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"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth." -Thoreau
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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
They raised valid points, I don't understand all the sudden snide remarks.

Some companies are more tolerant of input and advice, others unfortunately are less so. It is not uncommon to find a workplace where the boss will tag you as a 'dick' if you 'argue too much', and blackball you, even if you asserted it politely and reasonably.

Comment · 4 years ago
I don't think it's Bernoulli, binomial rather?
Comment · 4 years ago
On the multiplayer side - Eco. An incredibly underrated game. You have a month of playtime to extract resources, develop your society, and be advanced enough to stop an asteroid. Leaving minimum impact is heavily encouraged, and it has the most sophisticated economic system I've seen in any computer game.
Comment · 4 years ago
But the fact they chose that career often implies they like it. The transactional nature of living wages is always there but let's not forget careers can be picked.

In particular, art is something you usually don't do for money, and even though journalists can be uninterested, there are 'good' ones who are there because of their interest in the world around them, the facts, opinions and viewpoints.

Comment · 4 years ago
Very ominous but that's not true. There are plenty of healthy, functional kind individuals who are interested in people of all kinds. Photographers, good journalists... and people who simply are more empathetic to the life circumstances of someone.

Furthermore, if someone is interesting, for the majority of people there is a natural curiosity being piqued to learn more about that person. Nothing necessarily transactional.

Comment · 4 years ago
I had the same thought, he cherishes making you laugh and having a good and interactive experience. He has different jokes for every country.

When I received my Klein bottle, along came some papers from ACME with numbers and instructions. The delightful inside baseball cane when he had a field for "number of ingredients in Licor 43"!

Comment · 5 years ago
That last point trumps everything, really. You can't rely on preselected-target UAVs for most tasks. And we're far, far away from an AI smart enough to make those complex decisions on its own.
Comment · 5 years ago
Posting on HN in work hours? Uncle Enzo will hear of this!
Comment · 5 years ago
I've seen a few other links on these last weeks talking specifically about the 'metaverse', it doesn't seem implausible.
Comment · 5 years ago
Something cool and kinda sad to behold - the plastic greenhouses in El Ejido grow as a white blob.
Comment · 5 years ago
In the mobile page the navbar flashes somewhat fast until you scroll down.
Comment · 5 years ago
When we're talking about exchanging information between two parties, like on Sabine's hacker interception case, how is that quantum information exchanged? If it can be done through an electric cable, what forbids the hacker from just using a high impedance tap in the cable?

Apart from that doubt I had, good video.

Comment · 5 years ago
The "Find a Pharmacy" option doesn't work for me either.

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