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by v-erne 4y ago
>> Making guns illegal won’t stop anyone touched enough to shoot up a school/gay bar/concert/grocery store. They’re going to find a way to do it. Somehow in my country (Poland) and in most of Europe they do not find a w
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>> It's actually mostly fun. Until you see a newb drive a tank that took you hours to procure wildly into the enemy and you rethink how you're living your whole life. Wow, this is depressing ... they actually managed to recr
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>> will teach you to never use these "quick return" style branches ever again Care to elaborate? Im not sure if I understand but I thought quick return from function was quite goode strategy for defensive coding? Or many You
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And nazis literally invented rockets science that allowed us to explore solar system. So whats Your point? Because clearly you are not seeing that people are not rational but rather rationalizing. Which sometimes leads them to invent useful
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A bit of interesting off-topic : I think its a disservice to general knowledge propagation to use personification when taking about systems. People can care, biology and systems in general cannot, they simply have consequences. I blame Rich
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>> I personally started playing guitar, and tennis, too late in life to become a professional. I would argue that literally no one needs professional guitar and tennis players, those are at most the "nice to have". As humans
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by v-erne 4y ago
I believe Hikaru is really well done and if one can get through initial barier (its still anime - some people would never watch it event if their life depended on it) it is really engaging story (considering the main topic - a boardgame!)
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by v-erne 4y ago
Is this some personal vendetta against HN :) ? I strongly believe that this HN thingy is one of the best things that I came across in the internet. Maybe I had bad luck but after slashdot, reddit and dig have gone down the drains this is a
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That is profound thruth to live by - the journay should be always more important than the destination. And it always amazes me how one little anime was able to promote go all around the world. I dont think that I know anyone who saw hikaru
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Isn't ko just simple forbinding of board state repetition rule ? (As in You cannot go back to previous state of board and create infinite cycle). Akin to repetition rule in chess. Why would this be hard for beginers ? Unless You try to
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>> understood bidding, but never what was going on I would blame your teacher for this (im guessing that there was one in club?) The relation between biding and then strategy of trick taking is something that requires a good teacher t
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I'm sure that there are people that genuinly create happines from interacting with and having children. Just like there are people that takes pleasure in hurting themselves. The real tragedy is You cannot know which one are You until i
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What's Your point? You are suggesting that this people would find another disease to get out of job market? If so that is some high level dystopian stuff you believe.
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>> but when these people are asked whether having kids made them happier they would say yes This can be quite easily explained by peer pressure - You are expected to treat children as precious little gifts from god, and speaking ill a
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by v-erne 4y ago
>> potential manifestation of all your dreams and hopes that you can't or won't accomplish And this is how You get tiger moms ladies and gentlemen (only half joking - Your child is first and foremost independent human and no
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by v-erne 4y ago
I'm not sure I buy that - Humans can create meaning out of everything - You do not need children for that (there are some that spend years meditating in literal caves and claims that their life is also full of meaning). So given that w
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>> and individuated to meet customer demands So maybe we as a society make them stop demanding? I believe that greed has no limits if we allow people to believe that they always deserve more. Its like this famous chinese dragon that e
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by v-erne 4y ago
That's a good point - maybe we really do not need all those carpenters? I live in an aparment in a building made from prefabs. All my furniture is made by machines in Ikea factories. I literally never had any need for carpenter.
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And don't forget about silverlight and frameworks build on top of it (for enterprisy like form apps). That one was one hell of a swamp that almost drowned my friend's startup after MS decided to kill it. Years of hard work went d
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by v-erne 4y ago
>> But both teams agree to guidelines on what makes a good football (soccer) game This seems like a very useless definition of cooperation from the perspective of the discussion that we are having. Sure, following same rules is some f
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by v-erne 4y ago
>>Usually countries with laws about commuting being part of the daily wage are more about people who work across different locations rather than their fixed daily commute (i.e. you have a single fixed 'location' where you wo
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by v-erne 4y ago
>> It’s basically a race to the bottom. It only is if You ignore constraints that exist in real live (as opposed to thought models of economic systems). >>If I live 500 km away can I just take a train ride in, stay 30 min then
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by v-erne 4y ago
I was not suggesting that evolution does not exists at all in religions but rather that is actively fight back by its participants.
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You don't know emotional state of the author to rule out burnout. I personally had similar problems for last two years and I'm sure this has nothing to do with planning and everything with my emotional reactions towards writing co
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>>So basically the people who choose to live far away get subsidized? Sure, You can put it this way - if workers living close have problem with that they can move or select another employer (if they prefer commuting to actually workin
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by v-erne 4y ago
I blame the speed of change - there is too many moving parts (libraries) that are developed without some central oversight or coordination. All 90's RAD tools were created by gigantic IT corporations with top down management that was a
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Which country is this? I would love to have commute as part of work in my country. Fom the point of law employees materialize at work in the morning and than teleports to home in the evening (the creator of work code here must have been fan
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by v-erne 4y ago
Not OP, but I think I can add my 2c here. It means (pun intended) that the meaning is not self sustaining term in our reality - there is no absolute meaning outside of our perception. There is only relative meaning (as in what kind of mean
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by v-erne 4y ago
>> More to it, to anyone who claims religious people are intellectual inept, I would simply challenge you to read any of the material written by the intellectuals of the tradition That's a straw man - we all are idiots sometimes
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by v-erne 4y ago
>> often the result of thousands of years of evolutionary processes which refine them >> Religious beliefs/texts are an extension of human evolution and should be seen that way. If this is true, does it mean that churches

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