing orthographe would not remove the social signalling, it would only shift it to something else absolu
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by seren 11y ago
> I don't want an echo chamber, and I want to be challenged -- but I don't want a daily rage fest against whomever the internet currently hates either There is some scaling effect at play. Let's say in community of 1,000 -
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by seren 11y ago
I don't know if it will prevail in the end, but I think that Reddit approach by splitting the community in small subgroups/communities has a better chance to last in the long run. Of course, you'll create feuds between commun
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by seren 11y ago
There are studies around showing that even a few minutes walk can increase creativity . So it is actually possible that smokers that are going out to smoke are actually more creative that their sitting counterparts. Here for example : ht
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by seren 11y ago
Even for all the questionable technical choices Canonical have taken, I am happy there is still a company experimenting and pushing forward the "Linux Desktop". Even if it looks a bit gimmicky, I split my time in half between a de
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by seren 11y ago
> All of modern life seems to have started at the moment the iPhone was introduced. In 30 years the iPhone will look as clunky as the first black and white television set. I honestly don't know when "modern life" started,
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by seren 11y ago
The key for maintainability is to write code that is easily readable, and this is not an easy feat. A good rule of thumb is that a code is written once, but will be re-read maybe 50, 100 or 1000 times in the life of the product. So, in my o
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by seren 11y ago
Are we going to get HW decoders for H.265 or WebM on mobile ? Or is this something of the past and cpu decoding is good enough ?
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by seren 11y ago
Probably something like : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%27s_fighting_vehicle
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by seren 11y ago
From what I broadly understand from CRISPR, the Nobel is almost a footnote in history, the real prize seems to be the patent.
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by seren 11y ago
On that matter, I realized recently that both Brittany and Great Britain have an area called Cornwall or Cornouaille in French which makes the matter more confusing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornouaille
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by seren 11y ago
The income tax is a tiny part of France budget. Most of its revenue is a combination of VAT, energy tax, corporate taxes, etc.
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by seren 11y ago
I am sure that at least some area some local commander of either Al Nusra or FSA have joined Isis, for various reasons, like being besieged by Assad's forces, running out of munition, etc. This is also the messy part of civil war to su
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by seren 11y ago
My understanding is that foreign fighters are regrouped in units sharing the same language, with probably a few of them in each groups acting as interface with the hierarchy.
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by seren 11y ago
In a war torn country, getting a regular paycheck every month is a privilege. They probably get multiple times the average salary in the area. Another tidbit I heard is that in Afghanistan, many were defecting from the Taleban to Isis becau
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by seren 11y ago
Quite interesting to see the trends. I don't explain why some swimming_pool are converted to grave_yard though.
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by seren 11y ago
The social system is fine to bootstrap for a year because you'll have 60% of your old salary, "free" healthcare and education, but once you have to raise millions to grow quickly, it won't help. To produce a Google or Fa
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by seren 11y ago
Maybe I misunderstood what you are saying, but there is nothing exceptional in Buddhism origin. Every religion is based, or is a reinterpretation of an existing tradition : Islam on Judaism and Christianity, Christianity on Judaism, Judaism
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by seren 11y ago
I find the experience interesting. However, I can't to help to think that a 10 days Vipassana session is kind of extreme, from checking your smartphone 100 times an hour to not speaking to anyone for 10 days. There are probably milder

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