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by david927 9y ago
Did you read the full comment? Australia, I'm guessing, is more similar to Idaho than California.
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by david927 9y ago
It's really not an issue of visibility. European countries tend to spend less of their money on military and more on social programs so that it's both harder to become homeless in the first place and, if it happens, there are prog
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by david927 9y ago
I was in LA recently and there was an entire tent city in the heart of downtown Orange County. The link below lists around 30 US cities with tent cities downtown.
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by david927 9y ago
20 years in Europe. I've never never never never tripped over crazy homeless. It's all I do in Berkeley and SF. It's not a small, nuanced difference but literally night and day. Have you really seen tents downto
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by david927 9y ago
It's really not. First, I said industrialized . I know that homelessness is high in some poorer countries. I'm talking about the wealthy countries such as most EU countries. Switzerland, for example, doesn't remotely have
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by david927 9y ago
That's solved in every industrialized country besides America. It's an issue of political will. I think it's a great thing to work on, and desperately needed in the US, but it's not a question of how to implement it bu
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by david927 9y ago
In Eastbloc countries that was done as a form of punishment, often for not toeing the party line. It was true across disciplines: medicine, law, etc, when otherwise they would have "good" jobs. (I'm clarifying, not justifyi
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by david927 9y ago
What went wrong with Visual Basic? The language was simple enough for beginners but not sophisticated enough to scale for large projects. All too often you would have a project that started in VB as a proof of concept which then extended
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by david927 9y ago
But the stones used weren't just limestone but also granite with marbling.
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by david927 9y ago
Lost by Carl Sandburg Desolate and lone All night long on the lake Where fog trails and mist creeps, The whistle of a boat Calls and cries unendingly, Like some lost child In tears and trouble Hunting the harbor's breast And the harbor
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by david927 9y ago
Innovation is, by definition, not very respectful of the past or the status-quo. Innovation is, by definition, mutiny.
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by david927 9y ago
That's the problem here, actually, but not in the way you think. There are alternatives (Canvas, SVG, etc.) but they're not as good for the standard use case of coming up with something quick that fulfills the business requireme
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by david927 9y ago
If, like Alan Kay, you think we need a major overhaul in software construction and are in the San Francisco Bay Area, let me know. I'm part of a group that meets on Saturdays once a month and we work on side research projects toward t
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by david927 9y ago
Rubbish. The US needs to curb its military, worldwide.
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by david927 9y ago
"Everything that can be invented has already been invented" - Charles H. Duell, 1899. Please don't use that quote. It's apocryphal; he almost certainly never said that. It's not about how close we are to "kn
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by david927 9y ago
Most companies get hard press. This report went viral and shut down the company because it exposed the product as being ridiculous.
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by david927 9y ago
Thanks for the explanation, Dan.
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by david927 9y ago
Did this post get censored? And why? Is anyone else not seeing this on the front page (or any page after that)? It's not on Ask HN either...
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by david927 9y ago
That's a great idea. I just started it.
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Ask HN: Who's mentoring?
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by david927 9y ago
It's his grandfather: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Arthur_Plimpton
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by david927 9y ago
It sounds like you already have your answer. Yes, there are skills that transfer over, such as critical thinking and logical reasoning. And yes, it sounds like there are aspects which might be a good fit for you (remembering that there ar
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by david927 9y ago
My understanding is that China has been doing this for years. * https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23838
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by david927 9y ago
I don't think there's a way to become involved with HARC directly, unfortunately, but it's really not important to work with them. An analogous question for music would be something like a musician asking how to work with the
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by david927 9y ago
No, it's this: http://harc.ycr.org
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by david927 9y ago
Whoever cracks ... programming will be someone who ... is willing throw away the vast vast majority of modern programming language-y control structures.
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by david927 9y ago
Or it could show how most investors are still very unsophisticated and insecure. They don't want it to be the NBT, they need for it to be. If the music industry was this bad, you would mainly be hearing variations of Taylor Swift a
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by david927 9y ago
You can't point to funding at a later stage (everyone sees that something's a hit a pile on) and work back to say that those were the only founders who could pull that off. You can't prove a negative. You're saying, &qu
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by david927 9y ago
> There is a small cadre of people who actually have what it takes to successfully build an NBT, and experienced investors are pretty good at recognizing them. Because of this, they don't have trouble raising money. That's a
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by david927 9y ago
Why is it that only very simple programs can we written effectively with spreadsheets and that setups where complex arrangements of linked spreadsheets and databases are described as horrible to work with by the people that have to work wi

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