patanegra

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by patanegra 2mo ago
Interesting, that none of those things have been an issue in the 90s. At least in my country. You just didn't have to think about this, because except gays (who were accepted by young, and frowned up by old), there were no discussion a
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by patanegra 8mo ago
Yeah, because they built it. If people were using Linux everywhere, the situation would be different.
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by patanegra 8mo ago
One company's margin, is other company's opportunity.
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by patanegra 10mo ago
Well, 'theft' is more of an artistic licence. It's a breach of intellectual property rights owner.
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by patanegra 10mo ago
LOL. Does intellectual property exist, or not? If yes, then it can be stolen. If no, then it is fine to take any source code, any photo, any information, and do whatever I want with it, right?
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by patanegra 10mo ago
Pirating of course exists. You might rebrand it, but hardly as hero-, more like theft-. Theftbay would sound good to me.
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by patanegra 11mo ago
Is it because of moderation or because people come here to learn about STEM & tech? You could have HN for politics, or art and philosophy.
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by patanegra 11mo ago
This is exactly how I don't want to build my apps. As much logic on the backend as possible makes it easier to prevent concurrent changes, support multiple frontends, debug while having the whole env under control etc. This week, I lea
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by patanegra 11mo ago
We were building decent apps long before React. Even pre-web. I remember, how quickly I could create Delphi desktop app with drag & drop UI builder more than 2 decades ago. If we speak about generic ERP, you could make dozens of screens
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by patanegra 11mo ago
No, you should tie the squatter, drive him to the middle of wilderness, and leave him there. So he will no longer have such bad ideas.
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by patanegra 1y ago
If your view was true, we would have a super-successful middle class here in Europe. We don't, quite the contrary. The UK used to be on par with the USA. Now, it's stagnant since 2008. Other countries are falling behind too. Becau
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by patanegra 1y ago
It depends on how you measure it. A kid from independent school with AAA is going to be worse than a state school AAA kid. But state school AAA kid might be 3-A* kid in independent school and might do better. For smarter. My narrative is mo
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by patanegra 1y ago
Well, yes. Everyone needs to try harder. In China, they speak about 996 (working 9am to 9pm 6 days a week; and since we speak about education, Chinese kids often learn from 7am up to 9pm, and when they are getting ready for University, they
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by patanegra 1y ago
Well, when you as a parent, basically get your 9-year-old, work as many hours per year, as a full-time employed adult, so your child reaches its full potential, you expect, that this possibility will continue in all levels of education. Any
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by patanegra 1y ago
The genes of your parents? Or now, for $20/month OpenAI? Or for pennies through OpenRouter?
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by patanegra 1y ago
As if it isn't true. And I say it as someone who went to a state school, just like my parents, grandparents...
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by patanegra 1y ago
I am not sure, if it isn't so intensive in other schools. It is so intensive in our prep school. All kids aren't equally smart. Not all kids can also handle such a regime. It isn't for everyone. Those, who succeed in such sch
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by patanegra 1y ago
> if they think you're really smart, have great potential, and then you'll be of the caliber to get 4 A* no question if you had rich parents Assumed, they really are 4 A* material. If not, what might happen is, that Oxford migh
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by patanegra 1y ago
By bad, I mean being in a bad situation. I don't say people are evil for not having much money. I grew up in a family with very low income (my dad was earning about £12000 per year, when he retired a few years ago, my mum about £6000,
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by patanegra 1y ago
Well, isn't it because kids in independent school are in the school from 8am till 6pm, including Saturdays, since the age of 9, and by the age 11 they board, and all their lives revolve around learning? In my sons' prep school, I
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by patanegra 1y ago
When you are a talented child born into a bad family, your success is to go from £1 to £10M. If you are a talented child born to a millionaire, your success is to go from £10M to £1bn. If you are a dumb child born to a millionaire, you go f
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by patanegra 1y ago
Oh yes, I have kids in a prep school where half of the class goes to Eton, and the rest to Winchester, Harrow, Seven Oaks, Derby... Now, for the past few years, almost no parents want to send kids to Eton. They know how much are those kids
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by patanegra 1y ago
When you compare 1:83 vs 1:2600, it is so big difference, it deserves bold statements. In the UK, there's 1.5 million kids playing footbal. 1:83 ~18000 kids play in any professional club. 1:2600 ~580 kids get to play in Premier League,
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by patanegra 1y ago
It might come over as appalling, given the whole culture has shifted towards: "Nobody is dumber! Every child deserves a medal." Which isn't true, and never was. I get why we do that with kids in Reception and Year 1. With you
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by patanegra 1y ago
There are studies that show how heritable intelligence is. Very. It is quite common people say, that something is only a correlation and not causation. But if you can point to a common denominator, that has been shown multiple times, to hav
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by patanegra 1y ago
Maybe statistically gifted child is more often than not born to parents who were gifted too. Then, they read more to the child, speak more with him. And maybe either have higher disposable income, or liberty to recommend books, and learn wi
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by patanegra 1y ago
Clearly, it's because talented people grow to the top (not just economically, they might be cultural elites, like people working in news, academia). Then, they marry people who are on the top. And they pass their genes and habits. It&#
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by patanegra 1y ago
It's always the same argument. If you are world-class talent (someone who gets to Oxford), you should be capable of similar results as kids from independent schools. Like Joe Seddon did ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by patanegra 1y ago
This is extremely unfair framing. Oxford University has been discriminating people from independent schools for a while now. To get in, you need 4 A* from an independent schools, or just 3 As from state schools. That's not "lettin
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by patanegra 1y ago
In the last 10 years, they did £18107.3m turnover, and cumulative -1180.3m loss. Poor shareholders, mainly Ontario Municipal retirement fund pensioners, who are the biggest ones (32%) and retired British academics (20%).

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