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by narag 4y ago
They started with "best practices" that maybe slowed them down at the start, but surely made the scaling smoother. Of course scale will have some effect, but the recommendations seem very sensible like keeping teams small and inde
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by narag 4y ago
You can pay that much for a factory worker in eastern/south Europe. I don't know about eastern Europe. In Spain, we are in the south, you can't pay 530 per month. Legal minimum salary is around double that number, then you
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by narag 4y ago
Another item: even if your shield performance is currently underwhelming, you still want to have it, so you can keep upgrading it as technology advances, instead of rushing it when there's a breakthrough. And when it becomes a success,
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by narag 4y ago
Some random thoughts: Even if you don't intend to be the first to attack, you want a shield in case you're attacked. Even if the shield can't protect 100% or 50% (say just 10%) you want a shield. You probably don't want
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by narag 4y ago
Well, it's only logical: what they propose is barely legal and sooner or later, more sooner than later, the scheme will be burnt, so it's better to teach others to make a quick buck than staying in the same place for too long.
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by narag 4y ago
My current phone, that I'm very happy with, was 120€ while an iPhone 14 starts at 1009€ so I'm not exactly worried about lack of more Apple-like options. I have an old Air and frankly, although the battery life, weight and hardwar
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by narag 4y ago
I experienced it maybe a couple of months ago. Then it went away. Since so many use gmail, it's only logical for the spammers to focus on playing gmail filters and one obvious factor would be using a gmail address as the source.
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by narag 4y ago
It's funny because the author's idea was to discredit the notion altogether, so it's relevant because it failed to do that. The core of Mary's adventures is a false dicotomy: that matter is the only component of physical
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by narag 4y ago
I do know what a thought experiment is. What I'm trying to point is that they never are really useful because the very reason that makes them unpractical is the reason that make them invalid. That reason is often shadowed by other reas
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by narag 4y ago
That's absolutely not correct. There are real experiments to prove Special Relativity and it has been corroborated multiple times. The train is only a way to explain it, not a thought experiment. Actually, some equivalent experiments t
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by narag 4y ago
That's exactly the point: to frame the "experiment" in a way that only admits the viewpoint of the framer. The only value is to analize why it's impossible to make it a real experiment.
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by narag 4y ago
The problem is that you can't know if the cat is dead or alive unless you open the box. Schrödinger conceived the experiment to "show" that the premises lead to an absurd result: that the cat is dead and alive at the same tim
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by narag 4y ago
That's not what thought experiment means.
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by narag 4y ago
A thought experiment seems to be exactly the opposite of an experiment: no experience there. I understand the concept, but every time I see one of these, the most compelling points are for me the ones that show how the setup makes no sense
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by narag 4y ago
I don't know, but let me point the obvious: it feels very weird that fundamental things are so complicated. Somehow I want to think that there's a much simpler layer underneath and all this imperfection comes as a second order
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by narag 4y ago
I guess that varies from country to country. In Spain, it's WhatsApp for everybody with Telegram recently making inroads for specific topic groups. SMS is used by companies to send notifications and asking for confirmation, even (ouch!
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by narag 4y ago
I've seen two systems that deal with a huge volume of data where parallelism, speed and throughput were critical. One was a mobile network operator call billing system, the other one a stock exchange. First one was written in C, the s
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by narag 4y ago
The Muslims who colonized Iberia were referred to as Moors because of their Maghreb origin (cf old Mauritania)... That's not the whole truth. Invaders came from far away Arabia, but they were few. From the top of my head, a few thous
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by narag 4y ago
You are simply wrong So the headline is precise and I'm wrong when I say those acequias can only provide water for small zones... and because it's a "sensitive point", nobody can disagree. Appaling.
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by narag 4y ago
OK, I have nothing bad to say about acequias or irrigation. Having grown up with a big orchad at home I enjoyed watching all those water inventions. Not sure about "Moorish". More like "muslim era" heritage? "Making
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by narag 4y ago
Tell HN: RecruitME (YC 2023) chose Dr. Eliza and banned me for life out of global job market because of a deepfake FB photo.
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by narag 4y ago
I like the term "featurism", I'm going to try to remember it. You're going to love the qualified version: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=creeping%20f...
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by narag 4y ago
This is also my case. I used to drink heavily but I had no problems stopping. It also helped that it was a social habit, never at home. Now I drink only beer socially and very rarely wine at home, say once in a month.
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by narag 4y ago
The relevant difference is that a single entity doesn't control all the functionality and layers.
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by narag 4y ago
I don't, even when it's other person. Actually it's a very annoying sensation, even infuriating. I don't recommend tickling me unless you want to be punched in the face.
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by narag 4y ago
I use a similar system. But level is also used to switch writing events to the log. Usually only events that alert of a severe error are logged. Once we know something's not working, the settings for level are modified so, without even
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by narag 4y ago
There are better ways to exercise your brain that will be many more times better than Calculus. Maybe. And there are probably better ways to exercise your brain than memorizing cities, mountains, seas and rivers in countries you're n
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by narag 4y ago
I remember state diagrams being very useful. But I'm not sure if it was much older than other UML artifacts and just "adopted" for completeness.
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by narag 4y ago
So we are both cautious :) If you mean Aztec imported words, I don't know which they are. Maybe you mean the tl consonant group that is not very natural, but neither is zr (as in three ) and we just get used to it, when we learn Engli
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by narag 4y ago
The problem comes in when other people decide they don’t trust you and apply their belief of how you should think instead. That is certainly a shared experience.

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