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by nandemo 14y ago
I second the recommendation. I'd say a better summary has to mention that there 2 types of random "things": some are predictably random (Mediocristan), and some are aren't, they're prone to Black Swans (Extremistan). It's the latter type of
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by nandemo 14y ago
That's an understatement. Being poor in the US (by the official US definition) is better than being poor almost anywhere else. This paper goes so far as to argue that, in many ways, the average poor American lives at the same level or bette
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by nandemo 14y ago
Wow, 2 hours of concentrated work in the morning sounds exceptional to me. With open plan offices -- the norm in Brazil and Japan -- it's damn near impossible to have 20 straight minutes of uninterrupted work: phones ringing, people talking
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by nandemo 14y ago
Occam's razor in its simplest form and applied to math is something like this: Proof 1: assumptions (i), (ii) imply that there are infinitely many Mersenne primes. Proof 2: assumptions (i), (ii), (iii) imply that there are infinitely many M
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by nandemo 14y ago
Dude, I'm sorry about your debt, but I'm sure you can find a better paying job eventually. > Here in Brazil the best wage you can get as programmer, is still around 36k (yes, I am not kidding). Assuming you mean 36k USD, that's about R$
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by nandemo 14y ago
IMO that's exactly how it should work. Comment is downvoted, gets grayed out, and then hopefully people don't reply to it. The graying out is a way of expressing "don't feed this troll". If people start replying and get into a prolonged dis
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by nandemo 14y ago
They didn't create a new civilization. The couple was born and raised in Russia. Their religion was a sort of Russian Orthodoxy. Whatever quirks they had, it's pretty fair to assume that they had an incest taboo (as do practically all human
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by nandemo 14y ago
Just to clarify: in Brazil, those "uncontacted" tribes include many (probably a majority) that have had contact with the outside world in the past. However, they currently have no ongoing contact, and the Brazilian authorities don't have en
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by nandemo 14y ago
The gap between the Koreas is far bigger than the gap between West and East Germany ever was. The latter was arguably ahead of the better parts of Third World (say Brazil or Mexico) in terms of education, health care, infra-structure, indus
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by nandemo 14y ago
You could join or donate to a NGO that helps North Korean defectors. Some help North Koreans who are living in South Korea, Japan, or elsewhere. Some actively help people escape to those countries after they have crossed the Chinese border.
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by nandemo 14y ago
I understand one might refuse to go there out of principle, but on monetary terms alone I think it doesn't matter. The income from tourism is irrelevant for NK. Besides trade with (and possibly significant aid from) China, NK gets hard curr
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by nandemo 14y ago
grandalf's comment is inaccurate, but it's also a sort of understatement to say that mental illness "is a factor in some attempted suicides or completed suicides". It's by far the biggest factor. > More than 90 percent of people who die
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by nandemo 14y ago
Where did you hear the opposite? An increase in the number of low-skilled immigrants might negatively affect GDP per capita, but it's hard to see how it would negatively affect total GDP.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Does that mean that Brits use electric kettles, or they use regular kettles but stoves are mostly electric (instead of using gas)?
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by nandemo 14y ago
It's not related to income. Moderate consumption of alcohol reduces the risk of heart disease. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage#Longevity
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by nandemo 14y ago
Have you read it? Did it change your life?
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by nandemo 14y ago
> Yes, there is still a developer shortage, at least for certain technologies. (...) its near impossible still to find a local Rails & Backbone developer I don't understand this. Why not hire a good programmer and give them few week
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by nandemo 14y ago
Your comparison is still off. North Koreans will risk their lives to escape to rural China. In China and Philippines there might be poor sanitation and malnutrition but you won't find a lot of people actually starving to death.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Some Go programs already play at professional level on 9x9 boards, and amateur mid-dan level on 19x19. That's "playing well" on my book: many people play go for years without reaching that level. Yes, it's still far from the level computer
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by nandemo 14y ago
It's cool that they share this data, but that design reminds of the bad examples Edward Tufte includes in his The Visual Display of Quantitative Information .
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by nandemo 14y ago
It doesn't deflate the article's premise. There are 2 ways we can see your example. Living in 400sq m house when you only need 40sq m could be: 1) equivalent to living in a 40sq m apartment and owning a separate ~300 sq m house elsewhere bu
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by nandemo 14y ago
Are those investors advising startups individually at that stage?
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Amazon Launches Brazil Kindle Store(thestreet.com)
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by nandemo 14y ago
In my experience, that's not the case. In the case of English, the main difficulty was (is) learning the pronunciation of every word, because the English spelling system isn't very helpful (to put it kindly). As you advance, the problem is
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by nandemo 14y ago
The content on memrise is by large contributed by users. I've created a Portuguese->Spanish course there, and so have other people. Noone is stopping you from creating a French->Italian course. Add 10 words a day and soon you'll hav
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by nandemo 14y ago
Whether it's an excessive amount or not clearly depends on the person, isn't it? I studied for about 2 months and still didn't get an offer. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4704039 I don't know if preparing more would've made a differ
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by nandemo 14y ago
Or planning a massacre? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_massacre
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by nandemo 14y ago
> Oddly enough, the Swedes I know can't actually communicate with Danes in spoken language either, despite written Danish and Swedish being nearly identical. It's not that odd. Take threedaymonk's example: English is written almost the
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by nandemo 14y ago
Personal contacts, recruiting agencies, job boards (but not craigslist). You're probably better off working for companies in the US/UK. Freelancing is not as common as it is in the US, large and mid-sized companies much prefer to deal with
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by nandemo 14y ago
In one of his talks Alan Kay compares software development with civil engineering, claiming the former is still at the level of pyramid building.

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