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by Padding 12y ago
I agree. The way most people seem to mean this is one in which it's trivially true, since work is unpleasant but necessary and family is pleasant but scarce. There is work out there that people love and not only activities that you get
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by Padding 12y ago
> I didn't think I wanted kids [...] but I have two What made you change your mind? If you strip away any social context (your parents, your partner, your neighbors), would you still opt for kids? To me it looks like a lot of people
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by Padding 12y ago
> It discourages risk-taking. People can also regret not having taken a risk - so it works both ways. But I think "regret minization" is more than just avoiding negative consequences. It's about not regreting a decision ev
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by Padding 12y ago
There's a joke about whether software engineers that write aircraft software would dare board a plane they've written software for.. I'm sure there's lots of places in skyscrapers and jumbo jets that the engineers in cha
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by Padding 12y ago
> such an obvious power imbalance you're implying that love is based on rational thought in the first place
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by Padding 12y ago
.. supposedly lasts ..
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by Padding 12y ago
(1) That it's a website specifically engineered around bringing you into the attention of anyone you've ever known (2) That there are other ways of staying in touch with friends (3) That given the situation, if everything is in fa
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by Padding 12y ago
I love how this is a perfectly valid question given the context .. even if the phrasing may be somewhat off. Back to topic, I'd think boobs (and other parts of the body that aren't part of the face) won't have much impact on
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by Padding 12y ago
> if they want to say, "because fuck you, that's why", they can happily continue to do so Not if there are incentives for the algorithms to be subject to public scrutiny. > And when the AI does reach human level (a long
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by Padding 12y ago
Richard Dawkins paints a similar picture in "The Blind Watchmaker". In some way it's ironic that with all that effort we've spent on AI so far, simple evolution may yet beat us to the punch as far as AGI is concerned. Ma
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by Padding 12y ago
> I, for one, welcome our algorithmic overlords. Just imagine a world where you'd never have to hear "because I said so" and "becasue fuck you, that's why" ever again. A world where for everything that goes
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by Padding 12y ago
This is a clear issue of having your cake and eating it too. Being a victim is irrelevant and shouldn't be a reason not to call them out on their stupidity.
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by Padding 12y ago
True, but then again this is a moot point, since the person in question seems to struggle with distinguishing friends from arseholes, right?
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by Padding 12y ago
It's all tradeoffs. There are clear benefits to your IDE remaining unaffected regardless of how badly your program messes up. Not to mention being able to get your code out of the IDE easily (for versioning, backup, deployment and what
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by Padding 12y ago
> we don't want to be at the mercy of people who might not like us for some undefinable reason I keep restating this, but people still hate bureaucracy. Go figure.
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by Padding 12y ago
> Being happy and alive for 20 years You're not thinking this through thoroughly. Being "happy" can be achieved with anti-depressants and being "alive" can be achieved by essentially turning you into a vegetable.
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by Padding 12y ago
> Getting older and eventually dying is imho, what defines our humanity. Maybe, but is that a good thing? To simply "expire out of existence" is a big issue for "humanity". It's the main reason why there's n
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by Padding 12y ago
Your friend clearly has her priorities straight. One would think that if someone really had a good reason to not be found online, the first thing they'd do would be to not be in FB rather than use some fake name. Then again, maybe th
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by Padding 12y ago
> Yeah. Its a turd. I bet that would've been a valid verdict for the first search engine way back then too, compared to all the neatly organized catalogs. Or the first android compared to the iphone. Personally I'm still amazed
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by Padding 12y ago
I completely agree. We should drive more women into suicide.
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by Padding 12y ago
> No one is paying for C# and Java directly No one you know. Suppose some large and wealthy entity has trouble running some money-making legacy application that happens to be running atop the JVM. Who do you think will they call to fix
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by Padding 12y ago
You need to keep in mind that "magic" is only sufficiently "advanced" (or rather obfuscated) technology, but omeone somewhere said something along the line of "Things that work as if by magic also break as if by mag
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by Padding 12y ago
It's a complex issue. Basically, while you are in theory free to move money around as you please - for yourself or as a service to others - doing so in large quantities will get you scrutinized. If uppon scrutiny there is any doubt as
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by Padding 12y ago
> Desertification, increased sea levels causing flooding, higher atmospheric CO2 causing ocean acidification that will kill nearly all life in coral reefs sans jellies, etc etc. Yes .. or Maybe .. but that all still sounds preferable
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by Padding 12y ago
> global warming is just as bad as a new ice age, which, extrapolating from the past, would be about due by now, if not for mankinds influence So global warming bought us all a huge chunk of (comfortable) time? Why is it a bad thing then
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by Padding 12y ago
This can't be real.. 'PERL itself stood for "Precision Entry and Reentry Launchings"'
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by Padding 12y ago
Indeed. You'd think of all the people out there, the ones on HN would be a among the first to recognize an abstraction when they see one.. The "speed of light" isn't an intentional speed limit like the ones we have on hi
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by Padding 12y ago
For " relatively small" values of "fail" .. like everyone else. It's just that "relatively small" for Google is still pretty huge in absolute numbers. I bet Google too can't fail in crucial/majo
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by Padding 12y ago
No.. Government is not about picking a better bully than your neighboring nation and beating them into submission. What government provides is a practically viable method (kludge?) to reaching consensus on issues where other more reliable m
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by Padding 12y ago
What difference does freedom make if society is engineered accordingly so that anything but the party line will be lost in the noise? Other than for possible riots, bloodshed and long-term sustainability, is that in any way distinguisable f

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