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by wrong_variable 8y ago
It seems like naked astroturfing. If Trump wasn't president, ( someone like bernie ). I hope a coalition of democratic countries (Australia, EU, Japan, Vietnam and India ) sent a carrier group to Taiwan and make China sign some sor
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
Its not at all simple as that ... Taking on debt in your currency means you won't be able to access international markets, and international market are not just going to allow you to sell bonds in your currency without an extremely ste
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
I wonder what this means for Atlassian's international clients. Does the Australian government have unfretted access to any code hosted with Atlassian ? Maybe if you are a small business in Australia you would not care about it - but b
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
True, but there are markets that are completely outside the reach of international capital markets - and are highly non-correlated to the US stock indexes. - Congo, Somalia are the extreme case but you can make really good gains in real est
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
Disappointed Erlang didn't make the list in 2018 :(
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by wrong_variable 8y ago
It it like using LOC towards judging the complexity of a code base : "God 100K ! your code must be filled with so much boiler plate !" - During the Second World War Britain / US went deep in the red to fund their survival, I
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by wrong_variable 9y ago
- The article strongly highlights lack of union membership. - Warren is interested in introducing laws. - I do not agree regarding M and A - so what if companies want to combine capital ? If Labor can also combine more freely then I do not
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by wrong_variable 9y ago
What is frustrating is the problem can be attacked even without introducing any new law. In many industries the reason employers have monopsopy power is regulations that prevents new players from eating the fat profit margins of incumbent p
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by wrong_variable 9y ago
He is not calling Dubai a communist state, he is calling people who are criticizing how a sovereign country spends its income communist - which is true by definition.
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by wrong_variable 9y ago
The UAE is an independent country and can do whatever it wants. A few weeks ago the guardian was complaining about the "folly" of Musk sending a Roadstar to space. It seems to me that anything that is not about feeding poor people
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
(cough cringe PR cough) You could create similar optimistic charts for US, China, India, etc. The EU ( 550 million ) tech industry is dwarfed by the US ( 350 million ) Looking from a higher abstract plane, EU produces the least new entrepre
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
> salivate at the idea Is getting boners also a plus ? > • have been programming obsessively from an early age How early ? I didn't have internet connection while being in the womb :(
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
"Even though these groups provide a disproportionately large economic growth contribution" No, most of productivity growth in industrialized countries arose from economics of scale from multinationals. Its the same for China, Germ
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
I have noticed the elbow 90 degree advice a lot. I am just confused how the elbow relates to the pinky. The mouse thing is interesting. is there a software that I ca use to switch my right hand designed mouse to my left hand. PS: wonderful
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
Thanks for the wonderful advice ! Another question. Have you tried Dvorak ? I have been thinking of buying the sicker and changing my keyboard to dvorak. I have also read that keys with mechanical switch are better. But unfortunately the sc
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Ask HN: RSI is getting really bad
3 points by wrong_variable 10y ago|9 comments
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
Though it was about the ES6 compiler :(
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
Hey ! I cannot give away the place I am connecting from without giving away too much information. But within the EU I remember small Remote Romanian Towns. http://www.hobotraveler.com/budgets/list-of-countries-where-...
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
You can get high speed internet in many parts of the developing world for less than 20 dollars a month - its amazing really. You can buy food, pay rent and utils - live near a sunny beach for less than 50 dollars a month. Of course if all S
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
Both the brexit and trump phenomemon is going to be a case study on a the effects of a monopolistic media. In Britain its Rupert Murdoch's influence, and in the US its Fox News. In war one of the key things that every general knows is
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
Very cool ! Has anything actionable being done using this ?
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
I interviewed for Seven Bridge. Very interesting company. They had a typical white board interview process. What they were doing didn't seem that technically hard, and they were more concerned about prior credential ( like most bioinfo
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
There are a lot of ways large companies can get around towards the 30% figure. - Stock Buyback - Foreign Acquisition, sending the money to a offshore company that a company on paper can make look like its doing some "research". -
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
JS is ruthless. It has no issue discarding an ENTIRE generation of programmer and 1000s of man-hour to move itself forward. It does not sleep, like a eternal blackhole it eats young men and spits out their heat at the other end. JS is chaot
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
Does it person think that programming is like cooking vegetables ? I am tired of people treating programming like some vocational trade subject - or something that can be picked up over the weekend. Being a good programmer in any sub-domain
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
I was studying the topic of derivatives for an exam. It was interesting - the whole point of derivatives was to prevent the fact that markets are volatile. So its a way to "Price Fix". That is the entire point of markets ! to allo
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
Oil never was that valuable. It was propped by a OPEC cartel. If you go back in time and watch any press release from the saudis when asked about the idea of "peak oil" - they always said it was nonsense. It was too easy to earn m
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
Fire Engineer sounds way cooler than software engineer !
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
what is good for the median person is also good for the 1%
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by wrong_variable 10y ago
In my younger days, I used to play around with software like maya. The best thing about voxels is what you can do with fluid simulations. In Maya you could create a cube made up of voxels, each voxel had a fuel, temperature etc variables. Y

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