mamon

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by mamon 6y ago
I've written this multiple times on HN: democracy is a weird and temporary quirk, the natural state of mankind is totalitarism. For the short period of time (1.5 century) we were in this state where masses were educated well enough to
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by mamon 6y ago
Adopting Microservices in two steps: 1. Don't do it 2. Don't do it yet
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Don't forget Intel's nanometers are smaller than TSMC nanometers. TSMC 12nm is 25% lower transistor density that Intel's 14nm
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It's not about finding the vaccine, or virus actually going away. Simply, by Jan 2021 people will be so sick and tired of hearing about COVID that they will say "fuck it" and carry on with their lives as usual. Me personally
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Try us-east-1 :)
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Yes, but it takes just one person to download github source and build it to verify that a binary available in the play store is safe so that the other 1,999,999,999 Android users don't have to.
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Which is riddiculous, because if they can fit good front camera in iPhone they should be able to do that in the much bigger device, like laptop, right?
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>> But that's little discomfort compared to getting sick Depends on how afraid you are of getting sick. Most people that get infected do not develop any symptoms, and of those who do 95% wouldn't be able to tell them aparat
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>> US resumes are ideally 1 page with 2 pages (IMHO) being acceptable if one has enough experience What if someone has 25 years of experience and held 10 different positions during that time, has a lot of ceritifications and other cre
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by mamon 6y ago
Inherent property of single-payer system is that medicine professionals salaries are low compared to US, so there's strong incentive for said specialists to emigrate (or for wannabe doctors to pursue other career paths in the first pla
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by mamon 6y ago
Page and Brin are not married to each other, as far as I know (which would make the shares their common property). You can always try to drive a wedge between them, have one of them turn on the other. With Zuckerberg, no, no chance.
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by mamon 6y ago
It is far from solved in Europe. The problem with single-payer healthcare systems that are common here is that you cannot really bypass the supply-demand law. Since European governments are paying for healthcare for everyone, and effectivel
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by mamon 6y ago
>> UBI does not come from an employer and is not tied to an effort Where do you think government's money come from? Financing UBI will require raising taxes.
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by mamon 6y ago
We can have cookie and eat it to: stop being angry at those who wronged you, just start plotting your revenge :) Treat revenge as just another item on your todo list, just like shopping or dentist visit. Or maybe even outsource your revenge
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>> Apple’s products at a large premium over their competitors What premium? Right now I'm trying to decide between Dell XPS 9500 and MacBook Pro 16" and with similar spec MacBook is actually the cheaper option. In the smartp
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by mamon 6y ago
That's a typical fallacy: that governments are always "good guys" and never have any bad intentions. UBI will be a step towards totalitarism, that's a given.
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> most countries don't do this kind of double taxation to begin with. They would if they could, but they don't have ICBMs or aircraft carrier fleet to support their claims.
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You are taxed only once: with income tax. Company is also taxed only once: with corporate profit tax. The reason why that makes sense is because corporation is treated a separate legal entity (person), and that's a good thing for you,
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There is no such thing as "double taxation", because tax rates are not additive, thanks to tax treaties. So, if the tax rate is 30% in US and 20% in EU and you've already paid EU tax, you only owe IRS the difference (10%) not
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by mamon 6y ago
Try having "morals put into law" and what you end up with is Sharia law. In democracy you should avoid doing that, because people typically do not agree on what's moral. Laws should made from purely utilitarian point of view,
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by mamon 6y ago
Since H is eighth character in the alphabeth some neo-nazi groups use "88" as a shorthand for "Heil Hitler" - they would even tatoo "88" on their body.
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by mamon 6y ago
Actually, this system is counterproductive, I think. Starting production of EVs costs you money, but it also takes time, and the penalties for not meeting quotas are something you have to pay right now. So, in the end, the money you spend b
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by mamon 6y ago
If Tesla cars were really in high demand, and supply was the problem then I would expect them to raise prices, thus increasing revenue. They haven't done that, which means Tesla's are probably not as sexy cars as they try to paint
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by mamon 6y ago
To know the actual mortality rate you would have to test every single person in a country. Right now is more of the cultural thing: How likely is the person experiencing flu-like symptoms to go and test for coronavirus? Seems that in Italy
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by mamon 6y ago
Some studies claim that immunity for SARS-CoV-2 only lasts for two weeks, which would make that "herd immunity" strategy completely foolish. https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-immunity.html
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>> Some people are hurt by women's right to abortion. Are you against abortion? Actually, in some cases you can make the same argument against abortion as already made in this thread against euthanasia for depressed people: since
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by mamon 6y ago
Bolivia is named after Simon Bolivar, its first president. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_named_after_...
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How do I create a mirror of Github?
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To be honest, most city-raised humans wouldn't be able to survive on a distant island as well.
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My experience is the opposite: in one of my previous jobs, due to some circumstances that I will skip here, I became not only grumpy but outright rude. I would literaly insult people, calling them stupid during daily Scrum meetings, never d

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