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by grog454 4y ago
> Now you’ve got a bunch of people making minor warlord money compared to the locals. They can now afford to do just about anything their little hearts desire. Isn't this already happening when an SV company pays an eastern European
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by grog454 4y ago
For a large enough fee you will absolutely find (or create) such a bank.
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by grog454 4y ago
> with the oldest generations owning the vast majority of wealth and real estate, and with college, housing, and many costs of living having inflated 3-20x since the older generations were younger, it is a problem. This is one "bene
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by grog454 4y ago
They want it enough that they're willing (on the whole) to watch enough ads to at least cover server costs. They don't want it enough to tolerate the inconvenience or financial impact of paying for it directly. Otherwise no one wo
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by grog454 4y ago
I'll give you my approach as someone in the profession for over a decade who started teaching part time at a private university last year. I enrolled (as a student) in a couple of classes at a local CC for fields that were just passive
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by grog454 4y ago
Every consensus is potentially wrong, which makes it an opportunity. > I was repeatedly trying to convince HN readers There's not much point. Invest how you see fit and let others figure things out the hard way.
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by grog454 4y ago
?. Should generally be rare and can be combined with null coalescence to reduce occurrences: Void func doThing(state : State?) { var idx = state?.idx ?? -1 //No more ?. Needed }
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by grog454 4y ago
What does "try {" compile to in machine instructions or any intermediate language? I always thought of it as an annotation on a scope but now I'm curious. Edit- from reading https://stackoverflow.com/questions
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by grog454 4y ago
I've already encountered a number of posts that seem like they're written by bots here, and they indeed reduce my time spent on the site.
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by grog454 4y ago
> Unfortunately the most common growth structures dictate that people need to "act" as if they're in a more senior role already, alongside doing their existing one, and maybe they might get the title and salary bump. This
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by grog454 4y ago
If you don't forage/cultivate your own food, weave your own clothes, and build your own shelter, you're a specialist. All humans are specialists and this is probably our single biggest evolutionary advantage. The trend toward
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by grog454 4y ago
> add center island obstructions to limit long distance views Limiting view distance sounds more user-hostile than speed cams. I'd like as much information about my environment as possible.
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by grog454 4y ago
It also seems to overlook the typical expectation of non-zero revenue.
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by grog454 4y ago
> As yes, CPUs, those things famously bought because of the software that runs it. They are bought because of the software that runs on it.
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by grog454 4y ago
The math is irrelevant when the key is known to all parties.
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by grog454 4y ago
> this is day 0. Only looking forwards, how do you thrive economically in the 21st century under these current conditions with the cards you have to play Counterpoint: how do you avoid repeating the mistakes of the past and learning from
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by grog454 4y ago
When an executive level manager is paid multiple times (or orders of magnitude) what an engineer is paid, I feel there should be a different assignment of responsibility and exposure to risk.
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by grog454 4y ago
I wonder how they experience gravity down there.
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by grog454 4y ago
> For some kinds of messages a near-real-time text chat is the right channel but async email-like flow would be entirely the wrong channel. What's an example? I encounter maybe one situation per month where I'd consider asynch
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by grog454 4y ago
In sc21/2 your base starts 95% walled (and indestructible) with a choke that you can completely wall with about 3 buildings, but few would argue that makes sc21/2 boring.
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by grog454 4y ago
You can "lose sales" and save money by spending less on marketing at the same time.
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by grog454 4y ago
My first experience with AWS was around 2013 when I accidentally left a (cheap) ec2 instance running for months after I was done experimenting with it. Support refunded me no questions asked. Fast forward 2 years and that experience was an
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by grog454 4y ago
As a follow-on question to this: what is the process by which meteorites are analyzed? It seems like the contamination problem could be solved by drilling.
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by grog454 4y ago
Why can't we just say internet service or not, privacy applies. My banking is done through internet services and I still have privacy expectations there.
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by grog454 4y ago
> You shouldn't need it if everything else goes perfectly, but it doesn't hurt to have it. That's not how I see it. Computers react faster than humans even setting aside the mechanical delay of lifting your foot, moving it
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by grog454 4y ago
While I suspect you're right, isn't it a little early to conclude the acquisition wasn't successful? Who even knows what successful means in this case?
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by grog454 4y ago
There is no contiguous memory, arbitrarily resizeable alternative to a linked list in high performance concurrency is there? https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurre...
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by grog454 4y ago
> Unlimited PTO also discourages using PTO because nobody wants to be seen as the person taking the most vacation. I'll take one for the team then. When do I start?
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by grog454 4y ago
I've read plenty of war stories on this site that made the 2000 crash sound unrivaled to this day. 20 years just barely misses that.
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by grog454 4y ago
> My wife and I came to this country with a few hundred dollars between us and have worked hard to reach where we’re at. We're far from privileged. Define privileged. You came to the U.S. which means you had the means and impetus to

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