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by tajen 10y ago
When I was 13, in 1996, I used to dream that everything was possible. I dreamt of a personal drone that would look at the streets from above (unthinkable at the time, energy-wise), and a mini-computer in my hands to drive it, so I would fin
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by tajen 10y ago
I often hear of US propaganda going through newspapers and Hollywood movies. From the outside, the effect is obvious. But internally, does anyone knows how it works? Does the CIA sponsor moviemakers if they show things this way or that way?
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by tajen 10y ago
My father was a high school director. It was a 900-student school for lowerclass jobs, with... well, many lowerclass situations with students who hadn't necessarily ever touched a phone, in the 80s. Part of the job was managing financi
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by tajen 10y ago
Surprisingly, the rise is uneven and may lead to lower sea level depending on where you are. The mass of icecaps is so important that it attracts water around them by gravity, and it gets composed with the extreme centrifugal force. If th
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by tajen 10y ago
> There is a strong positive correlation between wealth and assholeness. Then what's in it for me, rich person (In the hundreds of thousands of savings at 35, starting from $500 at 22), to give back or be kind? Nothing, since you&#x
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by tajen 10y ago
You don't get it. At ~1000$/yr, it's almost free, independently of your background, and admission is based on good grades at high school. We do get factory worker's children in the main admission, proof that it's po
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by tajen 10y ago
> I think the real problem is that in a society that values material wealth above all else Not sure that's true. There are tremendous movements of people valuing love over money. What we need is love. And since, personally, I&#x27
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by tajen 10y ago
I almost never talk about all of this. Except the detention centers, it's so interesting and emotional that I often tell the stories. That's where I learnt about Christmas Island.
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by tajen 10y ago
The article provides ~12 examples of how rich people are less generous. It proxies "rich people" with parameters such as nicer neighbourhoods. It shows that proximity to the victims creates more empathy (e.g. 9\11 victims vs Tsuna
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by tajen 10y ago
I've tried being generous (and still donate, probably more than all my coworkers together), and I still get pissed upon by leftists. Talk about empathy. I live in France, my parents weren't even that rich, but we strive to work
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by tajen 10y ago
Tesla has 14,000 employees today, expects to hire 6,000 more in the Gigafactory 1.
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by tajen 10y ago
> If Tesla is making as many cars as Toyota and as much profit is Toyota, then they'll be priced like Toyota But maybe Toyota will return fewer profit per car? Ah, you've already accounted for that. There are other variables:
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by tajen 10y ago
Tesla's market cap is $30bn, more than Renault, Mazda, Chrystler or Subaru ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9055885 ). If they execute well on the Gigafactory, they may apply a multiplier on this market cap, reachi
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by tajen 10y ago
There's a lot of added value for the community in mass transport. It costs less per fare than car systems you can think about (even ridesharing & co), consume/pollute less, but more importantl it allows lower-class and middle-
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by tajen 10y ago
...As long as they can rob the car and the bank accounts of the owners ("civil asset forfeiture"), they'll be fine.
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by tajen 10y ago
True. They say producing movies is extremely expensive, but only because they force blockbusters upon us and because they use stars from an extremely reduced pool of actors. Example: There are thousands of muscular guys worldwide who beg to
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by tajen 10y ago
Given how much I've been burnt with that, I wish Amazon sales could plunge and become a study case for "what not to do" in management. Ideally we'd make it a verb: To amazonize your company = To drive it with so short-te
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by tajen 10y ago
> the Internet has none of this "Good neighbourhood" = Ask your child to only use Facebook. Don't let him go near the train station. Leave the Google Safe Search by default. Let them use a video player, but download the co
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by tajen 10y ago
Is there only one page? I'm on an iPad, there doesn't seem to be arrows for next/previous page.
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by tajen 10y ago
We don't need Disney to open-source their software. We need Volkswagen and various bogus companies to open-source the software of safety-sensitive material. Dangerous hardware, measurement tools (e.g. petrol stations, security cams), v
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by tajen 10y ago
No-one really expects new magic in iPhones - We just hope there will be some incremental improvements and the rest stays as cool as it is. What the people expect is rather a magic new product. The watch is merely a gadget. The iPod was a re
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by tajen 10y ago
We actually have this in many developed places, albeit only for vegetables. Urban people subscribe to an "organic farm coop" and receive a set of season vegetables per week. They don't have much choice, but the upsides are: -
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by tajen 10y ago
Isn't space super-cold? I mean, if you pull air out of a tube, the stretched air absorbs calories (–or cools down, which is the principle of a fridge with other chemicals and a liquid/gas transition). So can this effect keep the m
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by tajen 10y ago
Certificates are very expensive with most providers, $59 is a bargain depending on your needs. The sole reason I've been staying with StartSSL is I've SSL'd all my subdomains (it's awesome for Postgres, for example), and
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by tajen 10y ago
Exactly, they don't provide measurements and comparisons, for example I'd love to know the temperature spike of the motors when it's cooled and when it's not (e.g. when they have to programmatically stop it because it ri
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by tajen 10y ago
The Twitter app properly communicates when you're geotagging your tweets or not, and allows deactivation using a simple click before you submit. If that's all it takes for privacy, then I'm ok with this. Facebook is much more
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The limits "added by the financial system" come from the limits of real-life resources we have. They are just transferred from the provider of the goods to the person who needs them. The world wouldn't work if e.g. USA consum
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by tajen 10y ago
The financial system is a proxy for the resources. Replace the $ numbers with the merchandise and you'll understand it: "Sorry, your unborn child was killed by a virus we could have stopped by feeding a thousand researchers for 3
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by tajen 10y ago
> This, despite the fact that, per the very article we're discussing, 94% of senior devs are men, 92% of IT managers are men, and 93% of the heads of IT are men. Yep. It's not incompatible. Maybe most women don't want to s
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by tajen 10y ago
No, that's not our disagreement. Our disagreement is that if fewer women want to get into programming, then they're not being discriminated against. They are free and just didn't choose programming. It could be a social const

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