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by hibikir 4y ago
An argument is that friendships are rarely planned, and involve a variety of unexpected, fortuitous encounters. It's easy to make friendships in high school or college, as you really get to see a bunch of people over and over again, an
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by hibikir 4y ago
If anything, you are being too nice to US suburbs: It's perfectly possible to have towns that are much denser than any US suburb. My Spanish home town has about 100K inhabitants: You'd not call that a city anywhere in the US. And
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by hibikir 4y ago
A lot can be done, even in languages that compile quite slowly, to get good performance in practice. See, for instance, what one can do with bazel and build servers. A cold compile is still not going to be good, but you'll never do a c
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by hibikir 4y ago
The reason we need this is because there's a non-trivial amount of people signing marriage papers for a visa. This happens because basically every other road, for a vast majority of people, is closed, or very difficult. I am married to
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by hibikir 4y ago
Taking the compiler course changed my career from day 1. In my first job, back in the late 90s, I was working for a company that, having taken their biggest customer yet, had to split a very large C monolith into chunks that could run on se
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by hibikir 4y ago
Structure definitely makes a difference: I've worked in tech companies with 2000 employees that were more nimble and higher functioning than many a 100 person startup. Even among very large companies, there's clear tradeoffs that
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by hibikir 4y ago
I'd cut the country stereotypes out of the picture, but there's definitely more than one kind of corruption, and the kind of damage it does changes. You are absolutely correct that large construction projects are very vulnerable t
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by hibikir 4y ago
Both Levine here, and the Economist article we are all responding to, fail to look in extra detail at what happened in the Spanish situation with preferential shares/AT1s . Around 700K investors, mostly elderly looking for a safe inves
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by hibikir 4y ago
The first few banks to fail did have some consequences on those responsible, but all the actions to make deposits whole are, in practice, making it it far harder for the next layer of unsafe banks from getting wiped out. Imagine that the Fe
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by hibikir 4y ago
It's typically people whose incentives in no way align with lowering long term costs for their organization. When you are building something new, the incentives are often on speed of delivery, plus whatever you can learn for yourself.
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by hibikir 4y ago
The interesting bit of simulating an economy for a game is not the tradeoff of realism vs computer resources, but realism vs fun. A game where AI actors are making prices come very close to costs, as they make the most profitable trades, an
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by hibikir 4y ago
I personally love scala: It's been my main language at work for well over a decade. However, the barriers of entry are real, especially since arguably the most popular styles of the language demand learning the most esoteric parts of t
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by hibikir 4y ago
Open core in data isn't even close to new: We've had companies contributing to OSS databases, while selling extensions with a bunch of extra features, back when noSQL was all the rage. Back then, I was called to rescue a large dis
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by hibikir 4y ago
There are significant risks on some of those deals, as, if the toll highway doesn't get enough traffic, governments will lack the political will to let the road decay, and often will end up buying back the highway, and paying for the r
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by hibikir 4y ago
The misalignment of economic ties and political borders is something that the US makes almost impossible to change, but leads to a lot of dysfunction all over the place. Compare New York and its subway with Madrid, which has the most effici
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by hibikir 4y ago
Let me tell you about Spain. It appears to be a relatively low density country, but if you look at where people live, an extremely high percentage of the population lives in an apartment. Your average Spaniard lives in a square km that is a
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by hibikir 4y ago
There are issues other than just speed, but it's not a matter of bad decisions, unless you mean bad planning decisions. The autobahn is a great example: it might be really fast, but how many pedestrians ever have to cross it? How many
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by hibikir 4y ago
This has little to do with the existence of zoning laws themselves, but the specific zones that they define. Japan has zones, so does Spain. But there's just nothing anywhere near as Restrictive as most US cities' R1 zone. Many pl
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by hibikir 4y ago
It's not a matter of subtractive solutions or not: It's that in a low-car environment, way too many people's real estate investments are worth near zero. How much of, say, Suburban Florida remains usable if we price cars high
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by hibikir 4y ago
Agreed, but this is a cultural issue, which has a lot to do with management constraints. I've worked at places where everyone is teaching everyone else at all times, and therefore where everyone grows, year to year. But in those places
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by hibikir 4y ago
A giant, completely stateless monolith that takes no memory will scale as far as you want, but said monolith doesn't exist. Every new route you handle has memory costs, and if you are caching any computations, you also have to think ab
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by hibikir 4y ago
It's not just a matter of age, but of location. I am old enough to have grown with 8 bit computers, but at that time, I didn't live in a country with free local calls. The price of local calls was 0.50c a minute in current US doll
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by hibikir 4y ago
If you are thinking rural alaska, possibly. Your typical US suburb is build of houses that don't do well without HVAC in neither the winter nor the summer. The amount of gasoline that needs to be spent to go shopping is high, and you c
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by hibikir 4y ago
Looking at population density at a global level, or at a national level, is going to be giving you misleading results. If your goal is to evaluate whether people in history lived close to other people, you need a very different metric: Popu
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Environment makes a big difference, and environmental changes that make a huge difference can even be much smaller than it seems. I once worked at at a place where I spent years in the same team, always as a dev lead, but with rotating mana
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by hibikir 4y ago
That only works if your definition of class is purely economical, and you stop looking at the 0.01% If your definition of class is more European, it's perfectly possible to be upper class and have a down generation, economically speaki
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by hibikir 4y ago
Football coaches, especially college coaches and high school coaches, have made comments regarding how Madden has changed the game in some ways, but it's mainly due to increasing the baseline knowledge of the game. Your typical new pla
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by hibikir 4y ago
The Chess.com anti cheat system, as described by the report, is set up to handle blitz and bullet. This makes sense, both because it's most of what is played on the site, and because it's so much easier to detect cheating in that
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by hibikir 4y ago
Is it? In my career, over 20 years by now, I've not seen that one often. When it happens, management has to be on vacation too, as it's not that hard to see that someone is doing all the work. I have seen this continue just once.
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Security teams don't block certain VPN traffic for fun.When a certain IP block has been running credential stuffing attacks all month long, It's very reasonable to see any request from said block with a lot of suspicion. In many c

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