zvorygin

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by zvorygin 2mo ago
I imagine like many things, market penetration is uneven. I have a subscription for NA beers, my friends and I drink them when out and about, etc. We're young-ish Americans in New York, I suppose the news says we drink a lot less than
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by zvorygin 8mo ago
How did you get into large scale manufacturing and production? Was it a career switch? Downsides? It too fascinates me. Any book recommendations?
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by zvorygin 9mo ago
France had almost a thousand years of autocratic and aggressive tradition. Prussia/Germany too. There’s many more examples. These things can and do change.
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by zvorygin 9mo ago
Append “First ask clarifying questions” to your prompt.
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by zvorygin 1y ago
https://archive.is/jIQg3
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US banks lobby to block stablecoin interest over fears of deposit flight(ft.com)
14 points by zvorygin 1y ago|7 comments
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by zvorygin 1y ago
I think society has never, does not, and probably will never work the way you suggest it should.
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by zvorygin 1y ago
I wish the journalist asked the leading scientists in the field “Before you learned of the Hubble tension, what did you think the odds were of the standard model being correct? And after?” And everything would be much clearer.
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by zvorygin 1y ago
The Wikipedia article you link states: > It has been called one of the least productive Congresses since 1951 Let’s not measure productivity in terms of count of bills passed like measuring output by lines of code. Healthcare reform, SS
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by zvorygin 1y ago
My guess is that each simultaneously picked a number, one for numerator and one for denominator.
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by zvorygin 1y ago
History unfolds without anyone at the helm. It just happens, like a pachinko ball falling down the board. Global economic structures will push the development of AI and they're extremely hard to overwhelm.
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by zvorygin 1y ago
In my high school, without naming any names, the teacher told us all that anyone who changed their results to 9.81m/s^2 was doing science incorrectly. And we were graded on our analysis of the experimental procedure, or something like
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by zvorygin 1y ago
Botswana is actually reasonably well developed and stable. It seems fine, and I applaud them.
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by zvorygin 1y ago
Have you ever thought of adding a feature like automatically analyzing invoices to show owners “This supplier raised the price of 2x4 Joists by 22%” and other such insights?
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by zvorygin 1y ago
They offered a number of good points, it doesn’t seem like undiscerning nihilism to me.
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by zvorygin 2y ago
When have the corporations ever not had a short-termist "Fuck you, I got mine" mentality in America?
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by zvorygin 2y ago
Your team gets a clear and simple high-level goal that everyone at the company understands is important and shields you to work on it for a year without interruptions. You don’t know it, but your manager playing up your teams contributions
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by zvorygin 2y ago
What does “whether it’s worth it right now” mean? As in, whether companies are really worth as much as they’re valued?
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by zvorygin 2y ago
I agree, and at the same time I think that sometimes you realize your approach to life has been wrong and you’ve learned your lesson but it’s easier to start over than to fix the existing problems. In this case I recommend moving cities wit
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by zvorygin 2y ago
I know this experience is not universal, but I do think it is underrepresented.
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What Expats Don't Tell You About Moving Abroad(az.rip)
11 points by zvorygin 2y ago|12 comments
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by zvorygin 2y ago
> Europeans could learn from Canada how to allow immigration in a fashion that the population embraces rather than tolerates, though a housing crunch has frayed that consensus of late A little bit of an understatement, that consensus has
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by zvorygin 2y ago
My thoughts are similar. I don’t think it’s a troll, this type of thing is very common. You don’t have to engage or understand a topic if you can intellectualize it and create “theories” about it. It’s like when you read blog posts on datin
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by zvorygin 2y ago
I quit my last job in no small part because of Bazel. I hated it so much. It tortured me. I think Bazel is the kind of really complicated language that invites clever engineers to build incomprehensible balls of spaghetti. And the tooling a
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by zvorygin 3y ago
Only you can choose to care or not care. And if you care about some troll, you’re going to become angry and then exhausted.
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by zvorygin 3y ago
Did it make you cool and independent or more like a hateful incel. Honest question, no judgement either way.
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by zvorygin 3y ago
As someone who flies a lot on his own dime, inscrutable airline pricing ends up being good. It means I can always get a seat, I just have to pay more. It means businesses subsidize mine and everyone else’s flights. When I’m travelling the
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by zvorygin 3y ago
The Effective Altruism movement is very good at convincing people they want what Effective Altruists want. Figuring out what you want is really hard. I quit my job and blew my life up since other people do this to soul-search and it was my
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by zvorygin 4y ago
Say you had a blank slate to rejigger how bandwidth is allocated. What would it look like? Could we move things around and end up with more bandwidth than anyone knows what to do with? What's the ratio of "bad legacy we should cut
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Ask HN: Why can't we have wireless 4k monitors?
2 points by zvorygin 4y ago|6 comments

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