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Fossil fuel protesters throw tomato soup on Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' in London(cnn.com)
4 points by RestlessMind 4y ago|4 comments
902.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
90K GBP salary, 9K GBP bonus and 21K Stock for an L5 at Deliveroo in London? If you are in that position, I am 99% certain that Silicon Valley is a better[1] choice. Any L5 at a Fintech or a Social media or a Gig-economy based company will
903.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
At Google (in Silicon Valley), 7 out of 8 people in my reporting chain were Indian males. Go figure!
904.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
Hmm interesting. I checked up two other sources[0,1] and those ones have US / UK / Israel / Canada / Australia etc above Norway when it comes to Startup environment. So I still don't see enough evidence for the orig
905.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
> Healthcare and housing costs are some of the biggest stifles to innovation in this country. (Assuming you are referring to the US) France has free healthcare, free education and a high degree of rent control. Do you have any quantitat
906.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
> demand to living in expensive areas will go down because it'll be (proportionally) less necessary to live where the jobs are. Expensive areas are expensive not only because of jobs but for many other reasons, mainly related to ent
907.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
Closing bank accounts is bad. Jailing an old woman in her 80's? That's whole another level. No government is perfect but there are shades of bad and you can see for yourself where a government falls on that spectrum.
908.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
> had them ready to surrender already. Any citation? This is the first time I have heard this claim.
909.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
> a bad thing only when putin does it. Here is a key difference between Russia and the US/Europe. When Iraq war is bad, thousands of people can march across American/European cities without a fear of getting jailed. People can
910.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
> I'm not sure whether you're saying PoW doesn't directly emit greenhouse gases, or that the carbon footprint of PoW mining is zero. So you are okay with someone mining bitcoins if they do so using Solar energy?
911.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
So if I were to buy a few acres in a cheap place in the Southwest (AZ or NM or West TX), install solar panels to generate electricity and set up rest of the machinery (ASICs, internet fiber) to mine bitcoins, you won't have a problem w
912.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
A simple first-order approximation of your first 3 paragraphs - hybrid model. Companies are discovering that offsites are in fact costlier for the value they provide. Hybrid would require an office and hence a higher cost, but it also has a
913.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
What about Junior ICs who need a lot of mentorship and coaching? They are a lot more in number (twice that of Senior ICs in my observation) and almost everyone uniformly asks for more in-person events and more mentors.
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“Girls Who Code” founder speaks out after school district bans her books(businessinsider.com)
11 points by RestlessMind 4y ago|0 comments
915.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
> We can't have change without change. Agreed. But what to change? If the right solution requires changing only A but you end up lumping changes to B and C as well, is that really helpful?
916.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
> but there are some things that really shouldn't corporatized, like health care,... I agree with your list generally but I believe private sector has a huge role to play in health care. Incentives are nicely aligned between advanc
917.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
> I have seen that it does not make a difference Maybe we just live in different circles then. > on top of all the hassle that comes with verifying all those names. We have solved that problem for online banking which adheres to all t
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by RestlessMind 4y ago
Key line which captures the essence of the article: "Many progressive commentators ... believe that countering climate change requires a fundamental reordering of the West’s political and economic systems."
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What Many Progressives Misunderstand About Fighting Climate Change(theatlantic.com)
9 points by RestlessMind 4y ago|7 comments
920.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
To add concrete stats [1], solar is only 2.8% of overall US electricity generation in 2021. But if you look at the "billion kW per year" numbers since 2011, they are: 1.82, 4.33, 9.04, 17.69, 24.89, 36.05, 53.29, 63.83, 71.94, 89.
921.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
After staying in SV for close to 2 decades and evaluating various other places to move to, I have ultimately chosen to remain in SV for the following reasons: 1. Decent weather - no snow, wind, storms. This is changing recently with wildfir
922.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
There is a meme in the US media that only if we are more like social democracies of Europe, it would be a paradise here. Reality begs to differ. UK has NHS and free college and still went for Brexit and Boris. France has everything Bernie S
923.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
I suspect there are a lot of Russian (and Chinese and CIA and ...) trolls on HN as well. While dang and the overall community holds a decent bar, it is too easy to slip into flamewars. I wonder if a right solution here is to have fully de-a
924.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
> Crypto market cap is a made up, manipulated number. The actual amount of dollars in Ethereum is nothing even close to that. Would you apply same reasoning to NASDAQ stocks? Or Gold market cap?
925.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
iOS / Windows etc are not open source and are delivered by centralized entities (Apple, Microsoft). Android is open source but is also delivered by a single company (Google). Maybe my phrasing didn't reflect it but I meant one of
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by RestlessMind 4y ago
An open source project pulling off one of the biggest upgrades in the history of software development thanks to efforts of a distributed group of people should be celebrated here. Else, what is the point in calling ourselves "Hacker&qu
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by RestlessMind 4y ago
"by 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine." - a Nobel prize winner in 1998. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/paul-krugman-int
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by RestlessMind 4y ago
Crypto / Blockchains. Since this question routinely comes up on HN, I gathered a few legit examples[0] of how Crypto is helping. I am also willing to have a bet about overall Crypto market cap[1] at the end of this decade (11:59pm PST
929.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
I gathered a few legit examples of Crypto's use: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32406095
930.
by RestlessMind 4y ago
> On the other hand, the only reason the company hired someone overseas was to save money. Ding ding ding - we have the winner here. In my company, all new headcount is from cheaper countries. We are no longer hiring in the US.

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