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While some labor intensive jobs did migrate overseas, most job losses were to automation, not other countries. Today 2% of people are in agriculture and production is higher than its ever been. This pattern is reflected across the spectrum.
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In golf the handicap system is "global". Each player has a handicap index, which then translates into a course handicap. It's not perfect (different players have different strengths and weaknesses, which means some courses &q
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Having played both tennis and golf, I agree. It's a lot harder to play social tennis than social golf. Two nice things about golf - the handicap system let's two players of different level engage in fun competition. (Yes, handicap
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While it's easy to play the "both sides behave the same" card, in practice though I dont think they do. Fundamentally democrats are still behaving like a party did and are not excusing or indulging in radical governance. For
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Congress had an immigration reform act about to pass in 2024. It was killed because the Don first want it to happen under a Democratic president. Its important to understand that congress explicitly enables this current behavior. In 18 mo
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It's easy to play the hypocrisy card, theres plenty to go around. However in this case you're presenting a false equivalency. Yes, there were issues with BLM. the people got out of control. But that's not authoritarianism- if
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I respect your opinion, but I disagree with it. Yes, just under half the voters will say they didn't vote for him. But more people did, and that's how democracy works. After the vote it's easy for people to blame the media, o
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Your point is not wrong, but I'd clarify a couple things; The primary cost of a traditional plant is fuel. However a nuclear plant needs a tad more (qualified) oversight than a coal plant. In the same way that the navy has specialists
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I've lived under GST and I've lived under VAT. As a consumer, VAT is a million times better. Firstly, GST was added at the till. So something is marked as $5 on the shelf, ends up costing more than $5 at the till. Bonkers. VAT is
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This is not exactly a surprise. Paying to remove ads is a tiny market. As much as we like to complain about ads, we also aren't really prepared to fund things that aren't ad driven. Frankly on the web, for me, ads are fine. For TV
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Size is in play, yes, but the 8 extra bytes per row is likely negligible compared to the row size. Is there a case where the dise matters? Sure. But you can't discuss the space cost for 10 billion rows without comparing to the space c
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At a general level I think these lists make developers more aware of uniqueness and constraints. When designing data I think these questions (skepticisms) should be front of mind; 1) natural values are not unique. 2) things identified by nu
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And this is why I much prefer Suurogate values for primary keys over natural values. And why I've gravitated to using UUID values for surrogates, not integer identities. A theme running through the article is "this value is unique
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You are confusing one big number with another big number, and treating them as the same. Yes there are a lot of stars. It's a big number. But there's a lot of space. That's a number that's in a whole different league.
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... whereas for one-time customers you hope they'll switch to a competitor. I mean, you've been paid, what do you care if they stay or go? In fact "going" is cheaper for you. The best meta argument for SaaS is that it
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I'll counterpoint somewhat. Our business started by "selling copies". We are bootstrapped not VC (or otherwise) funded. We started with one person and grew. Around 2010 we were becoming victims of our own success. As the exis
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Hang on, politicians won't enforce sustainable living because the voters won't support it, but violent global revolution (presumably from a voting-minority?) does it? And the "save the planet" faction (which we might thi
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That's completely true, but also a simplification. Firstly, it's important to understand that the art "industry" has a massive supply and demand problem - ie over supply and very little demand. This is in common with mus
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Certainly there are lots of fads that went mainstream then flittered away. 3D TV to name but one. VR seems to be another. Generally categorized as "solutions looking for problems". Crypto falls into that camp (it solves some probl
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Practice. You've done some interviews. You know what questions the ask. Write them on some flashcards. Pick a random card from time to time, and answer it. This helps in 2 ways. Firstly you'll be better prepared for common questio
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This is of course true is some cases and less true in others. I consider myself an expert in one tiny niche field (computer generated code), and when that field comes up (on HN and elsewhere) over the last 30 years the general mood (from pe
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Yeah, but who owns the name? That's what this is about. Let's say I fork Firefox. I can do that because it's open. I can't call my thing Firefox though (that's that's trademark owned by Mozilla). It turns out,
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Naturally individuals can cross the border and get cheaper stuff. But in the grand scale of things, that's irrelevant. IMO tarifs are preferable to subsidies. Subsidies encourage over production, plus still places the industry at risk.
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I know you jest, but its really interesting to see how people approach documentation. And I hypothesize that how you consume it informs if you create it. When I was young, documentation came in one form (only). Books. Getting a good referen
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Like most things in life, tarifs can be used well, or used badly. Canada's Dairy Tariff is specifically designed to protect a specific local industry, which exists, is of national interest to keep, and which could come under threat fro
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You've stumbled on one of life's uncertainties. When should you abandon something, when should you persevere? Sunk cost says that "how much you've already spent" is not a factor. And whole you certainly shouldn&#x27
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Ideas are one thing, execution is another. Based on bad execution it's possible for the cure to be worse than the disease. Tarifs are a powerful tool to product specific industries. When implemented properly (focused on specific indust
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I'd argue it did reduce inflation, but I suspect you and I have different understandings of the term. So, inflation is not prices. Reducing inflation does not mean prices go down, it doesn't even mean they-dont-go-up. It means the
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I've no objection to my kids living at home, and there'll always be a place for them here. I charge them rent though - 33% of their gross pay. Not cause I need the money but because it allows them to afford to move out one day. In
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It is Stripe's problem to figure out, and it seems they have (to their satisfaction. ) >> they shouldn't get to punt by saying "guilty until proven innocent". That's certainly an opinion, and almost certainly

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