What's your opinion on John von Neumann?
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Because you don't have personal assistants, personal chefs, nannies, and myriads of PR people whose job it is to make you look superhuman.
Now I wonder if that is in fact some type of adaptation to local climate because the people of the surrounding areas don't seem to have that nose shape to the same extent.
Although I would like to try this, it doesn't seem feasible while working in IT.
When it comes to Trump, these "critics" are long past the point of rationality.
Or can you say what relevance Trump's hand size, mouth shape, hairstyle, or use of bronzer has in relation to politics? The hatred of Donald Trump even extends to Melania or other members of the Trump family (e.g. Invanka and Tiffany) who are found "guilty" by their association with him.
“I particularly wanted to become a Moslem in an aeroplane” she is quoted as saying to a journalist who was on the flight with her, “so that I might be as far from earth and as near to heaven as possible.”
Sounds rather like a case of main character syndrome of a bored socialite than that she needed much persuasion to convert.
I often wondered how to handle such a situation without traumatizing the affected person every single morning. Truly one of the few rom-coms that left a lasting impression (on me).
Making mistakes is not failure, failure is giving up on your dreams and aspirations.
There is a lot of wisdom and knowledge out there that can help you making slightly better decisions. For me it was learning more about ADHD-associated rejection sensitivity, attachment theory or C.G. Jung's concept of the man-child.
Sorry, but that's utter bullshit. Also, I wonder how you feel about Turkey's plans to remigrate Syrian refugees back to Syria now that Assad has been deposed.
You might know about their public appearances such as for shareholder meetings but how would you know which hotel they're staying at and that they would leave said hotel at 6:45 AM(!) and walk(!!) to the meeting venue?
Either massive luck on the shooter's side or there is a source of information that hasn't been discovered yet.
Good luck with the project!
- Niksen (Dutch)
- Sisu (Finnish)
- Döstädning (Swedish)
- Lagom (Swedish)
- Réussir sans forcer (French)
- Raising Self-Reliant Children (German)
- Wabi Sabi (Japanese)
I wonder what other unique cultural concepts HN users have come across (perhaps from their own culture)?
Maybe the notion of “hard work” is just an attempt by talented people to justify their winning the genetic lottery to themselves and to appear humble?
Nowadays, success in the classical music industry very often depends on looks and conventional physical attractiveness. Here, too, luck is more important than hard work.
However, I love love love Hackernews and dang is one of the main reasons this little internet place became such an oasis for the intellectually curious, and interesting as well as serious conversation.
kdb+, a relational time series database, apparently being used in quant and HFT circles.
Stupid question, perhaps, but if those two lines inside the sshd_config are commented out with '#', does this mean that grace period and max. sessions are technically unlimited and therefore potentially vulnerable?
Found my own answer: If the values are commented out, it means that the default values are being used. If the file hasn't been modified the default values are those you see inside the config file.
I often wonder what it would have been like working with somebody like John von Neumann or how they really see the world.