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by meric 3mo ago
Good question. Big companies participate in incrementalism. Many companies invent one big thing and ride it for decades. Few build new things and succeed. (e.g. Apple). Some try, e.g. Microsoft with Xbox, Meta with VR, but even then often i
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by meric 4y ago
A builder may use bricks to build a house - yet he may still be interested in the brick's composition & the brick making method. These days, he may even use a brick robot to automate bricklaying, and still be interested in the mort
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by meric 4y ago
The most notable theocracies - Iran and Saudi Arabia, do fairly well compared to the other two forms of government. I wonder why they're do better than one might expect.
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by meric 6y ago
Amazon Aurora seems to fit.
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by meric 8y ago
There are a number of open source projects looking for contributors. I know wesnoth.org is one. The downside of contributing to open source projects full time is you will have to find alternative income.
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by meric 8y ago
One example I can imagine you can help with: if your city doesn't have it, you could put its train timetables in an app. There's one for Sydney, it's called TripView. A train timetable available in a convenient manner will he
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Channels is a project that takes Django and extends its abilities beyond HTTP(channels.readthedocs.io)
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by meric 8y ago
You might have seen aldjemy already but I thought I might mention it https://github.com/Deepwalker/aldjemy - let's us use SQLAlchemy queries in our django code without requiring redefining the models in an SQLAlch
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by meric 8y ago
Do you have a personal website? Leave one here; Who knows maybe someone reading your post would hit you up in the next few weeks.
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by meric 8y ago
What about cashflows including goods or services?
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by meric 8y ago
You can get some working experience doing freelance gigs. You could probably find better ones than upwork.com, but otherwise, do some jobs there, do bigger and bigger ones, until you've got a couple of 1-month long gigs and some good r
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by meric 8y ago
I think if you have a kid later on you'd worry less about growing old and more about making sure your kid grows old.
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by meric 8y ago
A modern day pyramid: monumental sacrifice and sights to behold.
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by meric 8y ago
I hope the "That this nation shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the state by the state for the state shall not perish from the Earth" (with "under God" struck out) poster meant something other
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by meric 8y ago
That really sucks - being tired of people you don't know looking down on you. Let's take this further. Let's say there's a Googler looking down on you for not working in Google - there's a Googler looking down on th
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by meric 8y ago
Ask for a copy printed on nice pretty paper and frame it.
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by meric 8y ago
A gift from your Ship’s captain - it won’t be of value to anyone else but has intrinsic value for you.
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by meric 8y ago
That's not what Toshiba pays - that's the salary headhunters use to take engineers away from Toshiba.
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by meric 8y ago
'Fahren Sie, fahren Sie, dann brauchen Sie keinen Treibstoff' (Drive, drive, then you do not need fuel) - Erwin Rommel
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by meric 8y ago
Take a read of Tao Te Ching. It's written 2500 years ago about spirituality. Find a translation you like. Don't read explanations of the poems - It's designed for you to find the meaning yourself. Once you've gotten a
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by meric 8y ago
I'd prioritise "engage with your wife and kids" over hobbies - a lot of divorces happen when one partner feels they're doing all the work raising kids and feels the other partner is taking up hobbies to avoid it. Engagin
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by meric 8y ago
What about an alternative conjecture - they can help each other?
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by meric 8y ago
IMO everything borpik says hits the mark. But if I were you I'd save up for a few years, throw away my career and work as a Ski instructor for a year or two anyways just to see how bad it turns out. It's one thing to hear from oth
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by meric 8y ago
All the best to you. Please post back what happens - I hope HN can help. I've found in my life being open with others have generally been a good decision in hindsight - I hope it's true for you too.
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by meric 8y ago
IMHO. There is no error. A person who is aware of their actions but not the causes by which their actions are guided, are not free. A human may have the capacity, but it may not be exercised, and if it is not, they are not free.
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by meric 8y ago
By your definition once 1 is added it’s not a number we can understand.
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by meric 8y ago
Any broker can reduce trading fees to zero. How does Robinhood afford it?
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by meric 8y ago
It's not the stones that have value IMO - It sounds like they're more like a physical representation of more abstract values like "honour" and "respect". A physical token to represent these concepts can then be
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by meric 8y ago
She had many years to compound.
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by meric 8y ago
Quarterly reports.

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