Kurtz79

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Daikatana, Duke Nukem Forever, Broken Age, Star Citizen... Even experienced industry professionals need some guidance and supervision. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
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Nvidia announces new graphics cards. Should it be on HN? Apple announces new iPhone, listing specs. Should it be on HN? Google announces new service. Should it be on HN? In general, if it's something tech related that the community fin
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I appreciate that the work is hard, what I cannot come to terms with is the apparent and total lack of accountability of the role (speaking about big-company CEOs). Yes, a "bad" CEO will be fired, meaning that he will pocket a fat
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For those interested, I cannot recommend enough the Infocom collection on the iPad, if I remember correctly for less than 10 bucks you get 30+ adventures, including manuals, all conveniently packaged and accessible.
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Yup. Fifa games sell 10M+ units yearly. The number of students starting a new web dev class are... tens of thousands, worldwide? A hundred of thousands?
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Brave is mostly used as a mobile browser. It is far more practical to download an already adblock-included brower than having to mess with extensions on mobile. I installed it soon after switching to Android from iOS and I have no complaint
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In one case, people that went to college but were not able to take advantage of the degree would still not have a crippling debt to pay.
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Source? My totally anecdotal experience (mostly Italy, Spain) is the opposite, even in countries where higher education is cheap/subsidized, people tend to go to University "just because", mostly because it is expected by fam
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Meanwhile, in Italy... https://www.reuters.com/article/italy-poste-italiane-amazon/...
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Same here. Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/570/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_cannon "There is no evidence in favor of the effectiveness of these devices. A 2006 review by Jon Wieringa and Iwan Holleman in the journal Meteorologische Zeitschrift summarized
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"In response, VW said it would install netting above the cars to protect them from hailstorms in the future." It seems a comparatively much more reasonable and non-invasive low-tech solution...
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20 years is equivalent to a couple of geological ages in tech, definitely not the "last few years" I was referring to. This article is from 2014 but hardly anything has changed. https://www.comsol.com/blogs/ha
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In the last few years we switched from throwing more CPU cycles at the problem to throwing more CPUs at the (not necessarily parallelizable) problem.
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In common speech, your definition of "disposable income" is perfectly acceptable. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disposable%20inco... https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary&#x
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"someone has to START thinking about that comparison." Sorry, but this comment is really kind of hilarious. The "PC vs. Console" debate is something that almost predates the Internet and it has generated countless forum
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As you say, the real issue is discoverability, but I don't think the problem is the "junk", as much the large number of perfectly average and acceptably fun games released every day. I read Mechner's journals a few years
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https://money.cnn.com/2018/01/05/investing/jobs-report-const... https://www.industryweek.com/leadership/america-s-new-factor... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a
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As OP says, many became addicted because of normal painkillers prescriptions from their doctors, not because they wanted to act cool in front of their friends. You don't generaly second-guess your doctor's prescription.
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You must have missed the news these last few years. As soon as the markets get a whiff of potential instability in the country that would cause a deviation on the austerity policy imposed by the EU, the credit spread on goverment bonds skyr
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Of course. I was answering as to why some people might have had the expectation of indefinite employment at some point, which in some places was somewhat justified until recently.
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>> there is really no job security, and they could be one layoff wave away from unemployment >Why would there be? Nobody I know is signing employment contracts or working in Civil Service positions. Probably not true in the US, but
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My Macbook Pro heats up like crazy even for Hearthstone and Civ5, I think it's an issue with the laptop's design rather than the games themselves...
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Also, "The Trouble with Harry", although not the best Hitchcock.
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What is the status of WireGuard in terms of client device support? The main advantage of IPsec and OpenVPN is that they are either natively supported by all major OSs (desktop and mobile) or there are apps freely available for that purpose.
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It is probably an issue with in-depth set culture, there is definitely less stigma here than in the US, although not for the goverments not trying. In most EU countries, anti-smoking campaigns are frequent, packs must show huge labels with
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Not sure how it is now, but when visiting Germany a few years ago it was also weird to see tobacco normally advertised on billboards, while it is illegal in most EU countries.
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Discussion on the same story from NYT, a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17697361
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Well, the comparison mentioned in the abstract is between Americans and Japanese, so Hofstede's rankings seem to agree with the "common view" mentioned in the paper...
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I haven't read the specific paper, but there are studies that try to classify countries by "cultural dimensions", of which "individualism" is one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede%27s_cult

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