nojvek

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   by nojvek 7y ago

   In the world of modern technological marvel, robots should ideally be cheaper than human labor. Toyota employs fewer humans per car produced than Tesla. They simply invested in their industries such that mass production techniques makes thi
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   by nojvek 7y ago

   It seems US is very much going for short term gratification instead of long term building of industrial nation. Moving manufacturing offshore into China and other cheaper countries + mega multinational corporations starving small businesses
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   by nojvek 7y ago

   How to raise a good human, be a good dad and husband. Relationships take a lot of commitment and effort. It took me a while to learn how to communicate effectively with my wife so we’re fighting problems and not each other. Babies really te
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   by nojvek 7y ago

   Because Twitter is where everyone hangs out. It’s a low friction tool.
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   by nojvek 7y ago

   The problem is anti-trust is sleeping with PE folks. Our government has people coming in and out of corporations with conflict of interests. Here is Matt Stroller’s take on Private Equity. https://mattstoller.substack.com/
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   by nojvek 7y ago

   NYTimes is the worst. I legit hate their system. Signing up is so easy. Input credit card payment details and click a button. Done! Cancelling is another beast. It took me 2 months to cancel. So many phone calls that never end up to the per
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   by nojvek 7y ago

   I really like that Svelte does compiler time dependency analysis such that there is less work to do runtime. Can we bring this ideas to react and Vdom based frameworks? I imagine Babel/typescript can analyze jsx to find which attribute
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   by nojvek 7y ago

   I’m getting messages from Whatsapp groups. Taking a hot shower or sitting in a hot tub kills the virus. Drinking Eucalyptus with vodka gives you immunity. Millions of people are doing it and doctors are recommending it. It’s not clinically
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   by nojvek 7y ago

   Ramping up PPE and ventilators at the first hint of an infectious disease would have saved tons of lives. The second thing was closing borders. We wouldn’t need a massive lockdown inside the country if only negatively tested people were com
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    Ask HN: what are the questions that keep you up at night ? For me: How do viruses really work? How to antiviruses work? I’ve gone into basics of DNA -> RNA -> Ribosome -> protein -> cell organelles -> Cells. We know how to se
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    Google stock has fallen significantly since its highs. So has FB. MSFT has been doing well because of cloud and Teams. Airlines are heavy advertisers and their industry is crushed. We’ll see the next quarterly results. I bet at-least 30% re
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    We’ve had many viral outbreaks. SARS, MERS, Zika, Swine flu, HIV etc. some of them have been with us for decades. Why don’t we have vaccines for all of them yet? Also how likely is that COVID-19 will mutate like influenza and become a seaso
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    What is the said company ?
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    Here’s a noob question. The coronavirus is made out of a whole bunch of proteins. Have we fully mapped out all the protein structures and corresponding DNA code? The antigen is also a protein, I assume the DNA sequence for it is well known.
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    Not let go, but voluntarily quit in Jan to work on a side project. Now everyone’s wallets are tight and I feel that was a terrible decision. My thinking was “economy is mega booming, I can always land a job if things go south”. I was very w
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    That can go wrong on the employer side as well with bad employees not being able to let go of easily. The US doesn’t have much of a safety net. Covid-19 perhaps will take the toll of the most bankruptcies and preventable suicides in a wealt
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    > us, founders, were the ones making the least already. Sure, but founders also have magnitudes more equity than any employees. It sucks for a founder of a company that isn’t profitable or has great growth but for a decent run company th
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    I’d imagine a decent chunk of early stage companies are really struggling now. Everyone’s wallets just shrunk and they’re holding onto them very dearly.
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    OP Please do report if congressional representative even picks up the phone. I imagine everyone is now knee deep in pandemic related issues.
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    Sure, they had the system in place but the fact that so many people are fed is impressive (for free).
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    I get the Postgres love but as someone who’s been doing mysql for a long time I found postgres really hard to use. Like even setting it up on Mac was a pain in the ass. How do I create a new db? Why is pgcli not as friendly as mysqlcli? Aft
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    We’ve seen this before. The guide to modern front-end isn’t hard. Learn html, with css for styling and raw vanilla JS for a bit of interactivity. Learn git so you don’t lose your work. May be deploy with GitHub pages. That’s it, everything
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    5M is big. Wow! I mean that’s a large enough number that if you did a LaunchHN with a $50/year subscription and only .01% subscribed, you can have a sustainable solo SaaS business with 250k ARR.
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    Someone who is a molecular biologist, please correct my understanding. DNA is a molecule, made out of 4 amino acids. ACTG. There are 18 different kinds of amino acids. Amino acids are made out of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen. Amino ac
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCBbnbBWJtwsf0jLGUwX5Q3g ^ here is the link. Pretty great animation. Thanks for the recommendation.
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    They say there is a part 2. Where is the said part 2, I couldn’t find the link.
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    From the website > We’re announcing our public launch today, with a $3M seed round → Seed rounds are now 3M, wow! I wonder how they seemlessly authenticate with Okta, Google, Active Directory e.t.c ?
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    There were always big players in the Chat Industry, AOL, MSN, ICQ, Mig33, Yahoo Chat, GChat, Wave (oh the nostalgia), Hangouts, Skype, Lync and now there's Slack, Teams. But communication is essential to humans so there'll always
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    I love this. It doesn't matter what framework you use, having to raw dom manipulation is eventually a task for any seasoned frontend engineer. Understanding the dom api is absolutely essential, when performance is paramount. Resizing
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    by nojvek 7y ago

    That's the right thing to do. If SpaceX is important to national security, then Zoom security and privacy is so bad, that a bad actor could steal SpaceX technology. At my previous job, we used to dial in random zoom numbers and entered