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by avierax 8mo ago
Couldn't disagree more. Failed states normally have a single department (the military, often) dictating without opposition what other departments should do. Here we see a functioning system, the President presses, the Fed disagree and
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by avierax 3y ago
I don't believe it's cultural only, the same way I don't believe ethiopians or kenyans excelling at marathons and long distance runs to be a cultural thing. Genetics play a factor, why can't math skills be influenced by
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What happens when an electric charge crosses the event horizon(physics.stackexchange.com)
3 points by avierax 4y ago|1 comments
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by avierax 4y ago
Yeah, that was also a very early thing to evolve. So much that the ones that evolved it hardly could be called humans at all.
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by avierax 4y ago
Do you have any pic of those random rocks you can share with us(using imgur or similar)?
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by avierax 4y ago
It may cost $4 in the economy where the study was conducted, it may end up costing more in less developed regions.
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by avierax 4y ago
Google issue escalation final stage is hackernews.
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by avierax 5y ago
Great, free dopamine for my ADHD!
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Help Uncancel Nina Paley(grahamlinehan.substack.com)
4 points by avierax 5y ago|0 comments
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Fork: A Fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows(git-fork.com)
1 points by avierax 5y ago|0 comments
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by avierax 5y ago
Does anyone remember the name of the music video in the examples?
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by avierax 6y ago
No they don't... Catfish developers are precisely those who endure doing work that everyone else despises. Fred is just doing what he likes.
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by avierax 6y ago
Oh, you sound too sure... Have you considered that maybe once not obliged to work anymore you could instead adopt a more entrepreneurial attitude? Perhaps exploring your genuine interests?
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Ask HN: How can I control my ADHD if medication not an option?
3 points by avierax 6y ago|1 comments
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by avierax 6y ago
I have avoided to install Everything after I have witnessed the chaos that results from its use in everyone's folder structure. People use to leave files everywhere without any organization criteria and simply rely to use Everything to
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by avierax 7y ago
Suggesting that soldiers cannot be heroes while on duty? It's rather common to see our cultures honor fallen soldiers and regard them as the archetypal case of heroes. Being on duty has never been considered a limitation.
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by avierax 7y ago
One of the best things are the comments.
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by avierax 7y ago
I think Knuth is not doing this as a hobby. It's a source of income. This is sufficient to explain why he has spent so much time in this.
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by avierax 7y ago
What would be the advantage of making the land private compared to planting trees in public land?
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by avierax 7y ago
This is forbidden by github. The consequences of this is having your account suspended.
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by avierax 7y ago
Atlassian is an Australian company but they own companies in the US so they comply with US embargo to sanctioned countries as well. In fact this was the first company who blocked their services to Cuba.
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by avierax 7y ago
Yet it's easy to just keep a chromium installation for Google docs and Gmail and do everything else in Firefox.
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by avierax 7y ago
This shows that humans can learn languages and get motivated by mastering them. This does not tell anything about the consistency, composability or orthogonality if SQL. Those qualities affecting the newcomers effort to learn it.
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by avierax 7y ago
Where can I read more about AdoptOpenJDK losing its TCK license? Is there any post? Any leak from their team?
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by avierax 8y ago
I found this idea very motivating indeed. It reminds me not to take myself very serious and just start doing things. In fact thanks to your comments I started a new daring project today that is really challenging. Who cares if I fail... Not