hourago

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by hourago 3y ago
> Who is asking for foldable phones? Corporations are valued on growth not on sales. Any idea to grow will be evaluated over just keeping a good product. This is why companies are betting billions on crazy ideas while their products just
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by hourago 3y ago
> I don't know why it's so important to have puritan output "Puritan" is quite a charged word, can you give examples of what kind of content do you think the article refers to? They talk about "harmful" cont
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by hourago 3y ago
> Verification was bad and now it’s a joke Verification was serviceable, now it is harmful. There is a big difference there. Even if formerly was not perfect.
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by hourago 3y ago
> It’s silly to think that Elon isnt incredibly talented and smart in some ways. EVERYBODY is "incredibly talented and smart in some ways".
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by hourago 3y ago
Ironically, all these will be solved by raising everybody 3% and that's it. By trying to measure individual performance, the company is taking away time from their employees. And the ones that end up getting the rise are the best ones
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by hourago 3y ago
> depending on the functioning level in antiquity, I imagine. The classical difference between them is money. When a powerful person acted "crazy" the term used was "eccentricity".
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by hourago 3y ago
> throw new SomeUncheckedException("Something failed, idk", e) Who does that? It looks like an anti-pattern.
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by hourago 3y ago
> Choosing to enjoy life today instead of waiting for tomorrow for that enjoyment isn't a failure, it's a choice. It comes with risk and tradeoffs. That dichotomy is not always true. There is a percentage of people that can enj
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by hourago 3y ago
> Though there may be examples of opportunistic or anti-competitive behaviour, the effects are unlikely to have been material. So, there is prove that it is anti-competitive behavior. There is prove that all big corporations should be sp
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by hourago 3y ago
You can read yesterday's discussion and full-readable article at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36585327
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by hourago 3y ago
A lot of people angry here because they are not allowed to discriminate based in actually protected classes like gender. It seems that the hiring manager just wants to make sure that the potential employee is not going to discriminate again
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by hourago 3y ago
> who defines inappropiate? The country laws, the company leadership, the hiring manager. That are the people and mechanisms that define what is appropriate or not for a job. (More people and more levels of legality may be involved).
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by hourago 3y ago
All the argument is "do not judge people by their politics", and then it dedicates a lot of words to judge people by their politics. It is not just ironic but nonsensical. A political biased piece that tries to hide behind a wall
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by hourago 3y ago
I remember this kind of news for tech like hard disks. Day to day it felt that this improvements do not matter but that 20MB hard disk became 100MB then 400MB. It was exciting to see 1GB, it seemed impossible. Now you have for granted 1,000
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by hourago 3y ago
How is it different that the page linked in the article? I do not see why that page is so bad, it looks like an average page from a book with a linked index at the top.
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by hourago 3y ago
This is the link: https://realpython.com/iterate-through-dictionary-python/ It does not look like SEO spam to me. The site seems actually nice and well produced. I may be missing something, thou. Why is that page so ba
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by hourago 3y ago
By the author's metric is even worse to read a book. If you are looking for the exact answer to your exact code maybe that is the problem. To get free training so you can solve your problem yourself and understand the overall situation
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by hourago 3y ago
> No, we are awash in labels already and I am sick of everything having a legal treatise attached to it. Labels just throw the problem back in the laps of consumers, an approach which clearly does not work. Some labels are good and infor
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by hourago 3y ago
It is funny how we want express delivery just in case we stop caring about what we are buying in a couple of days.
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by hourago 3y ago
> In academia, it’s almost impossible to say “no” to a senior faculty. That is so strange. In the corporate world it is always easy and straightforward to say no to higher ups. They always accept a no gracefully. /S In my experienc
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by hourago 3y ago
> “Our own hope is that, through AI, we can eventually approximate a 1:1 teacher:student ratio for every student in CS50, as by providing them with software-based tools that, 24/7, can support their learning at a pace and in a style
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by hourago 3y ago
> Floating rate debt holders can get burned pretty badly in an inflationary period. So, it is the change in inflation, the raise, what makes it bad. If you ask for a loan when interest rates are at 15% your house price is going to be low
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by hourago 3y ago
My parents, and all their generation, purchased their apartments with inflation over 10%. The first couple of years was harsh, they had to keep things tight so their salary can cover all their needs. Four years later, their loan was just a
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by hourago 3y ago
There is a small Swedish-like village in Japan: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Hills - https://www.swedenhills.jp/town/index.html
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by hourago 3y ago
The main problem I see with developing for VisionOS is the lack of reach. I expect that after the initial novelty the user base will be reduced further. The closed development ecosystem of Apple is alluring because it offers access to its i
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by hourago 3y ago
Growth at any cost is creating a dystopian society. Tax share price increases so companies can focus again in making good products and providing good services. To reward growth above all, and share price instead of profits does that, create
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by hourago 3y ago
> Virtually all companies oppose unionization. In the USA. It is different in other countries, it could be better in the USA also.
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by hourago 3y ago
> they will even break the law This is probably true in the USA, as that laws seem to not be enforced. But if you enforce employee's protection laws companies will respect them.
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by hourago 3y ago
> Following a protracted back-and-forth between both parties, the IPI partially granted Apple’s request last fall, saying that Apple could have rights relating to only some of the goods it wanted, citing a legal principle that considers
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by hourago 3y ago
Let's start selling nuclear weapons before the Russians do it! /s Does that sound reasonable? It is a very week justification and raises the question "are we the baddies?".

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