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Air pollution is a big deal(patrickcollison.com)
62 points by MarkMc 7y ago|6 comments
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by MarkMc 7y ago
> Even if you get as big as this one the article is talking about to be full of gold and drop it directly in backyard of a gold smelting factory it will barely make a dent in the price of gold. I'm not so sure: The price of gold dep
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by MarkMc 7y ago
Genuinely curious: In what way is Kotlin Native severely compromised?
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21465873
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by MarkMc 7y ago
I recently realized that the movie title is made up of A, C, G, and T, which also represent the four nucleotide bases of a DNA strand. Clever.
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by MarkMc 7y ago
I'm currently on holiday in Bali and YouTube is now showing me ads in Indonesian. I'm astounded that YouTube has spent billions of dollars over a decade on the best software engineers and still cannot manage this simple optimisat
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by MarkMc 7y ago
I'd agree that Noam Chomsky's linguistic contribution is of the highest order, but I'm not so sure about his political analysis. Here are his comments in 1977 regarding the reported genocide in Cambodia [1]: "We do not p
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by MarkMc 7y ago
If remote workers are more productive, why aren't most office jobs remote?
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A female engineer's opinion on why fewer women go in to tech(kapwing.com)
3 points by MarkMc 7y ago|4 comments
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by MarkMc 7y ago
I'm very surprised that I see Outbrain ads when I visit cnn.com. Google have a decade of of my email history, my search queries, my Android location, my YouTube history, etc, etc. Yet apparently Outbrain's advertising is so effe
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by MarkMc 7y ago
Low-margin yes, but is the motor vehicle industry really so well run? GM was the biggest auto company in the world for decades, then it basically went bankrupt. Toyota has been blindsided by both electric and self-driving technology. When w
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Flutter Overtaking React Native on Stack Overflow(sotagtrends.com)
4 points by MarkMc 7y ago|1 comments
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Traditional universities have 3 advantages over online course providers like Udacity, Coursera and Khan Academy: 1. They act as a coach: The professor and your peers expect you to attend lectures. The assignment is due by 5pm on Wednesday.
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by MarkMc 7y ago
An organization where long-term revenue matches long-term expenses can last forever. There's no need for Harvard to keep piling up their endowment year after year
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Rose Blumkin is the classic American-immigrant-rags-to-riches-by-hard-work story. I love this story from Warren Buffett in his 1983 letter to shareholders: "Omaha retailers began to recognize that Mrs. B would offer customers far bette
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In Australia cost of 4G has been the limiting factor, not speed. But now we can get 200gb per month for $40 [0] which makes me wonder weather the NBN was worth it. [0] https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2019/06/mobile-b
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> If you need to just get some generic "good job", then the answer is to learn what you need in the first twelve years of school. I think that's enough time. The 'Everyone needs to get a degree' mentality is re
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"Their high school grades had turned out to be much better predictors of their academic ability and college potential than their SAT scores." I have to admit I'm surprised by this, but it seems to be backed up by research: &q
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by MarkMc 7y ago
Given the booming demand and restricted supply for homes in San Francisco, the market rate for rent could easily outstrip inflation by 3% per year. That means it would take a decade for a rental rate that is currently 20% below market rate
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by MarkMc 7y ago
So cost of PV solar has dropped 80% over past decade - it it reasonable to expect another 40% drop over the coming decade? A quick Google search suggests that Solar PV efficiency is 11-22%. Could it be 20-35% in 2029?
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React Native vs. Flutter vs. Android vs. iOS, on Stack Overflow(sotagtrends.com)
3 points by MarkMc 7y ago|0 comments
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UTS lowers entry bar for female engineering and IT students(sbs.com.au)
2 points by MarkMc 7y ago|0 comments
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by MarkMc 7y ago
I have a close family member also dealing with cancer/end of life anxiety - to the point where she cannot sleep and gets physical stomach pains from anxiety. She has tried meditation but I don't think it's been very effective
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Porting a 75,000 line native iOS app to Flutter(medium.com)
2 points by MarkMc 7y ago|1 comments
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"People who are inside the cone, but far from the center, tend to prepare less than those closer to the central line. All of these interpretations of the map are incorrect" I'd assume people closer to the central line have a
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Soap is far from identical - every soap has a different smell Wich is a major factor in consumer choice.
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Can't we structure incentives to avoid that problem? Eg. If you audit a large corporation and expose major fraud you get a large bonus. If you audit a small business and find only only a minor infraction, then your bonus pool is reduce
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Can't some people-intensive businesses scale to huge size? Look at Walmart
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> That quantity doesn't change very much (in real terms) over time. That may have been generally true for the last 6000 years, but I doubt it will be true over the next 100 years; once asteroid mining becomes remotely viable then th
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One of the pros of Flutter is that its popularity is growing strongly while Ionic's is basically flat: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=flutter%2Cion... I haven't tried Ionic myself, but I have trie

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