wojcech

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by wojcech 10y ago
This made me put "sign up on gun.io" on my to-do list. Very cool talk, very sympathetic guy (+1 for rapid fire info,+10 for making a stand for hacker aesthetics and fun in hacking)
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by wojcech 10y ago
> Gov't is already so cheap that we (US) have fluoride in our water, that was planned to be cheap dental care =(. To understand you correctly, do you think the fluoride is a bad thing? IIRC fluoridated water is amongst the best bang
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by wojcech 10y ago
People think taxes are evil but for dome reason will accept warlords?
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by wojcech 10y ago
> This concept implies that it's possible to discover all possible scope before starting a project, which is almost always not the case on any project of relevant scale. This is waterfall. Difference would be that the team defines t
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by wojcech 10y ago
We need to unify this with actually hitting deadlines/making it economically viable, at least until basic income is a working model. Maybe tie it so that every stage has a payout (20% ln start, 80% on finish or sth like it). First stag
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by wojcech 10y ago
Damn good read
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by wojcech 10y ago
> ... which is, of course, silly. And the author should know that. This is not sufficient to explain to people why there are no rich conspirators hiding wealth. Mind you, I mostly agree with you. But I personally feel we need to have as
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by wojcech 10y ago
You can use the Barcode to tie things together... smart pantries and stock monitoring depends on standardised(ideally free) access to identifiers for the goods
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by wojcech 10y ago
This sentiment is so bizarre from a European perspective. So the only thing that stops people from getting an education willy nilly is student debt? Or American engineers are all better in some respects than German engineers because of thei
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by wojcech 10y ago
I very much feel by this study... I grew up with television, books, audio stories=>constant stimulation. I brought books to class to read when it got boring...some teachers let me get away with it(guess who were my favourites).I still cr
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by wojcech 10y ago
> It is not unthinkable that the NSA has faked the moon landing and pictures of earth with photoshop / film equipment. You havent been above earth, so how do you know? I think you should be less arrogant at the prospect of somebody
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by wojcech 10y ago
So how do you ensure that sciencists stay careful and try to be objective, how do you have any objectivity in allocation of funds etc. without some metric? I hate the publish or perish system, but that is due to wrong metrics. If (purely pu
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by wojcech 10y ago
It's not only a question of getting enough power IN but also of getting the "consumed" power(waste heat) OUT
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by wojcech 10y ago
> As I pointed out above, the status quo is actually pretty good. For you. And me. But we are not the majority. The majority does not benefit from automation, globalisation etc. as much as you and me. And it doesn't matter if in abs
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by wojcech 10y ago
Because it probably won't happen. Just like the idea that "charity will step in", history gives us evidence against it
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by wojcech 10y ago
> Pros and Cons to universal income Some criticism: > Pros > - homelessness becomes purely choice. Poverty is less of a motive for crime Unless health insurance is included and we change how we treat mental illnesses, homelessness
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by wojcech 10y ago
> Socialism and Communism has always been led by intellectuals. Marx was hardly a member of the proletariat for example. It was led, but one of the official foci was "Arbeiter bilde dich", "worker teach yourself". Ba
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by wojcech 10y ago
Don't know how much that applies here, but there is no inherent moral or egalitarian negative to a "harem" (or "unicorn" arrangements if I remember my polyamory lingo correctly) if everyone involved is actively and
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by wojcech 10y ago
Interesting points, thank you. EEVblog agrees with some of them and did the numbers on others, I might link it if I remember(it's bed time here soon) One thing where I don't agree:roofs being an unemotional decision. Everything
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by wojcech 10y ago
I hope it came through in my comment that I dislike the denial of government aid in the creation of a "bootstraps" narrative when people want to argue against taxes, not the making use of government aid per se(otherwise now it&#x2
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by wojcech 10y ago
I'm sure i'm not the only one who feels like this is possibly the iphone moment of Solarcity/Tesla: an old-ish idea, made sexy and tasty to consumers, together with technology reaching a tipping point(and also Musk again
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by wojcech 10y ago
We could make a new word for people who manage each other mutually, co existeling in their operations without blind hierarchy...we could call it mumanagement
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by wojcech 10y ago
"Why the West rules for now" has an interesting take on this
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by wojcech 10y ago
How do you make capital?
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by wojcech 10y ago
Probs to github for the disclosure. And congratulations to gitlab for probably getting a nice boost in on premise support contracts:)
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by wojcech 10y ago
> Like smoke a weed, workout, work at a burger joint as a burger flipper and date my daughter's best friend. Smart way to get your kids to find you a job. I like it
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by wojcech 10y ago
If I have to guess, the primary organ used in prediction of the future, especially catastrophes
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by wojcech 10y ago
Tar is just bundling into a single file AFAIK. There is a slight benefit depending on your compression tool to tar and then compress, because (AFAIK again)some tools compress files individually and then write them into a hierarchical file(I
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by wojcech 10y ago
I am that person. Coming from an electrical engineering/Low Level programming background HTML is a Markup language. I get those. CSS is stylesheets and in my opinion very straightforward. The hard part is making designs that are functi
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by wojcech 10y ago
Indeed, just finished the book "Cod" which gives some fascinating details for one example of new England (and also "nonslaving" European countries) indirectly profiting of the slave trade

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