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by paulus_magnus2 4y ago
Opportunity for a browser plugin counting upvotes / downvotes / other useful flags
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
They are a petrolstate with no real economy going and producing virtually no tradeale goods other than raw resources[a] [b] 70% of their trade is with Western countries [c] so if cut them off, their deficit quickly pushes them hard into deb
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
As the author correctly noted the role of Preemptive Sanctions is not as a deterrent but his argumentation agains it is based on a nof far-sighted enough analysis of the consequences of sanctions. (1) Russia is a state on brink of bancrupcy
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
We in the The West have some serious soul searching to do. A nuclear power has attacked a sovereign state and told us to stay away or something very bad will happen. They've been sabre rattling for weeks and weeks and we have frozen un
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
I have never heard a rational and compelling argument for COVID vaccination mandates. To enforce these we need to implement pretty much an MVP of chinese Social Score System. In the begining we were promised the vaccine will end the pandemi
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
The immediate goal of FSD is NOT to drive perfectly, the goal (MVP) is to drive safer than the average human. Most probably the type of accidents the FSD MVP will be having is different than a human would and vice versa. There are 60k tes
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
Firstly, as a meta comment I think HN has jumped the shark. Secondly, come on. You can listen to around 200 audiobooks per year while commuting, doing chores, excercising etc. Lastly: if you only ever want to read a couple of few books, the
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
It would be interesting to see the list of topics / keywords / conjectures in the "missing" episodes so that we know roughly which ones are "off limits".
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
It would be interesting to see the list of topics / keywords / conjectures in the "missing" episodes so that we know roughly which ones are "off limits".
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
The regulators should never approve such a takeover or should state that this takeover will inevitably result in a forcaful split of NVIDIA. There will be a conflicf of interest between Nvidia a consumer of ARM and Nvidia provider of IP to
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
>> Investors are also assessing the impact of further regulation on the cryptocurrency market. Last week, Russia’s central bank proposed banning the use and mining of cryptocurrencies. Being a cautious optimist of decentralised money
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
134TWh would power 36.22 mln EV cars for 20.000km each (at 18.5 kWh/100km).
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
Who said the product is inferior? Have you checked any of these? More discoverability of alternative offerings is always better, for both the customer and supplier, unless the supplier is a monopolist. In my experience middle sized companie
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
I think the situation is pretty clear. You either have a significant stake of your empoloyer's success upside or not. This you see by the equity amount given to you. Employers have zero loyality to you as an employee and care the same
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
> What makes you think that this adjustments for cost of living would persist? Competitive pressures are towards paying for productivity, not for cost of living. I think there is not a lot of competitive pressure, if there was, the salar
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
For everyone being compelled by their inner "Dog in the Manger" crying outsourcing to cheap countries. Outsourcing is already in play since 3 decades, but the actual salaries are kept in check by a stack of intermediaries. Hiring
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
Just make the commute time (for employees) count as paid time - you're being available to yout employer in the end.
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by paulus_magnus2 5y ago
Why would anyone want to into this? From industry perspective it baffles me how Google divided an conquered not one but multiple platforms: (Android, Google TV, Google Auto). From the user perspective I don't need another toy OS. I was
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
build more cities. and move jobs there. housing is only expensive where land is expensive - city centres. The Government is able to take long enough view to do this. Any commercial actor will be against this due to rent seeking / marke
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
Probably putting the comment too deep to be noticed but racism (or xenophobia) has always been there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown_Polish_craftsmen#Str... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
>> How many hours were you working a week? This question immediately tells me the recruitment process is done on my side. The answer is hire more people . As a developed society we need to make it illegal / strongly penalized to
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
Liberal democracy is incompatible with a police state but it will get worse before it gets better. There needs to be a digital version of "privilege against self-incrimination" [1] [2] but it seams like the governments won't
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
It always baffles me, how do these companies get to get that far. OK, it is possible to get your friends to fund you after you describe the innovative idea, then perhaps it's possible to get an Angel to invest into your uber after you
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
This means there is (probably) plenty of opportunity for seasoned engineers to make serious money at Intel. But only for ones with thick skin who can deliver despite rotten company culture.
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
^F gittorrent. It is like working in a big corporation. Eventually you will do / say something that won't be liked by a person in power / competitor and you will be cancelled. Community / public supported projects, also
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
TL;DR. Ride sharing / taxi vs car ownership breakeven is at €10 per short trip (5km or less), but only worthwhile if I could totally get rid of the car: only 25% of car ownership cost is fuel, 75% or €5000 is maintenance + depreciation
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
The price premium is there but also plenty opportunities to shop around for a last year's model https://www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/ProductCategory/31784.h... for example, Samsung QP82R is an 8k "TV&quo
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
Do you actually own one? If so, can you please clarify my doubts [1] about viability of digital signage as TV? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24626743
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
Can someone with 1st hand experience reassure me I would be able to use a commercial digital signage as a TV?? From what I learned so far the difficulties are: [please also correct me on these] - stand is not included (need to buy that sep
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
To piggiback a little on the GPT-3 discussion. I always wanted a "tiered" tl;dr functionality that would allow me to collapse text into a tree-like structure with the most important content on top and filler at the leaves. And ple

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