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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Playing Until Dawn with my colleagues at lunch was awesome. I think there is definitely a space for interactive movie style games. I want Man of Medan on Stadia!
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Nuclear Fusion should be treated completely differently though. It shares nuclear in the name and the similarities pretty much end there (the 'waste' from neutron activation of plasma facing components is negligible). Fusion seems
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Which book? I did a Master's in Physics but a while ago so it'd be nice to read something somewhat technical (but not too much).
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Haha, I knew exactly what talk it was going to be before clicking it. It's one of the most interesting talks I have seen, hopefully something comes of it all.
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But you have to go through college to do a PhD so I guess they are correlated.
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>If these are the expectations for tech salaries then how about the rest of the (middle-class) workforce? The expectation seems to be we will go back to a sharp division between property owners and eternal tenants, like it was when my 95
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I agree, that title is awful given the actual link.
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Create more national labs, research institutes etc. that widen out the end of the funnel without widening the start. /fellow physicist who went into DS
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Yeah, but they also describe $100k as a 'not great' salary. Good luck ever earning that much in the UK, let alone a few years after graduating. I think Americans don't realise just how much richer the USA is than most of the
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>the working poor and now, even many working middle class Americans. The fact is that many of those middle class people are now poor but just don't want to accept it. I'd always define myself as working class because while I ha
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Weird, I had the opposite experience - I moved to Spain after Uni but during Uni I worked in Germany for half a year. I found Spanish much easier to learn than German because the grammar is simpler and the words are often similar to Latin
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Wages are determined by the supply and demand of capital and labour. The USA has an enormous amount of capital to invest and those companies want developers and will compete to get them, Europe, Canada etc. not so much. I mean London has a
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
They don't share your data, they just encourage you to go for a run.
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But that's because there is much more capital available in the US so it is easier to find investment. Americans are more entrepreneurial in spite of their healthcare system, not because of it.
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We traded our local environment too. I mean South America is 35% Old Growth Forest vs. less than 3% in Europe.[1] In Europe, pretty much only the Białowieża Forest remains. We destroyed everything else over the millennia. [1] https:/&
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
It'd be fun as a side project - with tough deadlines in a start-up and having to continually explain why it's still not finished this sprint... not so much.
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Electric vehicles would eliminate a lot of noise pollution too. As a city dweller there is nothing I long for more than complete electrification of all transport and the death of the ICE.
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Can anyone recommend other books similar to this one? Having done the Nand2Tetris course and started the Ray Tracer Challenge book I find I really like these books that guide you through a pretty complex project. It helps you learn by doing
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
Yeah, I did the Nand2Tetris course which culminates in writing a toy compiler and the philosophy there is the same as yours. I really like that philosophy - as Feynman said: "What I cannot build I do not understand"
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Let's do the time warp again!
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Are they paying young devs too much or OP too little?
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Yeah, also while in the past Fortnite might have been replaced by Counterstrike - that allowed players to run dedicated servers, it was itself a Half Life mod etc. so there was just more opportunities to learn technical skills. Now it seems
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I think full warehouse automation e.g. Amazon will be the next one to go. As it requires a large amount of labour so there is a lot of possible savings and consists of repetitive tasks in a controlled environment. It would also be better PR
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by alexgmcm 7y ago
I agree - it is far better to have computers do it than run the market at "the clock speed of a babushka at a market stall" as Francis Spufford put it. Although in this case it'd be the clock speed of a fund manager on a golf
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2001: A Space Odyssey.
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My main concern isn't the 'Big Bad Government' but just good old fashioned incompetence and corruption. If law enforcement can read my messages so can engineers at the company, or anyone a hacker or disgruntled employee sells
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Fusion power will be well worth the wait – Financial Times(ft.com)
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How many of these startups actually change the world though? It seems more and more like "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads."
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I think premium Medium posts should be at least labelled, if not removed, on HN. Especially when so many of them are just a modern evolution of blogspam or thinly veiled content marketing.
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They are releasing a remaster of Warcraft 3, no? I remember having fun with WC3 so I'll probably give it a try.

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