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by alephnan 4y ago
Look at Japan Covid numbers before and after the Olympics. Japan was practically zero. And that was when Japan vaccination rates were below 10%. The vast majority of cases ( at fractions of what an American city has ) was in Tokyo, and Tok
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> it's a huge waste of resources peoples' liberties Are you an actual resident in Asia or a Westerner armchair philosophizing what people in Asia actually want. Here’s a glimpse from actual Asian people, from a democratic count
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> But SF needs to really examine what is going wrong and why they're incapable of solving their problems Strong network effects.
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Are there any known limitations? Characters per line, number of items in the list?
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How does pricing compare to Firebase which lets frontend devs think in terms of modifying their JSON data without thinking about the REST equivalent?
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by alephnan 4y ago
Bet you enjoy pumpkin spice lattes from Starbucks, a company with more than 2x the market cap of Twitter and founded by a person who grew up in government subsidized housing. You’ve just moved the fencepost to a random percentile. WE could
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by alephnan 4y ago
I literally resigned from a half million dollar year job in FANG and turned a few others. I’m just happily unemployed now. Here’s what I can do. I say whatever TF I want without worrying about financial dependencies or an employer’s opinion
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It’s not always 100% true or false. There’s confidence intervals.
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> of your supposed "power" At the very least, they aren’t resigning and relegating themselves to be a victim of Elon Musk. That’d be weakness and the opposite of “power”.
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> great that you keep up with hn at your age. Passive aggressive intolerance and ageism. Aren’t you supposed to be virtue signaling? > in the US Explains why an American team winning American “football” are deemed “world champions”. W
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by alephnan 4y ago
Looks like a bunch of privileged people with the victimhood mentality are downvoting you, the actually disadvantaged person who proved otherwise.
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This is the same crowd who is criticizing China’s censorship of media surrounding Shanghai lockdowns, and being self congratulatory of America / “ “democracy’s” success of coronavirus.
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> Taiwan, Korea, Japan Japan has less than 1/10th China’s population. Taiwan has less than 20% of Taiwan. Japan was far richer than China per capita before WWII. Japan was the superpower that believed it could take on the West. Unt
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> They assume that people will execute their orders perfectly, even under extreme hardship China has also taken 1 billion people out of poverty in just 3 decades. > For all its failures, democracy at least has taught us to incorporate
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by alephnan 5y ago
Talk is cheap. Stock market is the place to test convictions. Pretty sure most of those people didn’t have skin in the game, long or short, either ways
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Has anyone ever done something similar, but with spreadsheets in Org-mode?
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> I'm glad pure javascript is fast enough for your needs. In this case, the bottleneck at 9 million LoC is not CPU cycles but memory usage. That's where I am considering pushing down into WebAssembly, but whatever function-inli
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http://iswebassemblyfastyet.com
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Does anyone know why Rust is one of the "de facto" host languages for WebAssembly? Is it because Rust naturally leant itself to machine code, therefore it was easier to build a compiler? Is it because the Rust community wants to c
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What are examples of real applications / businesses using WebAssembly?
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> Javascript has the same problem with b-trees, skip lists, ropes, gap buffers, AABB trees, and so on. You can implement all of this stuff in javascript - you just end up with much more memory indirection than you want. And for trees wi
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> rebranded on Google Maps to a name few had heard: the East Cut. There was briefly some gentrified name for the area between Soma, Portrero Hill and Mission, around where the Muji was and the highway overpass still is. I remember it rhy
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Is there a spreadsheet of such companies?
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Is there a list of companies that uses HackerRank for interviews?
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Upvote it for the algo even though it doesn't make sense.
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> Mathematically, we can formulate this a sequential zero-sum game with perfect information. Is this not just restating that Tetris is NP-hard? https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14336
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> Is there a special kind of celebrity niche that the billionaire businessman fills that occupies an ancient hierarchical part of our society? So basically the ruling class.
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> majority of the people of Sweden, UK and US are quite satisfied Did that include the people who died ?
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> The argument is not that is worth more, it is that it can be worth more in the future than Musk offer. Then it should be priced for discounted future cash flow and value.
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by alephnan 5y ago
This is my point. Facebook surfaces include stuff like editing a post, sending a message. All of these have relatively small character limits versus a text editor that handles millions of lines with tens of millions of characters. In the ca

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