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by jeswin 5y ago
CredCore | Programming | Remote | India | Full-Time CredCore is a well-funded early-stage startup based out of New York City building solutions for the $10 trillion US debt sector. Our product suite is primarily targeted at CFOs and Corpora
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> I was wondering what Nodes stance is on the seemingly increasing gap between the NodeJS and browser implementations of the JavaScript engine. It's still very common to see Node modules that use require()... "Seemingly increas
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I used a 2011 Core i7 Asus N53SV till last year - full hd and had 4 ddr3 slots. I was able to run the latest Linux, and the latest Windows on it. Apple meanwhile has dropped support for 2014 macbooks. There are apps which won't run on
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> There are zero US interests to protect in and around Ukraine, so all of this looks like unwarranted poking of a lion/shark/whatever. Not everything is about self interest - free people have a moral obligation defend freedom.
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Or at the very least, have the entire supply chain set up within democracies. With redundancy.
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CredCore | Programming | Remote | India | Full-Time CredCore is a well-funded early-stage startup based out of New York City building solutions for the $10 trillion US debt sector. Our product suite is primarily targeted at CFOs and Corpora
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I didn't say F1 car.
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> The notion that a neurotypical person exists is kinda silly. It's not at all silly. Not more than what's a good car. For some, a Toyota model is a good car. For some, a Mercedes model is a good car. A Dodge is a good car too
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> Indeed, generally, domestic opinion is not the most relevant predictor of what a country will do abroad, it's quite minor as most people have little information about foreign policy Public opinion (and draft, and casualties) did i
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> Which almost guarantees a lot of counter productive incompetence. What do dictators do when their policies start failing and popularity declines? They go to war. Nothing distracts the population as much. This is the biggest risk with C
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> China's rise is mostly a problem if you are aligned to the US or in direct conflict with China Oh not at all. The rest of the free world including unaligned folks are quite concerned about China and the CCP. Things can get much, m
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> This just goes to show one thing: western companies have to leave the Chinese market and all its money on the table. Part of the problem is that executive compensation is more short-term results focused.
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> You are also missing the part where the Taiwanese have always held an ambiguous stance towards reunification/independence. You are also missing the part where the ambiguous stance is mostly a consequence of China's threat of
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> All that would happen is that the Chinese government would become even more authoritarian and a whole lot of people would be worse off. These fantasies always seem to ignore the human cost. Your suggestion is that the rest of the world
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> Doing business in India is so frickin hard, especially after GST. How has GST made things worse? I had paid Service Tax for 10 years prior to GST, and that was a far worse experience. a) Prior to GST these was an enormous amount of tax
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> It's one thing to make these deals with a foreign hostile country - it's another to ask yourself: When's the last CEO I heard making these same promises to America? Or to any friendly country for that matter? Thank you f
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It's an insane amount of work, but people do try - https://twitter.com/JonathanAfek/status/1350000894784495617 I think we'll eventually get there. Simply because the M1 macs will upsize the pool of peopl
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> Or when unfairness accumulates enough that they had enough — this will happen at some point in China, if they don't tone it down. CCP has built a dissent management stack all the way from early indoctrination to continuous surveil
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CredCore | Programming | Remote | India | Full-Time CredCore is a well-funded early-stage startup based out of New York City building solutions for the $10 trillion US debt sector. Our product suite is primarily targeted at CFOs and Corpora
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> Some of their processes are _years_ ahead of what anyone else can get their hands on They are about a year ahead on CPUs. But pretty much everything else (screens, camera sensors, battery) has been on a par with, or behind what everyon
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> It will be forced to change, if the masses shop personally and don't like paying delivery fees The masses mostly just shop personally; delivery is the new thing (the change). Delivery volumes are small as of now, and can only incr
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> Many Indian billionaires are into rent seeking [0]. Reliance is definitely one of those. Reliance made most of their money in Petrochemicals. It is India's largest exporter, accounting for 8% of India's total exports. They ha
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> Actually most people's time is cheap, so eventually people won't be ok with paying delivery fees But it would work backwards too. India's able to do super low cost delivery because labor (for delivery) is cheap. A delive
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It's good for the 12 million kirana stores in India, who are concerned about Amazon, Walmart's FlipKart, BigBasket, Dunzo et al eating their business - which is happening already in metros. Reliance is bringing these stores into t
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Then you don't understand the purpose of TypesScript - which is to retain JS syntax while grabbing the lower hanging benefits of a type system. There are many tools to catch errors (for example, unit tests), and the type system is just
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If I had to pick between free speech and higher income, I'll pick free speech.
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This is a problem. But comparatively not many high-profile break-ins have been due to npm (in spite of its massive popularity). If you picked Node, common best practices need to be followed for production: 1) Thoroughly vet dependencies you
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Yeah, but that's harder in practice. You often copy html snippets into your code, for example from tailwind or bootstrap samples. This is easier in JSX syntax; you'd just need to copy and fix up some attribute names.
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> I find the javascript-native flexibility of JSX far more expressive than any custom templating JSX is the most significant contribution that React brought to front-end programming. Personally I don't always use React, but I use JS
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> So just about any JavaScript package can be imported into a Svelte file and used without hassle. But you can import any package into React (or any other framework) as well.

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