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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I guess China would be the first specific that came to mind while thinking of this. That they were one of Earth's first human civilizations, and still exist as a nation today, intrigues me if we could peer deeply inside their historic
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I think it's disingenuous to say this in absolute terms. Simply by pointing out that poor people many times can't bail themselves out before a hearing, and suffer all the consequences (like lost job, lost home) that come with tha
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Ask HN: United States' history from other ancient civilizations' perspective
2 points by unexaminedlife 6y ago|3 comments
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I genuinely believe most of the entrepreneurs who "make a dent" went in with the best of intentions. I sort of feel that once the wrong investors get involved (or the entrepreneur gets sucked into bad terms) the whole thing (from
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I think probably the most ironic thing about all the hate PHP gets, is that those who hate it the most seem to assume that the people who chose to use it did so without exploring other options. So {your favorite language here} was turned do
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Beard(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by unexaminedlife 6y ago|0 comments
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I have a theory, which I hope is mostly wrong, and may or may not apply directly to this particular situation. We always hear about the cases where people from foreign countries are trolling celebrities or other high profile people. Why s
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
Admittedly I haven't been following this story, but now that I see it on HN, am genuinely curious whether they were able to rule out that hardware is involved? Also curious to know if perhaps there are flaws in the image format's
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
Yep, it was consultancy working with large companies. :)
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Without even trying to lookup the authors and their backgrounds (if I was into betting) I would bet a sizable wager that the core group responsible for this come from extremely large companies (or my second guess would be a consultancy who
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I may seem "closed" to the possibility that Trump is being more objective than me. Then again we all have over 3 years of observations on which to base our conclusions. I will be interested, and open-minded, when reading your tre
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
Not sure we're disagreeing here. But, an important point would be that we should be striving for objectivity. In Trump's world objectivity is not a goal. To him it's an obstacle.
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
Somehow technology needs to help bridge the divide here. Literally the ONLY argument that needs to be had is "what are facts and logic". Unfortunately not enough people know what these are, which is severely hampering our countr
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
It seems an obvious solution would be to incorporate historical data into future decisions on whether to take down immediately vs take down after manual verification. If someone has been hit with these takedown requests over and over where
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I think it's strange you are saying this idea of remote work is a "single formula". If anything, refusing to do things differently is more like a "single formula" in my mind. Maybe you think differently about this,
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I would disagree. I think it's definitely a power move when what you decide to do is (a) more expensive (b) unnecessary (c) less efficient. By ignoring an entire planet worth of qualified (probably highly qualified) people when you d
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
IMO they should get no credit for doing what they refused to do when they could but didn't have to. Now that they have to, and are doing it, what credit do they deserve?
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I'm in the midwest. It would be a long list if I tried to name all the companies who (pre-covid) were not hiring remote. I haven't forgotten their names and hope others won't either. They all had the resources and know how
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I think there are certain "properties" that will need to exist in a truly sustainable micro-payment system. One of which was discussed, but only to expose why the author doesn't think micro-payments will work. I think the sy
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
This ted talk still has my mind blown. Not sure what the current state of the art is on this, but I find this amazing even today. https://www.ted.com/talks/sheila_nirenberg_a_prosthetic_eye_...
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
Believe it or not there might be a market for this! :) Here's a good start for your customer base. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5zywd/meet-dick-run-clai...
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
And by no means am I trying to isolate "right wing", it's just where my "deep dive" led me. If I had to guess there is probably comparable behavior from a large portion of blue-collar "left wing" folks as
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
2/2 So imagine, knowing this livelihood as your means to an end. It's how you get paid and how you feed your family. It's obvious to the rest of us that this is not the right way to engage in conversation. But it's so
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Ask HN: Musings on what is wrong with US politics
1 points by unexaminedlife 6y ago|2 comments
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I guess it's almost like speaking two different languages when talking about what a DB guarantees and what your application REQUIRES in the form of guarantees. Typically, in my experience, they're not the same thing. Or not ALWA
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
Depends on the specifics. Who is the customer? If the customer isn't going to be you you're probably not the best person to be making the decision(s). If you're trying to come up with new products ask the people who will be
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
Find commonalities among the different ideas. This way you could start working on what I like to call the "infrastructure" of the solution. This continues to leave open opportunity to pivot, and will make it easier to do so sinc
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
Building computer systems / architectures is always about compromises. If your requirements are that "everything must be perfect always", you will never deliver anything. I came up with a "mental framework" that al
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
oh, yeah. Thanks for reminding me. Disclaimer: My needs are not for crypto currency :)
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
Power is accounted for in my calculations. Technically today's gpu compute does wonders for power consumption. And likely to only improve from here. In the many years I've used cloud I've never requested support, so in my e

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