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by nkohari 6y ago
That argument works when people say things like "I don't like to be involved in politics" -- because like it or not, merely being a member of a democratic society is a political act. However, everyone still has a right to eng
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Yeah, the same debates happened in C# back when the 'var' keyword was introduced. People just fear change, but once they got hands-on experience they realized the value.
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> drastically improve the quality of their docs Hey, I'm an engineer on the Docs Product team at Stripe. Thanks for the feedback about Elixir; if you have other ideas about how we can improve the docs, I'd love to hear them! Fe
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> author doesn't know what he's talking about The author is Jared Palmer. He's a well-known engineer who has worked with React for years, and the author of a very popular OSS React library (Formik).
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Meditation is also a great way to force yourself to be alone with your thoughts. However, speaking from experience, that can lead to some uncomfortable truths -- so it's good to be prepared.
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It really isn't out of reach. You shouldn't chase the money for the money's sake, but it's undeniable that having money avails you to a different lifestyle than not having money. Poignantly, my wife and I co-founded a st
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The series 65 is intended for people who want to manage other people's money. You should still be able to invest your own money as you wish.
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> even if our problems are harder and more stressful. I suspect that you're going to catch some grief for this statement. :)
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> Essentially the internconnectedness of everything is making it hard to find the niches you speak of. There's always someone who loves his job so much and works at it so much that he defines the meta, so to say. This is a problem i
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Localities -- and borders in general -- are less and less relevant as the internet (and technology generally) makes the world smaller. Strict federalist separation made sense in a world where it took days to travel across state lines, but t
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There does appear to be a push away from globalization and towards isolationism. However, this may not last, and even if so, it remains to be seen whether the government will be able to effectively encourage corporations to move manufacturi
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The comments in this subthread are talking about CEO salary. The point being, Bezos isn't rich because of his salary, he's rich because he owns shares, so adjusting his compensation isn't going to make a meaningful impact to
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New Zealand is a small island nation with only 5 international airports. It has 1.4% the population of the United States (4.8M vs 328.2M), and a smaller population than New York City (8.4M). It has 18 people per km², compared to 94 people p
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> I’m not a consumer, these tricks don’t work on me. So you're typing this comment from your yurt using a borrowed computer or something?
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People have been raising the bogeyman of "off-shoring" engineering jobs since the 90s. The reality is that it's always going to be incredibly hard to do collaborative work in an asynchronous fashion, and timezones are an immu
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Bear in mind that the pandemic presents a unique situation with respect to children being at home. Usually the kids are at school or childcare, and any impact to efficiency happens outside of working hours (which shouldn't be considere
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At this point, if there was antibody-dependent enhancement, we would have seen at least one case of it clinically.
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Got it, thanks! I misread.
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> If the jobless rate and GDP continue to suffer I can’t see this being anything but bad for rural and suburban real estate. Why do you think it would impact rural and suburban properties specifically? It seems like a bad economy would d
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> The internet, in all of its forms, simply increases awareness of what's going on around the world. The internet is not just a signal booster, but also an amplifier. Ideas which would otherwise be fringe become quickly mainstream.
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Almost certainly, yes.
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I'm still convinced that it was a joke in the beginning, and then the subreddit saw an influx of people who didn't get the joke.
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It's not incompetence; there's quite literally no other real solution. The sprawl of the npm ecosystem is a result of there being (essentially) no standard library in JavaScript and an intentionally small one in Node.js. As a resu
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> Your employer cannot arbitrarily reduce your salary. The reduction has to be agreed upon by the employee or the employer has to terminate employment and rehire to reduce salary. There might be state regulations to this effect -- and IA
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The actual answer is that with acquisition, you're also eliminating a competitor in addition to gaining their share of the market.
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You're right, but it's getting downvoted because it has the same basic shape as the "people aren't creating antibodies and can get reinfected" doomer meme which is making the rounds. Also, FWIW, if getting the actua
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Pretty sure they meant 2001, as in 9/11.
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Like you said, tough, it's just pretense. Any debate that is held on the floor of Congress isn't there to convince fellow congresspeople of anything. It's purely theater for constituents. All of the actual decision-making is
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> My guess for the main reason Reddit feels so toxic would be younger demographic whose primary concern is demonstrating how much "smarter" they are than an average person. > Which is mostly the opposite of HN You must be ne
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It's a sign of the times that this, one of the most level-headed and factually-accurate comments on this post, is being downvoted so heavily.

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