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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
Shame I can't short Instagram and WhatsApp.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
If a market can't be cleared using a spreadsheet with 2^16 rows and 2^8 columns then the market is not efficient. Largely because most of the trade strategies live in ancient xls files no one dares edit.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
Turns out I need to read the Infinite Jest.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
Nitroglycerin will make war too horrible to fight. Wonder where I've heard that before.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
One can't run an industrial society on an agrarian power source. If we want to go on a holiday for winter, like the good old days, brilliant. But be honest. And be honest what will happen when China realizes that you can't power t
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
> means re-building the national transmission grid to favour battery models. You literally can't store enough energy in batteries to power the network. Yesterdays demand for SA was [0] 218,247,760 kWh. At even the most optimistic ba
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
>Women suffrage If voting doesn't matter why would giving women the vote matter?
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
For health reasons if nothing else. Everything foreign that people have put in their bodies which isn't food or drink turns out to be poison over a long enough time frame.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
> 2. Going out of your way to write a long article detailing all the shortcomings of those that partake in the thing you don't like. For those able to put words in order that article would take 15 minutes to write and 5 to proof rea
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
Like the old discussion about freedom of speech. That the robber baron who owns the papers can say what he wants doesn't mean much to the man who is a black list for the rest of his life. Freedom of speech is not freedom of consequence
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
There is nowhere in the west where housing is affordable. In the UK you have to go to the Scotish mountains to find houses that are as affordable today as London was in 1990.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
Honestly, seems like a bad idea. If the rich are willing to pay a premium for the top floors of a building forcing them to share the building with the poor will make them just build their own. Better yet, have incredibly punitive taxation f
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
I have seen a lot more 10x engineers that were just pilling technical debt on.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
20 restaurants within 40 meters (120 feet for those in less civilized countries) from the ground floor of your building? That seems like hyperbole unless you live above a shopping complex.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
>I’m going to ask you design and coding questions. My day job is engineering in systems that kill people or cost billions of dollars if they go wrong. I'm never going to ask you to code something on the fly other than hello world, a
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
Turns out we needed broken bones to realize why words never hurt.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
Because they were forced out after they publicly called google out on their Chinese stance. They were facing no consequences when it was merely men they were chasing out of google.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
Google is a stale big corp that has not innovated in a decade. Expecting it to listen to its workers, who are now a commodity, is at best naive. Listening to dissenting voices only matters to small companies who will die if they make a mist
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
They are specifically being targeted for forcing google out of China according to the article. It was fine as long as they were merely targeting social issues within google.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
Sounds like getting rid of troublemakers who bite the hand that feeds them. If anything this will make googles stock price go up.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
Well at least you're being downvoted. Where do you draw the line at bigotry and perversion? Homosexuality, transexuals, polyamory, eating meat, necrophilia, cannibalism, bestiality, pedophilia? There's people who non-ironically be
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
Have a try to synthetic speech books, I use espeak to create my audiobooks at 1000wpm for non-technical books.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
Reality disagrees. If software development could be done in India, Ukraine or whatever your preferred third world country is it would be getting done there already. There's a reason why developers move to one of a handful of cities to
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
Let me simplify it for you: pay them. A 50k developer in 1980 should be making 260k today if they just following the growth of the economy.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
I've seen -10 x developers put in management positions. The company is now going under for obvious reasons.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
This has always been the end game of social justice being funded so well. Destroy the professions and commoditize them. Fortunately for us programming has been and always will be about the transformation of text into other text with a conte
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson%27s_law Basically there are parts of every workload that needs to be run sequentially, there will be a point
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
I have not seen a desktop in a corporate environment in over a decade now.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
Laptops aren't computers any more, they are thin clients connected a mainframe somewhere. That we call them laptops and the cloud doesn't change the use case.
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by KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago
There isn't a desktop any more, we might as well be trying to make Linux for the mini computer if you're chasing the desktop market.

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