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by kartan 10y ago
Thanks pointing that out. It is easy to fall into the hype of written press.
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by kartan 10y ago
That will mean that most small teams will fail, as they will be composed from average developers. While a few teams will succeed as they have the "extraordinary", whatever that means, developers. But the reality is that big teams
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by kartan 10y ago
> I think you are wrong on that. Vulkan is a low-level native API, not a JavaScript API for the web. Lots of design work needs to be done. Isn't that what we want? A low-level not opinionated API allows the market and the open sour
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by kartan 10y ago
> Casinos are themselves a scam and should not be protected against scammers at the expense of tax payers. In Sweden casino gambling, and other types of gambling, is owned by the state. The state keeps the money from the gamblers. It is
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by kartan 10y ago
I see a lot of complains why this is illegal. It is illegal, as anything that it is illegal, because the law says so. As, for example, in Nevada: "NRS 465.075 Use of device for calculating probabilities. It is unlawful for any person a
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by kartan 10y ago
It all depends what do you mean by "foreign". If you mean people that doesn't lives there and buys from abroad that is more reasonable. It will be an outrage if he just banned Muslims (whenever they live in the states or not)
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by kartan 10y ago
> Electronically transferring data from a server in a foreign country to Google’s data center in California does not amount to a “seizure” I can see that that's what the US justice things about it. But what will happen to Google in
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by kartan 10y ago
A friend of mine studied bioengineering , but she is working out of the field. Low salaries and temporal jobs moved here to another different field. She doesn't repents her choice, as it was an incredible experience. And she would like
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by kartan 10y ago
Because BlaBlaCar is NOT a taxi service. They can't operate in Europe as a Taxi service, as it will be illegal to have a Taxi service without the proper permissions, paying proper taxes, etc. So they are doing REAL car sharing. Some on
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by kartan 10y ago
> As a listed company you would be taking away many peoples jobs and savings who are innocent parties in this. 1. Nationalize part of the company hurting investors. 2. Auction the shares to the market 3. Profit$ This way a "too big
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by kartan 10y ago
School is NOT the only source of knowledge. Parents have the most important role in teaching values. The school has an important role in socialization. School teaches the children that they are part of society and that there is people out t
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by kartan 10y ago
High-quality free state-run secular schools is one of the most important social achievements. In that schools a new generation can grow and learn while minimizing radicalization. That new generation meets people from different cultures and
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by kartan 10y ago
> constant exposure to the worst of humanity on a daily basis takes an undeniable toll. This is one of the troubles police officers find in their daily work. When they are not part of the society where they work it is hard for them to em
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by kartan 10y ago
As the article states, "Although algorithms and artificial intelligence have helped streamline the process of moderation, most technology companies that host user-generated content employ moderators like Soto to screen video, text, and
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by kartan 10y ago
In the old days streaming video was forbidden not for its content but for the heavy use of data. I had that in the past at university and companies I work. Nowadays it looks like more an obsolete rule as Internet for companies and instituti
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by kartan 10y ago
When I buy a book I do so for the possibilities that it opens to gather more knowledge and understating of the world. So it feels good to buy the books even if I'm not sure that I'm going to read them any time soon. There has been
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by kartan 10y ago
Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by kartan 10y ago
> get Self-driving cars on the roads by turn of the decade. It is not the same to create an app than to purchase and maintain a huge number of cars. That is a completely different business model. Isn't the article about how "sh
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by kartan 10y ago
"Uber Loses at Least $1.2 Billion in First Half of 2016" ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/uber-lose... ) How is that winning? Is capitalism dead and profits don't count anymor
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by kartan 10y ago
That argument holds for everything. It is the full relativism: there is not good or bad, there is not true or falsehood, there are just opinions. That reasoning is flawed, as true facts exists and there are ways to get to that facts like th
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by kartan 10y ago
> It would help me make sure I don't plan any vacations there. Is this your number one priority to visit a city? Cultural offerings, architecture, meeting new people, that are my priorities. Which brands of private transportation b
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by kartan 10y ago
For a long time in Spain fines for polluting were lower than the cost of actually fixing the issue. As you can expect factories continued polluting. Then that changes to bigger fines or even to stop the factory until the problems were fixed
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by kartan 10y ago
> The whole process of constructing life narratives is biased in ways that almost guarantee that people won’t recognize the role of chance events adequately. This is also a cultural thing. Here in Sweden it is easier that people dismisse
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by kartan 10y ago
"Despite French and German threats to claw away clearing in euro-denominated derivatives, Britain will probably continue to house trillions of euros of swaps trades because limiting where the operations can take place could backfire, s
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by kartan 10y ago
All the article is difficult to understand as it just throws information to the reader without getting anywhere. If you look to an older article from November 2016 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/11/1
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by kartan 10y ago
I was excited to see an article about gaming in HN. I have been extremely disappointed. VR has been the next big thing for, at least, the past 20 years. There is no indication that is going to happen anytime soon. A picture a Mario Run to s
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by kartan 10y ago
I see that as two different levels. Having and explicitly process to pay less non-whites is xenophobia. Paying less to non-whites because managers systematically think that they are worth less money is discrimination, as typically this valu
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by kartan 10y ago
As a manager I can tell you that the first thing that I look at when setting salaries is: What other people will think of this salary if they find out? What will this employee think if she sees other peoples salary? Depending on the culture
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by kartan 10y ago
> As an excessive water drinker, I feared my co-workers were tallying my frequent bathroom trips. At day’s end, I bid adieu to the 12 pairs of eyes I felt judging my 5:04 p.m. departure time. That's your problem then! If people is
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by kartan 10y ago
I also enjoy working in an open office. For me it makes so easy to just pass by and say hello to start a conversation. But my company office is really well designed for that. We also have a lot of meeting rooms where teams can go when they

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