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by duckingtest 10y ago
Is that application in python and uses numpy?
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by duckingtest 10y ago
That's not an inherent risk of being young, that's a risk from doing these things. In fact these activities are safer while young, if only due to a better reaction time.
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by duckingtest 10y ago
>Your argument is flawed in that it reduces the talent competition to just one factor: the tax rate. In Europe, London and Berlin have much better access to capital and bigger startup scene; these things have to happen, you can't le
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by duckingtest 10y ago
>The employer, however, had to pay the salary of 120.000,- to the employee and about 22% of the salary to the state and social insurance. That's just accounting fiction. You could as well make it so that the employer pays everything
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by duckingtest 10y ago
50% income tax above €51k. Hardly progressive. So let's say you earn €120k gross as a developer. Using this calculator [0] - input 8571 monthly because of some weird bonuses - it turns out you get €73344,69. That's not all - the
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by duckingtest 10y ago
What happens is they pocket $295k and spend $5k on an actual project. In Poland a company got ~$150k to make a system to collect and count votes for local elections, it failed spectacularly. It turned out they employed one 23 year old CS
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by duckingtest 10y ago
>However the above method would categorize this dev as "objectively less productive", which seems counter-intuitive... It wouldn't, it purports to explain the differences in local salaries, or more precisely salaries paid
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by duckingtest 10y ago
>For example a dairy farmer in Switzerland earns more than one in Poland because people pay more for milk products in Switzerland compared to Poland. A Swiss farmer is much more productive when measured in currency units, but probably no
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by duckingtest 10y ago
>Stop using the GDP per capita of an entire country as a proxy for software developer productivity. It's frankly stupid. Outside of entertainment where software is a direct consumer product, the developer's productivity comes f
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by duckingtest 10y ago
Switzerland does have higher average pay CHF 91,374 = $93,703.5 [0] compared to USA $68,082 [1]. Their nominal GDP per capita is 36.62% higher and the pay is 37.6% higher. Norway interestingly has almost the same pay as USA - $68,737 [2], p
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by duckingtest 10y ago
I don't think it's that developers are underpaid in Europe. They are just objectively less productive there. After all it's a very specialized job that requires modern, developed economy open to disruptions to be really produ
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by duckingtest 10y ago
(Dynamic) Power consumption goes up with square of voltage, so a comparison with a gpu's max power efficiency point (almost certainly underclocked and undervolted) could change the comparison significantly.
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by duckingtest 10y ago
While there are newer algorithms (almost all first order btw), one of the most commonly used for deep convnets, sgd with momentum, is from the 80s. It really is mostly about computing power - one gtx 1080 has more tflops than world's f
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by duckingtest 10y ago
Are the pavements really that clean or is that photo with the stairs just unrealistic? I guess it's possible, although that would require near constant vacuuming.
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by duckingtest 10y ago
Chinese smartphones. They may or may not have backdoors in them, but then China state surveillance doesn't care about you, unless you work on a missile research or something similar.
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by duckingtest 10y ago
I don't want to sound evil... but why? It's not like digging up low-intensity radioactive waste is going to end the world. Just look at how alive Chernobyl zone is... So let's say some people bring it up, they get sick and di
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by duckingtest 10y ago
Would you want your children to grow up to be a burger flipper?
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by duckingtest 10y ago
That's not proven physics, just speculation. There are no answers at this point, especially regarding end of the universe. Also, infinite universe is not necessarily the same thing as a growing one. For all we know all we see could be
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by duckingtest 10y ago
Except the universe seems to be infinite, so yes, the economy can grow exponentially forever. Even within current physics, it's possible to put billions of habitable Earths in our solar system, by importing mass and energy from other
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by duckingtest 10y ago
What was dystopian about Diamond Age? While it wasn't explicitly utopian, the world is much closer to utopia than dystopia. Certainly better than current reality.
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by duckingtest 11y ago
>Performance test data shows 32MB is the absolute maximum block size you can handle on a modern desktop PC today [2]. No, it's maximum size you can handle using a single-threaded poorly-optimized cpu software. >Additionally, a pr
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by duckingtest 11y ago
The way I understood it: transaction costs matter much more than most people think they do. City is efficient because transaction costs (transport and communication distance for workers and suppliers) are low. However, that's a functio
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by duckingtest 11y ago
Could you link to one (or more) of these websites?
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by duckingtest 11y ago
>strong correlation exists between a country's measures of gender inequity and the size of the math gender gap both at the mean and the right tail of the distribution 1. How does that correlation disprove it? It's entirely cons
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by duckingtest 11y ago
Financial markets are a way to sell and buy information, the arrangement of a productive forces in the economy. Profit is the result of selling information - arranging productive forces - that increased output. Loss results from decrease. T
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by duckingtest 11y ago
Land is special because it can't be made. Imagine that you land on some planet, with no way to go back. You can work remotely using the intergalactic internet. It turns out you're the second guy there, the first guy now legally
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by duckingtest 11y ago
It ignores the fact that, for every transaction that was made, the other side also made a profit. Saying that the man is time-shifting the grain is equivalent to saying that the farmer is time-shifting money. On the average, profit is hal
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by duckingtest 11y ago
This definition conflates freedom with security, while describing normal life in a big portion of a civilized world, where all these things are achieved with less limitation in other spheres of life. Especially regarding sex and drugs. Sing
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by duckingtest 11y ago
Looks like internet explorer after an axe attack.
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by duckingtest 11y ago
That's an estimated 2.8% annually for a high-risk investment. It doesn't really make financial sense.

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