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by jmknoll 9y ago
I don't think its the economy being that much better; rather, we're seeing the fruits of mass adoption of e-commerce for everything. Especially in the HN crowd, its easy to forget that e-commerce is still <9% of global retail.
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Most (all?) legitimate colleges, public & private, are non-profit. For profit schools are things like DeVry college and Corinthian Colleges. These are pretty widely considered scammy.
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Related (and very good) read. https://medium.com/invironment/an-army-of-ocean-farmers-on-t...
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For real though, ain't no business like selling shovels to gold miners.
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What is? The article? Cryptocurrency? Care to elaborate a little bit?
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I'm not sure if it neccesarily that the first iPhone was special in an of itself, but that the shift to mobile was special, and was largely enabled by the iPhone. Subsequent models aren't tied to a once-in-a-generation shift in te
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by jmknoll 9y ago
Very interesting. WeChat has been doing official business accounts for a couple of years - I'm interested to see if WhatsApp takes these in a similar direction. Official WeChat accounts have become the primary way that small businesses
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At the same time though, 3 of the 5 largest companies in the US have CEOs with a background in software development/computer science. 5 years ago, 0 of 10 did. There's definitely a trend toward developers having more power.
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Did you read the article? There is no argument that they can't handle it. Rather, it discusses some of the challenges these migrants face moving to the city. And not sure what the reference is to Chinese migrant workers. Other than the
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Light exercise can certainly be enjoyable. "Nearly as quick" certainly doesn't apply to all situations, If you're doing long distances on the highway where you're averaging 60mph, then its definitely not an ideal us
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Speaking from my experience in the Northeast US, most cities are still pretty flat. Washington, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston could all be very cycle-able with the right infrastructure in place. A bit cold in the winter, but nothing un
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While we've got the cynicism out, I'll do you one better. I think its that Americans on the whole just don't care about public anything. Public education, public healthcare, public transportation, public libraries, public lan
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You're right that animal-based foods are much more calorie-dense than plant-based foods. But an animal contains roughly 1/10 of the calories of all the plants that collectively went into feeding it. The animal's only energy s
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by jmknoll 9y ago
I assumed it was a typo, but apparently its an actual term. Basically vegetarian-friendly. Sounds a bit buzzword-y, but I like the concept. https://www.greenprophet.com/2009/01/vegewarianism/
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The Chinese government calls itself a communist government. I think the above comment is using communist as shorthand for 'authoritarianism clothed in communism,' which is normally the way things have turned out (USSR, China, Viet
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"Watson specifically brought up the trend towards single-page web applications, which Node.js excels at, and Rails has yet to fully adopt." I'm considerably less bearish on Rails than this article. My go-to stack, especially
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by jmknoll 9y ago
A pretty basic example, but one which illustrates your earlier point pretty well. Even if we assume that it were a perfect piece of software 10 years ago, craigslist, at some point within the past few years, updated its CSS to include @medi
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No idea why this is being downvoted. It's a very salient point. The death of a nobel laureate while in captivity as a political prisoner last occurred in Germany in 1938. Much as people should have been scared by German rocket and tank
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Subsidized electricity? Just one data point, but my electricity bill last month in Shanghai was ~$15.
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Yeah, broken for me as well. Start of the workday on the East Coast and a lot of people submitting forms? I hope that's the case at least.
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This is exactly the point that keeps getting overlooked. Traveling from DC to Philly, or Philly to NYC, should take 45 minutes or an hour, the same way traveling from Beijing to Tianjin or Shanghai to Hangzhou takes 45 minutes or an hour. H
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Piggybacking on your point, there's a ton of value in linear relationships and guaranteed wins. If you pick up a guitar and play it for an hour, you're probably going to get a little bit better. Likewise, if you go for a run, you&
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by jmknoll 9y ago
Your last point rings especially true. There seems to be a whole class of people in the United States who, despite their professed love for the free market, refuse to consider any sort of marketplace of ideas when it involves public policy
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Regarding the bikes being kept for personal use, its a quirk of the way one of the bike-sharing systems worked. Ofo, one of the biggest players, didn't have any sort of GPS system on the bikes. Rather, each bike has a license plate wit
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by jmknoll 10y ago
Not OP, but some thoughts on these cities: Berlin - startup capital of Europe. Strong education system, low cost of living, dev salaries are held down by immigration from, and proximity to, Eastern Europe. Possible synergy with German autom
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I believe the digital ocean articles are community-written, unless they also have a corporate blog that I'm unaware of.
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Do you have any articles about this? I'd be interested in learning a bit more about the history of Tencent.
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Just out of curiosity, what are your issues with Tinder? I haven't really used it a lot, but it seems very nicely-designed. Its performant, the UI is intuitive, it does one thing and does it well. I would almost use it as a case-study
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As a developer who recently turned thirty, I think about this a lot. I like working in startups, but its not going to fly forever. I'm already the old guy in the room. Would learning 'ancient' technology be a good career move
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Have you used React-bootstrap at all? I've used it in the past and it's not bad. And is relatively well maintained. https://github.com/react-bootstrap However, there is the bigger problem that bootstrap feels more

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