southerndrift

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by southerndrift 7y ago
Machines only compensate for humans to a certain extend because they are already used as much as possible. If humans work less then there is not the same output because there are no hidden opportunities where machines can do more work. I st
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Because 40 hours a week are, if you remove vacations, holidays and sick leaves, on average roughly 4 hours per day. That's the amount tribal people work per day. There is no inherent human need to reduce that time further. As I said, p
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by southerndrift 7y ago
It is solved. Everybody can choose a job where they works less hours or become a freelancer and work as many hours as they want. This doesn't work on a global scale, but as an individual, that choice is possible. The problem is that pe
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by southerndrift 7y ago
You can also look at this the other way round: By buying a Christmas tree, you create a market for those trees which makes people plant them. This leads to several generations of trees growing at any time, so that there is a net-reduction o
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Of cource, IDEs advance. But at which pace? The bottleneck was the language. When MS got their shit together they just caught up with Java. Maybe MS has done the most, made the biggest investments. But splitting the ecosystem of managed lan
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by southerndrift 7y ago
I would give that title to SUN. Without them, there would be no Java, and thus no Eclipse, and thus no incentive to advance the IDEs to the point they are today. That productivity and job satisfaction, you have it despite Microsoft. Imagine
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Unfortunately, they won't succeed. The way their homepage is designed suggest that they believe that their reputation and brands are enough to make people subscribe. Why is it not possible to click on a channel image and have a sneak
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by southerndrift 7y ago
To expand on this: >After the prescribed date, the bids are opened and assessed, and either the "lowest cost" or "most economically advantageous tender" is chosen. The contract award must also be reported in the OJEU
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Yours is the obvious solution but the problem is a simple example to help people understand the more complex idea of transducers. It's for situations where the code inside the for loop is so complex that it would be nice to organize it
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by southerndrift 7y ago
What if St(eve) Jobs picked Mr. [E|I]ve just because that's the name needed to hand out apples to people, especially the bitten ones? In other words: is his design really that important?
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by southerndrift 7y ago
You have to pay rent for antennas. That's directly correlated to local price levels.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
The point is that he is self-made. He didn't leave school because he was stupid but because he had to. The family caused the lack of education but they gave him the right values. They instilled the pride and curiosity that allowed him
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by southerndrift 7y ago
The new law about the property tax links the tax amount to the value of the area. If done right, this forces house owners to rebuild their property and adjust the density if they want to remain profitable.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Because we have always been at war with Eastasia.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
That's a bargain when you remember that Siemens moved its headquarter from Berlin to Bavaria after the war [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens
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by southerndrift 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
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by southerndrift 7y ago
What could possibly go wrong if those microbes inevitably get into the wild? This should recreate the situation with cellulose. At first, trees didn't decompose but nowadays, you have to prepare wood if you want to use it long-term. Pl
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by southerndrift 7y ago
This makes it a good thing, doesn't it? Cocaine is healthier than crack.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
If you think the WhatsApp situation is sad, start thinking about Skype and Paypal.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
>You're in a desert and you're walking along in the sand and all of a sudden you look down and...
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by southerndrift 7y ago
It's a qualia thing [1]. You have a certain understanding of happiness and that happiness can be bought with money. Try the steel man [1] approach and try to figure out which idea of happiness cannot be bought with money. The statement
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Someone mentioned that MS is not publishing the C# debugger. What good is all that open source code if that key component for development is missing?
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by southerndrift 7y ago
How about the C# debugger?
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by southerndrift 7y ago
In 1985, chancellor Kohl stopped the German network that was on track to deliver 100M fiber connections to every home until the year 2000 [1]. They could have fostered an environment for tech companies, but at least Germany chose do somethi
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Then they should do both: bounce it and also show it in a folder called 'bounced'.
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by southerndrift 8y ago
They don't have much time to backstab you. Once there are several civilizations cooperating, the backstabber is up against everybody else. Cooperation means you trade your minimal chance of winning a winner-takes-it-all game for the ri
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by southerndrift 8y ago
If you cooperate you have two bunkers so you have a second strike on whoever attacked you unnoticed.
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by southerndrift 8y ago
>How would you determine if the responder was a farmer, or a hunter pretending to be a farmer? Farmers already made that choice by sending the message. Whoever wants to attack will be prepared to the point of full domination. That said,
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by southerndrift 8y ago
Betrayal is not cheap. If it is a winner-takes-it-all game then the chance of winning as a single hunter is extremely small. However, once you found one partner to cooperate, you significantly increase your chance of outnumbering all the ot
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by southerndrift 8y ago
>The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hun

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