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by analyst74 6mo ago
People in safe countries generally do not worry about kidnappings.
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by analyst74 8mo ago
compression is not free, dictionary compression: 1, complicates and slows down update, which is typically more important in OLTP than OLAP 2, is generally bad for high cardinality columns, which requires tracking cardinality to make decisio
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by analyst74 8mo ago
Sounds good in principle, but I don't see any meaningful suggestions.
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by analyst74 9mo ago
News has never been about reporting absolute truth, there is just too much influence/power/money to be gained for manipulating public perception. The fact that people believe in journalistic integrity shows how successful they are
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by analyst74 1y ago
Do they not want those conveniences? Or are they tempering their expectations based on their budget and perceived cost? If, let's say, a typical $30k car means a large EV SUV with all the luxury gadgets and conveniences, plus fridge, m
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by analyst74 1y ago
I can accept the argument that they are trying to be inclusive towards disadvantaged students, and it just happens that racial make up of poor but qualified students lean towards black or hispanic. Is that the reality? or is it middle clas
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by analyst74 2y ago
I think it's mainly corruption. A significant amount of budget (hundreds of millions) is allocated to "deal" with homelessness in SF, so efforts to actually solve the problem are going to face significant challenges from exis
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by analyst74 2y ago
Since a few years ago, especially as layoffs started at big name companies, there have been a massive investment in funding and talent into modernizing traditional industries. This effect will be felt by IT departments that built in-house s
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by analyst74 2y ago
US car manufacturers other than Tesla have not been very successful at producing EVs despite subsidies. It'll be interesting to see how this affects future policy making. Will there be subsidies to protect legacy US automakers? Does th
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by analyst74 2y ago
If a building's rent is higher than its surrounding ones, renters are less likely to live there. The same applies to cities, if, after adjusting for job/lifestyle/etc, people feel it's too expensive to live in a city, th
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by analyst74 3y ago
China does not ban YouTube or Instagram because they're foreign, They have some very onerous rules about censorship, which I disagree with, but are applied equally to all companies operating in China, including Chinese ones. A good exa
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by analyst74 3y ago
That's completely untrue. I can't say if the algorithm is the same. In my short experience of using Douyin for the past couple weeks, I get zero education content, but a surprising amount of content about inequality and injustices
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by analyst74 3y ago
China is not a single entity. Huawei is not going to choose low quality high price local startup over suppliers with good reputation if they have that choice. Sanction means those uncompetitive local startups don't have to compete with
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by analyst74 3y ago
Coincidentally, I just saw two separate job ads on the subway looking for caregivers. Maybe the next booming sector would be taking care of retired boomers.
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by analyst74 3y ago
I do not like ghosting, but having the ability to adapt to local customs is quite important when living in a foreign country. It seems the author actually understands the local customs, but couldn't accept it emotionally.
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by analyst74 3y ago
Of course Taiwanese people care about their way of lives, and they have full right to expect and defend that. The problem is sadly much more complicated than "dictatorship wants to subjugate democracy". Simplified thinking is what
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by analyst74 3y ago
This is a very western view on things. Chinese people from mainland cares much less about democracy than citizens from western countries. The primary motivation for Chinese people to want reunification is that it's one of the last rema
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by analyst74 3y ago
It only opens up to another machine validated by public keys. It serves similar purpose as opening firewall to just a specific IP/port and dynamically change the IP/port as the other machine moves or disconnects. One of the main a
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by analyst74 3y ago
I was just reading about it the other day, pure ingenuity! For those who don't have time to read, Tailscale uses a quirk in how stateful firewall treats inbound UDP traffic to allow connection to a remote server without it opening up t
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by analyst74 3y ago
It seems the first reason is root of all the other reasons. If one cannot find a job that pays what they believe they deserve, they are much more likely to start their own business. The employee market does penalize generalists, those who l
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by analyst74 4y ago
What if the federal reserve goes down? Or just that US dollar goes down in value. Even if you only do business within the US, exchange risk is baked into your supply chain and inflation.
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by analyst74 4y ago
Out of curiosity, what services do YC provide for additional fees?
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by analyst74 4y ago
The cheapest option is > 13 square feet “Virtual Inside” stateroom I can't wrap my mind with how this works, is it like a capsule? For 3 years?!
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by analyst74 4y ago
US has done much better than previous empires. Despite starting off with genocide of natives and slavery, it slowly improved over time in terms of addressing internal strife, which is probably a major contributor to its longevity as a globa
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by analyst74 4y ago
History may not repeat, but it rhymes. Great empires all eventually fall because its citizens started to see each other as enemies more than allies. That being said, the narrative is also written by victors in the eyes of the ruling class.
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by analyst74 4y ago
Typical utility company margin is ~10%, so $60M profit for the buyer, it will take 58.3 years before they break even, or 1.7% return on their capital. This just seems like a really bad deal for whoever buys it.
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by analyst74 4y ago
How do they calculate this rate? I simply left the country after layoff, and most likely not counted in the numbers.
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by analyst74 4y ago
Why would Chinese owners want to buy that? It seems unlikely that Australia will hold its bargain for the whole 200 years given current political climate.
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by analyst74 4y ago
I wish the same! My first couple weeks on co-founder matching were consumed with meeting a wide range of folks, most of whom in the "I'd like to start a company if the right co-founder / idea / other criteria present the
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by analyst74 4y ago
> I experienced a deep realisation that our thoughts manifest from nowhere and not from ourselves (words fail me here) and that the construct of 'me' was completely false and was just a reverberation of my environment. Wait, is

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