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The Most Militarized Universities in America(news.vice.com)
2 points by gozo 11y ago|0 comments
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by gozo 11y ago
Talented security folks, especially those that can engineer security rather than penetration testing, have so many opportunities that fighting an uphill battle on mailing lists just isn't very attractive.
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by gozo 11y ago
The comments in the HN submission must be some new record in middlebrow dismissals. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10515817
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by gozo 11y ago
There's one thing I don't get though. Being biased often means valuing something that is common among those you favor, but rare among those you don't. So even if one group outperforms the other, why would that in a practical
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by gozo 11y ago
He said that he would fix typos and add some stuff, not anything that will make the text itself necessarily better. His writing just isn't that good for something that will be handed out to a lot of people and were there a very real pu
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by gozo 11y ago
If this is something that is expected to be around for awhile I recommend talking to an editor. Friends are good to check for overall content and typos, but they are too familiar with the subject to check how well you convey something and t
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by gozo 11y ago
Other than international treaties, it's a threat to stability. Not only in the middle east, but in Turkey, Greece, the Balkans, Europe as whole and the European Union as an entity. History doesn't really care what you think you ow
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by gozo 11y ago
That's something I don't get about US technologist. Everyone says they want progress, but then there's always so many reasons why it shouldn't happen. A related example would be which of these two road that are better su
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by gozo 11y ago
You'd be surprised how many people are looking for a shortcut where they can exploit value built by others.
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by gozo 11y ago
It's not that they can get away with wearing jeans so much as they can't get away with wearing other things. There's still an egalitarian and meritocratic notion in technology that rank shouldn't matter. Ask yourself why
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by gozo 11y ago
That's kind of part of the point. Kids who understand that they are relatively smart become content with just being better than the other kids. Instead of realizing that they also have to do other things that further learning like more
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by gozo 11y ago
That's not really how the world works though. People have de facto ownership over projects. A lot of the features are things which the project have repeatedly rejected. Very few people are going to spend time on things they believe are
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by gozo 11y ago
You might want to read up on Tesla ;)
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by gozo 11y ago
It still too tricky to do things that make people, that don't know much about computers, excited about programming. Things like the C64, DOS or Qbasic were much "simpler" and of course the expectations were already lower. I w
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by gozo 11y ago
More of an accounting/finance thing, similar to how net price is price excluding tax, net wealth is wealth (assets) excluding debt (loans/liabilities).
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by gozo 11y ago
Uhm, no? Nokia was (relatively speaking) a software company. The South Korean and Chinese manufacturers, which are closer to production, excelled while the software companies like Nokia, RIM and Palm didn't. The iPhone was ahead of the
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How Treasury's tax loophole mistake saves companies billions each year(reuters.com)
3 points by gozo 11y ago|0 comments
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by gozo 11y ago
Unfortunately I think this is a problem with many of his essays. They often present a very specific argument with reservations, which makes the argument very hard to disagree with since you have to argue relevance which requires a lot more
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by gozo 11y ago
"Favoring fair outcome over having fair rules" Which essentially no one does? People favor fair outcome because they don't think the rules are, or can be, fair and often as a proxy for rules becoming more fair.
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by gozo 11y ago
Yes, but for math to be really important few of those are a developer doing e.g. cryptography, it's a cryptographer doing programming. I worked in one of those fields and it would be at least ten times the developers to people "do
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by gozo 11y ago
That's more because math is important to those fields though. If you're making e.g. a video game math is a very small part of the overall work. It's cool as a hobby if you can go "I know math and I know programming, ther
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by gozo 11y ago
Somewhat funny coincidence that the top picture on your twitter (linked from your profile) is of the former prime minister of Sweden who changed the rules for student loans so they can be suspended after failing just one exam.
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Hidden in Plain Sight: New York Just Another Island Haven(icij.org)
2 points by gozo 11y ago|0 comments
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by gozo 11y ago
Except you still haven't explained what's actually wrong with the article, even though the author seemingly has far more experience than you do. It seem more like you disagree with the view of your profession, something that seem
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by gozo 11y ago
The title is, as usual, editorialized by the newspaper. The original title, as per the title tag, is "How Wealthy People Protect Their Money". There's a pretty big difference between being a tax attorney and being an offshore
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by gozo 11y ago
There are a number of examples in the second part of the article (after “Everyone calls us the Crook Islands now”). Also it's a her and she is a not a journalist.
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by gozo 11y ago
At least my comments add something to the discussion, yours is just meta complaints that helps no one. My comment was constructive, I even offered suggestion how to rewrite things to make it better. It wasn't more surface level then an
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by gozo 11y ago
True, although now shared with cloud tools, at least intra-company. In some markets, like China, they use messaging for business. It's better in some ways e.g. you get a response faster.
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by gozo 11y ago
The thing is while the Internet is all excited about bitcoin, everyone else has (kind of) stopped using e-mail for communication. It's all phone based now. E-mail is just for the things that doesn't have an app. And maybe resettin
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by gozo 11y ago
And what does your own condescending remarks add exactly? This was the page that was linked and frankly it wasn't good enough for HN nor did it reflect particularly good on front-end developers. Maybe something you yourself should thin

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