cyberdrunk

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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Iceland is known for its horizontal rain (i.e. rainfall combined with 50+mph wind). Add long days in the summer and long days in the winter. Add no trees at all. It's a somewhat extreme place.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> Once you have saved that amount of money your only going to be a 'few' more years from hitting some version of FIRE. > You've grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle and friend group that will be hard to walk away fro
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
I would say that it's actually one of Europe's disadvantages. While people in management positions usually do very well with English, technical people often have problem expressing their intention and speak awkwardly and/or s
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Yep. I am a fairly intelligent person (your typical coder) from a family that valued education. I was nevertheless never internally driven to do anything. I played a bit with computers when I was a child - BASIC and assembler on C-64, then
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
You can't invest your savings, which means that your pile will shrink at the pace of inflation. If you have a lot savings (say you're close to FIRE), the money lost this way can be a nontrivial portion of your compensation.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
I dunno about the US, but in Poland the spouse inherits (takes over) the social security pension of the deceased husband/wife, which is a biggie.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> In apartments, there is a mutual understanding of common elements and that people are living in a shared space. There is also a mediation process through the building management and the board. Ok, so that must be the difference between
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
I don't think there's that much innovation in those fields (esp. on individual contributor level), so there's considerably less to write about. The old professions are standardized to a large degree and they're unlike te
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
The "putting dent in universe" SV meme (i.e. being a big player and constituting a big change, without that much regard for ethics) needs to die. Consider that Hitler has also put a pretty sizeable dent in the universe... I think
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> Why are there fewer non-tech personal blogs? (athletes', architects') Tech is unique in a couple of ways: 1. It's a very young industry, so there are no set ways to do many things yet, which invites people to experiment
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
I find it hard to believe that it's more annoying in suburbs. I currently live in an apartment building of 25 people and am closely surrounded by similar apartment buildings. This means that there are literally a couple hundreds of peo
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Am I the only one under impression that the article is chaotic and it's hard to tell from it what is the extend of the damage done and who and to what degree contributed to it?
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
I wonder if there are countries where, if you do black magic and it "works" (e.g. you curse your competitor and subsequently bad stuff happens to him) you can get sued and/or go to jail.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
I negotiated such arrangement once as a software dev (well, Thursday and Friday off). It's doable as long as the employer really does not want to lose you.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
If you can afford a house in the city, great. Otherwise, living in an apartment, you're constantly at the whimsy of your neighbors. They can easily be people who like to blast loud music for hours or who otherwise make a lot of noise.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Also, young people like to cling to new industry trends. It makes sense for them - if they would try to become an expert in something that is decades old, they would have to compete with people with decades of experience, while new tech cre
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> Most actors simply act out a scene someone else designed, someone else shot, someone else wrote, someone else directed. I can imagine myself designing, writing and shooting a scene, but I can't imagine acting it well (let's s
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
You had multivariable calculus in high school? Was it some kind of special programme?
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> I am generally confounded by the flatness of Window 10. The ability to see which window is on top is gone! It's the window which is not partially/fully obscured by the windows underneath it?
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> poor/declining public services Where in Europe public services are noticeably better than in the UK?
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
In civil engineering world, great engineering would be proposing a novel design of a bridge (for example, a first large bridge built out of steel) and delivering it. Of course, most situations don't require novel designs, you just need
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
I disagree. Great engineering is when you propose and implement (or lead a team implementing) a complex, novel and valuable piece of engineering. Linus is a great engineer, key people working on database systems are great engineers etc. Wha
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> What happens in 20-30 years once the system has been entrenched. What about a scenario where we get one big step closer to a vision shown in Idiocracy? A world where people don't need to struggle may be great for some self-directe
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Most people's lives through history was super hard. Just read some novels on XIX century or earlier (but not on lives of elites) and you'll see impressive young people being able to cope with conditions that would cause typical we
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Yep, but how is that informative for a particular garment that you want to visualize? You can't infer, from a corpus of images of random clothes being worn, how that particular shape and fabric behaves.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> If you can just get someone in the factory in China to snap a photograph of the latest batch of dresses and tops and skirts as they come off the sewing table, Just a simple photo of the garment will not tell you how it behaves on the b
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
I don't know much about agriculture, but isn't it the case that, apart from favorable climate, soil quality is another important factor here? Currently, pretty much none of Siberia is farmed, even the parts where the climate could
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> Canada, Russia, the Nordic countries, maybe Mongolia. Dunno about others, but the Internet says that Russia is worried about the warming, because it thaws the permafrost, which makes the ground in the cold wilderness unstable, which is
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
"Who's hiring" thread, here on HN, with one exception, which was IIRC a direct application to their website (it's a known startup that happened to be open to global remote hiring at the time). The common denominator of m
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> why would an American company offer to pay me twice as much as I could make in the UK if I'm in the UK? They only have to offer a little bit more to inceltivize me to take the job. If they have the money, e.g. they're a large

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