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by dx034 6y ago
Pay and qualification go a long way to achieve quality in teaching. To get excellent people to become teachers, you need to pay them at least similar amounts as they could get elsewhere and give them some guarantees that their job is safe.
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by dx034 6y ago
But India and Brazil still don't have great social mobility. Most studies in that area are still pretty young and it's too early to say if that can increase social mobility in the long term.
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by dx034 6y ago
The US definitely has a lot of untapped potential. And they're not even worst in class. According to the OECD, other countries (e.g. Germany, France) are much worse when it comes to social mobility [1]. [1] http://www.oecd.o
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by dx034 6y ago
The difference is this money would've gone to AWS. They could wave it without much of an issue. The counterparty for the option wasn't Robinhood but some other trader. The loss (if it ever existed) has to be paid by either the cli
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by dx034 6y ago
Even for professional investors it frequently happens that you only know your exact PnL after markets close. With all automation there are still manual processes and software errors so manual trade reconciliation isn't that uncommon fo
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by dx034 6y ago
I'd be surprised if that's true. No other broker allows this simply for the reason that Robinhood would otherwise have to pay up if their client can't respond to a margin call.
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by dx034 6y ago
Truly understanding risk in financial markets is incredibly hard and not intuitive. We can't use our every day intuition to warn us of risks on markets (other than easy money doesn't exist). But I don't think people would app
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by dx034 6y ago
Same with airlines, hedging oil prices via futures and options is incredibly important for them to be able to price out flights a year in advance. But that doesn't explain why a 20 year old with no income should have access to these in
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by dx034 6y ago
Do they? I've never experienced that so early. Most mid-range phones are after two years so slow that they can't handle modern apps which is the most common reason people I know buy new phones. Higher spec smartphones tend to last
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by dx034 6y ago
That's only really relevant for 24/7 operations with considerable load. For home computers and probably even servers with very little load the price of a new CPU won't really offset lower electricity cost.
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by dx034 6y ago
> Obviously nobody expects the police not to shoot back when fired upon. They do it in other countries though. Equipped with vests, helmets and shields police forces have much more protection against gunshots compared to the shooter. Eve
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by dx034 6y ago
I once saw German police officers at a police shooting range (it's not public but I knew a participant). Shooting without identifying themselves as police and demanding to drop the weapon led to them failing the test immediately, indep
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by dx034 6y ago
I don't think that a police officer thinks of accountability in this situation. It's a high stress situation and with no training all you can do is randomly shoot. Extensive training would be the answer.
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by dx034 6y ago
And zero training. Mandatory weapon training for some US police forces is shockingly short. Other countries train any police officer over months to be able to not only hit targets under stress but also to avoid shooting whenever possible.
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by dx034 6y ago
But why? Why not wait for a fully equipped team with shields? Sorrounding the house until then prevents anyone from getting out. Unless there's an active shooting, there's no reason not to wait. And with proper protection, police
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by dx034 6y ago
It was the equivalent of a SWAT Team. If you have >10 people shouting police it's very unlikely that's fake.
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by dx034 6y ago
I installed it within 5 minutes locally. If anything, Gitlab is perfect to quickly set up code repositories in environments where on-prem is a hard requirement.
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by dx034 6y ago
I've said it before but I really love code-server. Recent releases have been a bit messy (change of deployment model didn't really work) but it's amazing. I got it running on a $5 VPS to access my dev environment from any mac
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by dx034 6y ago
I believe AMD has an incentive to give Apple a good deal. They got a lot of attention from some areas for their new processors but most non technical users are still Intel first. If Apple starts selling with AMD it could boost their image a
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by dx034 6y ago
For me that's one of the major advantages of iPhones over Androids. Android has always had those micro-delays. On a new device in the price range of an iPhone they're acceptable but it's (subjectively) never as smooth as an i
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by dx034 6y ago
I think Silicon Valley (the TV series) is a good snapshot of that culture for the future. Sure, it's all fiction, but a lot of it is closer to reality than you can get with real stories without violating NDAs.
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by dx034 6y ago
I also believe it's survivor bias. Eventually anyone doing all those things without success will drop out but you only see those that remain. There's certainly an element of both luck and talent to it, dedication alone won't
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by dx034 6y ago
Saying that companies can't go against the president because he stacked the courts sounds a lot like a totalitarian regime to me. I really hope the US is not there yet and that anyone, individual or company, can criticise the governmen
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by dx034 6y ago
And sync is the one big advantage of Office products. It's a pain to properly sync email, chat, file storage, calendars etc. MSFT has a very compelling way that works for end users and IT alike. Setting this up with products from diffe
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by dx034 6y ago
Looks great, hope you'll succeed with this! Having an affordable on-prem alternative with native database support are killer features for me.
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by dx034 6y ago
I believe it's about potential. They could've been the second or third big mobile OS provider. They did incredibly well in enterprise (and now cloud computing) but they still left the field of mobile to Google and Apple. And there
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by dx034 6y ago
With ReCaptcha 3, most users won't notice any captcha at all. Reducing friction to zero for the majority of users is a huge advantage vs other solutions.
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by dx034 6y ago
But sometimes VACUUM FULL is necessary for tables as fragmentation will otherwise never be resolved. A common scenario are tables that store some kind of time series events that are updated while active. Older partitions have no write activ
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by dx034 6y ago
On the other hand, if a memory leak concerns one key microservice your whole operation is also likely to suffer, even if 99% of services run fine.
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by dx034 6y ago
I really don't like Oracle from a DBA perspective but it's still often far ahead of PostgreSQL when it comes to query performance. In Postgres, the query structure can make huge differences in terms of performance and it can take

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