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by zucchini_head 8y ago
The article doesn't touch upon education much at all, which I believe is a central part of social (im)mobility. Problems arising in society later on will simply stem from the early life of members of society, not afterwards. It's
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
Being serious here: What exactly is a "fintech" company? Every financial company on earth that isn't in someone's backyard is at-heart now purely technological (computers, algos, tracking, databases, etc.). So what makes
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
I find it quite funny, rather intruiging, that we seem to have gone full circle on trusted sources of information. Historically, a face-to-face meeting was considered as the ultimate legitimate and trustworthy way. Not story or rumors or wi
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
This is essentially exactly why I have not chosen to do a PhD, but go into industry. The bureaucracy is intense in academia and you can in some places spend far too long brown-nosing upper-positions to get anywhere at all. Some of the horro
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
About the article specifically, it's rather insubstantial and doesn't provide any more insight into company dynamics other than heartfelt paragraphs. Still a healthy reminder though. But anyway, about the subject matter, from the
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
It's about willing to do the job good, and not just for the money I think. But anyway, I think that maybe my above story is all just gobblewash. Overnight, I was thinking about how all these jobs that pay a lot for rather low-skill lab
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
I have a little story about this kind of thing, where doing something rather simple and low-skill can make an absolute fortune. One night I was talking to an older friend of a friend, 50+, around a year ago now. We were talking about what w
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
The parent comment wasn't saying that nobody was saying otherwise...
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
I suppose. I come from the C and C++ world, before I moved onto webdev (quite rare for a young millennial like me to be dinkling around with static C-related languages, I've been told by older colleagues), so I guess that I don't
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
Wow. That's disturbing!
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
Not having the same code on paper and on machine so to speak does make debugging typescript a little hard. It's a little bit of a black-box. I code typescript for Angular 2/4, and although yeah, the aforementioned debugging pains
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
I don't know what you MEAN, I read it just FINE.
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
It's certainly a phenomenon that exists, we've all seen and heard of false accusations to damage people's reputation, business, and such. "Scandals" have been around since humans have, it's gossip, it's li
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
I agree that whenever these political topics arise on HN, you generally get the same situation - a few politically unpopular comments being downvoted to oblivion, even if the comment was well formed and wasn't snarky, unnecessarily cru
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
There could be some hidden costs that the publishers incur, no? I'm just playing tenth man here. I'm not the most knowledgeable about scientific journal companies, but hosting thousands of papers online/offline and having to
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
> According to a tweet from anti-virus company Avira, [these attacks] were taking advantage of the EternalBlue exploit previously leaked by the group known as The Shadow Brokers So it's using the same exploit as WannaCry? I'm v
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
I think maybe your definition of "resolved" is a little skewed. It is not about the features of the object, but more by the Rayleigh Criterion [1][2] So we can already (and have been able to for a long time) to "resolve&quot
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
Hmm, i've definitely heard that story about decreased competition being a factor in USA post-war prosperity, but I seem to have been misinformed, since after looking at [1], it was due to a lot of things - namely increased fertility an
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
That's amazing resolving power, even if it's been done (maybe not in the exact same way) for quite a while now. Hopefully newer telescopes like the James Webb Telescope will be able to resolve even the _planets_ around other stars
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
Yes but was the decrease in demand greater in magnitude than the increase in sales due to less competition? I'de disagree, but getting numbers on these things is very difficult since it's a long time ago. Most of what you'll
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
I'de say it was rather large, since looking around, it's believed that it was very big pre-WWiII, but a quick look for numbers isn't revealing any good sources. I suppose it'll just have to float around as a "genera
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
Firstly the linked source is paywalled so that's ignored. Secondly, we are talking about post-war USA, so very generally '45 -> circa '70, not 2016 and the modern globalised world that are not representative of the world b
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
Well, a lot of historians say that the USA's economy flourished post-war not necessarily because they "won" it (hard to define concept these days), but because everybody else's manufacturing infrastructure was completely
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
Doesn't solve the problem. This approach contributes to urban sprawl, which is normally bad for the environment (people doing 2h car commutes is incredibly polluting, verses a shorter and commute or using public transport). A good summ
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
Just skim-read through that story. Sounds pretty part-and-parcel for these kind of things, it's the same where I live too (UK). The first step is always to include irrelevant statistics, since this bulks-up the case with "we are g
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
It's basically the same situation as to the rampant tax avoidance schemes that are run these days. Who do you blame more, the avoider or the laws they blatantly game? I'de always assign blame and disgust on the avoider or the towe
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
Well, the internet essentially was born from scientists displaying their research and papers, linking to other scientist pages, experiment data, and so on. The early internet was essentially a fancy FTP server with a bit of Times New Roman
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
I'm not very experienced with these nginx settings. Could you explain how this improves speed so much for you? It seems that you've followed [1] by the similarity of what that suggests to what you've suggested. tcp_nodelay se
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by zucchini_head 9y ago
Elon's Mars ideas has been a real hot topic on HN recently, and generally on average the most upvoted comments seem to be those deriding his ambitions. I think that's fair. They seem quite bonkers at times. Most of the reasons bei