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by igorlev 15y ago
It doesn't reduce the demand for high-end jobs, it might reduce the demand for the currently large variety of high-end jobs. I always thought that the development of science and technology pretty much meant that eventually everything trends
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by igorlev 15y ago
The idea that information, such as ebooks, should be priced based on consumer utility rather then marginal cost is something that is a naturally attractive viewpoint for the seller but not necessarily for the buyer. When you have a relative
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by igorlev 16y ago
A lot of times there are jokes about the silly and overprotective American consumer culture. What a lot of people don't realize is the sheer amount of useless mental energy you need to expand in other areas of the world, double checking eve
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by igorlev 16y ago
Tyler Cowen's essay was mentioned here before and I think it's a pretty good way to frame your thinking about the subject. The reason the prestige of science and engineering declined is because the direct and visible impact on every day lif
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by igorlev 16y ago
Why do all of these examples always focus on physical tasks that are obviously improved by practice. Playing a musical instrument like piano or playing a physical sport like tennis takes hand eye coordination, strength, agility and enduranc
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by igorlev 16y ago
The Kindle DX, on the other hand, has become indispensable to me for reading all kinds of technical books and pdfs. Along with the daily E-book deals from O'Reilly it has almost completely eliminated the need to buy paper technical books. I
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by igorlev 16y ago
I left the country right when it fell apart so I'm not exactly an expert on the current events, but from what I see doesn't seem like 20 years have made any difference. I think you can trace this whole mess to Brezhnev's Zastoy(Stagnation)
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by igorlev 17y ago
Yeah, I think I should've made it more clear in the post. Mainly I was thinking commercial app support (ie payment API) and user reviews/ratings. It bothers me that, AFAIK, for the longest time no one had thought of including some sort of u
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Ask HN: Why didn't Ubuntu come up with the AppStore?
1 points by igorlev 17y ago|5 comments
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by igorlev 17y ago
I htink it depends on when someone lived in NYC and which train they took. If you were here during the late 80s early 90s, you heard a lot more of "What the fuck are you looking at!?". I saw at least 3-4 fights start that way. Now this is
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by igorlev 17y ago
Science Fiction as a genre came to life during a time when science was making enormous changes in people's everyday lives within a relatively short time. Railroads, electrification, long distance communication, mechanization, flight, etc. a
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by igorlev 17y ago
Maybe perks don't really scale so well. It's surprising that he said the pay is very good, I was the impression people took paycuts for the google priviledge.