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by hacknat 10y ago
We should all stop paying for third party enforcement of criminal and civil disputes. Any seizure of my property by the government is a curtailment of my property rights. What benefits of the state are you willing to live without? All of th
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by hacknat 10y ago
Also individual property rights have not been the norm for most of human history, and in much of the world they still aren't. Obtaining mining rights to land in Papua New Guinea is incredibly difficult because the state recognizes hist
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by hacknat 10y ago
Why are German and French taught in so many schools when their native speaker counts are so much lower than other languages? Are we going by economic importance? Then why isn't Mandarin just an assumed course at every high school? I kn
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by hacknat 10y ago
This is a good answer. Anyways, I was going to say that hopping a new technology is going to be a lot less profitable than really mastering the old which lots of systems are built on and will be built on, and which new talent never wants to
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by hacknat 10y ago
Kind of, but not really. When I complain about that product I almost always complain about marketing, intransigent leadership, etc. Ostensibly technical debt killed the product, but technical debt is almost always a symptom not a cause. Tec
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by hacknat 10y ago
Reading Fukuyama's "The Origins of Political Order" and part 2, "Political Order and Political Decay" is a really good sweep on political progress where it comes from and whether or not it's inevitable (hint: i
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by hacknat 10y ago
It really depends on your life stage. If you're single and plan on staying that way for a couple of years then you can come up with alternative arrangements (i.e. Shared housing, etc) that make those Bay Area salaries actually worth mo
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by hacknat 10y ago
I'm with you that they should be slightly worried, and I've long disliked MacBooks in favor of commodity+Linux, but surely the market share of iOS will keep developers at the table. It sucks, but I don't blame manufacturers f
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by hacknat 10y ago
I want to echo, in agreement, with the many people here who are saying that there will likely be protests, but not against automation itself. Present evidence suggests that it is true. However I want to push back against the idea that curre
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by hacknat 10y ago
Give the lifecycle of an sk_buff structure from birth (in the driver) all the way up to a user's socket read syscall. Familiarity with various layers and how the TCP state machine works are a given. Do they know any dark corners? IP ro
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by hacknat 10y ago
I barely check work email at work. One of the nice things about having slack, at least at my company, is that no one seems to communicate outside of business hours anymore.
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by hacknat 10y ago
> Although I hope it is true. I don't know if being a manufacturing powerhouse is actually all that exciting anymore. There aren't really that many jobs in manufacturing anymore. Some of Toyota's modern car plants employ a
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by hacknat 10y ago
And why is nginx safer?
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by hacknat 10y ago
It's also a beast to debug in a large codebase.
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by hacknat 10y ago
Actually Seattle's property tax is pretty good. You wouldn't believe how unprogressice WA is in practice.
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by hacknat 10y ago
I just left Seattle a year ago, be careful about confusing Seattle Metro with Seattle. Seattle is surrounded by water and its mass transit system is nascent, so it's pretty hard to live too far outside the city to take advantage of the
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by hacknat 10y ago
I'm in a state that is notorious for enforcing non-competes (in fact our enlightened legislature tried to make them even stiffer), but even my contract says my non-compete is only enforceable where a clear conflict of interest exists.
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Ask HN: Is it just me or is the Mentat logo ripped off from Gitlab?
3 points by hacknat 10y ago|1 comments
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by hacknat 10y ago
I was pretty smug about Trump supporters until I started to see a couple things on/after election night: 1. Clinton underperformed Obama's numbers dramatically in the Rust belt. You can certainly still be a racist if you voted for
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by hacknat 10y ago
"Linux can solve some pro needs, but not most. It’s a fantastic server OS but a miserable desktop one, and that will probably never change." Miserable is a strong word. Ubuntu is hardly miserable. Chromebooks are pretty much gua
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by hacknat 10y ago
I'm with you on this (especially because if this election).
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by hacknat 10y ago
My company is cool in that it has unlimited vacation, but you are mandated to take one week off per quarter. I would be lying if I said that even that gets everybody taking 4 weeks off, but the founders have made themselves very clear, so I
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by hacknat 10y ago
> Can we offload rationality to our subconscious without allowing ourselves to succumb to heuristics? An almost textbook definition of cognitive bias right there. > How can we avoid perceptual errors which influence our judgement? You
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by hacknat 10y ago
> If this were really so why would there be a schedule to phase it in slowly over 7 instead of immediately? I think part of the reason is that it is expected for natural monetary inflation to cancel out the effect of the min wage increas
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by hacknat 10y ago
If anyone is interested I wrote a lock-free, c/c++ free, implementation of an AF_PACKET socket abstraction in Golang: https://github.com/nathanjsweet/zsocket I haven't implemented fan-out at all, but if anybo
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by hacknat 10y ago
Yeah, but 1999 was a mother-of-a-bubble.
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by hacknat 10y ago
Maybe. Stories like this are what make me sick when I think about our Justice department. That, and Aaron Swartz...and a slew of other things I guess.
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by hacknat 10y ago
I agree with everything ruler88 wrote, but want to expound on it. Look at the type of role you would like to be in 5,10,15 years down the road, do most of the people in those roles have MScs? If so, definitely get it. If not, figure out wha
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by hacknat 10y ago
I think John has it on the nose here. Any Twitter employees care to let us in on where this capital has gone to? Are you updating your resume?
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Some comment on the Twitter buyout rumours(brontecapital.blogspot.com)
4 points by hacknat 10y ago|2 comments

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