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by pwncat 17y ago
This is correct. The problem is that so many people, including top decision-makers within society, are too short-sighted to care about this notion of deficit. "Someone else" will clean it up. Externalized costs and myriad variations of defi
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by pwncat 17y ago
Terrible idea, actually. The productivity gained by the health sacrifices is dubious and might be counterbalanced by the negatives. Sacrificing most of the fun but not productive activities that fill the hours of less-ambitious young people
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by pwncat 17y ago
Networking is always hit-or-miss, and I'm asking about a worst-case, not average case, scenario.
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by pwncat 17y ago
I'm explicitly asking how people would respond to a worst-case scenario. This isn't something that has ever happened to me (although it theoretically could) and it's not my situation now. I'm just curious how people on here would handle it.
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by pwncat 17y ago
Not remotely, but they're pretty scummy, like the investment banking industry as a whole. What makes them worse than most others is their connection to politics, which allows them to get all kinds of favors. If you want to develop a boiling
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Ask HN: You lose your job, with 2 months of savings. What do you do?
7 points by pwncat 17y ago|13 comments
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by pwncat 17y ago
I disagree with this argument. I think another one's more salient. For a pack animal such as primal humans probably were, a certain type of moderate depression is a survival mechanism for dealing with low social status. Your appetite and li
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by pwncat 17y ago
Same here. I think it's a great language. As much as I value purity from an academic standpoint, I also need to eat. I'd rather see a 90%-pure Lisp that I can get a job in than a 100%-pure Lisp that I can't. Moreover, I think Clojure will g
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by pwncat 17y ago
I generally upvote comments that make an interesting point in an intelligent way. I tend to favor concision, since I don't upmod (or downmod) something if I'm not compelled to read the whole thing. I generally upvote anything I respond to,
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by pwncat 17y ago
(or (with? you lisp) (against? you lisp)) I'm kidding.
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by pwncat 17y ago
When you're writing Clojure code, you generally are supposed to prefer Clojure features and idioms. Functions like proxy and gen-and-save-class exist because sometimes you have to create classes to use other Java APIs.
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by pwncat 17y ago
I wonder what happens if you have an auto-deduction from your account. Not a problem for the monthly bills, but it would suck to find $11k taken out of one's bank account with the deduction done through a process that, although extremely un
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by pwncat 17y ago
Two words: stone soup. The JVM is just a starting point, and a very good one for that.
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by pwncat 17y ago
Note: if you trust any company run by Mark Zuckerberg with anything, you're doing it wrong.
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by pwncat 17y ago
Korean women are naturally very beautiful and don't need to "Europeanize" their features. I find that really unfortunate. They also have an uncanny ability to remain very kind, good people even when very attractive. However, I foresee a tre