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by dnomad 8y ago
> It's generally illegal for a single foreign entity to own a controlling interest. This is also not true. China, like all developing economies that have reached the global stage, allows WFOEs and FICEs [1]. There's significant
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You have to be willfully blind not to see the obvious connection between far right groups and violence. Both the US and the UK have seen dramatic increases in far right terrorist attacks and equivocating this clear, observable phenomenon wi
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> My comment: what does it say about us humans that we fall for progressively more extreme stuff? This is the fundamental question. Every YouTuber quickly figures out that the more extreme content you produce the more views you get. This
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Yeah that's not a rotating door of anything. Both those executives were with the company for 2-5 years before they decided to leave. Wheeler was almost certainly fired because Musk wanted Ahuja back. Consider that the announcement of
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> What kind of PR effort do you need when every CFO you hire keeps leaving? It's really gotten to a point where all the Musk-haters now believe their own bullshit. This post (and many others in HN's bi-weekly anti-Musk thread)
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I included links to past popularity ratings. That article makes it clear that Trump has been unusually unpopular from his inaguration. > The average is 42.98% approval. I don't think your polling model actually means anything. As th
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Adjusting across polls, Trump's approval rating is probably under 40% [1] which is very unusual for a first-term President [2]. Not sure where you got the idea that his numbers are "basically the same" to Obama. Trump is an u
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> Xenophobia (which is not shared by the entire population) is not specific to the states either. I think the investment hypothesis is a bit more subtle than that. It goes beyond mere xenophobia into a kind of devout isolationism. What w
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It is interesting. The thing that makes Americans so very weird is that they are intensely paranoid. They're the most powerful and wealthiest civilization the world as ever known and yet virtually all of them are profoundly afraid . T
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It's not really about myopia as such... There's really two things going on here: (1) Many people increasingly regard video games as an addictive drug [1]. And there's plenty of anecdotal evidence of young men literally dying
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The Guardian is one of the most balanced news providers out there and you'd be hard pressed to find a more balanced English-speaking organization. A recent, concrete example of this is all the breathless reporting about Chinese camps c
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But, as your own comment makes clear, outsourcing simply means moving work from an expensive city to a cheaper city. It doesn't mean collaboration between a bunch of random Joe Schmoes living in various tiny villages here and there. Th
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All the net really does is bring cities closer together. Up until, say, 2001, there was a clear directional flow of information between cities. You could chart ideas originating in SF, LA, NY and then spreading to Europe and Asia. It woul
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Exactly. Like all ideological arguments it completely ignores actual real-world evidence. Somebody should sit down and analyze real codebases and understand and quantify how much these projects would be improved by real generics and proper
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It doesn't make any sense to blame technology. Believe it or not there are plenty of other cultures that have access to the same technology but don't produce the extreme isolation that's common in the US. There's much mo
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Friends is quaint. Thanks to dating applications in major cities (NYC, Paris, London, Bangkok, Shanghai) it's possible for a reasonably attractive man to go on multiple dates a night for weeks on end. There's also literally endles
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by dnomad 8y ago
> I'm not sure why you argue against giving the compiler the information it needs to do its job There's several different factors to consider. Value objects will be a valuable addition to the core JVM if only to standardize the
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> Labor gets more expensive, less labor is purchased. It is fundamental. It's not fundamental. If you actually look at what happens in the real world more regulation does not lead to less labor, more often than not it's just th
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It doesn't matter nearly as much as people believe. Value objects at this point are a kind of red herring. The JVM does aggressive escape analysis and is also very good at capturing short-lived objects. In the big picture, pointer chas
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by dnomad 8y ago
This doesn't make much sense. Using object pools and and off-heap data structures doesn't warp the code that much, if at all. You still end up with pretty much all clean, simple Java code. I've seen (10+ years old) low-laten
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Plenty of people are writing low-latency trading applications in Java where the latency budget is under 100 microseconds. This has been the case for several years now. It's by no means new or even especially difficult these days. The r
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> As technology progresses, and all things being equal, the situation will only become more extreme and ridiculous. It's actually the opposite that is the case. As technology progresses you will see more and more and more speculativ
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> Static return types would violated OOP as well if they exposed implementation details unrelated to the result of the operation. You're arguing against a particular usage of checked exceptions. You don't have to use checked ex
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> That's all true. I've become more sympathetic to checked exceptions over time though. I think the issues Java had with it are more to do with poor choice of what to make checked in the standard library. Exactly this. Working
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To some extent I almost wish they had stuck to their guns. The current brokenness actually serves as a much stronger argument for why exceptions are needed. There's a visceral understanding that comes from forcing people to handle ever
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That's not really how apprenticeships work in France or anywhere else. It's actually the French government that directly subsidizes the apprentice and all firms pay a tax into a general apprenticeship fund. Suffice to say it would
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The whole thread is disingenuous, yes. The entire premise is that corporate governance is based off a dumb quote that's backed by zero evidence. The downvotes above just confirm how quickly these debates become ideological echo chamber
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It's funny because you conveniently left out the fact that the single paper you quote finds no correlation. The point here, as stated before, is not uncritically accept nonsense about board size because it validates your ideology and t
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Believe it or not you can actually look this up yourself. The impact of board size on corporate performance has been pretty thoroughly researched.
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> More board members may increase intransigence, decrease oversight (cover over who is really making the decisions and who is not), and turn US corps more bureaucratic. Take a look at the evidence in the real world (y'know, actual f

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