supercon

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by supercon 5y ago
Sure. I’m not saying death is the sole provider of meaning, but still a major one, no matter how far we push it. As long as an inevitable end exists, we will adjust our life and actions with it.
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by supercon 5y ago
For me this statement is a logical conclusion to the thought experiment ”imagine if everyone lived forever”. But I realize maybe for some it isn’t, so lets categorize this as an opinion.
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by supercon 5y ago
Mixed feelings. On one hand I can imagine situations where longetivity and its development might really be useful, for example when (if ever) we enter the human space travel era, where the human lifespan will eventually start to factor in.
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by supercon 5y ago
I have yet to make the final push towards leaving, but have thought about it many, many times. Still, there were some new things here that I didn’t realize as a ’con’. Thanks and consider me still considering, but harder…
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by supercon 5y ago
”Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.” -Kurt Vonnegut
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by supercon 6y ago
Soo, is it just me or does the amazon.care site not work?
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by supercon 6y ago
So were it not for this era of cloud platforms and the other technical ”advancements” you mention, would we somehow be in a different place when it comes to maintaining and operating software? As someone in a devops team, I could argue that
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by supercon 6y ago
Indeed, the logical conclusion for a man who has the misfortune to end up on the complaining side of one of these conversations is simply: just shut up! Thankfully you had the courage and security to remind us of this, before we further bre
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by supercon 6y ago
This is really puzzling. For once we actually have not one, but two ’hi-tech’ companies in Europe, that can be considered significant competitors in a global market, yet instead of embracing this opportunity, Germany thinks its better to fu
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by supercon 6y ago
> 3. The commuting routine, even if it's a nightmare, offers a sense of normalcy that most people have gotten used to and in a weird way rely on for grounding. While working from home, I’ve found it much harder to switch between wor
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by supercon 8y ago
Good read, thank you. I always welcome these articles where the notion of "how things came to be" is introduced. Makes it easier to manage the latest and greatest, when you have an understanding of how things have evolved.
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by supercon 9y ago
As someone living in Finland, seeing "Live: Finnair flight.." as the top post in HN gave me quite the scare. But luckily, we can consider this to be valid still: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/Wo
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by supercon 9y ago
This is of course all speculatory, but I think for many of us the things that sets him apart from the "money-focused" crowd are his goals and how outspoken he is about them. He wants to get people to Mars, which as a business vent
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by supercon 10y ago
> Which is about one-half of Walmart's employee base, This doesn't take away the fact that there is interest in having these companies operating in the future. > but the USA doesn't base its foreign policy on the whims
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by supercon 10y ago
According to Wikipedia[1], the biggest U.S. arms companies employ ~700.000 people, so I don't think you need to be a conspiracy theorist when you deduct from this that, if world peace were to settle to the globe it would mean less jobs
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by supercon 10y ago
I think that the term 'salespeople' here refer to those who proactively push their products to the market and by doing so widen the market for the company they represent. The examples you give are indeed places where buying or sel
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by supercon 10y ago
In the book 'Outliers', M. Gladwell talks about this very subject and suggests that a persons social upbringing has a lot to do with how you can navigate through the world and have it work for you. A high IQ is surely a good thing