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by hogFeast 6y ago
It is also funny to look at a map of network speeds in the UK. Everywhere is slow apart from Hull (a relatively gritty fishing town in the North East). This is the only place where the local telephone company wasn't taken over by BT, a
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by hogFeast 6y ago
What I love is Reid Hoffman then going on about that move like he invented the fucking wheel. Like congrats, you stole some e-mail addresses and spammed them...you are now a genius growth expert? Joker. His book is also staggering insight i
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Their govt is very close to default right now. The only thing that has saved Ecuador was Correra not managing to bind his successor to his policies. Correra borrowed a ton of money, gave it out to win elections, and left the people with the
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Life definitely is easier when there is a large underclass of disenfranchised poor people willing to do anything. Why has no-one considered this before? (On a serious note, this is basically a meme at this point. Someone sees a thing, blame
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Jeferry Katzenberg is way way overrated. I believed the shtick about him being behind Disney's animation success. I held Dreamworks Animation, admittedly the buyout was a fair price, but he got paid a ton of money for fairly mixed perf
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Confused and confusing. Saying that Khordokovsky was "no saint" is...an understatement. He refused to pay tax in Russia, he was charged in the US for money laundering resulting from one of the largest tax fraud schemes ever, he wa
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by hogFeast 6y ago
So you are saying something that has existed throughout all periods of time, in every society isn't a fact of life? Also, speaking about racism particularly is something that makes very little sense historically. Racism has largely not
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Not to be harsh but the only evidence he actually gives is: there weren't many other black developers...which isn't surprising given how few black people study CS. Like getting offended when someone says: "I couldn't tel
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by hogFeast 6y ago
There are lots of ways to produce an edge. Forex is slightly different because you are trading a currency (this actually makes things easier in some ways) but, a few years ago, a lot of the cutting edge was news releases. So inflation comes
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by hogFeast 6y ago
There are many things wrong with this article. The 16-year old daughter opining about what is wrong with VC is perhaps the most telling though. None of the article is based on any deep understanding of the issues. It is generalizations abou
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by hogFeast 6y ago
For E2E testing, is the browser still totally necessary? I feel the React rendering test libraries (React Testing Library/Enzyme) manage quite well? I have used Selenium and that ilk before but find you get odd failures every now and t
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by hogFeast 6y ago
No, what I am saying is that you have to precise about exactly what you think is going on. Moving money from Jersey isn't a crime.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
And what most people don't understand is that all we can do is pass the details of these people to their govts (the UK has actually started implementing our law/values extraterritorially, this btw is exceptionally unusual for non-
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Yep, I left that out and it is definitely a huge factor. Europe definitely has the same issue with subsidies but the CAP program actually works on the volume planted, so Netherlands gets royally screwed (and the big inefficient producers in
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Look at the Netherlands. Tiny country (slightly bigger than MA), basically underwater, and the second largest exporter of agriculture in the world. Denmark is similar although at a far smaller scaled. The reason the US is inefficient is bec
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Correct. There was a post the other day about VC "pattern matching" causing discrimination...this is the same thing. Most executives are chosen because they look like executives, and have a good CV. If you have failed but have an
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Yep, there is some point between building a product that customers like and sending pig heads to people who have wronged you...before the "pig head" phase is probably best. Being serious, some people aren't meant to lead. It
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Every part of this is wrong. What happened to the targets was appalling. But why why why why do people believe the utter fiction that these companies put out after this happened? If you are the Board, what the hell are you doing here? This
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by hogFeast 6y ago
The visually easier part also relates to how Google "innovated". At some point Google seems to have realised that all they needed to do to grow, was just stuff more ads above the fold, and remove all non-Google content (i.e. when
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by hogFeast 6y ago
So much of this makes no sense. Immigrants are subject to bigotry everywhere. You are hopefully aware that during the WW2 a rather large number of people died because of this...yes, bigotry still exists in Europe (the US is vastly vastly va
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by hogFeast 6y ago
What is also funny is that settled immigrants often have more right-wing views about immigration than people born into that society. This doesn't appear to happen in the US because of the history and the significant levels of illegal i
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Germany's economic model in the late 19th century, one copied by East Asia, was to force savings into banks, and then give out loans at heavily subsidised rates to well-connected industrialists. This model has never stopped. Equity mar
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by hogFeast 6y ago
It is also relevant that a good chunk of the ultra-rich in Germany came to prominence with govt assistance (that varies from slave labour to heavily subsidised loans). Aldi is a pretty poor example because they are an example of a company t
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by hogFeast 6y ago
You can vote any way you want. As long as you vote the right way.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
It isn't that easy to get a job in IT. It is easy if you have the right background. I knew a kid who could program reasonably, was pretty smart but didn't go to college. Got "hired" somewhere on help desk, was on a train
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by hogFeast 6y ago
I think the issue is some combination of: cheap alternative, unwillingness to train, unwillingness to consider a certain type of person, and unwillingness to take a risk (even if the alternative only secures you mediocre product). Companies
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by hogFeast 6y ago
From the UK Competition Commission's report on digital advertising: "The available evidence suggests that the user data used for targeting digital adverting is highly valuable to advertisers and publishers. For example,Google ran
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by hogFeast 6y ago
I shall be giving $100bn to charity in 2030. It will be a great year. ...srs, this is The Michael Scott Foundation. Admire the balls but everyone knows that Lyft have no control over this (I am sure they would do this today if they could, b
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Fed Chair: no risk of asset bubbles. ...that is nice.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Elon is low integrity. I know he is popular here but he just seems like a pretty scummy guy. I know one of the biggest holders of Tesla, and they have said (publicly too, I believe) that he isn't an ethical guy but they still have a hu

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