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by jfaucett 9y ago
The funny thing about that quote is that 4.3 billion would still probably have an adjusted value of about 0.93 cents, assuming inflation continued at the roughly 2-3% a year it has been in most western countries.
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Thats a clever but not very mathematical answer. The general problem here is the conflation of universe i.e. "all of spacetime and everything we will ever discover" with the idea of a universal set, which doesn't have to incl
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by jfaucett 9y ago
I've built a lot of websites/apps over my career, almost all of them in multiple languages and regions, and to me the best practice pattern is this (if you can do it, sometimes for various legal/company reasons you can't
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by jfaucett 9y ago
I agree with you completely. I always strive (doesn't mean I never slip up), to only downvote someone if they are not contributing to a discussion. One thing that irks me bad though is when people make emotional claims about complex to
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In my limited experience, Rust is actually easy - after about 2 weeks give or take a bit - of programmers hating the compiler and the rigidness of the language. Then they've got used to most of the ways to make the compiler happy and i
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In my experience Brasilian Portuguese is much easier to understand and I've actually been able to have conversations with Brasilian speakers where we knew about 80-90% of what the other person was saying. But in Europe I've been s
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> A spaniard who doesn't speak catalan won't understand 95% of a normal convo I don't know if I'd go that far. I just youtubed catalan and would say I understood about 75-80% of what this guy is saying. [1] Also, I ma
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As a US spanish speaker, saying Catalan is another language is kind of debateable at least IMHO and gets into the interesting difference between a dialect and a language, namely - a flag and an army :) Still, though I think true bilingualis
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Basically I think it boils down to the fact that the c/cpp tooling is actually really sophisticated at this point and developers have already learned how to deal with the pain points of c/c++ so there is little incentive to change
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"all these notions are so different from what we have to deal with every day that learning them takes a lot of training" I disagree in the general sense. I think most of mathematics with which "normal people" (by that I
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> It is not manipulation. The stock is tremendously overvalued. This. I was going to say even $180 is still ridiculously overpriced. Teslas statements are not good by any means when compared to GM and are even poor when compared to a com
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by jfaucett 9y ago
"I've always wondered which one of the two is more user friendly". Well, I'd say neither one. I personally prefer OAuth and a sign in with X (github, google, facebook, etc). This gives the user the most flexibility and q
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Why not just make all patents illegal? Then just let companies mitigate the risks of IP infringement through the purchase of insurance. The insurer could offer various policies some that compensate for all losses due to infringment and&#x2F
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This is a fantastic list. I've been trying to teach myself ML and AI for a while now, and though only tangentally relevant to the article perhaps others can take a few tips from my experience. First, I didn't really have a breakth
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Pencil is awesome. It is my goto prototyping and wireframing tool. I honestly like it better than the other tools with price tags that I've used out there. Somehow it seems noone knows about this, but its doing for mockups/wirefra
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I lived and worked there for a while and would describe it as follows. The people / lifestyle / weather is amazing, by far the best I've experienced anywhere I've been (US and most of Europe). On the other hand, the leve
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Yes sample size is ridiculously small. Also, I couldn't find anywhere how they actually selected these individuals. i.e. it doesn't seem this was a random double blind study Also the suggested causal association "unexpected e
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> our academic system is flawed to the extreme. Even the dual systeme. Yes its flawed but not to the extreme like you suggest. One of the biggest problems we have, and this I think is common to almost all countries, is that there is very
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by jfaucett 9y ago
I just tell them to myself and think about them. Then as soon as I can I explain them to someone else and see if I can get them exited about it (and me too). That's it. IMHO if an idea is good enough that you and others would be passio
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It would very much surprise me if the net lives were a loss instead of a significant gain, so yes this would be an interesting statistic. For instance, its because of many of the practices of "Big Agriculture" that world hunger ha
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This article essentially says that in the best-case we can only slow antibiotic resistance. Is there anyone working on things to actually render the bacteria less effective at survival (perhaps using the same evolutionary principles that go
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Ask HN: What APIs are good for financial data?
1 points by jfaucett 9y ago|0 comments
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Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs(flipboard.com)
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Yes you are right on with your examples. That is the way be is used.
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This is a great video/site. After watching this, it made me think how amazing the blockchain would be if our accounting and trading systems were built on top of it. As a programmer outside the financial services sector, it seems to me
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Language is fascinating. I grew up in the deep south with both southern redneck slang and hardcore ebonics which makes for some interesting slang. I haven't lived in the US for a long time now though so I barely knew any of the slang w
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Ask HN: What are your biggest Web Accessibility Complaints?
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This was interesting. It made me think about which services each provider has that I personally would really miss if they were to suddenly dissappear tomorrow, and the only one that would have a big negative effect would be google maps. I d
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Interesting. I went and read the study which does support what the NYT is saying more or less [1]. The main factor as to why this is the case is important though. The longer you live the more costs you incur on the system because you end up
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by jfaucett 9y ago
"I feel that's a common misconception" I don't know. It would be interesting to know what the research says. I lived in poverty for much of my younger life and we wouldn't buy a lot of health foods because they were

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