paulolc

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by paulolc 11mo ago
A House of Dynamite [2]. Everyone is looking to have more dynamite than the other next room, while living inside the house. All of this happening while the world gets more and more divisive. It's insanity. Are 12,000 nukes safer than z
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by paulolc 1y ago
What is this nonsense? I don't understand. All of these are concepts were created, invented and are commonly used by Homo Sapiens. God, math, numbers, integers, rational numbers, irrational numbers, what have you. All abstract concepts
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by paulolc 2y ago
Everyone's missing the point. You can't reverse globalization. The government doesn't want you to have more babies. Baby production was outsourced overseas to import grown adults. Let others worry about childcare expenses.
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by paulolc 2y ago
Awesome prompt!
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by paulolc 3y ago
Any speculation on the effects of any human related behavior, like tiredness, are just that, pure speculation. we have the illusion to have enough knowledge about these things to infer conclusions and emit opinions about it but the truth is
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by paulolc 3y ago
This is Science. Computer Science. From one of the greatest alive. "This is a preliminary version of a book. If you have any comments to make or questions to ask about it, please contact me by email. But when you do, include the versio
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A Science of Concurrent Programs [pdf](lamport.azurewebsites.net)
187 points by paulolc 3y ago|33 comments
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by paulolc 3y ago
> ok, maybe? i don't think that's unanimously true I get your point. Some people seem to be thriving. Yes, but those don't suck. The ones that are thriving and do suck are, in the end, succumbing to the increasingly dehuma
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by paulolc 3y ago
This would be a much better TV series script than that "The Good Doctor" crap. No offense to all the "The Good Doctor" fans. (We all have our own "crappy" stuff we like) Society would improve if we could turn t
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by paulolc 3y ago
No it's not. People are great. The problem is that we are not OK. When can't help ourselves, much less others. A lot of us are sick and don't have help. We are silently succumbing to the suffering of an increasingly dehumaniz
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by paulolc 3y ago
Sure. The one angle I am talking about is focusing on maximizing the application of money on the _things that do the most good possible_. There may be cases where financing something that will certainly not do the most good possible, on the
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by paulolc 3y ago
Effective Altruism is a bad idea. Applying money in a way that does the most good possible is focusing/obsessing too much on one angle. A Local Maximum will be reached without mechanisms to get out of it.
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by paulolc 3y ago
How dependable are you on your google account? What if Google would block your account and make you pay if you don't go trough enough ads? It has already started to force you to disable the ad-blocker. So, I think that could be a next
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by paulolc 4y ago
No. The truth is not unknowable. Some truth is unknowable, though.
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by paulolc 5y ago
If you look at what's important, you are, in fact, hugely successful. Maybe you're just comparing yourself to others who you probably don't really know. You have achieved quite a lot and for sure more than a great majority of
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by paulolc 5y ago
I ruptured out of suspension of disbelief the moment I read "The missing persons did not return. In the large, they were no longer missed"... Really? No longer missed? 400 people disappear out of thin air and that's it. No &q
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by paulolc 5y ago
Don't get lured by the Dark Side! Accessibility is the real reason you must use tabs instead of spaces for indentation [1]. Yes, it's evident that Accessibility is not valued and that it's easier/cheaper to not care. We
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by paulolc 6y ago
Yep, that's how evolution works. It's natural selection working. We'll keep forking the planet until it becomes too costly to do it. Anyway, the will to survive while profiting from it, will become a pretty good incentive to
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by paulolc 6y ago
Interesting observation. I think that's very well put. If it's not public property it cannot be a public square where strangers can freely mingle and speak. It makes sense. If you mingle and speak out on someone else's proper
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by paulolc 6y ago
"Are you moving one step in 20 directions or 20 steps in one direction?" So what if I'm moving one step in 20 directions but I'm enjoying each one of them? Isn't preferrable to enjoy the journey and never reaching
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by paulolc 8y ago
Construct is targeted at professional game development market. It's not comparable with Scratch which targets the creative programming education. Construct is a full closed source proprietary premium payed ecosystem for professional ga
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by paulolc 9y ago
It's called IoT... @InternetOfShit ;)
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by paulolc 13y ago
How did you got pass the license warning?
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Ink. An(other?) impressive Twitter Bootstrap. Is it?(ink.sapo.pt)
2 points by paulolc 13y ago|2 comments
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by paulolc 13y ago
You can contribute and fix the table yourself :). The author welcomes it . https://github.com/ericdrowell/BigOCheatSheet/blob/master/Ta...
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by paulolc 13y ago
I highly recommend substack's talk on node.js streams. LXJS 2012 - James Halliday - Harnessing The Awesome Power Of Streams: http://youtu.be/lQAV3bPOYHo substack@hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=substack
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How about advancing scientific research while playing a game?(plus.google.com)
3 points by paulolc 14y ago|0 comments
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by paulolc 14y ago
This one? http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1567614639
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Don’t Do What You Love. Do What You Are.(lifehacker.com)
2 points by paulolc 14y ago|0 comments