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by baron816 6y ago
I hope people start singing these in bars when bars open again. I bet you could get a pub to join if you and a group of friends suddenly started singing these or other kinds of folk songs.
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by baron816 6y ago
I'm working on a simple state library for React. It will 1) allow you to have a "global" state that doesn't require context [1], and 2) allow you let you set state imperatively [2]. The links below are the two separate p
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by baron816 6y ago
Building a successful startup is hard. Even a software startup. You don’t just need a few engineers who know what they’re doing. You need designers, product managers, data analysts, marketeers, PR, some sales people maybe, finance folk, peo
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by baron816 6y ago
The people who are supportive of this move by Facebook and similar moves by other tech companies aren’t motivated by a newfound sense of liberalism. Many have been arguing that the government should have been forcing FB et al to do this kin
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by baron816 6y ago
> “The arena will be used for high culture, meaning concerts or theater,” Russo adds, “but no gladiator shows.” That’s a shame. Simulated gladiator shows would be a HUGE draw. Right now, the Colosseum isn’t much to look at, just a bunch
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by baron816 6y ago
“Work Life Balance” is missing and item—Career. I don’t think it should be that hard to find the right balance between all three, and you should especially try to have career bleed into work more than life . But if you have any aspir
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by baron816 6y ago
If society decides that everyone should have minimum standard of living despite their skill level or net contributions, then it should be society as a whole that bares that burden, not just the enterprises that employ low/no skill labo
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by baron816 6y ago
It's easy for middle and upper income individuals with disposable income to advocate for these kinds of laws. If you're using Uber to get home from the bar late at night once a week, an extra 25% is no big deal. But if you're
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by baron816 6y ago
One thing that cost of living calculators don’t account for: “living” isn’t the only thing you’re doing. You’re also saving and investing. Companies should probably adjust your pay by a fixed amount, rather then by a percentage.
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by baron816 6y ago
It’s weird that tipping has been expanding as we know that it’s bad for consumers and employees. Employers are the ones that benefit—they pay their employees much less expecting consumers to find it in their hearts to pay some unspecified e
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by baron816 6y ago
I’ve been thinking for a while that this is needed too. This is a big role that priests play in communities. If I were to start something up, it would start with a clubhouse and probably two employees—one is an event organizer who plans par
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by baron816 6y ago
I’ve been the lead organizer of a largish group with a couple hundred very active members. But getting to that point was quite a challenge that was made harder by Meetup. The group still ended up falling apart. The Meetup platform is pretty
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by baron816 6y ago
In-person social organizations. Social isolation is probably the biggest cause of unhappiness in advanced countries. Having a strong social network has lots of advantages including providing better romantic and career opportunities, as well
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by baron816 6y ago
Can someone explain to me why “vertical” farms need to be vertical? Why not just use greenhouses, along with all of the AI/other technologies? Where are most of the productivity gains coming from?
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by baron816 6y ago
The way I interpret DKE is that low level people don’t (yet) know what they don’t know. One thing that I think often gets skipped over in discussions on Imposter Syndrome is that imposters DO exist (that’s kind of why we use interviews when
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by baron816 6y ago
“Good laws can’t be passed, so we need bad laws (which we also can’t passed)”
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by baron816 6y ago
Who here said any form of cartel is fine? If we need to regulate financial markets to prevent collusion, we should do that.
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by baron816 6y ago
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Let’s break up monopolies and encourage competition.
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by baron816 6y ago
I agree. You can get full employment and a respectable standard of living floor through stuff like a negative income tax and universal health coverage. But making it illegal to work for what YOU consider a low wage and permitting labor cart
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by baron816 6y ago
The US has a lot more immigrants from Latin America living here than it did back then. Plus, unemployment is lower (even with the pandemic). I would rather have 1 million people making $12/hr and 0 unemployed and in poverty than 650k p
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by baron816 6y ago
Has there been much written on the culture that led Shekhar Kirani (the author of the infamous thread) to such conclusions about 10x devs? I’m curious about how software development is different in places outside of SV—I’m not prepared to c
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by baron816 6y ago
If everyone just died tomorrow, we wouldn’t have any problems either.
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by baron816 6y ago
Seems like the biggest accomplishment here is getting to the top of the front page on HN. But seriously, if you have 10 years of software engineering experience, what do you gain by doing a bachelors CS program?
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by baron816 6y ago
The Norwegian system is actually much cheaper than the American system when you account for lower recidivism rates and reduced prison sentences.
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by baron816 6y ago
Sort of tangential: is there a reason why Robinhood et al don’t have a “build your own index fund” tool? I’d really like to pick my own basket of stocks, then invest in them all with a “single” buy according to my weights.
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by baron816 6y ago
They might require you to have a registered spaceport in your yard to land and pick you up.
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by baron816 6y ago
You shouldn’t go to college to get your first job. You should go to get your fifth job. (Kind of paraphrasing a quote that I don’t remember who was from). I studied economics, political science, and history at a liberal arts college. I’m a
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by baron816 6y ago
Wanted to open it up to others’ ideas first. It’d need to appeal to a younger crowd, not just families. So it would need to have bars/restaurants/other cultural destinations. Since almost no one needs to commute, it wouldn’t be de
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by baron816 6y ago
I’ve never done it, but I’m willing to bet that stress is a motivator for others who would otherwise lose interest.

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