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by auganov 8y ago
How would you ever know if you "have" perfect pitch without training? I don't even know what a C or B is[0]. Are there any tests online that don't require prior knowledge? [0] I do realize they denote some frequencies
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by auganov 8y ago
This feels like the infamous HN dropbox thread. I don't know if it's solving the problem well or not but this can totally make a killing. Privacy has really gone mainstream, it's pretty clear people are looking for new ways t
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by auganov 8y ago
It's very hard to estimate how large the public sector is. Low-ball estimates would put it at around 30% which is a tad more than most in the socialism-leaning Europe. That is when you only count enterprises that are officially state o
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by auganov 8y ago
Makes me think of Cyc which is still around ( https://www.cyc.com ). Wonder if any HNers have experiences with it? I tried opencyc and was fascinated. It's a prology lisp married to a huge database of rules and knowledge. T
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by auganov 8y ago
Guessing by the numbers I'd assume "overtures" and "badgering" are more severe than the catch-all "harassment". But can't be sure. Also "coercion or quid-pro-quo" being so close in numbers t
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by auganov 8y ago
It's like the "Bill Gate's mom was on the board of IBM, so he's a phony" story. Just as in tech, successful people in other industries tend to have supportive parents.
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by auganov 8y ago
Going the other way around is interesting too. If you look at how early many of them started working hard it doesn't quite seem as random. Say, Taylor Swift, by the time she was 12 or 13 it was pretty apparent she was dead set on makin
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by auganov 8y ago
Had a pretty bad experience with snap. A project I wanted to try was distributed as a snap package, after fixing many download issues, finally got my package, it didn't work but that was okay, was going to make some changes anyways. Bu
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by auganov 8y ago
Mind sharing some details? Did you do it through a middleman as part of an ongoing relationship or just was it a direct one-off? What's the approximate price range? How elaborate was the advertising itself (as in product placement, spo
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by auganov 8y ago
This is a very important part to understanding how the People's Republic of China is indeed as communist as ever. Many look at all the rich people and "private" companies making billions and quickly assume it's a communi
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by auganov 8y ago
I like the idea. Maybe I'm biased because I was only on the other side of the deal, but I feel like you'd have a better chance of getting business going after the job givers. We're usually more willing to spend money. The big
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by auganov 8y ago
Probably just figured out it's a great way to pay slightly less for the same quality people. It's smart. Recently found out the real reason everybody has these unlimited vacation policies - don't have to pay for unused vacati
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by auganov 8y ago
Briefly attended one of these prep schools. There was as much contrast between people as anywhere else. Including contrast in affluence (being able to afford a five figure tuition doesn't automatically make one crazy rich).
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by auganov 8y ago
That a gram of fat is roughly 9 calories? You seem to believe that at some amount of regular ingestion it will start getting processed differently? I'm not sure what kind of a paper you'd like, I don't think anyone will come
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by auganov 8y ago
Not sure what you mean? If he were to eat that well calculated amount of olive oil everyday his weight would stay constant.
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by auganov 8y ago
Specifically olive oil might be tough, but I hope a year-long fast will convince you: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2495396/pdf/pos...
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by auganov 8y ago
No you wouldn't starve to death. If you didn't take a decent multivitamin you might develop life-threatening nutrient deficiencies, yes. Also it's not as if we have a great understanding of how different foods influence our f
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by auganov 8y ago
That's certainly one way to look at it. I guess I'm projecting some semblance of humanity onto them. I'd assume even the most evil would usually want to hold off murder till nothing else works. Hopefully karma is about to cat
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by auganov 8y ago
> China's leadership is calm and not prone to knee-jerk responses Communist China is ruled by a genocidal mafia with a well-known penchant for sudden outbursts of violence. From its bloody inception, through the Great Leap
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by auganov 8y ago
Yes, the dev side in the broadest sense. This space is really starving for tech talent. It's still relatively ignored by most techies (with no shortage of business types). Kind of like many seasoned programmers didn't want to work
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by auganov 8y ago
What's your source for the average of $150k? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the median is $82k [0]. Glassdoor seems to agree [1]. Plenty of jobs in the legal and medical profession command higher salaries and provide bette
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by auganov 8y ago
Outside of the last and current tech bubble programming was never that valuable. And even then and now it's constrained to a few places and a few kinds of "programmers". Nowadays crypto seems like the a space that could produ
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by auganov 8y ago
I find the obsession with gender studies particularly funny coming from a psychology professor. Given his fav topics he could be a men's studies professor for all I'm concerned.
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by auganov 8y ago
If we're talking about computer related tech then it's not even a contest. Pick any number be it total funding, exits, whatever and the US is going to win by an order of magnitude. Traditional industries are perhaps doing better,
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by auganov 8y ago
There just isn't much innovation going on in Europe. Consumer goods are hyper global - the best wins. B2B is more nuanced, locality matters. Plus so many playing the grant game (which only works for B2B). That said there are enough suc
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by auganov 8y ago
You realize it takes substantial money to bypass admissions, right? And it's not easy to pull off as a foreign student. If you feel like donating $100k+ you can probably get your way in China too. The few standardized tests that do hel
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by auganov 8y ago
This sort of stuff is exactly what many GDPR opponents were warning about. Once the floodgate of aggressive regulating is open you don't get to pick the ones you like. At the end of the day there are going to be very few winners.
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by auganov 8y ago
Before you spend some time doing mostly functional it's easy to ignore just how much meaningless state you might have floating around. You're right that any non-trivial endeavour will necessitate quite a lot of information being k
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by auganov 8y ago
Encourage everyone to boycott YC. I certainly won't be applying again. It's funny to watch YC do this, the one time I was actually invited to interview with YC was when our Chinese co-founder submitted a rather fraudulent[0] appli
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by auganov 8y ago
Maybe? I usually don't lock the door when I'm at my original house. If I gained notoriety I'd probably be more inclined to lock it.

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