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by tdons 6y ago
I've made a conscious effort to stop lying after reading https://samharris.org/books/lying/ Can recommend, it feels great.
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by tdons 6y ago
The same argument applies to the internet at large. Shall we move back to filing cabinets because that makes data leaks more difficult? I'm sure that at some point we'll crack the electronic voting nut. But yeah: it's scary
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by tdons 6y ago
We know that HN is visited by a fair share of Facebook employees. Can some of you weigh in (anonymously?) on this topic? Do you guys do hard deletes of user data instead of just soft deletes? If so, are logs or backups kept? For how long
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by tdons 6y ago
I (and many other engineers I know) do this too, and for a good reason. It's a simple system. Same reason I don't use WiFi at home but ethernet: it's simple.
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by tdons 6y ago
Respect :). I Implemented Karatsuba a while ago and wondered if an even faster method would be available. It is! I admire the perseverance, grit, and intelligence needed to crack hard nuts like this.
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by tdons 6y ago
yaml deserves all caps
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by tdons 6y ago
We have this in The Netherlands but it hasn't picked up yet. It's promising though: https://privacybydesign.foundation/irma-explanation/ The system is attribute based and requires an 'authority' t
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by tdons 6y ago
Thank you, this is fabulous. You've managed to put into words a feeling that (I think) many people share but have trouble expressing clearly.
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by tdons 6y ago
Let's say your project were written in Java. What if I asked you to rewrite the project in the C language because Java reminds me too much of the colonial period [1] and it is very painful for me because my ancestors suffered during t
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by tdons 6y ago
What if you also drop the soap, that way you need even less water. I'm not trolling by the way, I believe soap mostly isn't necessary. I'm interested in why everyone uses it when they take a shower.
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by tdons 6y ago
You are right when you say: it could also be worse. I concede that it's impossible to disprove my assertion, but it might still be true: we just don't know. I'm arguing that we should embrace the uncertainty and accept that
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by tdons 6y ago
Questioning these types of assertions isn't appreciated. I'm already being downvoted in this thread because of it.
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by tdons 6y ago
I was merely claiming that we have an incomplete understanding of the climate system, and because of that we shouldn't make these types of claims and state them with absolute certainty like the article is doing. Surely we can agree the
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by tdons 6y ago
Could it not be the case that there are surprising mechanisms or feedback loops that we do not currently know about; mechanisms that could put a damper on these predictions? More generally: aren't these multi-decade predictions simply
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by tdons 6y ago
Instant clbuttic.
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by tdons 6y ago
The economy of the country The Netherlands
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by tdons 6y ago
Our economy is in the toilet. Large parts of it at least (that aren't very visible). We'll see the wave of defaults and bankruptcies in a couple of months.
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by tdons 6y ago
You should take back the part where you accuse an entire nation of not caring about people dying. It's unbecoming. The Dutch just don't want mutualisation of debt. That's not strange at all.
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by tdons 6y ago
Why aren't people filling up big tanks? I don't get it.
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by tdons 7y ago
Cool, thanks for sharing. I'll check it out once github is back up :-)
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by tdons 7y ago
These monkeys are in the first scene of one of my favourite movies. Baraka (1992) -- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103767 Check it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbdFW6N782w
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by tdons 7y ago
From the article: > The court recognised in its ruling that the sums granted the relatives of victims were “disproportionate” to the suffering caused.
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by tdons 7y ago
I don't know. And I'm fine with that. We don't yet have answers to every question.
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by tdons 7y ago
Okay. But we can demonstrate the existence of gravity. Let go of an apple and watch it drop. I have yet to see a demonstration of divine intervention.
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by tdons 7y ago
> if "a billion people" say it's true, it must be true. Religion is a great example of this. I have yet to see proof of a god.
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by tdons 7y ago
Are there also downsides? Will my legs be more prone to breaking (for instance, when jumping)? Will my gait, or my balance be altered? Will this become a non-issue over time? I'm curious.
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by tdons 7y ago
We use k8s at $JOB so I decided to look into it on my own time. A wasted weekend trying to install it and a profanity laden #ragequit later I moved all my stuff over to OpenBSD instead. Never been happier. In the case of k8s: ignorance tru
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by tdons 7y ago
I don't know man, the world is a big place and growing trees parallelizes nicely. Cut them down and make buildings out of them, land area problem solved. The fresh water cost I don't buy, there's rain man, it's free.
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by tdons 7y ago
Plant a tree.
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by tdons 7y ago
I'd like to stop using WhatsApp but it's complicated. The foothold it has over here in Europe (The Netherlands) is enormous. Everybody uses it, there's even neighbourhood watches that use it, see: https://cdn.nie

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