spaceknarf

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by spaceknarf 7y ago
Not if it's unknown _which_ month. Then you'll have to keep a stockpile year round, which is precisely the objective of grandparent.
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by spaceknarf 8y ago
There are lots of books that changed the way I think. An example that may be of special interest to the HN community is "So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal Newport ( http://calnewport.com/books/so-good&
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by spaceknarf 8y ago
There's a lot of good descriptions in this book: Backup & Recovery - Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/backup-recovery/0596102... It's from 2009,
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by spaceknarf 8y ago
Yes, in the book Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark! (An AGI is implemented that makes money on Amazon Mechanical Turk.)
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by spaceknarf 9y ago
What age were your kids when you started with this style of traveling?
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by spaceknarf 9y ago
The parallels with the "Daemon" in Daniel Suarez' novel are scary. small spoiler ahead This Daemon is an AI that keeps data of big companies hostage - it will destroy all that company's data if the company does not pay
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by spaceknarf 10y ago
I only visit https://news.ycombinator.com/best . The articles there don't change every time you press F5.
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by spaceknarf 10y ago
> Now, if someone lets me put images in comments, that would be amazing. Good for state transition diagrams and random scribbles That's exactly what JetBrains MPS ( https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/ ) does. Even bet
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by spaceknarf 10y ago
Taleb investment advice: put almost all of your savings in super stable investments, like treasuries. Use the rest to bet on unicorn startups, or highly leveraged options (as long as those options have a limited downside and an unlimited up
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by spaceknarf 11y ago
I always use https://awwapp.com/ for that purpose.