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by terryf 8y ago
If people would be fully rational, then you would be correct. However, they are not (and shouldn't be imho, but that's another discussion). Basically, it's about the ability or potential of going anywhere. I bought a car that
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by terryf 9y ago
Certainly, I've been very lucky. No argument there. But the only thing I'm saying is to not over romanticise the past. The life of a 14 century peasant was not good compared to mine. I also realise that a lot of the comforts I e
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by terryf 9y ago
I never argued that. I do believe that things are much better now than in the 14th century though. That's the comment I replied to. We should always strive to improve, but the article had the tone of "oh look how bad everything is
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by terryf 9y ago
ooh. much better put than my longer rant in sibling comment.
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by terryf 9y ago
Technically, you're probably right. Realistically I also like to live in a nice house, do have to (well, by choice obviously) take care of three kids and like to enjoy a luxury here and there. That takes money. I have tried multiple ti
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by terryf 9y ago
I work my ass off. Lot more hours than would be technically necessary. High tech as well. I've also gone hiking in the mountains in California. Been on the beach in Italy. Walked around in the center of Munich. As a 14th century peasan
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by terryf 9y ago
If you calculate it out, then the long tail gets much more money in my scenario.
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by terryf 9y ago
The main problem with Spotify is their payment structure to artists. When I pay their monthly fee, I want that money to go to the artists that I listen to. There would be a simple way to do this - take the money I pay, minus the Spotify cut
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by terryf 9y ago
I live in a country with 1.3 million people total. So, not really :)
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by terryf 9y ago
Yeah, totally. The other mindblowing thing is that since photons are moving at the speed of light, thus time for them pretty much stands still. Thus, if a photon was created at the moment of the big bang and happens to "bump" into
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by terryf 9y ago
Thanks, I'll try that.
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by terryf 9y ago
Didn't work that way for me - last time I was filling up, I did pay a bit more before than fit into the tank and checked the bank account later - got charged for the full amount.
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by terryf 9y ago
Yes, absolutely you can go inside and pay, the annoying part there is that you have to guess how big the tank on the rental car is, especially when returning it full. First world problems, yes :)
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by terryf 9y ago
As a foreigner who travels to the US on occasion - and therefore doesn't actually have an US zip code - what's up with that? If you have a keypad installed anyway, then why the hell not accept the chip reader with pin code? Not co
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by terryf 9y ago
Sales also has a different culture than development. Sales really is brutal and soul wrenching in a completely different way than software is (yeah, I've been on both sides, less on sales part). The measurability of money has two sides
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by terryf 9y ago
They do. Video here from 7 years ago that talks about it: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/click-crash-course-moder... Basically, they do speculative execution with register renaming to get quick turn-around if the
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by terryf 9y ago
Exactly - consciousness is clearly an emergent phenomena of these kinds (and possibly other kinds) of interactions in your brain due to the large scale. In order to reason about the emergent phenomena, you have to "zoom out" - loo
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by terryf 9y ago
"But if you use a rigid ruler, all of its atoms would hold on to one another tightly (with electromagnetic forces), and the ruler would stay the same length, allowing you to notice that more space was created." This is the part th
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by terryf 9y ago
Interesting. I thought they would do register renaming for thread switching as they do for speculative execution. Is this not the case?
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by terryf 9y ago
wow! Very cool explanation! I wonder what happens at the point that it changes direction - is the change instant or is there a curve? I suppose that because photons/waves don't have mass it can be instant, but that still sounds we
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by terryf 9y ago
No, a feature of a drill bit are the hard-alloy super-sharp perfectly aligned cutting edges. The drill bit by itself does not make holes. You can use it (combined with another tool) to make holes. A feature is something that the product i
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by terryf 9y ago
Very good point - I guess it could work of someone somehow invented an economy in there that allowed for people to exchange time for money (as in work). No idea what it could be, but in theory - why not, right.
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by terryf 9y ago
The fact that I'm going to die. It's really annoying. Also, ageing effects on the body, like brain plasticity reduction and various other bits that really suck when you get up in the morning and remember how easy it was 20 years a
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by terryf 9y ago
Yes, of course they aren't free. I also live in a house, that's more expensive than an apartment because I like it more this way. I often don't buy the cheapest food, but the food that I like. I don't want to force cars
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by terryf 9y ago
> Why would you use this instead of a system where you take a neighborhood bus to the local transit station & shopping center where you can pick up a light rail to the closest subway station, where you take the express train downtown
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by terryf 9y ago
I do believe in increasing personal responsibility of people and having less of a nanny state, so I do tend towards that answer, but it's really not that black and white. On highways and places where pedestrians and bicyclists are not
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by terryf 9y ago
So you like the fact that the police know exactly where and when you drove? Because the licence plate tracking cameras require that, you know. Also, the notion that there is some universal speed limit that makes driving safe on a particular
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by terryf 9y ago
Have you looked at the spec? If you do, then you'll understand. Imagine a file transfer protocol that defines the command to list files in a folder, but does not specify the format of the response other that it should be human-readab
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by terryf 10y ago
I'm sorry but it isn't that black and white. To be honest, I wish there was a way to put in my HTTP request headers the fact that I'm going to use an ad blocker - then your server has enough knowledge what to serve me exactly
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by terryf 10y ago
Maybe that's exactly what they want you to think and they really are just out to get the potatoes, which they don't like!

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