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by vlehto 11y ago
You guessed the name right. And I found it again: https://www.reddit.com/r/slownews You can probably guess who is that [deleted].
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by vlehto 11y ago
My great grandfathers we're all farmers. Only one of my cousins is a farmer. That supposed "90% don't have any income" -event already happened. My extended family is richer than ever. Human beings have tendency to find n
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by vlehto 11y ago
If you wish to learn about climate change, I'd recommend looking at the history of it. One key thing to look at is radiation balance. The whole field of science was lot less hyped and corrupted before the 90's. And I haven't
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The oil fired steam propulsion was standard for larger warships of the era. In the 30's engineers started to install internal combustion diesels to large ships. But the oil fired steam still persists. (When power/weight is more im
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by vlehto 11y ago
I share your capitalist/marxist attitude. Workers really should buy their share of the means of production. It would improve current situation by distributing profits. And it would drive down down profits of capital investment, because
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by vlehto 11y ago
Machinist these days is several orders of magnitude more productive than manicurist. They make similar amounts of money. Cost of production mostly depends on salaries, machinery and raw materials. Company that produces machinery has the sam
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by vlehto 11y ago
You ask about code, I'm going to talk about life. Finishing a product is a mental model that doesn't necessarily relate to reality in any way. Design of Volkswagen Golf was "finished" in 1974. Wolkswagen Golf built in 20
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by vlehto 11y ago
Part of the idea was that we have "event bias". Lots of meaningful things happen in the world without any significant event. Look at gap minder or green revolution. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; sm
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by vlehto 11y ago
Good post. I recently made a list of words/concepts that made me smarter: Constructivism, incentive, meta-, inflation, half-life and root cause. It's not complete, but the ones that came to mind somewhat easily.
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by vlehto 11y ago
True. That's why I read books. But books are written by dictator. I'd want something that's ranked like HN or reddit, without the newness bias. With wide range of topics and varying depth and length of article. This only work
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by vlehto 11y ago
...and here I type you an answer. I can't really use video yet. Larger percentage of humans are literate than ever before. Larger body of knowledge is in written form than ever before. I think we are going to rely more on text in the f
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by vlehto 11y ago
I tried to found a subreddit with the idea that if some article is still interesting 6 moths after it's written, then it's actually interesting stuff. Most things in the world don't happen in a day. And even those that happen
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by vlehto 11y ago
Given lots and lots of time, sure. :D I have to admit that so far I have been completely unable to use my coding skills for anything practical. There would have been a situation where HTML chart had to be converted to excel chart. It was wa
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by vlehto 11y ago
Honestly the best bang for the buck would be to buy decent power amp. Then find good cheap old speakers from Craigslist or something like that. Speakers often outlast amps, which brings the price down. I just had to give away perfectly good
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by vlehto 11y ago
>can reason trough a simple SQL query or write a non trivial excel formula I can't do that. I have written few very basic python/java programs (maybe 200 lines max, very poor irc-bot was my triumph). And at the office I'm
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by vlehto 11y ago
Kids need to learn to read. Society works sooo much better when you can assume every adult can read. Give man a fish vs. teach to fish..
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by vlehto 11y ago
In Finland my high school had one mandatory course on philosophy. It was really more "history of ontology" than actual philosophy. (There was maybe one instance when students had to form opinion on something, instead of memorizing
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by vlehto 11y ago
OK, how do you know that's the best office? Students sleeping in a hospital gives them the feel of how it is. Then they can argument their position better. While they really don't know if people are going to be healthier i
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by vlehto 11y ago
The thrust/weight ratios of engines are stuck somewhere below 10/1 with afterburners. Military power is significantly less than that. Engine is single most heavy component, and structures have to be calculated to carry that two to
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by vlehto 11y ago
I didn't realize I was talking with an architect. Sorry if I come off too aggressive. :) I honestly think that there would be big loads of cash to be made in architecture if somebody would take strict back to the roots + science approa
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by vlehto 11y ago
I have audion engineer friend who has love/hate relationship with Behringer. Some years back they had quality problems. Good behringer is good, but you might get a bad specimen too. I have experience with their cheap end mixer, and it
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by vlehto 11y ago
The reason why delta wing is good is twofold. It allows supersonic flight and it gives you sharp high angle-of-attack turns. The bad thing is that the high AoA turn is based on upper portion of the wing generating shitload of high energy vo
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by vlehto 11y ago
I think that's about right price point for audiophile who wants return for investment. Beyond that it will be about appreciating the engineering feats, not something you could find in blind testing.
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A Finnish speaker manufacturer has been making studio quality speakers with fraction of cost of that. http://www.genelec.com/ You see this stuff in professional anechoic chambers and mixing studios. I have friend who has Ph
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by vlehto 11y ago
I really think representative democracies are almost as good/bad at public works than pro-totalitarian regimes. Veto players are as relatively likely to veto moderate approaches, because nobody has real interests considering the actu
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In Nordic countries you get state funded unemployment checks if you have permanent residence in the country. No citizenship needed. Any change in welfare should lessen the pressure of immigration or make immigrants more productive.
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With that logic social democratic Nordic countries should already suffer from immense inflation. But you don't take into account the taxation, which alone would cause about equal amount of deflation.
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by vlehto 11y ago
>"The UBI is not only a subsidy to employers; it is a union-buster." (???) This is true. This is also the main reason why I support UBI in Finland. Here unions are based on negotiating minimum wages for different jobs and payin
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by vlehto 11y ago
Check out Hans Rosling. Number of children in the world has stopped growing. Do you advocate for eugenics so that smarter genes get further? For that you might first want an equal beginning for every semen-sack and ovary. Currently nobody h
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But there is more to it than that. Le Corbusier has to propose something that makes people say "classic corbusier" or something like that. No name architects have to propose something weird if they ever wish to be remembered by an

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