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by decafninja 1y ago
I’m no fan of the CCP, but watching what’s going on over there vs. what’s going on over here (the US, but also Europe, and to some lesser degree, even other Western aligned Asian countries), I can’t help China is doing more things right tha
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by decafninja 1y ago
The newest CX-5, their best selling car, abandons the knob, if that’s what you’re referring to. Supposedly most buyers in fact, did not like the knob. This seems to follow other manufacturers that formerly had knob based controls but simila
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by decafninja 1y ago
Also, IIRC the latest version of their best selling car - the CX-5, abandons the knob for pure touchscreen. Supposedly the story is that outside of a small but vocal contingent on the Internet, most buyers did not like the knob.
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by decafninja 1y ago
Isn’t Java also used all over Silicon Valley? Maybe not the latest and hippest small startups, but still in many other more established orgs including FAANGs. IMHO what you describe is more attributable to .NET.
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by decafninja 1y ago
Having to brace myself while the bus or train swerves and careens and feeling constantly annoyed and uncomfortable while standing, I don’t have any mental capacity for developing any creativity in public transit. That’s not to say driving f
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by decafninja 1y ago
I don’t know a single person outside of online tech communities like HN that still uses Firefox. Virtually none of my non-tech friends know what Firefox even is.
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by decafninja 1y ago
Same. My impression was that if you can pay for it, American healthcare is unrivaled. And by “pay for it”, I don’t mean the typical employer provided insurance and visiting the usual doctors. I mean high end concierge care that starts at fi
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by decafninja 1y ago
I don’t think an equivalent Omega or Breitling is that much cheaper? Rolexes also keep their value incredibly well. I bought a nice Tag many years ago (I knew nothing about watches) and it’s now worth about $1000 on the used market at best.
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by decafninja 1y ago
Isn’t the thing with Rolex that the cheaper watches are some of the hardest to get? You can walk in to a dealer and walk out with a gold or two tone watch, but ask for a plain stainless steel model and they’ll laugh at you.
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by decafninja 1y ago
Curious what that fee covers beyond having direct access to the physician (and even there, beyond just consultations). If you needed imaging work or even procedures or surgeries - would that be extra fees?
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by decafninja 1y ago
I’ve heard of this, also known as concierge medicine right? But the figures I’ve seen quoted for such service usually begin in the four digits, sometimes five digits, annually.
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by decafninja 1y ago
The last time I was interviewing, many of my interviewers flat out admitted they hadn’t read my resume and were just interested in my leetcode performance.
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by decafninja 1y ago
Driving into Manhattan every day? Yes. Occasionally? Tons of middle class people do it. The majority of my social circle consists of middle and upper middle class Newjerseyans. Many commute daily into Manhattan via public transit. But if th
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by decafninja 1y ago
One thing I don’t understand about modern warships - why do they carry so few offensive weapons? American ‘Burkes and peer destroyers from some Asian navys have a shitload of VLS cells, but my understanding is that the majority of these hol
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by decafninja 2y ago
As a resident of NJ that commutes into Manhattan, and works with many NYC dwelling colleagues, I feel NJ mentally does not exist for most NYCers. If I tell them about something in NJ, they look at me as if I’m talking about Alabama. Miami o
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by decafninja 2y ago
Jane Street and a handful of few other elite shops make up a tiny percentage of the finance industry’s tech workforce though. There are a ton more people working in tech in finance that don’t quite have it as fun (or lucrative) as Jane Stre
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by decafninja 2y ago
As a Korean but with many Japanese friends (as well as cousins that live in Japan with a Japanese spouses), I noticed this too. Was this always the case historically, or is it a more recent phenomenon. Also, from what I observe, the child-p
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by decafninja 2y ago
A significant chunk of the crowd here is very anti-car (to varying degrees), so I wouldn’t expect much sympathy if you’re the type of person that enjoys driving. I’d cut your losses in trying to argue your point…and go enjoy driving your ca
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by decafninja 2y ago
But investment banks, including JPM, don’t exactly pay the biggest bucks for SWE aside from a few specialized roles. The only SWE jobs in finance that really match or exceed FAANG and other top (or even mid tier) tech companies are a very s
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by decafninja 2y ago
As someone that used to work in tech for a large bank, but have since left, I’m curious what her skill set is that would prevent her from jumping ship to somewhere that is not a large bank? If I had to make a random guess, is it something r
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by decafninja 2y ago
While the notion of spending your twilight years with your beloved children is wonderful, what I see happening just as often is seniors ending up in a nursing home, seeing their children and grandchildren only a few times a year, if even th
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by decafninja 2y ago
The conservatives tend to blame the liberals for being North Korean sympathizers. The liberals tend to blame the conservatives for being Japanese sellouts. They use these angles to inflame public opinion against the other party and distract
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by decafninja 2y ago
Next year, President Trump, 47th, last, and eternal PoTUS, will reward Elon for his support by legalizing Unsupervised FSD and Tesla Robotaxi across the entire country while prosecuting Waymo and Cruise for tech heresy. Uber, Lyft, and NYC
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by decafninja 2y ago
Have we gotten to a point where the CAS role can be fully handled by drones of various types? I know we have Hellfire toting drones, but their payload seems very limited versus existing attack helicopter platforms or the A-10. I’m actually
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by decafninja 2y ago
I mean, it’s technically the “Super Cobra” of “Viper” now, but isn’t it still a direct line from the original Cobra?
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by decafninja 2y ago
Most of what you listed would not be necessary for an autonomous SSN without a “man in the loop” no? Order it to perform a patrol or sit on the seabed, periodically sending up an antennae to listen for updates to orders. If it receives a ki
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by decafninja 2y ago
What’s to stop development of unmanned drone SSNs? Including ones that act as motherships for underwater drone swarms to boot.
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by decafninja 2y ago
My understanding is that the latest versions of the Apache and Cobra are very different from their original incarnations, despite looking similar, no?
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by decafninja 2y ago
I don’t game at all these days. I think the last games I played were Overwatch and LoL around 2018. Speaking as my 2018 self, I grew quickly bored of single player games and felt most were not worth the money. Pay $60 and maybe get a week o
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by decafninja 2y ago
My wife flosses after every meal, sometimes even more. She is prone to getting cavities and has had multiple root canals and an implant as of her mid thirties. She just received news that she needs another root canal. Nearly every visit to

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