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by gernb 4y ago
I don't consider that a normal nor a healthy opinion. I'd choose happiness over money. Sure there is some level of money that's so low I wouldn't be happy but that just again means I'd choose happiness. Happiness is
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by gernb 4y ago
Is a paying github user it's not the lowest touch option. For me they just bill me on the card I'm already paying them with so easier than paypal.
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by gernb 4y ago
What does "touchless" mean? Who cleans the place up each day? Who maintains the building? (cleaning the toilets, fixing broken doors and windows, and other general maintenance) Who decides which iof the 95 people who want a booth
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by gernb 4y ago
No, I'm only trying to claim that a government run farmers market is not incorruptible nor likely would it be any more fair. Interestingly the link above is not to a government run farmers market. It's to a a government site that
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by gernb 4y ago
That reminds me of the difference between Japanese travel guides and US travel guides. Most travel guides in the US look like Lonely Planet, Frommers, etc. A big book of words, paragraphs of prose describing places. Most travel guides in Ja
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by gernb 4y ago
How is that evidence it's efficient and incorruptible? for one, there's a limited number of stalls. It certainly wouldn't be shocking if whoever bribed the government coordinator the most got one of the stalls or if people th
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by gernb 4y ago
How about 2 AI developing a language to be able to speak to each other https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
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by gernb 4y ago
I read that as some creative way to use Scrapple for diagrams and went to check out what it was. Imagine my disappointment that it was just some poorly named software and not actually diagrams made from scrapple https://en.m.wiki
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by gernb 4y ago
> What's the purpose of your math? To show that $100b in reserves may not be that much if you need to keep the company afloat for 168k people.
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by gernb 4y ago
Mostly I do. Anyone can be a coal miner. Just show up and start digging. I'm not saying coal miners don't have their expertise and maybe their salary would go up if no one wanted to do the job but "in general" you get pa
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by gernb 4y ago
CEOs general work harder than workers. They're on 24/7. I don't think I'd ever want to be a CEO of a company as big as Google. They have to deal with 100s of teams as well as 100s of outside companies, governments, etc,
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by gernb 4y ago
Just off the cuff guessing but 12000 people cost $1.2 to $4.8 billon a year Google has 180k people, minus 12k = 168k. That means their burn rate is 16.8 to 84 billon a year I'm speaking out of my ass because I don't know the aver
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by gernb 4y ago
tagging is 99.9999% a bad thing. I challenge you to walk down Mission St in san francisco and find a single instance of Bansky level commentary. Also, I don't define what Bansky does as tagging. Tagging is basically writing your name&#
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by gernb 4y ago
So they're the ones I need to punch in the face for "pull-to-refresh"? (jk) Actually though, I absolutely hate that Chrome iOS has pull-to-refresh. I've never in my life wanted to refresh a page by pulling and instead wh
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by gernb 4y ago
> You become confident by taking on challenges, repeatedly coming out on top, and providing your brain undeniable evidence you are who you say you are. It's not enough for many people, including myself
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by gernb 4y ago
reminds me of tagging. easy to do property destruction costs 100x to fix
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by gernb 4y ago
sf is worst for car break-ins. organized crime drive down the street with one person walking and looking in cars. if they see something they bust the window, grab the stuff, hop in the van. frustratingly it seems an easy problem to solve. g
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by gernb 4y ago
There are millions of vegatarians that like meat like products. See the 100s of products made from things like wheat gluten that Buddhist monks have been eating for 1000s of years I don't know a source on the history of all of it but I
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by gernb 4y ago
which one did you try? impossible burger was great for me. beyond, not so much
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by gernb 4y ago
and their are billions of people who like cooking and pounding vegatables into goo and then adding 10 to 30 spices to make yummy curries
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by gernb 4y ago
I'm on 6 services. It hasn't been different on any of them. The odds that all 6 have the same bug seems unlikely.
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by gernb 4y ago
I really hope it is because I get maybe 1 person every 8 months to write back so if the average person has so many dates they need an app to track them all that's just seriously depressing that I'm so far off the norm.
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by gernb 4y ago
For a body, with bones, since they can't stretch. All you need is rotation at each joint. You can get away with 10/11 bits per axis. So for a full body you should be able to compress to 200 bytes per frame for 50 joints. That woul
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by gernb 4y ago
The worst experience for me is trying to play videos in the google photos mobile app (or the website). It can take 1-2-3-4 minutes (or never) for it to finally play a video I uploaded from my phone a few days, weeks ago.
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by gernb 4y ago
In Japan they introduced pocket ashtrays as fashion. 1000s of different kinds, different brands, etc. I don't know if it had any impact but it was an interesting idea. https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%83%9D%E3%82%B1%
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by gernb 4y ago
> Spend too much time on Hacker News? I made an extension to freeze the front page so it updates once every 6 hours. Me, I just open a guest account, or a new profile, etc. Meaning, the extension is at most a reminder to try to stop. it&
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by gernb 4y ago
You have that backward > If I’m in a room with no chairs, there would be no chairs unless one is added visually. > They wouldn’t walk through my bed because they aren’t in my room. If you're sitting on your bed with your AR googl
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by gernb 4y ago
This biggest issue I have with React is that I always feel like I have to re-write my model to use it. I've already got a model, now I want to add a UI. I try, and at least for me, React doesn't like it. A simple example might be
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by gernb 4y ago
I don't think I agree that relationships are shallow. Sure some are but not all of them. And even the ones that aren't deep can be extremely meaningful. For example, being a good teacher and influencing your students in their live
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by gernb 4y ago
I spend was too much time on the internet too like right now checking hn but for me I chalk it up to lack of other things to do. I don't have a lot of friends, it's hard to make new ones, covid doesn't help, at the moment I&#

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