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by baron816 5y ago
I'd argue that social proof often makes for a good argument. Perhaps not the best argument, but still a good one. "Best practices" still carry weight. Of course you can make an argument that the thing everyone does is wrong,
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by baron816 5y ago
How about The Pokemon Company's headquarters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pok%C3%A9mon_Company#/medi... (fyi they don't take up the whole building). That actually is a playing card company.
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Ask HN: How did you learn distributed systems development?
1 points by baron816 5y ago|2 comments
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Ok, I didn't say it should be mandatory. A lot of people also don't care about owning a house (at least right now). A lot of people care about forming good relationships, but don't have good ways to do so.
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Easy: the couple wouldn't have to live on the campus. But I can ask you this: what happens to the significant others of people in the military?
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by baron816 5y ago
I never said it should be mandatory, just something employers offer and maybe encourage. Companies have a history of putting people into "corporate housing", which is expensive. You may not like it, but others might.
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I don't know if this would work, but Google, FB, Apple, et al should try to build out live/work communities. Yeah, kind of like a company town. The best part of college is the college campus. I don't know why companies don&#x
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by baron816 5y ago
Google, Stack Overflow, Copy/Paste.
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There really isn’t, and that’s what the OP is saying. But this is worth knowing about: `true` in Javascript is a primitive, so it doesn’t have any methods on it—it’s just a simple value. But you can do `true.toString()` in JS. How? The engi
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by baron816 5y ago
> Like most of you I learned to code as a kid I didn't start learning to code until I was 27. I think probably the most compelling reason to teach your kids to code is so that you can work on projects with them and have that shared
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by baron816 5y ago
Give it all away. All of it. The money is making you depressed, so get rid of it. It's found money--it's not like you earned it through hard work or skill. It won't be painful to part with it. You got super lucky, but you can
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by baron816 5y ago
> I am not an economist Yeah, if you’re interested in this stuff, you should do some research. The Fed’s options aren’t 0% rates vs 15% rates. It’s going to raise rates .25% at a time. .25% is not much of a difference. It’ll move slowly
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by baron816 5y ago
Also, your cherry picked date range has a complex story behind it. It’s a story of falling inequality, not rising inequality. Chinese workers (among others) ate our lunch…by climbing out of abject poverty. They’ve become much more competiti
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by baron816 5y ago
Maybe we need a better definition of “never”. Are we going back 11 years, or 50 years, or 255 years? If wages truly never keep up with inflation in this country, then we’d be living like they did prior to the industrial revolution. You ca
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by baron816 5y ago
> It never does. The first thing in the article is a graph where 7 our of the 11 years shown have positive real wage growth. If worker pay never kept up with inflation, the country would be among the world’s poorest.
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by baron816 5y ago
This isn’t exactly great news, but it’s probably not as bad as you think. It means that inflation is a tractable problem. The Fed as a lot of tools at its disposal (first of which is to take its foot off the gas). If we were in a situation
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by baron816 5y ago
As I like to say, one does not have to be racist/sexist/homophonic/etc to be an asshole. It certainly does seems to be a belief on the left that if one were to use the n word one time (not even directed at anyone), they shoul
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by baron816 5y ago
Not San Francisco. If you walk around the city for a few minutes, you’ll find drug deals happen in plain sight and at all hours of the day.
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From the original article: “Mandelman’s office pointed to a Dec. 19 report from the California Legislative Analyst’s Office that found that increased state cannabis tax rates were directly linked to illegal cannabis sales. In addition to th
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Has the city considered…uh, arresting drug dealers?
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The Business Phrasebook: A short guide to what your colleagues really mean(economist.com)
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by baron816 5y ago
Just imagine the guards’ rooms from Squid Game. How expensive would it be to build 10,000 of those for SF’s homeless? They get a desk, chair, bed, shared bathroom, and a door that locks. How can you argue that is worse than what they have n
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by baron816 5y ago
Yeah, I don’t know about getting rid of those regulations for cars, but it is worthwhile to think about what happens when you get rid of a bunch of regulation for housing “safety.” A lot of housing regulation we have today is mostly to get
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by baron816 5y ago
Seems to me that everything becomes much easier if we just get fusion right. Carbon removal would be cheap at that point, correct? I’d like to see governments band together and offer up a $1 trillion prize for whomever comes up with a scala
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by baron816 5y ago
Would it be that complicated to just skip grades and only advanced students once they’ve mastered a subject? Why do we say “60% correct? That’s good enough you can start learning more complicated stuff”? Let’s just allow students to keep wo
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Ask HN: Will “on-site” interviews ever be on-site again?
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No, that’ll neither work to solve the problem, nor would it work as a matter of practicality. We either need to get to 0 net emissions pretty much now, or negative emissions in the not too distant future. Even if we cut the world’s populati
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Getting caught for being incompetent is one thing. Getting caught and having that shared all over the internet and embarrassing not just yourself, but your team and your company is another. When a company has a big outage, people on here wi
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It's generally a bad idea to piss off recruiters. By making this public and humiliating those companies and their recruiters, that's what she's doing. It's not going to take very long for those recruiters' teams to
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Seems like more research is still needed, but it’s not hard to imagine policy makers or regulators developing quotas and mandates around tech companies hiring women. If women are indeed statistically less interested in working as engineer

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