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by dsq 4y ago
Its possible to teach a horse to eat less and less each day. They just have this unfortunate tendency to die just after you succeed in weaning them off food altogether. A horse, of course, is not same as a reduction in force. Engineers don&
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by dsq 4y ago
Okay, I understand the advantage of having a currency which is completely independent from the government. I suppose like everything there's always some good and some bad.
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by dsq 4y ago
If crypto is used mainly for criminal or other illicit activities, isn't the crash of crypto a basically good thing, by destroying the monetary resources of criminals? Similarly to how the issuing of new banknotes makes older banknotes
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by dsq 4y ago
There are no servers in the Twitter HQ? In that case it's not such a big deal to close the HQ for a weekend plus one day.
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by dsq 4y ago
Production environments are genuinely isolated from the internet and accessible either only physically or through very secure channels. In order to sabotage these environments you have to be physically present. Unplug servers, intruduce mal
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by dsq 4y ago
Work? Probably not, I think it's for people who are very dialed in on the mission. Buy stock in his conpanies though? That's a very different story. If and when spaceX goes public (probably far in the future) I believe it will be
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by dsq 4y ago
Just looking at the title I had a sudden vision of Mr Spock helping Elon by using the computer visor...
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by dsq 4y ago
The point is that no one knows the future. In the depths of the bust its hard to see when the market will pick up again. So, even companies with money are cautious about hiring at the bottom.
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by dsq 4y ago
Ten years to overnight success...
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by dsq 4y ago
It was a bloodbath. Entire companies vanished like smoke.
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by dsq 4y ago
It will probably spill over into the rest of the economy. No matter how generous the severance, a fired worker isn't going to be buying new cars, buying houses, or taking expensive vacations.
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by dsq 4y ago
Pushups, pullups/chinups, squats can be done in sets spread out through the day, can be done right next to the computer, and cost nothing.
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by dsq 4y ago
Both of those news outlets you mentioned are paywalled so that you cannot read even one article for free at a time like they used to. Meanwhile, over at Fox news, all articles are free and open. Without passing judgment on their respective
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by dsq 4y ago
From your experience, would you say this is the norm for US/North American campuses? Do non-North American campuses have different policies, in your experience? I am asking because my experience with campuses (not in North America) has
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by dsq 4y ago
Thanks for that explanation.
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by dsq 4y ago
Oh, so its a known thing already. In that case, the article isn't telling us anything new.
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by dsq 4y ago
Easily tested by comparing charging times in hot regions and countries as opposed to cold ones. For example, Kuwait versus Norway.
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by dsq 4y ago
What were the sections removed that were more correlated with IQ?
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by dsq 4y ago
Where is full time defined as 32 hours? Where I am it's in the forties. More power to you!
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by dsq 4y ago
Sad news, but heartening that even with long exposure to space conditions (zero gravity, radiation, perhaps others I haven’t thought of), space explorers reach reasonable old age. John Glenn also reached the age of 95.
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by dsq 4y ago
Thanks for that dose of information. Basic arithmetic is so lacking in all these discussions. People throw all sort of fantastic pseudo-facts with little or no anchor to reality.
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by dsq 4y ago
Fusion is ideal, but even without it, cooling and desalination on a massive scale will be essential. Therefore, only those nations with the ability to quickly ramp up power generation, particularly nuclear power, will get through the coming
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by dsq 4y ago
> will their nukes even work Even if only a third if them work it’s enough. That’s the point about nukes, they provide egregious overkill.
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by dsq 4y ago
History teaches that very rarely do dictators survive a fall. Putin is likely to face the firing squad. No successor could take the chance of leaving him alive.
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by dsq 4y ago
I remember there being a lot of noise a few years ago about resveratrol, and how red wine (but only of a certain grape) was the secret to long life. What happens if you make the wrong decision and go all in, drinking wine and gobbling grape
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by dsq 4y ago
I recall reading somewhere that this is the way orgs get rid of tenured workers. They can’t be fired outright, so the org creates a lot of little micro-aggressions that cause them to yearn for release from the torment.
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by dsq 4y ago
I think the relative reward for completing higher education in any field was greater than today. Being college educated provided such a clear advantage that it was a no brainer to put up with some academic arrogance.
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by dsq 4y ago
It’s back to the fifties, just with much less resources.
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by dsq 4y ago
Just as deep sea pipelines can be blown up, so submarine communication cables can be cut just as easily. This can have devastating effects on the knowledge economy, remote working, WFH, so very relevant for HN.
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by dsq 4y ago
Look up "holodomor", "dekulakization", "law of spikelets", and other lovely things. It's possible to get a lot done in a worker's paradise when you can put a bullet in a head.

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