lazyant

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541.
by lazyant 9y ago
> We have a much bigger population than the US 1.5x bigger
542.
by lazyant 9y ago
Yep, for ex some olive oil branded as Italian is in fact Spanish [citation needed]
543.
by lazyant 9y ago
Chile's education system uses a 1-7 scale for grades
544.
by lazyant 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin
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by lazyant 9y ago
HN has some "evergreens" hot topics that maybe could be separated: - Health (bad service in the US and nutrition), body hacks - University/education (decline / loan in the US, do I need a university degree to be a
546.
by lazyant 9y ago
question can be softened as "what would you change in the company?"
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by lazyant 9y ago
> I find the "include the code in the address" solution pretty elegant, though. This seems to me like a better solution for their suburban single-family house. ...in fact, it's so much a better solution that I can't
548.
by lazyant 9y ago
AWS is not for newbies, they released a paired-down version: https://amazonlightsail.com/
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by lazyant 9y ago
I learned 80% of my current (high) level of English when I was about 14 in about a year, besides the 3 or so hours at school I tried to immerse myself in the language any way I could, and I achieved a good reading, writing and listening lev
550.
by lazyant 9y ago
It's common but it's a lose-lose situation; the employee will resent that she hasn't been paid what she was worth and will be afraid to be replaced at any moment and the employer will feel like the developer stays just for th
551.
by lazyant 9y ago
"No one imagined them turning a plane into a bomb." easily falsifiable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_pilot , I know what you mean as in "not the first weapon expected in a terrorist attack&quo
552.
by lazyant 9y ago
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu (disputed)
553.
by lazyant 9y ago
"do you have paying customers?"
554.
by lazyant 9y ago
"lost fair and square" let's just say "lost" and leave it at that (just in case: she won the popular vote by 2.9 million votes and a case can be made that a foreign country ran adversarial campaign and the empty all
555.
by lazyant 9y ago
"the curse of the gifted" is a thing
556.
by lazyant 9y ago
"workers can easily get around — and out of town" - Washington DC makes the cut, that's a joke, 470 and beltway is one of the most congested roads in the US.
557.
by lazyant 9y ago
ah anthropomorphizing animals, never disappoints
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by lazyant 9y ago
" Disobeying a lawful order from a police officer is another crime" it's not clear that the order was lawful or even that the guard in question was a police officer.
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by lazyant 9y ago
There's a theory South America was populated first by Polynesian people sailing rather than migrations from Alaska.
560.
by lazyant 9y ago
You just gave some reasons why correctly programming in Go is easier than in C, like paint by the numbers or training wheels (restrictions) versus a blank canvas; it's easier to make mistakes in C, ergo harder to program in. Golang scr
561.
by lazyant 9y ago
What would be a good book / website to learn the concepts & nomenclature in order to understand the advanced language discussions in HN like this one?
562.
by lazyant 9y ago
One click away: https://aws.amazon.com/macie/pricing/ "No charge for the first 1 GB processed by the content classification engine After first GB, $5 per GB processed by the content classification engine&quot
563.
by lazyant 9y ago
whistled language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbo_Gomero
564.
by lazyant 9y ago
> I wonder how many items he had to sell before "The seller had one good review but didn’t appear to be selling anything else." so it looks like maybe just one item
565.
by lazyant 9y ago
"Without language there is no consciousnesses" meh - how can I sometimes have thoughts (imagining going somewhere) and be conscious (for ex, waking up) while not having any internal monologue (not using any language) at those time
566.
by lazyant 9y ago
I called several attorney offices for a small claim court case (max $2k in that particular state iirc) and they laughed at me.
567.
by lazyant 9y ago
you still need your pet theory for the evergreen topics: diets, state surveillance, healthcare (US) and education (US)
568.
by lazyant 9y ago
add preventing epidemic that can wipe out humanity
569.
by lazyant 10y ago
I had a CISSP certification, I let it expired, I couldn't afford traveling and going to conferences to get the Continuous Education points. If you do the math, attending webminars, reading books and writing reviews don't get you a
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by lazyant 10y ago
Places like Yucatan are safer than the US, other parts very dangerous https://i.redd.it/5nxmj0uau5gx.jpg

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