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by meric 9y ago
Call centres? They have an advantage over foreign call centres operators (more fluent in the language), some companies might pay for it. Also, this idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15136091
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by meric 9y ago
Of course, what's been happening in Bitcoin, the more they regulate it at that level, the more government legitimise it in the eyes investors and consumers, and the more it's usage increase. Regulation causing increase in usage -
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by meric 9y ago
Moneygram?
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by meric 9y ago
Startups might be willing to take this risk - if the new technology shortens the time to launch, then all the better. If it finds itself locked in 5 years down the line, who cares, it's 5 years later and they're a 100 million doll
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by meric 9y ago
Amazon could also cut service to Target and it could take months for Target to react properly through the courts.
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by meric 9y ago
Yes. I think if we think of ourselves as Django developers while building a business it's possible we will fall into the same pattern as exhibited in the article. That's how I see it's helpful to me as a developer who works w
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by meric 9y ago
Django have an "engineering is important" philosophy so developers attracted to Django have a similar mindset. In this case they're showing how despite superior engineering and a proven market is insufficient on its own - the
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by meric 9y ago
This is a good article, well worth the read.
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by meric 9y ago
I suppose it's like cows that evolve ever larger horns to compete for mates, then one day a new predator comes in and kills all the cows because their horns are too heavy and they can't run fast enough.
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by meric 9y ago
1. We give capital letters to the Big Bang, certainly we can have capital letters to the word to describe the cause of the universe, God? 2. God is not part of this universe. 3. God, having been the cause of this universe, can be described
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by meric 9y ago
Sleeping is great, especially in cold early weekend mornings, but I'd loathe to have it as my main focus. I'd like to "balance" it with other activities.
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by meric 9y ago
Sperm count is correlated with testosterone levels, and testosterone levels have also been dropping. http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/18/modern-life-rough-o...
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by meric 9y ago
But some believe it's God who does this.
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by meric 9y ago
And where the population is growing they are mostly vegetarian anyway. Eat meat once or twice a month or less.
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by meric 9y ago
We could farm the fish we eat or we could eat all the wild fish...
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by meric 9y ago
I think government and military have standardised pay grades.
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by meric 9y ago
You have a team of 4, 2 of them work Monday, Tuesdays, 2 of them work Thursdays, Fridays. How to manage?
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by meric 9y ago
That's not Sharia. Please cite sources and not tar Islam with unsourced statements designed to trigger an emotional reaction.
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by meric 9y ago
The intolerant aren't enemies to be destroyed; they are the land to be conquered; it's the ideas that must be destroyed. The beginning of every hateful ideology begins by seeing itself as the oppressed and removing its tolerance f
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by meric 9y ago
Binaries are built for specific operating systems. E.g. A Linux binary can't run on Mac OS X, except with a VM or... a container. :)
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by meric 9y ago
It's theoretically possible in JavaScript I think - you can trace the usage of the function return through variable assignment statements, insertions into arrays, etc. Not easy but not impossible?
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by meric 9y ago
You could go work at Jane Street, I think they use Ocaml. https://blogs.janestreet.com/category/ocaml/
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by meric 9y ago
I was extremely worried when I started reading your comment - I've been working on python since I got out of university. Reading the rest of the comment gave me relief - I also used Javascript, PostgreSQL, MySQL, CSS, Sass, Less, React
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by meric 9y ago
The comment I replied to mentioned: "let's say a German business owner in the 1930s".
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by meric 9y ago
I dispute your point - not everyone could have chosen to stop being nazis and live. "Approximately 77,000 German citizens were killed for one or another form of resistance by Special Courts, courts-martial, People's Court and the
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by meric 9y ago
In 2017 we have prisons and we don't starve anyone in there.
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by meric 9y ago
The bottom line is: Am I going to let a man starve himself to death while I have a shop full of food? No.
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by meric 9y ago
> It seems to me that such a business owner would seem in hindsight to have been acting virtuously, No it wouldn't - There is a large percentage of population joining Nazi parties for convenience, for their career or even out of fea
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by meric 9y ago
I think I'm 10x in some tasks and 0.1x in others, not sure about everyone else...
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by meric 9y ago
Yes, if the purpose is to make money as opposed to learning or for fun, I agree it's better to ride the trend. :)

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