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901.
by ivalm 6y ago
To hire so many you have to hire a lot in parallel. Also, even once hired, probably the engineer shouldn't have "interview more engineers" as his first priority.
902.
by ivalm 6y ago
i tried to draw the sun (with rays, kindergarten style), it said it was a helicopter.
903.
by ivalm 6y ago
I said "physical" because I wanted to include things other than elementary particles but that behave in a way consistent with what I think is a typical non-physicist general intuition about particles: "somewhat long lived (su
904.
by ivalm 6y ago
You know, I actually like your Bayesian interpretation. My main dislike was the dismissive tone in OPs phrasing, but I think his proposition might be OK.
905.
by ivalm 6y ago
I mean, only if you view BTC as a full scale replacement to fiat currency, which currently it just isn’t and cannot be in the near term. For wider adoption BTC needs easy and reputable interoperability with fiat, which big banks can provide
906.
by ivalm 6y ago
Taxes and tanks (also for now usd is the settlement currency for lots of contracts). Also, oil has large carry costs. Many things with large carry costs are called toxic garbage and have negative value. Oil is just a useful so it mostly has
907.
by ivalm 6y ago
Would you prefer exchanges not be banked by large banks? This is bitcoin’s biggest win since 2017.
908.
by ivalm 6y ago
I work for a large healthcare company. My point is not whether we use it (as another poster pointed out we apparently use a product that was acquired by SAP), it’s that lots of people might not know all of the business software that is used
909.
by ivalm 6y ago
Sure, but lots of people don’t interact with it and would not know about it. The fact a company uses it doesn’t mean most engineers would know about it.
910.
by ivalm 6y ago
> At the same time, I guess you have to be at a company of a certain size for it to be relevant to your life... But that perhaps proves the point - HN is very starup focused That’s pretty dismissive. I work at a company with ~80B in rev
911.
by ivalm 6y ago
Most people have an intuition about particles, they don’t have an intuition for quantum systems. I wanted to highlight for a general reader that anyons are not particle in the sense of common intuition. Protons, which the article brings as
912.
by ivalm 6y ago
This is somewhat true. However, unlike a regional coffee/fruit cutting business software still has fewer geographic barriers. This means winners will take (relatively) more of the market compared to more traditional businesses (and thu
913.
by ivalm 6y ago
Absolutely! Just wanted to highlight. It is easier to think of stable and localized collective behaviors (protons) as particles than unstable and delocalized (anyons). Both are collective behaviors but most of the time you can think of prot
914.
by ivalm 6y ago
Just to be clear for a general reader. These are quasiparticles. They are effective mathematical descriptions of certain effects in the real world, but the physical particles responsible for the effects are fermions and bosons, not anyons.
915.
by ivalm 6y ago
I am impressed by this 15 year old.
916.
by ivalm 6y ago
Libra is not selling rights to non-existent tokens. That’s why it’s not a security while TON is a security. No one banned TON, they just said that if you fundraise by sale of tokens then said tokens are securities. Which is a fairly straigh
917.
by ivalm 6y ago
Then don’t use a metaphor of a gold mine. If you compare TON to shares of a gold mine (what they did in the linked blog) then clearly it is a security.
918.
by ivalm 6y ago
If you sell shares in a gold mine it is a security. All SEC wanted is for TON to be treated like a security, which is exactly what shares in a gold mine are.
919.
by ivalm 6y ago
Presumably full length of career is ~40 years. Presumably “mid” is ~half, so 20YOE? There is a claim that SV culture is biased against older people so this might cut effective max age to... idk, 50? So mid career is then ~10-15 YOE?
920.
by ivalm 6y ago
I am curious what counts for “mid career”, he started coding ~6 years ago. Presumably he is in his 20s. Here him talking about leaving philosophy: https://www.philosophicalhacker.com/2014/04/22/why-im-glad-m..
921.
by ivalm 6y ago
But not all “not certain” are created equal. After all, if you apply a sufficiently strong threshold nothing is certain.
922.
by ivalm 6y ago
I mean, that’s how most insurance premiums work.
923.
by ivalm 6y ago
No, real people use EmotionSensorFactoryFactoryFactory. Why limit yourself only to HumorSensorFactory objects?
924.
by ivalm 6y ago
To expand on what phonon said -- UI tax rate is company specific and depends, in part, on how much UI is paid out to company's employees.
925.
by ivalm 6y ago
On the basis that there is no automatic censorship of user content shown to me via iMessage. I am highly certain that my friends can send me arbitrary (within technical reason) text and images and not get censored. This is not the case with
926.
by ivalm 6y ago
Whether or not compromised, I am sure my messages on iMessage are not used to train censorship applications by the NSA. Messages on WeChat are used for censorship. I also, separately, think that in aggregate Apple has incentives to make iMe
927.
by ivalm 6y ago
But from what I understand this replaces gevent, you still use gunicorn to manage workers?
928.
by ivalm 6y ago
What WSGI do people recommend for python? I've been using gunicorn but this made me think of alternatives. Quick google search found this benchmark [0], is it really that bjoern is much quicker? It seems all other WSGI are ~ equivalent
929.
by ivalm 6y ago
There is always hysteresis. People don’t just operate on some smooth indifference curve. You cant lower wages (due to past wage history), but total comp can go down (due to less tipping and companies not increasing wages). Furthermore, lots
930.
by ivalm 6y ago
Their remote development capability is amazing and was quite a game changer for me. Having a nice ide where all of the plugins work on a remote server as if everything is local is so nice!

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