wolfgke

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721.
by wolfgke 8y ago
> Also consider Chromebooks. Because of their dependence on Google servers, Chromebooks (or using any cloud-based service) make it very hard to satisfy confidentiality requirements that are imposed by clients for consulting jobs.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> As an extreme example, "Seat belts save lives" is an objective truth, but "Saving lives is a good thing" is an evidenceless belief. That is it believed by the vast majority of the human race in no way constitutes ev
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The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains(theatlantic.com)
2 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Pop physics books may not be the ideal way to do this, but it's probably better than nothing at all. On the other hand, they are very harmful to serious, but "boring" research proposals.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I would argue that most scientists in general pursue their field of study in the pursuit of sexy knowledge itself. If there's no wonder to motivate, what are people working towards? I disagree. My opinion on whether you might get
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> "... to replace the dying batch, ..." > I would speculate that longer lifespans may well have a lot to do with at least some of the shifts. Longer lifespan only indirectly implies higher retirement age.
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What if humans are no longer earth's most intelligent beings?(phys.org)
2 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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Leonardo da Vinci could visually flip between dimensions, neuroscientist claims(bigthink.com)
2 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> You can't just throw them in a GA-based E&M class without completely changing the entire curriculum first. Preparing for the additional requirements of the lectures of the coming semester is whar the semester break is for.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> This rant is a bit outdated. These days, we don't assume the user is stupid. Quite the opposite. Compare a modern WIMP GUI (say Windows, OS X or a widely used GNU/Linux desktop environment) with a modern smartphone GUI (say A
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Economists Recommend Delaying Retirement to Afford Old Age(futurism.com)
2 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> If I made one of these, I 'd be tempted to put an ODAC and O2 board in the same chassis to have a complete amplifier. Such a product is available commercially: > https://www.jdslabs.com/products/48/obj
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Exactly my experience. I downloaded a large archive of demoscenes. It lead to a lot of "fun" with Windows Defender. Just my imagination: If a malicious attacker would like to "convince" a victim to turn off the antivirus
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Just a consideration: Isn't it at least somewhat plausible that some products attract people who are satisfied more easily and thus write good reviews? In this scenario, lots of these reviews might be honest, but nevertheless not helpf
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> GNU make is ported to FreeBSD and very frequently used to build ports that use GNU-isms in their Makefiles. It's a non-issue really. At least the OpenBSD developers hated the Linuxisms so much that they made a song "Aquarela
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America’s Next Civil War(thewalrus.ca)
1 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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Things Every Hacker Once Knew(catb.org)
6 points by wolfgke 8y ago|1 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> some rando with a multi-thousand dollar gaming rig she's just using to browse HN on may well view the tradeoff differently. I don't think so since you will immediately hear the difference in terms of fan noise. :-)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> That's like asking why atheists are still uncomfortable with religious faith and spirituality. Because if you accept religious arguments, you can also perfectly argue using similar arguments that also the Flying Spaghetti Monster
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> but Trump is obviously an atheist. I doubt this: he rather either believes that he is personally chosen by God or God himself. :-)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
"The reason that atheists were not allowed to testify in court for so long was the certainty that witnesses who were unwilling to swear an oath to God had no reason to be truthful, since they did not fear divine judgment." Just a
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The biggest political problem in America, explained in one chart(vox.com)
4 points by wolfgke 8y ago|2 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Or, we could give free vasectomies to people who display a total lack of empathy. If you mean me: I have good, deep reasons why I do not even want children (these reasons shall by off-topic here). And I live by my words so that other p
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Birth control is expensive. Birth control often requires regular, routine access to the healthcare system. This is a problem when you're poor. As I wrote in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18284196 Let's
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Really?? Rather than help people who are struggling to take care of their children, you'd rather shame them Offering free vasectomies (subsidized from tax money) would indeed not a bad idea to help these people before the problem
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Instead of complaining about how evil society is that it leaves them in the lurch, poor people should rather be mad at their (often poor) parents that the parents give birth to them.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> As far as I know he was also the last east german to travel to space, or wasn‘t he? This issue is somewhat subtle. Let us look at the list of German astronauts: > https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liste
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> this 2003 movie is doing a great job illustrating resurgence of nationalism in Russia circa 2014-2018. Could you elaborate on this point somewhat more?
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Tbh, taking the example of a country that didn't disappear, very few people in France would know who the first Frenchman in space was. At least in Germany, Alexander Gerst > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index

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