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by Jedi72 9y ago
I hate BigTech.com as much as the next guy, but give 'em a break haha. Now we're criticizing them for even when they do the right thing
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by Jedi72 9y ago
Minimum wage killed the junior developer. I love mentoring and teaching, and I do this as part of my current role, and would gladly take on more people and train them and in 6 months they will be capable of going out and getting a 100k sala
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by Jedi72 9y ago
By chance I ended up at the Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffets company, more like mega-conglomerate) website today. http://www.berkshirehathaway.com If that site is good enough for one of the worlds most valuable corporations, m
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by Jedi72 9y ago
I completely agree, I got downvoted to hell in another thread for implying this but I think its true - HN has grown/jumped ths shark, it used to be startups people and devs and the content reflected it, now HN audience seems to be anyo
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by Jedi72 9y ago
> My parents are originally from Singapore, and like it or not, they at least have the law and order thing down pat. I am prepared to put up with a bit of 'larrikinism' if the alternative is a society where nobody ever question
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by Jedi72 9y ago
I wonder what the multiplier of real money to crypto money was. They say $400M was lost but if $10M of fiat was put in and the price goes 40x (because one guy who threw in $50 cashed out at the high price) was there really $400M lost, or ju
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by Jedi72 9y ago
I actually think getting a job delivering food can be a local maxima - you make a few extra bucks, but it ties up all your time and leaves you less open to opportunities and training.
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Will this wave affect boats? Imagine being on a yacht in the middle of the Pacific (not Atlantic Doh!) when a 10m wave moving at 20m/s hits (figures not accurate just guesses)
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by Jedi72 9y ago
TL:DR; Hofstadter's law.
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I am very surprised by the general vibe in here that FB are doing this for the users or to promote responsible social networking. IMHO They poisoned the well by disrespecting their users [1] and are now trying to undo the damage. Just like
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by Jedi72 9y ago
Early in my career (it began after a discussion in a tutorial during my undergrad) I made a choice to never to use my engineering skills to build weapons. I don't believe its a morally justifiable choice in this century. It's not
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by Jedi72 9y ago
Your music example is a great one for shpwcasing how little things change. Sure the sound is different but everyones still bopping along to a 4/4 rock beat
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by Jedi72 9y ago
Would you get paid in Bitcoin knowing it could be worth 20% less (or more I guess) in real terms on any given day that your company happens to do payrole?
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by Jedi72 9y ago
In theory this is a good idea but in practice it leads to thousands of low quality "top ten things you need when going camping" style websites only created to sell things.
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The suit is back!
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Hot air balloon?
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by Jedi72 9y ago
You act as though business is this totally seperate thing to life. Business is some fancy legal words wrapped around the activities of groups of people. Saying businesses are only driven by profit is not fundamentally different from saying
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by Jedi72 9y ago
Anything which handles business or personal data (so virtually everything making money) has security concerns, and IMHO the first step to good security is a well structured and clean codebase (Note: I'm a dev but not a security special
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by Jedi72 9y ago
Not a troll, thanks for the good dialogue.
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It clearly has price regulation bundled up in it. Oldest lobbying trick in the book, attach your agenda to something nobody can disagree with. Censorship and control over who sees what is a totally seperate issue to what it costs.
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by Jedi72 9y ago
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating most of the Internet must treat all data on the Internet the same, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, ap
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by Jedi72 9y ago
I dont necessarily agree with the following but its a devils advocate argument I rarely see shared, and it has a lot of merit. Like everything, this issue is shades of grey. Bandwidth is a limited amd expensive resource. When government man
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by Jedi72 9y ago
The quality of this title is terrible as well, the title should say 'Vulnerability in WiFi handshake discovered, its name is KRACK'
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To me that only highlights how prohibatively expensive it would be to give BI to people in any amount that would really move the needle
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by Jedi72 9y ago
Basic Income is often proposed in conjunction with cutting basic social services & welfare payments, thus achieving a net gain for the government. This seems to make it attractive to both the neoliberals and the neosocialismés, but I be
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by Jedi72 9y ago
I have a failed startup in my past too and when it failed some people tried to tell me I deserved the extra debt I now carried because I decided to take on so much risk. I never saw it that way - for me, I was trying to escape prison. Escap
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by Jedi72 9y ago
This is one of the things about bitcoin nobody has ever explained to me adequately. Governments use monetary policy & other economic tools to regulate the economy. Assuming we're all Keynsians here, this is a pretty important featu
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Can you link to some of your work, this is very interesting stuff
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The Wright brothers were bicycle mechanics
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Getting pro GCP articles to the top of HN must no-doubt be a high priority for the Google marketing team. This is the nature of modern advertising, sneakily trying to subvert your thinking by masquerading as something else.

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