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by gyulai 5y ago
I was thinking of the M.I.T. application form circa 2004. I seem to recall that it explicitly asked not just if I had enough money but to disclose how much money I had precisely, and it also explicitly asked if there were family member
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by gyulai 5y ago
I think going to university is a luxury. It is a luxury I personally enjoyed having in my life. It is a luxury I want my children to be able to enjoy one day. It makes your life richer in the same way that, say, having horses makes your
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by gyulai 5y ago
I've studied in Cambridge myself, and feel like some context needs to be added here for American readers not to misunderstand something here: Admission to Cambridge & Oxford isn't related to family wealth in the same way as a
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by gyulai 5y ago
Hmm. Although they were not actually called feature phones. Feature phones was what we started calling phones that weren't smartphones after smartphones came to be a thing/word.
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by gyulai 5y ago
I've had similar experiences with desks, even though desks are a much easier problem to solve than 4 walls that make an office. $200 at IKEA would do it. And yet it's still an unsolvable problem to many companies. Desks have be
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by gyulai 5y ago
> Doesn't it just mean that the meaning of the word has changed? ...I do feel a bit bad amount mentioning it, because it's pretty tangential to what the article is actually about. That said: Changes in meanings of words often
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> Good data scientist described here seems to have unrealistic expectations at super human level of know-it-all/do-it-all. Hmm. Know-it-all/do-it-all is a useful standard to strive for, though, even when, in practice, one will
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by gyulai 5y ago
I agree with most of what he's saying but reading the first sentence almost stopped me in my tracks when I got to "obsessed". I wonder when exactly it was that "obsessed about this" and "obsessed about that&qu
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by gyulai 6y ago
These economist rankings are done from the point of view of rich expats. I very much doubt that their lives have much in common with the lives of people living in Vienna's public housing.
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by gyulai 6y ago
Vienna is a bit out of the ordinary in that regard because it has been a stronghold of leftist government. The 2nd and 3rd biggest cities in Austria are Graz and Linz which don't have that kind of left-leaning policy. You can rent fl
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by gyulai 6y ago
Knowing Vienna quite well and knowing Vancouver at least a little bit, I'd say this is not apples-to-apples. In Vancouver it was the real estate boom that has fueled high-quality residential development: Given the circumstance where s
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by gyulai 6y ago
+1 on that. It's a really beautiful font, and I'd love to make it my new default. ...but I'd never pay for a font on a per-user basis.
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> I mean, when Google started the internet was actually small enough that it could be indexed relatively cheaply. These days, the internet is so enormous, and user expectations around hyper local content and being constantly up to date a
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> So I think it's a necessary evil unfortunately. I don't think its necessary at all. Why is it necessary? It's just something we have grown accustomed to in Europe, because of our big government way of doing things, whe
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Many people here are commenting on the fact that public broadcasters tend to do documentaries and educational programming which wouldn't be able to survive at that level of quality under a free market system, which seems to be a cause
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by gyulai 6y ago
Location: Munich, Germany Remote: Yes (exclusively) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene, ... Résumé/CV: http://zedernkind.com/latoya-brown/ Email: latoya.brown.pa21@zedernkind.com +++
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by gyulai 6y ago
...the argument I was trying to make was: remote work with no geographical adjustment of pay could be a force for good in the world economy to bring about a non-ridiculous market equilibrium. Ridiculous is what I call the situation where we
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by gyulai 6y ago
For a remote company to adjust pay to employee's geography: so not cool. Offering remote and paying people based on what they're worth to the company: Part of the solution! (The problem being: Structural deficits in certain regio
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by gyulai 6y ago
Agreed. And there are laws against this sort of thing, and the regulators are slowly but surely catching up to the fact that they will have to start actually enforcing them.
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by gyulai 6y ago
Why would it be up to Google to decide whether or not DuckDuckGo gets to "be around"?
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by gyulai 7y ago
Another data point: The following source gives additional detail on the kind of thing that is meant by "preexisting condition" when they say "people without preexisting conditions have nothing to fear". One of them is
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by gyulai 7y ago
...keep in mind, that it may be the case that we're being lied to when we're told that young and healthy people have nothing to fear. The following article seems to suggest otherwise: https://www.propublica.org/ar
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by gyulai 7y ago
Collecting stats on the progression from clinical presentation of the patient all the way to death seems to me a bit tedious, since death is altogether somewhat rare and when it does occur it's a lot of factors playing together. But th
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...feels like a relationship with an old friend who you've lost touch with when he became an alcoholic, but every now and again you feel bad for him and think you owe him a meeting.
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by gyulai 7y ago
Haha. 10 minutes further into my Delphi-in-2020-exploration (60% of which was the time that the installer actually took), this was the sequence of events: * Hit the installer and switched windows, to let the installer work in the backgroun
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by gyulai 7y ago
...although language features, 64bit, and integration with C++ were never really where my quarrels were. If we take "rapid application development" out of its trademarked context, applying just its common-sense meaning, and applyi
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by gyulai 7y ago
Thanks for chiming in! I'll give it another spin, if I get some time.
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Not sure exactly where your product lands in a continuum between where Delphi was in the late 90s and where Microsoft Access was in the late 90s with its ability to create forms on top of databases, or maybe Oracle Forms. Delphi was the mo
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by gyulai 7y ago
I used to love Delphi in the late 90s, and if someone could do a late-90s-Delphi-like experience for programming UI-heavy software today, and do it right, and in a way that properly integrates with the anno 2020 tech landscape, then I would
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by gyulai 7y ago
By working for a remote-only company that's based out of the U.S. but allows people to live anywhere they want globally. Whenever I get contacted by a German-based headhunter working for a German company, I tell them that I'm per

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