kartan

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by kartan 9y ago
> There have been countless threads where HNers declare that there's no such thing as a genius and that anyone can do anything with targeted practice. That's not my experience. What I have read is that in most cases people rate
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by kartan 9y ago
> Well, the Open-Plan Office Nazis have it all wrong I stopped reading here. "All" wrong? "Nazis"? Different people have different needs and experiences. Some people are social and need other people's interaction
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by kartan 9y ago
> Capitalism (more specifically, wealth-creating economic growth) is the cure. The problem usually is what people mean by "capitalism". In the last decades, too much people equate neoliberalism to capitalism. They are completel
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by kartan 9y ago
I live in Sweden, and this is very common. Handling cash is inefficient for everyone involved. The big downside is that people that didn't adapted , usually older citizens, find themselves in a worse situation. This is still more obvio
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by kartan 9y ago
> I would prefer it if restaurants started accepting cryptocurrencies. That's a completely different problem with completely different implications. Doesn't matter if you pay with cash or credit card, dollars are still dollars
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by kartan 9y ago
> Westerners are infused with cowardice That is racist and doesn't help. People all over the world are manipulated into fear. "Everything wrong is the 'others' people's fault" is as an old tactic as politic
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> State and local taxes screw over businesses I don't agree. That taxes are used to pay for the education of their employees and the owners themselves, that taxes pay for the roads that move that goods, that taxes pay for the police
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by kartan 9y ago
> I would say that having high grades has no correlation with business success. Maybe it should. The fact that so many people is business successful while being uninformed and mostly incompetent is a problem. The current USA's presi
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by kartan 9y ago
> Pretty meaningless when, thanks to capitalism, all new cars will be electric long before that date arrives. With a lot of help of public funding for research, development, and adoption. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by kartan 9y ago
> it makes the most sense to allege some kind of harassment if you feel you are underperforming in your job and wish to get ahead That's true for men as much for women. But I have not seen that argument used for men. So, I don'
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by kartan 9y ago
Sadly your irony it's too close to the current reality of science. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14680497 [The US government is removing scientific data from the Internet]
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> that were transitioning from AX400 minitel like interface to the web. Every time it was a disaster. Usually the first service is build in an Agile manner. It starts small, and more and more features are added as years pass by. Then som
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by kartan 9y ago
> IMO salary secrecy is a weird fetish and probably counter productive. Hidden salaries are why the job market is so extremely awful and costly. I have heard a million times that it is really hard to hire talent. But still, our approach
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by kartan 9y ago
When I see the polarization around health care in the media I find it really scary. That polarization is not a reflection of the citizens, that most want better health care for everyone, but of a few voices paid with a lot of dollars. This
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by kartan 9y ago
> Is it anything unusual for any other industry? Isn't that a big problem? Monopolies and oligopolies are crippling capitalism. The "too big to fail" conglomerates become just a part of the political system instead of the
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by kartan 9y ago
> The act would disallow any scientific papers whose data cannot be "reproduced," which basically includes all studies of toxic cleanup and contamination. We can't reproduce those events, and, therefore, any data about the
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by kartan 9y ago
> The company’s “Large Animal Detection system” can identify and avoid deer, elk and caribou, but early testing in Australia shows it cannot adjust to the kangaroo’s unique method of movement. In Sweden there are elks and deer but not so
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by kartan 9y ago
> Maybe sometime down the line we'd get something that resembles justice. It will be welcome. "The defendant enters a plea to the charges brought by the U.S. Attorney at a court hearing known as arraignment. More than 90 percen
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by kartan 9y ago
> The wealthiest of the wealthy 0.1% have profited immensely, the lower half of the world's population has been lifted out of poverty, and this has all come at the expense of the American blue collar worker. Correlation doesn't
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Yes. :)
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by kartan 9y ago
I'm planning to buy a Microsoft Surface Pro because Android and iOS tablets have very limited Operating Systems. So I think that some of this changes go in the right direction, for tablets at least. On long trips, to Japan or the USA,
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by kartan 9y ago
> "Pirate taxis"? What are you talking about? I refer to them running an illegal taxi operation. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_taxicab_operation * http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news&
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Uber was a "car sharing" company. Then it realized that some customers were cheating and acting as pirate taxis. Uber saw that as an opportunity and created a business model based on that fact. Their business model is based on abu
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by kartan 9y ago
Short term thinking pays off and has been favoured by evolution, so human beings have a strong bias to choose short term benefit over long term gains. Local maximums, or even cul-de-sac paths that are good in the short term but fatal in the
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by kartan 9y ago
It looks like a kind of bot: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=fuckemem
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Maybe you didn't do it on purpose, but yours is a "Straw man argument": "A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while
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by kartan 9y ago
And this is the answer in Al Jazeera, news site owned by Qatar, ( http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/saudi-arabia-uae-egypt... ) "Qatar calls decision by Gulf nations and Egypt 'unjustified',
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by kartan 9y ago
> conference/hackatlon/meetup culture and startups who sell themselves to potential employees on cool cultures suggest that American developers are way more social then they like to admit That's my point. They are social,
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The article mixes two ideas that partially contradict each other. 1. Tests like the SAT, ACT, the GRE [...] You end up with people who are good at taking tests and fiddling with phones and computers, and those are good skills but they are n
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by kartan 9y ago
> Documenting software is extremely difficult. People go to university to learn to become technical writers, spending thousands of dollars, and several years of their life. It’s not really reasonable to expect every developer to know how

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