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by baron816 7y ago
Is there a lot of value in getting a non-specialized MBA if you're working in tech (or want to work in tech)?
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by baron816 7y ago
Google Docs, because, according to the Google interview process, that makes some sort of sense.
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by baron816 7y ago
No, it’s more complicated than that. The BLS does a robust survey. They also track discouraged workers who have left the labor force. https://www.bls.gov/home.htm
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by baron816 7y ago
I read this earlier today. https://beta.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/how-san-fran... It made me think that a lot of the hatred towards the changing landscape of SF is really just generational warfare. Older,
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by baron816 7y ago
I've been wondering what Microsoft gets out of this deal. Sony doesn't really have the size or the expertise to even continue in a gaming market that has moved entirely to the cloud. Microsoft could just let them die. Makes me thi
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by baron816 7y ago
Yes, you are wrong that it will likely cause hyperinflation. Even if the Fed simply monetized that debt (which it won’t do) you might get some inflation, but nothing close to HYPERinflation. What’s more likely, as the article states, is tha
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by baron816 7y ago
Air pollution is still the next big public-health crisis. 4.2 million people die each year from air pollution https://www.who.int/airpollution/en/ .
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by baron816 7y ago
>Opponents argue it will discourage startups from locating in the city This may not be a bad thing. And not from a cynical, anti-capitalist, “keep SF shitty so poor people can live here” point of view. The country would really benefit if
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Ask HN: Why are all these companies going public all of the sudden?
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by baron816 8y ago
>Our analysis suggests that a minimum of 1.4 billion users will pass away before 2100 if Facebook ceases to attract new users as of 2018. Yep, every company’s customer/user base will die in 80 years if they don’t grow at all.
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by baron816 8y ago
Is there any good reason why Apple couldn't just let us code apps directly in JS/React and not have to go through React Native with its overhead? React surely isn't perfect, but it's likely the best way to create large s
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by baron816 8y ago
The media's constant reporting on college debt and low paying majors has actually had a large impact on what the next generation is studying. https://qz.com/1370922/the-2008-financial-crisis-completely-... The hum
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by baron816 8y ago
If you spend years disincentivizing housing development with rent control, of course lifting the regulation is going to cause rents to increase.
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by baron816 8y ago
Yes, good for people who get rent control. Bad for everyone else.
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by baron816 8y ago
Oh, it’s not as one sided a piece as I and the title make it out to be. They do talk to several competent proponents of rent control. But I think the case against it pretty clear and compelling: it’s good for the people on the inside, and r
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by baron816 8y ago
Freakonmics had a podcast the other week “Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work”: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/rent-control/ . The reasoning why it doesn’t work probably won’t surprise anyone here. But in it they talk a
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by baron816 8y ago
What's the alternative? How about...JavaScript! JS has a little function `JSON.stringify` that accepts objects and returns JSON. Pretty nifty.
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by baron816 8y ago
So much of the arguments over housing contain some sort of slippery slope statement of "I don't want my city to become Hong Kong or Dubai." But imagine if SF/SV started building housing that looked a lot like Amsterdam
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by baron816 8y ago
> The bill would bar companies from choosing groups of people for behavioral experiments unless the companies get informed consent. Wait, does this refer to A/B testing?
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by baron816 8y ago
What are you saying? YC should fund fewer companies so that the TechCrunch summary of demo day is shorter?
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by baron816 8y ago
They’re expecting Russia’s GDP to more than quadruple over 10 years? Not likely.
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by baron816 8y ago
Alright, let’s say we get the ALL the safety issues squared away. And let’s also assume they strap a cold fusion reactor to this too, so you can fly it around the world without stopping... Can you imagine how fucking LOUD one of these thing
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by baron816 8y ago
Well, if you actually read the article, it says they’re not just spending it on vast estates, but are building more data centers around the country, plus building new product development campuses in NY and SV.
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by baron816 8y ago
The countries where kids are spending all their time studying are not “third world countries.”
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by baron816 8y ago
I hope they build that statue.
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by baron816 8y ago
I think the more important thing is to keep a single branch from using a shutdown as a tool to get their way. Government via hostage taking is not democratic.
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by baron816 8y ago
Netflix still has its classic DVDs by mail business, which is still a great deal when you think about what it used to be like renting movies. Or you could rent movies via streaming. Netflix isn’t trying to kill Blockbuster anymore. It’s try
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by baron816 8y ago
I tried to listen to the audiobook of this. Terrible idea. One of the few audiobooks I’ve abandoned.
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by baron816 8y ago
It’s the repeated/oneof issue that’s causing me problems right now.
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by baron816 8y ago
Another team at my company developed a microservice that uses gRPC that my team depends on and it’s been an absolute nightmare. Protobufs are just too limited in what they can do to make them useful except in very specific, narrow cases.

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