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by pjdemers 5y ago
I would add to 9, "Move and store information". That's what most of us here in HN do.
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by pjdemers 5y ago
How many people choosing random answer would it take to muddy the data to the point it is useless?
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by pjdemers 5y ago
I used to do consulting in banks. I met several Cobol programmers. However, they thought of their role as CICS programmers. CICS is a mainframe transaction management tool. All of them also did assembly in CICS.
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by pjdemers 5y ago
Not forever, but longer than anyone who is already able to qualify for a mortgage can wait. It will go on until baby boomers start dying in large numbers. That won't happen until the mid 2030s. By 2050 housing will be a buyer's ma
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by pjdemers 5y ago
I had an OLPC. My children liked the apps, but struggled with the keyboard because they kept fat fingering the keys. They were little at the time, younger than the target audience. I can't imagine bigger hands trying to type on that ke
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by pjdemers 5y ago
I agree, there is no way to raise a new round with an ex-employee owning 45%. At best, new investors will convert the equity to a note that limits the upside in dollars.
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by pjdemers 5y ago
If you're in the bay area, the Redwood City airport was near what is now the 101/Woodside Road interchange; the section of Woodside Road between El Camino and 101 wasn't built until the late 1950s. The airport's runway
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by pjdemers 5y ago
The big reason to get a ghost writer is because writing books is easy, editing them is hard. Amazon's search algorithm dings books for every little grammar, wording, and punctuation error. Unless you were an English major, you will spe
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by pjdemers 5y ago
We will never know because they aren't going to stop raining money. Specific stocks, bonds, cryptos, properties, and currencies will go down, some to zero, but, the sum of all assets will keep going up for a very long time.
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by pjdemers 6y ago
Sounds like allot of jobs, low pay, no real responsibility, no future. But how to get a job like that: Lately, I see allot of jobs where the title is "engineer", but role is actually tier 3 support, because all the real engineeri
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by pjdemers 6y ago
The UK government used to issue consols, which are perpetual bonds. Over the centuries, they bought them all back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consol_(bond)
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by pjdemers 6y ago
Assuming that neither FTL travel nor communication are possible, and that other intelligent species have life times similar in length to ours (ok, maybe twice as long as ours), how does a society spanning dozens of light years work? It woul
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by pjdemers 6y ago
Inflation won't be a problem for a long time. There is allot of slack in the labor market. The article states there are about 10 million people in the UK who would like a new job. That is a small fraction of the hundreds of millions in
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by pjdemers 6y ago
Anything that is marketed as a collectable is not a good investment. The thing must have some other use, a use that causes some (hopefully most) of them to be damaged or destroyed. The one exception to this seems to be sports trading cards,
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by pjdemers 6y ago
Closer: A few aliens arrive, look around, decide it is too hard to live here, then go home. But, they leave behind viruses that reduce the population by 90%. 100 years later, aliens come back in much larger numbers, this time to stay. At t
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by pjdemers 6y ago
What I see around silicon valley is that rent is down allot, condos and attached house are down a little. But asking prices for single family houses are still rising. And the good ones are still getting multiple offers over the asking price
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by pjdemers 6y ago
>> China is now forecasted to outpace US economy by 2028 In total size. China's GDP per person won't reach the US until 2060, at the earliest.
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by pjdemers 6y ago
>> an increase in labor supply due to women entering the labor force If you were born before between 1935 and 1955, this might have affected your career progression. Maybe. Because the more workers meant a bigger economy and therefore
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by pjdemers 6y ago
TSLA owns all its dealerships, distributors, and importers. It is more vertically integrated, designing and manufacturing more of their own parts. What is the sum of the business value of all the traditional automakers dealers, distributors
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by pjdemers 6y ago
I read something once from Warren Buffett, that for any job, a person needs enough IQ to do it, but more doesn't help, and too much more hurts. And for nearly all jobs that involve working with other people, (including investing), an I
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by pjdemers 6y ago
She is very right that the tech job market changed in 2001. I have a former coworker who lost his job in 2017. He had not been in the job market since 1995. He was shocked how things had changed. His direct quote: "It used to be easy t
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by pjdemers 6y ago
It's not illegal to have two jobs, but usually for a FTE salaried job, you employment agreement says must tell your employer about any other jobs you have, including part time and hourly. A big reason why companies don't want you
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by pjdemers 6y ago
Health care. The actuarial cost of gold or platinum health plan for a 25 year old single man is about $600 per month. The cost for a couple in their 50's, with two college age children, is about $3,000 per month.
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by pjdemers 6y ago
Sitting around the house playing video games and watching netflix all day makes teenagers happier than going to school, getting some exercise and having a job? What a revelation.
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by pjdemers 6y ago
The small city I live in is paying people's rent to avoid having small landlords go bankrupt. Because bankruptcy owned buildings can stay vacant for years, while the courts figure out who gets what. All that time, no property taxes are
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by pjdemers 6y ago
Gold goes up when interest rates go down. The interest rate on gold is always negative - there is cost to storing it. But usually you can find someone who will pay interest on dollars. So there is a cost to holding gold over dollars, the l
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by pjdemers 6y ago
Only be a founder if you: A) Think you are better than what your resumes/work history says. B) Are better than what your resume/work history says. Most people with a strong enough resume/work history to get funding fail both.
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by pjdemers 6y ago
Some airlines fitted the upstairs as a special business class (British, United, the old Northwest). The cabin up there had almost a private jet feel.
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by pjdemers 6y ago
I've posted this before on HN: Tech interviews are designed to find people who are happy in a role where their level of responsibility begins and ends at: "Here's your coding assignment. Go do it". The interviews are des
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by pjdemers 6y ago
I have two children in college. One college announced a similar plan, half of students on campus at a time. If the plan is followed through, then, the class of 2022 will spend 17 straight months on campus, from January 2021 until graduation

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