user5454

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by user5454 8y ago
> Better in the way that western civilization (with America leading the way) has been built on hierarchies. Despite that that is an incorrect statement (it has been addressed by coldtea's comment), my original question tried to hint
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by user5454 8y ago
Interesting, in Swedish we have two (main) words too. The most common word, avundsjuk , even though it has sjuk in it (meaning sick or ill), doesn't necessarily have to be negative. E.g. "I'm so avundsjuk on your vacatio
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by user5454 8y ago
I agree, fairness != equality. While I'm a great believer in fairness, the problem with it is that it opens up to arbitration. What I consider fair may not be what you consider fair. Equality OTOH is measurable.
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by user5454 8y ago
> not being envious of anyone, equalises everyone. This is a very 1st world sentiment. If you live on less than $1/day, you are not equalized even if you're too hungry to feel any envy.
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by user5454 8y ago
> I'm of the opinion that egalitarianism is not a desirable outcome. Hierarchies [...] are much more preferable and have demonstrated to be the better pick for humanity. Better in what way? The Ju/’hoansi have lived in this ega
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by user5454 8y ago
> "For while a particularly spectacular kill was always cause for celebration, the hunter responsible was insulted rather than flattered." This seems to have the same purpose as the Law of Jante[1] we have in the Nordic countri
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by user5454 8y ago
This. I studied German for six years in school and have yet to complete a successful conversation. I worked as a volunteer in a children's home in Thailand for a couple of months and while far from fluent in Thai, I can manage most sit
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by user5454 8y ago
> 'not one of your long answers, though dad' I get this a lot too. My 8 yr old daughter frequently tells me she just wants the answer.
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by user5454 8y ago
> having access to iPad helped my daughter to learn way more than I thought she could at that age (e. g. English names for colors; count in English and the alphabet song — before she even was three) While that may sound awesome, I'm
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by user5454 8y ago
I recently returned from a trip to the USA and was a bit surprised that they asked for ZIP code instead of PIN for my credit card. While the NY subway accepted my non-US ZIP code, some gas stations did not as they apparently checked the ent
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by user5454 8y ago
Det är lättare att be om förlåtelse än om tillåtelse.
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by user5454 8y ago
In Sweden we incinerate[1] the trash in super hot ovens and use the resulting heat to heat our homes. We do recycle as well but as we sometimes even import trash to burn (it's a cold country after all) I don't feel so bad when thr
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by user5454 8y ago
We had a flight once where they had assigned my then six year old daughter to a seat on a separate row from the rest of us (me, wife and son) so naturally my wife took that seat and let me sit with the kids. This was very confusing to the f
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by user5454 8y ago
+1 for GDPR!
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by user5454 8y ago
The IT Crowd's take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZTvMYQSl_w
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by user5454 8y ago
On a related note I've found it's easier to get your way with e.g. your manager if you say "I will do this!" rather than "Can I do this?" This probably have to do with that in the second case you ask your manag
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by user5454 8y ago
Still it's easier and more pleasant to maintain that state of mind not sitting inside a cubicle with a boss yelling at you to work harder.
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by user5454 8y ago
But with AGA chipset the Amiga got chunky pixels (e.g. write palette index to the framebuffer as in VGA).
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by user5454 8y ago
The issue isn't that you could break most any padlock using heavy duty tools, the issue is that you can break any Tapplock without arousing suspicion. Consider using it for your gym-locker. The changing room is typically occupied by at
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by user5454 8y ago
While true in many cases, in my experience it's not only the engineers. Unless you have the senior managers on board as well, they'll just lean on the engineers to "ship now".
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by user5454 8y ago
> “Invincible to the people who do not have a screwdriver” or a mobile phone.. or access to the Internet..
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by user5454 8y ago
> But on the other hand, people with really low expectations are usually not super happy when something turns out better than expected I don't know, in my experience having high expectations seems to set you up for a higher fall and
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by user5454 8y ago
There's science to prove you wrong [1]. [1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/joop.12031
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by user5454 8y ago
There's a difference between the measurement "how much homework a student have" and the measurement "how much parents help with children's homework". The article is about the latter, while the GP discusses the
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by user5454 8y ago
> I mean, really, who is naive enough to take random legal advice from strangers? Having recently read some stories over at darwinawards.com, I can think of quite a few people who would seem a lot less naïve, if all they had done was t
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by user5454 8y ago
But worse for your knees...
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by user5454 9y ago
His first contribution was in 2002 according to the article: "[...] as Netfilter substantially existed since 1999, three years before Patrick's first contribution to Netfilter, and five years before joining the core team in 2004.
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by user5454 9y ago
Apple is intentionally slowing down phones with every OS upgrade to "preserve the battery" [1]. [1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/21/technology/apple-slows-down-...
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by user5454 9y ago
My favorite part is that they don't seem to understand the concept of hash collisions at all! ( "ONE collision, nah that's nothing" [1]) and when JP Aumasson explains a possible attack the response is basically &quot
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by user5454 9y ago
Well, as IOTA targets embedded devices (I guess the reason Bosch is interested) they should have enough knowledge to form an opinion about transaction sizes: "transactions in IOTA are 10KB (in contrast, Bitcoin transactions are on ave

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