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by ap22213 11y ago
The content has become much more 'mainstream'. I think this is partly because over the last 10 years they're a been a popular culture fetishization of startups and entrepreneurship, and ycombinator in general has become much
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You're just making things up now. Proof?
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Until recently, 'Waterfall' was used to describe a process anti-pattern. At least, it was prior to 2010 or so.Software engineers have known for decades that iterative and incremental processes (spiral, UP, etc.) work best to manag
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I work with 40+ partner companies, and they are all using AWS. Moving big data sets around is cheap and super easy. And, it's not been very expensive to process large data sets on AWS. On average, I crunch through 20 TiB for like $50
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Or, you get financially irresponsible rural areas sucking tax money from the urban areas. In the state in which I live, 80 cents of every state tax dollar that I pay goes to some rural area where they waste the money on unnecessary police
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by ap22213 11y ago
I'm not sure why you believe that states are any better. Central planners are everywhere, even down at the regional and local levels. I've lived in ten different towns / cities in five different states, and each had its share
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The article describes it as 'clunky'. But, I think much of its popularity is due to its accessibility. It's a very intuitive system, and even my 1 year old gets it. She messes around with it on the tablet and enjoys moving an
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by ap22213 11y ago
On the other hand, there's a better chance that you'll get to know the real person after 30. There's less influence from friends and family. The person's identity has usually smoothed out. And, they generally know themse
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by ap22213 11y ago
And, yet, long-term economic growth forecasts are the lowest that they've been in a really long time.
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I hate sprawl, too, but I'm missing how this relates to the article. Why would less sprawl somehow solve the problems cited?
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What I mean (and tried to put into context with my last paragraph) is that for someone below poverty, luck is the most important factor. Moral factors like work ethic don't matter. I've known lots of people with incredible work et
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Yep, luck. I'm the child of a single mom of 4 who made $7000 / year, and I'm the first of my extended family to graduate college and the first millionaire (my younger brother got to middle class). Luck is the way that I succ
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by ap22213 11y ago
While I can relate to you in regard to the decreasing number of tech relevant articles (I wish there were more of them), I actually enjoy reading articles about class and the comments that follow.
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An above average IQ is usually good, but not too high. 115-120 seems pretty good. Above that, I've found a strong correlation with either a) being a dick, b) having obnoxious social quirks, or c) being dangerously over-confident. YMMV
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Someday soon we will have cures for cancers, technology to repair aging, colonies on Mars, unlimited clean power, and maybe even some strong AI. Yet, Humans will still be debating economics, taxes, and the morality of work. Can I ask you a
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Agreed. I read threads like this one, and all I wonder why all of these amazingly smart, creative, and talented people aren't banding together to put an end to this thing called work.
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by ap22213 11y ago
I would love to help pump up the GDP at a new country. What I'm looking for: Efficiently run government, low corruption, policies that encourage education and health, and progressive expanded rights and freedoms. I'm in. But, base
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What part of the law does this fall under? Do people get arrested for this? (i.e. criminal) What's the worst that can happen?
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I've seen code readability decrease linearly since the 90s. This makes sense since there were around 3-4 developers to do the work of every 1 today. But, I think this is just a symptom of a lack of capacity and resource management. Co
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What are the real reasons for successes and failures? You left me hanging...
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I'm pretty sure that good portion of the '99%' are doing a lot more than 'nothing'. But, getting back to the core, I think all of these capitalism vs communism juxtapositions distract us from looking at our collecti
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It seems kind of extreme to shut down based on that. Wouldn't the technology be useful for other uses? I'd imagine that some would pay for that kind of historical data.
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Putting 'rob' alongside 'rape and kill' seems like you're equating the levels of severity.
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Where'd you pull the 50% statistic? In the U.S. it seems it's more like fewer than 14 people die for every 38,000 carjackings.
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Wow, those are some surprisingly low salaries. Anyone want to team up to do my work for me? I show up and be 'the face', and then you take 50% of what I make. We both win. Either that, or I give you all a class in negotiation. :
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I'd so much rather do a project with my own tools and from the comfort of own home than commute several hours across the city for a several hour interview. If all it required was an hour phone call and a small project, I'd totally
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The statement about economics rings true. When I think of science, I think of models that accurately and precisely reflect reality. That is, a tested and validated model should be predictive and consistent. I have no trust for 'science
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If you believe this is about one 'side' vs. another, I'm not sure what we gain by having a dialogue, honestly. I'm not coming from 'a side'. I'm not battling some ideological conflict. I'm just refle
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Cherry picking means presenting one set of data that supports an argument while ignoring others that don't. The data isn't from the fed but from BLS. And, a reading of the descriptions of what that data contains shows that it incl
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I think most of us get that. But, the goal of all of this should be improvement of general well-being. And, clearly that's not happening. Sure, some people are getting crazy rich, but it's not trickling down into the general popu

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