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by virtual_void 4y ago
People are already trapped in a filter bubble. In general people do not seem open to ideas that do not confirm what they already believe. I don’t see how this differs. I’m also not sure that i agree with your idea that the core principal of
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by virtual_void 4y ago
No idea - it’s quite hard. I didn’t suggest the original idea and I’m not trying to apply the concept. I was merely pointing out that your argument was based on a false premise. Now you’re arguing about implementation, which is different.
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by virtual_void 4y ago
The parent seemed to suggest this was at an individual level, rather than everyone being forced to get information from some consensus trusted source. There’s no need, with this idea, for you to have to get your info directly from the Vat
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by virtual_void 4y ago
Not everyone is heterosexual…
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by virtual_void 4y ago
Did the paper here use the calorie data from the nhanes dataset? My (perhaps incorrect) understanding was that they used bmi which was measured rather than self reported? I presume you relate this as a critique of self-reported data rather
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by virtual_void 4y ago
The amount you pay in is not the amount you are entitled to. It’s about having a better, fairer society. It is interesting though because it’s hard to draw a line between elective stuff that should be covered vs what should not. Breast impl
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by virtual_void 4y ago
He’s clearly not saying that though. The statement was that a wealthy person was complaining about having to wait. Everyone else is also having to wait. They could speed things up by paying privately if they so wish. Also the wealthy should
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by virtual_void 4y ago
Services, such as healthcare, public infrastructure, public transport, energy etc should be run by the state. There is always a conflict of interest when companies run these things because they care about profit / shareholder return mo
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by virtual_void 4y ago
I think you’re right. There is a heck of a lot to be said for enjoyment regardless of productivity. It becomes problematic, for me at least, when the thing i enjoyed becomes a sort of default mode. No longer for enjoyment, more of a reflex.
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by virtual_void 4y ago
I noticed the same thing in myself. Free time, especially a long block of it can just be wasted. Sometimes that’s a sort of necessary mental reset but it made me think about what I’d do when i retired. I came to the conclusion, like you, th
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by virtual_void 4y ago
I can see how that would be frustrating and sort of causes a misuse of public funds. Feels like infrastructure queries shouldn’t come under FOI when i first consider it. Then i suppose there might be legitimate reasons to care; Perhaps thin
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by virtual_void 4y ago
Why is that? You clearly feel strongly about it. I’d not considered that FOI requests might elicit such a response. Perhaps you could define the boundary between trivial and non-trivial uses? Have you had to deal with requests for informati
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by virtual_void 4y ago
These things aren’t binary. They aren’t simply this or that. Both can be true or neither or some combination. Your claim of selfishness seems to be unwarranted (and perhaps a little mean spirited), how can you possibly tell?
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by virtual_void 4y ago
I really enjoyed reading your thoughts on this. Running especially is useful for me too in this respect and I feel like you’re right about the root of the problems being how easy it is to avoid being bored. I also wonder if deep thinking en
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by virtual_void 4y ago
Dvd and Blu-ray are deeply upsetting things. Used to be that there were unskippable adverts and all sorts of junk I don’t expect if I paid for it. Continually adding on user hostile additional revenue streams, like adverts, on top of someth
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by virtual_void 4y ago
Another false dichotomy! How about i pay for things I’m buying but take a pirate copy as a backup? It’s already clear that if you make digital content available at a reasonable price people will pay for it. The thing we’re arguing about is
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by virtual_void 4y ago
I think you’re presenting a false dichotomy here. Piracy has always been there and studios still make a lot of money. People are still willing to pay for things, they just want a copy of the thing that they paid for so that it cannot be sto
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by virtual_void 4y ago
I think that there’s a third way in a meeting, and that’s to have a skilful chair of the meeting ensuring that there’s not one unnecessary dominating voice. I say this as an interrupter who has been kindly made aware that other people have
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by virtual_void 4y ago
You’re just stating that “no one” complained about other events that are similar then presented that as argument for market manipulation. It’s a complete straw man argument for market manipulation that does not even manage to make a provabl
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by virtual_void 4y ago
That’s a lot of claims you’re making there with regards to people not caring at the time. You should back them up with evidence. It might be challenging to do so considering you’re stating all this stuff as absolutes then claiming it’s mark
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by virtual_void 4y ago
I’d like to draw your attention to the comment guidelines here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by virtual_void 4y ago
Why wait for the interview? Post an advert that explains exactly this. People would who are not prepared to make that trade off will skip you and you’ll be left with people that are. There have been times where I’d have been ok with that tr
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by virtual_void 4y ago
It’s not just about scale though, it can be useful where you own both components. The producer just produces events, as long as the queue is available. no retry is needed if the other side is having a problem or being updated. The messages
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by virtual_void 4y ago
With your http example you have to know who the recipient is. If there are multiple recipients then you’d have to call each one. With a queue you don’t need to know, and the recipients can subscribe to information on the queue themselves. E
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by virtual_void 4y ago
Regarding the uk (including the met in london) you are incorrect. They have no right to prevent you from filming them and no right to delete photos. They can view photos under prevention of terrorism powers but may not take your equipment o
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by virtual_void 4y ago
Yes, whilst you still can. Good luck finding a high quality dumb tv these days.
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by virtual_void 4y ago
It takes surprisingly little HDL to describe the hardware of a basic version of Pong. https://www.fpga4fun.com/PongGame.html
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by virtual_void 4y ago
Body builders don’t fast therefore fasting reduces lean body mass?
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by virtual_void 4y ago
Sometimes i think this too. I think part of the joy (for me) used to be in the deep understanding of the hardware and making something out of what felt like nothing. If I’m doing something with a load of libraries and feel like a plumber mo
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by virtual_void 4y ago
I like duckduckgo bangs as an alternative to this. Just append !r to your search - or any of the others that they have, such as !hn. I guess the difference is that it tends to use the search within the site you're searching, which migh

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