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by ptero 4y ago
The comment you replied to did sound callous given the fact that the author probably just got laid off. Specifically on your response: while planning specific changes is good and so is attempting to solve hard problems, during mass layoff
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by ptero 4y ago
On HN -- sure. But what does HN have to do with this discussion? On Twitter, a few that I saw quickly attracted a bunch of misinformation labels.
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by ptero 4y ago
Covid lockdowns, vaccination requirements and mask mandates?
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by ptero 4y ago
This topic was adjacent to the sugar and L-isomer comments. Which probably influenced my viewpoint: Yishan is saying that Twitter (and other social networks) moderate bad behavior, not bad content. They just strive for higher SNR. It is jus
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by ptero 4y ago
There are now more options for many tasks that used to land squarely into the C++ land: rust for low level and low latency stuff; python for a high level glue for some latest algorithms; ruby, JS for web. On the other hand, C++ grew into a
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by ptero 4y ago
>> the advocacy usually feels like someone trying to talk you into a religion > advocacy among unbelievers is always gonna come off like this, especially when the evangelists have dealt with so many naysayers and the apathetic majo
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by ptero 4y ago
Not really, at least not for all of them. US college endowments, for example, invest into all sorts of things, from highly illiquid developing market investments to options, ventures and hedge funds. A couple of times at MIT I saw an overvi
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by ptero 4y ago
The poster mentioned long-term passive income, which to me is spot on. The strategy used to generate it can be debated, but the goal is very common and many methods, while not guaranteed stood the test of time pretty well. For example, look
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by ptero 4y ago
Mate, this is not the reddit. Debate the point, but do not attack people you disagree with.
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by ptero 4y ago
> Why dont you build a better model then replace it? I do not know if you are serious or sarcastic. Assuming serious, that was feasible 30 years ago. Now trying to build anything competitively different gets you bought out or deplatforme
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by ptero 4y ago
Ads pay for hosting websites in the current model that got to the point of being the only option. Thank you, but I will do all I can to upset this particular apple cart.
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by ptero 4y ago
I would see that as a reasonable view (not the one I agree with, but a reasonable viewpoint) in the late 1990s where people wrote their own web pages and hosted them on different servers. Now that we have a coordinated oligopoly on content
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by ptero 4y ago
> That said, you also seem to have had bad luck with hotels. That was not the message I tried to convey, sorry. I did a lot of business travel at one time, stayed in a lot of hotels and have no aversion to them at all. If I am traveling
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by ptero 4y ago
In my view Google and Facebook turned evil the same way Microsoft did in the mid-1990s, switching from building technological improvements to using vast resources to dictate how each personal compute node should be run and how one could acc
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by ptero 4y ago
Hotels are not without failure, too. I stayed in both the hotels and AirBnbs often (as a rough guess ~75 hotel stays and 30 airbnb stays) and saw hotels full on arrival late at night, noisy rooms, electrical failures and one flood from a gu
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by ptero 4y ago
The approach I think you are proposing, safety above all, often leads to very low efficiency and in the end can lower total safety, for example encouraging shift to alternative modes of transport. Or by setting the certification bar so high
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by ptero 4y ago
> there's a lot of risk they're not taking into account I see it the other way: experimental scientists operate with unreliable systems all the time: fickle systems, soldered one-time setups, shared lab space, etc. Computing is
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by ptero 4y ago
I think it really depends on the task. Where HIPAA violation is a real threat, the equation changes. And just for CYA purposes those projects can get pushed to a cloud. Which does not necessarily involve any attempts to make them any more s
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by ptero 4y ago
Agreed. Options for jewelry making you can find. But I want the bigger stuff, grinding metal and playing with motors :)
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by ptero 4y ago
Thank you, I am glad the beast I have taken the username from is recognizable :)
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by ptero 4y ago
Totally reasonable suggestion, but did not work well for me. At my previous position at MIT I could use the MIT hobby shop, which was great. But this is only for folks with a campus affiliation. I checked two maker spaces and they seemed pr
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by ptero 4y ago
I think a missing part for the propagation of those skill is being able to learn it as a hobby / side project. I would love to take some classes (and sign up my teenage son, too), but the adult education classes that I could find in
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by ptero 4y ago
"Into the arms" is a pretty big overstatement. China is not a friend of Russia. It has its own goals and challenges. And many challenges they do have: China made a huge progress on industrialization, put some checks on corruptio
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by ptero 4y ago
The claim, as I understood it, is not that other compilers provably have no bugs, but that maintainers (and the whole community) react differently when one is found. If you demonstrate a bug in gcc or rustc (or one of their base libraries),
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by ptero 4y ago
I have seen this done a few times without consequences BUT always after a pretty strong informal expression of client's interest. You will need support from client company anyway, so I would start with an informal conversation with y
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by ptero 4y ago
Agreed, thank you! I appreciate corrections for my non-native english speakerness :)
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by ptero 4y ago
It is not the amount of funding, it is the allocation that doomed R&D at big companies. Forty years ago they were the best game in town for applied research (defining applied as, on success, having a fast track to commercialization). La
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by ptero 4y ago
That was one way. Another was not paying salaries for months ("company has no money" was a common case) until employees sell their "vauchers" to those who wanted to buy.
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by ptero 4y ago
> The root of inflation is the printing of money This is mostly true most of the time, but this is not the only story. There is also a supply side to the equation: if supply can expand it can suck up a lot of money that is being printed
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by ptero 4y ago
The internet is overwhelmingly filled with echo chambers. And there was, earlier, a special care taken for HN to avoid this fate and create a site where minority views can be debated. PG wrote a lot about the need to allow and protect non

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