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by davidgay 7y ago
> Programming is a ridiculous career path. You have blinders on. Programming is a far better, far less risky career, and pays far better than many very popular career paths (architecture, teaching, sports, arts, research (be it science,
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by davidgay 7y ago
Don't forget to adjust those mpg figures by ~13% for the higher energy density (and CO2 emissions) for diesel vs gasoline. So 30mpg diesel is ~ like 26.5 mpg gasoline.
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by davidgay 7y ago
> we do not 'crush the competition' All employees of large (tech?) companies have received exactly the same message from legal.
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by davidgay 7y ago
It's technically (just) more than 100 years, but the Zimmerman Telegram ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram ) is not something your (potential) enemy sends to one of your "closest allies".
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by davidgay 7y ago
> Hard to become a superpower when you are antagonizing your neighbors. I think the historical super-powers would disagree. Rome conquered all its neighbours. Britain had mostly terrible relations with France from the 11th to the end of
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by davidgay 7y ago
Don't forget Andrew Mellon ;)
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by davidgay 7y ago
Switzerland has compulsory healthcare, insurance subsidies for low-income people, extremely heavy regulation of health insurance companies, and many (mostly?) public hospitals. Not exactly something I'd describe as "capitalistic h
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by davidgay 7y ago
I'm reminded of this thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21021709 The relevant issue: Switzerland has rent control (and has had it for a long time). So if it's tenable position for the 2nd
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by davidgay 7y ago
Because pricing people out of their homes is an extreme inconvenience, and also expensive - finding a new place takes time, moving in costs time and money. And that's assuming that if they can't find housing sufficiently nearby, t
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by davidgay 7y ago
> So the ideal solution would probably be for the camera to obtain location data from the phone via Bluetooth. Which at least Nikon offers. But you have to have the paired device with you, leave the camera in the right mode, etc, etc.
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by davidgay 7y ago
From the article: "The bulk of the funds would come from restructuring the company under a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that would transform it from a private company into a “public beneficiary trust.” That would allow the profits from
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by davidgay 7y ago
There's no complete escape from exchange rate risk. Keeping it in Euro puts you at risk for all direct and indirect exchanges with countries not using the Euro as currency.
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by davidgay 7y ago
At a guess, you don't belong to, or have friends in, groups ISIS believes deserve to be put to death.
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by davidgay 7y ago
There aren't any billboards along freeways in Switzerland, e.g.
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by davidgay 7y ago
What's wrong with "We are robots." ?
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by davidgay 7y ago
I can prove (by counterexample) that this statement is false - I was hired at 41. In fact, I'm somewhat dubious that there's any googler who doesn't have a reasonably close colleague hired above the age of 40.
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by davidgay 7y ago
The 1st one? (It wasn't the zeroth language, which is probably why it couldn't use 0-based indexing)
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by davidgay 7y ago
There was a coup in 1980. And the list at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat is pretty convincing evidence that calling Turkey a stable democracy would be a stretch.
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by davidgay 7y ago
It's important to note that that power goes both ways, alas. This quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States is very much on topic: "Fewer than one percent of lynch mob participant
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by davidgay 7y ago
However, long-term, your choice of A and B is strongly influenced by total travel time - so neither metric is perfect.
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by davidgay 7y ago
Of course it's always possible to screw up a good thing: the intersection next to our house has been replaced by a roundabout with a 2-way stop sign. To make it worse, you can really only see the traffic coming from one of the other
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by davidgay 7y ago
> And yet it's absurd when, to follow the law, you need to do testing on even unintentional radiators (with few exceptions) with a digital clock higher than 9 kHz (yes, kilo Hertz...) And the answer to "why 9 kHz?" is pret
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by davidgay 7y ago
A square wave IS the base frequency plus ALL[1] the odd harmonics ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_wave#Fourier_analysis explains it better than I could). [1]: Yes, so in reality you neither get an infinite set of
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by davidgay 7y ago
> Nuclear weapons are scary, and rightfully so. And they share a word in common with "nuclear power," so there you go. Now you're being specious. They share rather more than a word, they are based on the same physical proc
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by davidgay 8y ago
The problem with is diphenhydramine is the increased Alzheimer's risk: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/common-anticholinergic-d...
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by davidgay 8y ago
> I've seen other comments mention this, but it's really hard to make the case for paying a wage laborer to not show up. Even if he's sick. The concept you're looking for is "insurance". It solves the proble
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by davidgay 8y ago
I'm not sure that a country without capital gain taxes (Switzerland) is the best example for highly taxing successful business founders...
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by davidgay 8y ago
> one fix might be eliminating international subsidiaries I believe that means "no multinational companies" - one could certainly argue for that, but it's a much bigger discussion. And I think you would have to end up forb
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by davidgay 8y ago
> and the best rising to the top. Did you ever actually read newsgroups like soc.culture.yugoslavia in the early 90s? I just went to take a quick peek to refresh my memory, and yes, it was quite awful - https://groups.google.c
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by davidgay 8y ago
I believe that it's mostly because you need to abstract away from the visual form, be it a picture or text, and that, for complex programs, it's easier to abstract away from text than a picture (being more dense may help, but I su

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