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by third_I 6y ago
Yes, I was in fact 19. Oh my :) Edited.
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by third_I 6y ago
I'm gonna speak purely anecdotally, and this is personal opinion. I was born in 82 in France, was 19 on 9/11/2001. It definitely shaped my psyche and world view. You just don't grow up as naively when you know 9/1
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by third_I 6y ago
Hi team! Is there a way AMP could have an opt-out option? (maybe a permanent setting, maybe a per-search trigger) Ideally at user discretion, but I suppose it must be enabled by the first-party content provider (the website). That would mak
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by third_I 6y ago
I concur. Dual Xeon E5-2687W here (2×8 pcores, Sandy Bridge). Turbo 3.8 GHz to 3.4 all cores. [Ebay: ~$300 each, mid 2016] It's still more expensive to buy a brand new Threadripper or 16-core Intel (sic) than this bargain I made some 4
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by third_I 6y ago
And then came undisclosed sponsorship and that difference blurred more than ever...
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by third_I 6y ago
That's a very good question. I used to be you. As I said above, my 'secret' was to dissociate 'me' (the body, with an inner child inside) from 'my thinking brain', the overarching parent/boss up there
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by third_I 6y ago
> even seeing the app icons for notifications on my lock screen can lead me down a nonstop work path I totally know the feeling! I think it's really biological, low-level: - dopamine! It's like a shot, the brain gets triggered.
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by third_I 6y ago
That doesn't count IMHO, it's just a couple taps most likely, you're not engaging with the device (it's merely an overkill alarm clock at that point). ;)
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by third_I 6y ago
The idea is nice, great even, but... No but seriously. Who, in 2020, grabs their phone first thing before hitting a drink, or bathroom, or wash your face or whatever you do when you wake up? I (37M) find it weird. In 2010, sure, it was all
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by third_I 6y ago
Ah, don't get me started on Stoicism. It changed my life. Helped me "self-cure" a long nasty trend of seasonal depressions. It's nothing short of a superpower to me, a magical skill. I never even dreamed of having such c
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by third_I 6y ago
Ha, interesting!... We have several common answers. I might have put Bolsonaro's Brazil in there, along with a strong authoritarian turn (but the lure of wealth is a strong populist stance, especially if you can deliver soon(tm), and C
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by third_I 6y ago
If US/EU were to tell the rest of the world, in a typical WWI or Cold War "blocks" style fashion, “you're either with us or with China, i.e. against us!” , how many do you think would choose China? I mean, the West + JP
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by third_I 6y ago
Hey, maybe you're right. I don't care that they care to be honest, I mostly care about our future for now. But you ask "why should they care?" Well, I profoundly believe (stressing: belief , no crystal ball here) that
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by third_I 6y ago
I didn't want to mix topics, but if you're gonna go there... As a European, I wholeheartedly agree. It's not a new sentiment either. The US has grown increasingly hostile towards the world since the turn of the century, Bush
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by third_I 6y ago
About China. There's a growing sense that we ("the free world", western countries + usual friends like Japan, Oz, etc) are about to enter a cold war with China, though, following the COVID-19 debacle.[1] The CPC's ultima
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by third_I 6y ago
EDIT: please do read crazygringo's thread above, people in there have much more substance that I could in my short/quick write-up above. In particular, palimpsests' view is very close to what I've heard again and again
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by third_I 6y ago
Oh I love that reply. Thank you for that. Great food for thought. You do in effect widen the topic so much, the very axioms underlying my assumptions, and that's extremely valuable to me. I think I see your point, now. you took me off-
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by third_I 6y ago
And I claim, or rather parrot, that it's wrong to think that because words were not spoken or did not exist, the thing they would eventually come to designate ("PTSD") did not exist. Romantic love is another good example. It
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by third_I 6y ago
> EDIT: the way some downvote on HN makes me sad. There are many 'trolls' around here (comes with the popularity), who will downvote based on opinion to begin with, instead of writing a counter-argument (or their "problem&
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by third_I 6y ago
No, it's precisely the same idea. Biology did not change. Perceptions and expression of it did change. It does not mean the inner biological processes are any different, just the way you consciously select what to say about them. Absen
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by third_I 6y ago
I'm sorry but this has to be the most un-scientific account I've read on the topic (granted, I read few), and it's incredibly misleading. - Humans did not change biologically enough in 10,000 years, let alone 2,000, to produc
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by third_I 6y ago
Easter egg for us: > “Build a Hacker News Client with the Vue 3 Function-based component API, Vuex and vue-hooks by Coding Garden with CJ on Youtube (video)” [1] No idea if that video is good but 146:0 liked it. Edit: comment mentions
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by third_I 6y ago
As an investor, $35m to train just about the pinnacle of AI seems like a cheap, oh so cheap cost. I can't even buy 1 freaking continental jet for that ticket, and there are thousands of these babies flying (not as we speak, but general
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by third_I 6y ago
Germany lucked out to have such a background of experience as Merkel's to lead the country during such a crisis. Science doesn't come easily to most leaders, unfortunately, as this crisis is proving around the world.
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by third_I 6y ago
(putting this in comment, I think it's more idiomatic to HN). I think we'll see a revival of MSPs (Managed Service Providers) with a touch of custom-devops. Teams just want to work, but selecting services among a myriad offers and
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by third_I 6y ago
I would like a minute of silence for all sysadmins working in healthcare. Having to deal with COVID on top of a Citrix infrastructure (if it can be called that) must be... well need I say more. Working with Citrix. (PS: I'm joking, I h
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by third_I 6y ago
Fair point, I overlooked this. My mistake. Different target, yet again.
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by third_I 6y ago
The problem with theoretical physics, in my external perception, is more political, within academia. - selecting for the H index, that is, what will be most cited, leading to strong convergence around "consensual" or "popular
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by third_I 6y ago
As Paul Dirac so eloquently put, > “I think that there is a moral to this story, namely that it is more important to have beauty in one's equations that to have them fit experiment. If Schrödinger had been more confident of his wor

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