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by tim58 6y ago
For a certain kind of user computer UI really peaked during the CLI age. Reading text and typing on a keyboard is the fastest way to get data into and out of computers.
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by tim58 6y ago
> Cash is also essential for grease/bribes. Am I not bribing enough people? I've never had to.
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by tim58 6y ago
When I am having difficulty starting a task I start with making a list of everything that needs to get done to solve the problem. It always make it more manageable.
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by tim58 6y ago
> It's pretty crucial to remember, though, that your current source of anxiety is probably just a red herring. Everytime I have anxiety it's my brain focusing on one thing to avoid confronting the real problem. When I finally
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by tim58 6y ago
It sounds like you need to adjust your expectations of your own work. Being tired is terrible for your short term mental performance and your long term health. It also increases the chances you will be involved in an accident.
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by tim58 6y ago
The problem is a lot bigger than coal power. One example, agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation and many of our current agricultural practices have questionable long term sustainability. In addition our agricultural processes a
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by tim58 6y ago
Antidotally I am a heavy airpod pro user, averaging seven hours a day. I have two pairs so one is always at full power. I have not experienced this problem.
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by tim58 6y ago
My guess is that the damage to Apple's brand name that occurs with each replacement is larger than the cost of replacing the product. I once had an expensive brand of computer mouse. After eight months the mouse failed. Later I bough
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by tim58 6y ago
The neat thing about 10,000 bitcoins is that it can exist in your pocket.
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by tim58 6y ago
Did people in Greece and Venezuela fair substantially better than peers that had holdings of multiple foreign currencies?
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by tim58 6y ago
> They figured that in the worst case slapping a specific brand on a few hotels in a few major Chinese cities is a cheap price to pay. Did they do that?
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by tim58 6y ago
While it's true the trump administration is very anti immigrant at, it is also very anti ccp.
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by tim58 6y ago
While it wouldn't be exactly like HK, being a semi-autonomous territory of the US would allow the new goverment/economy to be in a unique position. Imagine, for example, if New-HK was allowed to set their own tariffs and taxes for
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by tim58 6y ago
> This was shortly after the end of the cold war, after all, which demonstrated that such change is possible, if not inevitable. In 1997 most people wouldn't have thought it would be possible (or at least likely) for China to both b
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by tim58 6y ago
The point is you are starting the comparison at the most convenient point for your argument. 75 years ago the United States was part of the allied powers that helped put an end to a genocidal dictator with world domination plans. 200 years
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by tim58 6y ago
Currently people with a Computer Science degree have ~95% employment during the worst economic downturn of my lifetime. I don't need goverment protection for my job. In order to be more competitive my company needs more workers with
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by tim58 6y ago
Walmart really fails at providing quality food that isn't highly processed. I find much better quality, and often better prices on the grains and legumes that make up the bulk of my caloric needs, and their selection of organic produc
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by tim58 6y ago
I always find the best local food sources from word of mouth. Usually there's not a large web presence because web is extra overhead, and high quality food has a much higher demand than supply so there's no need for it. A good pla
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by tim58 6y ago
> Whereas, a lot of CS curricula today at least implicitly assume that you're comfortable with computer command lines, basic programming, etc. And, if not, you'd better get up to speed in a big hurry. I graduated a CS program i
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by tim58 6y ago
> Is this meme the single greatest reason why the developed world has so few successful moonshots? I think you are experiencing a bias. The developed world takes a lot of moonshots. Very few succeed. Many last decades. Here are some cu
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by tim58 6y ago
The article talks about eye strain, and states that using the OS's blue light filter is a better way to reduce eye strain. The blue light filter significantly reduces the amount of contrast, which makes the screen harder to use, especi
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by tim58 6y ago
It combines two things very important in American culture, outlaw activity and automobiles.
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by tim58 6y ago
1. There's too many people violating local orders across the United States to arrest them all. 2. Putting them in jail is actually worse for their health than almost any other activity. 3. IANAL but I doubt many of the local orders wou
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by tim58 6y ago
#2 is pretty trivial without very good sales figures.
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by tim58 6y ago
Something happened between 1984 and 1992 where imagining a virtual world had to include large numbers of everyday people.
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by tim58 6y ago
I think there probably is a lot more porn being produced on a per-person basis. We have a lot more cameras and a lot more ways to share photos/videos now. I think there is a lot more content in general being produced too.
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by tim58 6y ago
This conversation has stuck with me for several days, and I'd like to recap my thoughts on it. I think this highlights the difference between risk and uncertainty. Risk is something calculable. Uncertainty is either incalculable or t
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by tim58 6y ago
The human brain processes ~40gigabits/second of information. Current direct brain interfaces are probably closer to 400bits/second Computer to Brain. I think it's very possible that we will hit wetware limitations for direc
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by tim58 6y ago
I think one of the things it was easy to miss in 1984 when Neuromancer was published was how accessible the internet and computers is. I've watched two year olds interact with the modern internet. If you have a system with a high barr
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by tim58 6y ago
In 1976 we rushed a vaccine without adequate safety tests (formal clinical trials) and more people were hurt by the unsafe vaccine than would have been sick without the vaccine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_

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