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As the articles says, the Victorians flirted in a variety of ways, sometimes surprising. It's worth remembering, they also invented online romance, and the first novel about an online relationship was written in 1879, a novel about a r
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I've been documenting this with specific companies. A recent one that I worked with was Omnichains: https://www.omnichains.com "Omnichain CEO Pratik Soni speaks to Inbound Logistics about the growing number of blockcha
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by lkrubner 5y ago
While slightly hyperbolic, the author is going after a real enemy, the tendency use layers of abstraction where they might be overkill. In a similar vein, I wrote a comedic satire about the incredible overuse of Docker/Kubernetes: htt
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Also, Ireland. Nominally 1916, though in some sense it lasted forever.
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As the years go by, I have found that some of people who gave me a bad feeling later turn out to be even worse than I first suspected. In my book "How To Destroy A Tech Startup" I describe this guy Milton, who is the villain of th
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My friend Kathryn Bertoni used to be a farmer, and she survived for awhile by selling the produce via a CSA and various farmers markets, but in the end, she couldn't make a go of it. She wrote a great review of the book 'Farm (and
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Yes, for the last few years, every time I logged into Netflix I was stunned at poorly they seemed to understand me. Heist movies, murder mysteries, drug cartels fighting, stuff I never watch, and this was the majority of the stuff they show
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Many people kept insisting "Not many young people are dying from Covid-19" a statement that over looked the fact that, under normal circumstances, not many young people die at all. But there was an article in the New York Times th
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It solves the urgent problem of the terrible scarcity of venues for financial speculation in an era of low interest rates and almost 0% real interest rates. The economist Paul Krugman said that the cryptocurrencies had some of the same ball
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But it's also the case that some programming communities are huge but not very intelligent. At the risk of indulging in a cliche, I'll point to the reputation that PHP had for many years, and which it still somewhat has. This was
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In the most recent case, I was actually hired as a non-coding high level tech consultant, to help hire and oversee a tech team, at a very chaotic but fast growing startup. For various reasons, we had to go most of 6 months with only 1 hire,
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Ask HN: Where are the resources for complex architectures for Node.js?
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Almost any internal part of a large machine would be inscrutable. Most are inscrutable even now. If you handed an automobile carburetor to a person under 35 they would struggle to identify it, and even if you handed it to a car mechanic, 25
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I think this is because the recruiting agencies deliberately hire extroverts. As an example, in New York City, Talener. My friends tell me that the company mostly hires young people who engaged in a large number of social activities at coll
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" If you’re fat and get diabetes should we? " Under crisis standards of care, the fact that you are fat can be used to allow you to die. Likewise, and especially, if you have diabetes, that will be cited as a reason why you were a
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There are many quirks in the car rental business, and some of the biggest companies are struggling with their own internal history. For instance, the largest car rental companies have grown by way of acquisition. ZipCar is now owned by Avis
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One possibility is to chose a specialty that is in high demand, and where you are not competing directly with large numbers of younger people. So, for instance: 1. Don't focus on frontend work. There are large numbers of young people g
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About this: " When price inflation occurs, it can be a very challenging time for everyone. In that type of environment, prices of goods and services often go up faster than wages, and the public and policymakers wish to constrain them.
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History. It’s been documented that Google no longer tries to index everything on the Web and is allowing older material to disappear. Tim Bray has a blog post about this. A full history would be useful, also the ability to run a search with
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The process of drug approval is so slow that I can’t predict a one year revolution, but given a few years, I do expect to see mRNA vaccines/treatments to emerge as a broad category treating dozens of medical conditions.
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Regarding the dangers of disinformation, one way to build a democracy that is largely immune to disinformation would be to build a democracy in which you only vote for people whom you know personally. That would mean introducing another lay
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Every time I see an article about the advance of AI, with the vague sci-fi theme of "AI is now so good it is about to replace humans" I think of the many, many stories I've heard like yours, where the FAANG seem unable to bui
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Regarding the basic idea that "best practices are not always best" I've been involved in a lot of these conversations at small startups, and mostly around technologies like Kubernetes. But every time I say something critical
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The crisis is also recent. The Covid-19 pandemic arrived in Europe in early 2020. Please see the other comment that I just wrote in this thread. Poland has 2 paths out of the crisis, it can take on debt or it can take on inflation (or it ca
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That's true, there are 2 main approaches, but they both have real costs, and neither is obviously better than the other. In the face of a severe economic shock, such as the global financial crisis of 2008 or the pandemic of 2020, you w
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I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted. If you believe there is no link between the currency, inflation and employment then you're engaging in a well known economic fallacy. See "The Doctrine of Immaculate Transfer":
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The political competition in Poland is between the center-right and the far-right. If you look at someone like Donald Tusk, the stuff he promotes is all right-wing stuff: free markets, foreign investment, free movement of capital, minimal g
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Poland is able to keep its unemployment somewhat down, by keeping the zloty weak relative to the euro, and therefore helping Polish exports. And before anyone says "Poland has a lot of unemployment" compare it to other weak Easter
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For classic backend server software, for years I found the best way in was to look at the database schema, to understand those relationships, and then to see how the software itself was segmented (or not) in its relationship with the differ
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My politics are similar to the policy prescriptions that Scott Aaronson lists in this post. I prefer the pragmatism of nuclear energy over coal, and GMO food over famine. I appreciate the implicit irony of listing out the possible coalition

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