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by yetihehe 1y ago
But it looks like a lot of people aren't seeking the truth. In other words: "I lied to you and what will you do about it?" You might stop believing the lying person, but that means others can still make him rich.
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by yetihehe 1y ago
Yes, but we measure calories by burning food items in oxygen in calorimeters. Burning fat gives X amount of heat, burning fiber gives Y amount of heat. Fat and fiber both have calories when you burn them in a furnace. But body does not use
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by yetihehe 1y ago
> something has gone wrong in your modeling or assumptions Maybe they used a "all our previous tests showed 95% of efficiency compared to simulation, so let's multiply all our results, including top efficiency by this". Th
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by yetihehe 1y ago
The alternative is that they tweak the laws without much thought...
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by yetihehe 1y ago
Just like humans vs birds. Some birds will see our good side (humans helped some birds with broken wings, fed some other birds), some will see our bad side (humans shooting birds).
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by yetihehe 1y ago
There is a reason that NIST recommends new encryption algorithms from time to time. If you get a copy of ALL government data, in 20 years you might be able to break encryption and get access to ALL government data from 20yr ago, no matter h
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by yetihehe 1y ago
Yeah, but #1 still looked good.
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by yetihehe 1y ago
Everybody says "drink a lot of water", but nobody says how much. Often people say that you need at least 2.5L/day. My constant headaches stopped and I'm finally able to lose weight (from 120kg) after I started to drink 4
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by yetihehe 1y ago
Reads pretty natural for a Pole. I would probably write something like this myself if I was writing articles.
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by yetihehe 1y ago
I've been daily driving mint for a year. I use it to program, watch videos and play games on steam (fairly powerful rig). > In fact it’s easier to fix issues or keep things like my config working on arch than it was on macOS. I didn
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by yetihehe 1y ago
And if it detects less than standard cleanliness of toilet after usage, your social credit will be lowered...
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by yetihehe 1y ago
Sorry, might be dumb question (at work on windows now), but when did shift+pgup stop working?
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by yetihehe 1y ago
Another case of "Trying to play chess with a pidgeon". "You can't play chess with a pidgeon. It will overturn all the pieces, shit on board and will be happy that he won". Scary thing is that a lot of people will ro
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by yetihehe 1y ago
No, I suggest removing them through voting them out and voting for people who don't lack long-term thinking. I think this is the best way. But looks like it doesn't work. What do you suggest to do instead?
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by yetihehe 1y ago
If the threat comes to your shores, people will heroically start doing "the right thing after all other ways were exhausted". High wages for military factory workers will magically appear because they are heroes etc. Last time it
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by yetihehe 1y ago
> it doesn't solve the problem. The problem is lack of long-term thinking. How do you instill long-term thinking when the people who should instill it have a lack of long-term thinking? Removing them from their positions is one solu
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by yetihehe 1y ago
1. Lose all the allies, become isolated. 2. Allies are less powerful, the world starts another world war 3. Get sneakily attacked 4. Win the war by entering when everyone is already spent out after fighting for several years. 5. Everyone li
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by yetihehe 1y ago
> Complaining is not a character flaw Sometimes it is. I was complaining a lot, but then someone had enough and explained to me that it isn't productive (complaining about every minor annoyance) and makes people not like me. Now I&#
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by yetihehe 1y ago
> that it feels like you are almost there, but there is a lot of effort to go. People made tools specifically to make templates look like templates and not a finished product, just because client was ready to push the product just after
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by yetihehe 1y ago
> You can help whomever, but I suggest doing things to push powers to do less harm. I'm so comically bad at pushing powers to do anything that even my wife doesn't listen to me. From what I've seen, most people making thin
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by yetihehe 1y ago
Let's assume that I have an idea on my mind that could potentially change the power generation and usage landscape and society (think 80% efficient solar power AND 80% reduction in power usage in data centers AND increase power output
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by yetihehe 1y ago
If for example you knew someone who has great idea, but doesn't have time to check it with a prototype because he has a lot of "normal" work, but he doesn't want to give it for free to everyone (so that he can finally ha
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by yetihehe 1y ago
> The best way to help in that case is to raise wages. How to raise those wages without enough money? I think money are created from making products. If you just increase wages without changing anything other (like making more products o
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by yetihehe 1y ago
Does that mean I can help Americans and Chinese (and maybe Russians too), because everyone is doing bad things? Like IBM provided equipment to nazis during WW2? Business is business, right?
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by yetihehe 1y ago
I would agree with you, if I didn't hear many times about Chinese government repressing other nations just for being near China and not being fully Chinese. Maybe people near you are kind and friendly and I would like to help them, but
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by yetihehe 1y ago
Pretty easy to explain. Israelis, just like other people read HN too. They don't like such articles, so they flag them. If an article receives several flags, it's marked as flagged. Also, HN is tech site, not political site, so I&
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by yetihehe 1y ago
"We and our 350 partners care about your privacy".
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by yetihehe 1y ago
I think it's funny, but I like abstract jokes that most people don't like, so expect mixed opinions on this.
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by yetihehe 1y ago
Implementing rules made by lawyers|engineers makes good environment for lawyers|engineers. Deregulation implemented by lawyers|engineers makes good environment for lawyers|engineers. Deregulation implemented by politicians or laypersons doe
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by yetihehe 1y ago
And after auto-rejecting one hundred people because of faulty filters they say "Why are there no good candidates?".

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