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by MarkMc 9y ago
> Both combined could decimate the current car industry as we know it I think this point is not fully appreciated by investors. Even if, say, Tesla execute perfectly and grab 50% of the entire car market, it will not mean much if the mar
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by MarkMc 9y ago
I wonder how much of a car's depreciation in value is due to simply having an outdated style. If you drive a 10-year old Audi but your neighbour or co-worker has just bought a new Audi, you will feel the need to upgrade even if your ca
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Or difference between VHS casette player and DVD player.
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Discussion from 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2851470
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The Jobless Future (2011)(buzzmachine.com)
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> 11.5%...which is not at all what you would eyeball it at. I don't understand this point. Here is the same graph with 3 areas shaded: http://imgur.com/a/xco37 It looks to me like Area A is about a quarter of a
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The article you link to is not so unequivocal: "While the money in Camden, N.J., has led to relatively little academic progress, our stories from North Carolina, Indiana and Massachusetts offer a compelling counterpoint to the idea tha
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OK, but that doesn't seem to refute the comment made earlier: "Teacher salaries in Oklahoma are accordingly higher. They're going to have to spend quite a bit more than Italy and Spain." Even when you account for the che
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> So we're asking Oklahoma teachers to have the same standard of living as Italy teachers. There's the problem. Why would an Oklahoma teacher accept the same standard of living as an Italian teacher when there are plenty of ot
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> Studies repeatedly show that spending is uncorrlated with student outcomes That may be true of education budget in general, but what about these Oklahoma schools that are only open 4 days a week? Would boosting these school budgets be
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by MarkMc 9y ago
True, but it's about more than jobs. Imagine the US government was spending $50 billion building 'bridges to nowhere'. Would you support this scheme because it employs thousands of US workers? Currently the US spends $598 b
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From a related Economist article [0]: "Oregon, which insists that programmes to reform felons are measured for effectiveness, has a recidivism rate less than half as high as California’s." Assuming it's not a statistical blip
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Good points! Regarding 'voluntary': At some point there should be a written commitment from the student, but I'm undecided about whether it will be a formal, legal document signed before admission. The more external pressure
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...salary back to the college after graduation. The college website will have a page about the student, including a handwritten commitment and short video of the student explaining why he/she is grateful to college and supports its mis
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Ask HN: What do you think of my idea for a new type of college?
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Would you say that candidates who have completed online courses (MOOCs) tend to perform better in interviews? Edit: The question is based on this article I read a few months ago: http://blog.interviewing.io/lessons-from-3000
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by MarkMc 9y ago
> Choose the first letter of every word from song lyrics you like if you have to. Example: lwbeiycwlmdrgag (loving would be easy if your colors were like my dreams red gold and green). I'm not sure that's a strong password. A
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OK that's a fair point. But suppose instead I said, "the percentage of the population living on less than $50k per year in real terms has dropped by about a quarter since 1971". Does the graph support that statement?
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It's counterintuitive, but the decline of the middle class has coincided with a significant increase in real income for poor people. This video graph shows what I mean: https://twitter.com/conradhackett/status&#x2F
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> People who tried VR seem to be pretty optimistic about it's future, but I don't see many uses except for games and maybe some specialised applications. I've never tried VR or AR, but I'm confident that in 50 years
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> So the study really tells us about very 'low volume' providers compared to slightly higher volume providers I don't think 'slightly higher' is accurate. The report says, "We classified physicians into thi
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Not yet. A workaround is to set up a second business with a second currency.
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Yes I bundle the JRE with the download. In the old days I created a custom JRE with all the cruft stripped out but these days it's not too much to ask uses to download 50Mb. Hopefully with Jigsaw I can easily produce much smaller JRE
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Yes AWT/Swing was bloated, buggy and slow - Sun's poor UI implementation really doomed Java on the desktop. But then IBM came along and did it right: SWT is super fast and lightweight because it simply calls underlying native API
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> To maintain parity across the codebases, we had to implement and design the same features twice. If we ever wanted to add Linux support, we’d have to do it all a third time....Now we can share our logic and UI across all platforms, wh
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It's a trade-off. Yes, the code is messier for the 20% of functions where the input is manipulated. For the remaining 80% it makes it slightly easier to analyse the behaviour of the function.
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Curious: what language would be a high bar?
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IntelliJ is written in Swing, which 10 years ago was certainly slower than an alternative UI framework like SWT. Not sure if there is a noticeable difference nowadays.
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I've also been coding Java professionally for 17 years and like you I feel Java is a great little language. What makes the biggest difference in productivity is the simplicity of the algorithm and associated object oriented design, and
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- Do not install unsigned software - Do not install personal software on your work computer

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