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by sunstone 6y ago
Myers-Briggs has almost zero validity as a method of assessing personalities (check the straight dope) so this is really a fools errand. Anyone wanting to use a validated assessment should check out the big five personality test. And it&#x2
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by sunstone 6y ago
Hasn't this been on HN for the past week at least?
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by sunstone 6y ago
That and it's not good strategy to poke the king in the eye when he comes asking for a favour. Let's call it 'win win'.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Ah, the slow follower strategy.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Much of recent US behaviour has been driven by Trump working for Putin. That will soon end. Otherwise this has some good insights.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Consumer's Reports says otherwise.
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by sunstone 6y ago
What I mean is, when I peruse the list of items that Google News provides I find the quality and level of interest to be really low. It's not that there is good stuff out there it's just that whatever drives this content seems to
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by sunstone 6y ago
Google News lol. If this is the current state of the art in AI I'm not worried.
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by sunstone 6y ago
My TV is an LG plasma unit from 2010. This tech was also was supposed to suffer from burn in problems. And in fact, just recently I noticed that the Ubuntu screen that manage this TV's content with was starting to burn in where the I
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by sunstone 6y ago
Home is where the heart is. :)
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by sunstone 6y ago
Almost everyone believes the color of the sun is orangy yellow when its real color is the furthest thing from that. And again, facts will not convince them.
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by sunstone 6y ago
You can be sure there will be a lot more competition by 2030.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Not at all, in this case "better off" means don't worry about whether a given TV has smart features or not. Buy the screen/TV you like and bypass the "smart" stuff. For example if I was in the market my choice
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by sunstone 6y ago
You could might try applying to immigrate to Canada. They allow over 300k immigrants a year and the biggest requirements are to not be too old and fluent in English (or French). Lack of an official high school diploma is tricky but you mi
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by sunstone 6y ago
You're probably better off the buy the screen you like and pair it with a low cost NUC to sidestep the privacy invasion of the "smart" part of that TV.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Yes, I recommend the Logitech MX Ergo Plus trackball mouse. It's expensive but sometimes on sale. I like it because it doesn't have to "move around" like a regular mouse, so it can just sit on the arm of the sofa (or wha
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by sunstone 6y ago
Sure like "Intel" and "IBM" would be a good place to start :)
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by sunstone 6y ago
I do the same except I use a small fanless NUC running Linux Mint which I control with the top of the line Logitech blue tooth "thumb ball" mouse. Aggravations vanquished.
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by sunstone 6y ago
I'm sure taxonomists would agree that a turtle on land is an animal whereas a turtle in the sea with fin type legs is a fish.
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by sunstone 6y ago
As Gates said, "It's as hard to give this stuff away effectively as it was to make it in the first place."
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by sunstone 6y ago
So, build your network, wait for your inheritance, and do a start up :)
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by sunstone 6y ago
My chromeOS updates recently have been sketchy. It's almost like they're pushing daily updates or something. In particular the sleep/wake process has gone completely bonkers, it's like it completely restarts on every c
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by sunstone 6y ago
Ah, the warm glow of confirmation bias. :)
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by sunstone 6y ago
Sure if they were fond of atmosperic testing of nuclear weapons.
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by sunstone 6y ago
If I recall correctly GG&S says Japan annexed Hokaido because they needed more trees.
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by sunstone 6y ago
The volume ratio between the 2170 cell and the new 4680 cell is about 5.48 So the new cell is about five and a half times bigger.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Hey just install a growling speaker for sound and you're good to go. That's what they do on the pickup trucks.
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by sunstone 6y ago
I was there around this time. They were posting links on slashdot to drive traffic to their site.
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by sunstone 6y ago
With every different job you do, you (should) learn something new and useful.
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by sunstone 6y ago
I believe there was a story some years ago about a sail boat in the pacific, about a day's sail from the Panama Canal that was broken up by a pod of killer whales.

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