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by badpun 3y ago
I was in classes that averaged 30 chilren per class. I haven't gotten any individual instruction/teaching, and did just fine until high school math kicked in (bear in mind, this was Polish high-school math, and in a class that foc
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by badpun 3y ago
In fact, there's a "prankster" operating in Poland right now, who is sending the "stop immediately" radio signal to trains. All trains receiving it will automatically start braking. They were able to stop 20+ trains
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by badpun 3y ago
Dunno about "slighlty". In a typical taxi, the driver's salary/profit is most of the cost.
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by badpun 3y ago
> These cars would be privately owned and follow the whims of shareholders. We all know how well that goes. The state can easily legislate that fleets of self-driving cars needs to have x% of their cars be wheelchair-accessible, just as
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by badpun 3y ago
> a car weighs 1000kg and occupies about 10sqm, just to move a single 70kg person. > It's a gigantic waste of space and energy. So were horses and buggies before car was invented. Interesting, waste of neither space nor energy wa
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by badpun 3y ago
It's also worth pointing out that, in many European countries (Nordics, Italy, probably Germany as well?) it's perfectly ok to just take say most of July or August off, along with everyone else. It's disruptive to the busines
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by badpun 3y ago
Probably as hard as getting $200k in the States though... "Six figures" just aren't what they used to be.
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by badpun 3y ago
> It has been shown that you need around 14 days of interrupted rest to recover from stress etc. Do you have sources on that? My anecdotal experience is that I need at least 3 weeks.
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by badpun 3y ago
Depends on the country. All public universities (and these are the best ones) in Poland are free, for example.
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by badpun 3y ago
"Business founder" is very different than "startup founder" though, at least as it is understood on this forum.
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by badpun 3y ago
I think you can, you just must declare carring the cash if it's more than $10k.
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by badpun 3y ago
> But the work is hard and it doesn't get easier. I agree, low paying hard work is not a good solution for boredom or a midlife/existential crisis.
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by badpun 3y ago
Going to Moon has been a publicity stunt (to prove that the US can do it faster than the Soviets, ergo the democracy-capitalism system is better than totalitarian communism), and so will be the travel to Mars. There are no tangible benfits
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by badpun 3y ago
It wasn't prophetic, in that a lot of the book was already (at the time Orwell was writing it) a reality in Soviet Union .
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by badpun 3y ago
There's still money in making music, just not in selling recordings. Biggest touring artists (the Beyonces etc.) bring in millions. They, in turn, require skilled producers to make their songs, who are also paid well.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Unlike previous machines which can take 1-2 jobs There are many machines replacing hundreds or even thousands of people- farm equipment, trains, tunnel boring machines etc.
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by badpun 3y ago
Startups don't even have to be profitable, nowadays many get aquired or even go IPO while deep in the red. Games seem much harder.
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by badpun 3y ago
I've once worked on a large and old Scala-cats codebase (i.e. Haskel-style, the whole program as an IO monad). I'd say we (the team) hardly introduced any bugs. The language made making whole classes of errors less likely, and the
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by badpun 3y ago
Also, youtube tends to downgrade the quality from 1080p to lower grades quite aggresively, even when watching on a PC with a fiber connection. Possibly a cost-saving measure?
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by badpun 3y ago
If the author thought americans are awful to one another, he should try one of the many other countries on Earth. Americans are actually pretty nice, polite and helpful in comparison with many of the other places. Compared to many other nat
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by badpun 3y ago
Are monads (I mean more complex than just Option) useful if my program is mostly without side effects? I get how the IO Monad is great, but what I don't really need it?
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by badpun 3y ago
> The idea of selling debt itself feels very unethical to me You must be appaled by the existence of the global bonds market then.
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by badpun 3y ago
In my anecdotal experience, it’s important to take of headphones every now and then to prevent moisture from accumulating in the ear canal. That moisture is unnatural and id probably very nice for various germs.
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by badpun 3y ago
No society can quickly absorb more foreigners than they already have citizens without becoming something else entirely in the process.
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by badpun 3y ago
They would probably have slighlty more money if they promoted the product in comptent and non-embarrasing way. Not to mention, they wouldn't embarass themselves.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Why do you believe this would happen, given that internal migration between rich and poor parts of counties without internal travel restrictions is nowhere near that significant? Because quality of life in Detroit is miles ahead qualit
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by badpun 3y ago
What do you propose we do? Do you have any ideas in mind? Keep in mind that if the richest countries opened their borders for everyone in the world, at least hundreds of millions (if not billions) of people from the world's poor countr
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by badpun 3y ago
They were so clueless that they didn't even know that doing this is a bad idea.
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by badpun 3y ago
There aren't many great fortunes, they usually require dominating an industry (say, come to be one of top 5 vendors out of industry that initially had 10,000 competitors), and I think it's pretty unrealistic to believe you could d
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by badpun 3y ago
> Balzac's pronouncement assumes the world is zero-sum; ie that wealth must be stolen from others Not stolen, but it really pays to be super-ruthless towards your competition and everyone around you really. Just look at Microsoft&#x

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