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by ptero 7mo ago
Register your own domain, use a third-party provider to handle actual sending and receiving (I use proton, which makes the setup very easy), forward your Gmail to your personal domain address and as renewals and reminders come in switch you
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by ptero 7mo ago
> N1 failure is attributed mostly to Korolev - Glushko rivalry that resulted in N1 lacking engines in time. That is a viable version. But I think this was one of the problems and there were plenty of others. While Chertok does point to t
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by ptero 7mo ago
> inexact quote: "You know, we're throwing towns into the sky" related to the early mishaps of R-7 program development I have not looked at the source (in Russian) for several years; now that I am curious I will check at h
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by ptero 8mo ago
Not an expert, but main challenges with laser coherency are present when shaping the output using multiple transmitters. For lidar you transmit a pulse from a single source and receive its reflection at multiple points. Mentioning phase
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by ptero 8mo ago
This, as written, is just an idea. Lots of forward looking statements on how the EU must do this and that and no explicit promise to offer funding to all affected US scientists. Not even many details on the funding. Is it the same funding?
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by ptero 8mo ago
> German universities are now telling any US researcher who looses their funding that they will be funded at a Germany university Is this true? Is there a link to the policy? Anything is possible, but this sounds fishy. German research f
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by ptero 8mo ago
Humans are social animals and good social skills is a major benefit almost everywhere, including at work. This does not make most people juliuses.
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by ptero 8mo ago
They never actually put a full effort into building a consumer oriented economy. The authorities would say something about a new food program or a housing program but only as motivational goals. Main players always saw getting people less e
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by ptero 8mo ago
A much better goal would be to ditch dependence on a single company and become, as much as possible, cloud provider agnostic. Not that I mind giving US big tech grief -- they earned it in spades. But if you wrestle your technology chains fr
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by ptero 8mo ago
> A reply on social media is taking a stand? No. I only said that spreading information that there is dissent does not require taking to the street.
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by ptero 8mo ago
The counter argument to that is in the age of the social media there is no need to take to the streets to show that there is dissent. Everyone the folks on the street could reach will know about the dissent anyway. Motivating other people t
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by ptero 9mo ago
The cited rationale is a perfectly reasonable take. But most of the world is in the same boat of "large budget deficits and growing government debt". It will be "interesting" for bond issuers and most investors and &quot
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by ptero 9mo ago
The reason for keeping eggs in a fridge is different (primarily washing vs not washing). This has been discussed a number of times at HN. Here is an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815155
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by ptero 9mo ago
It did not go into a hyperinflation after the WW2, when the US debt load as a share of GDP was even higher than today; and deflated in the same way US is likely to do it now (bond rates forced way below inflation with yield control). I am
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by ptero 9mo ago
Warnings about the deficit are spot on. It is a safe bet that the country with government that spends 50% more than it takes in as taxes will not give above inflation return on its government debt. As a side note, most of the "Western
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by ptero 9mo ago
Luck plays a big role, but it is not just luck. One can apply in a way that significantly stacks the deck in his favor. So absolutely reach out to your network, study the current market and find your edge. It might still be poker-style game
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by ptero 9mo ago
> And why is CS not in STEM? It sure is. If I said that it is not it was a typo. What I was saying is that today I see a non-CS STEM major plus a CS-like minor as a better ticket for an undergrad (who will enter the job market in the
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by ptero 9mo ago
It really depends on the person. This may be an unpopular opinion today, but I strongly believe that someone doing what he loves will statistically be both happier and better off financially than someone in only for the money. So whatever
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by ptero 9mo ago
Perelman is a strange character; IIRC he declined several times first without bothering to give a reason. Then, after being asked enough times, came up with a "I am not a hero and such awards are irrelevant" as a somewhat acceptab
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by ptero 9mo ago
TLDR: "previous years of boom provided 100k jobs straight out of college, 200k jobs and a guaranteed path to wealth soon after that. That time is over." Right. And this, IMO, is not a bad thing. We had a long, multi-year bubble an
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by ptero 9mo ago
I came in to say the same thing -- major, major respect to Powell. I am not a big fan of his earlier policies (or of Greenspan's and anyone after him for that matter). His "unlearn the importance of M2" did not age well. He m
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by ptero 9mo ago
I am not absolutely sure, but I do not think so. Being old(ish) I recall in the early 90s Stallman advocating for (and mostly winning the argument in the tech circles at the time) open source as the primary tool for freedom to build thing
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by ptero 9mo ago
> I think it’s rather that people need to eat. They do and always did. But open source was originally not about that, but about building something cool and letting others build on that. And, crucially, about GPL preventing large compan
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by ptero 9mo ago
I don't know what "ready for prime time desktop use" means. I suspect it means different things for different people. But with Linux being mostly hobbyist-friendly a number of folks have custom setups and do not want to be fo
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by ptero 9mo ago
> No idea how to fix the internet, maybe it's time to move to gopher or another protocol :-/ Fido and Usenet are still around. Kind-of. IMO google virtually killed that, too, when they started peddling google groups and did the
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by ptero 9mo ago
Why? Work hard doesn't mean fully succeed. HN policies and algorithms slow the slide, and keep it better than reddit, but the set of topics that allow one to take a minority opinion without downvoting keeps shrinking. At least compared
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by ptero 9mo ago
That view is about 18 years old and HN was very different then. As with any communication platform it risks turning into an echo chamber, and I am pretty sure that particular PG view has been rejected for many years (I think dang wrote on t
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by ptero 9mo ago
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. While I might agree or disagree with the argument, it is a clear, politely expressed view. It is sad HN is sliding in the direction of folks being downvoted for opinions instead of the tone t
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by ptero 9mo ago
> I still don't see the problem. You can criticize things you're part of. Certainly. But this, IMO, is not the reason for the criticism in the comments. If Rob ranted about AI, about spam, slop, whatever, most of those criticiz
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by ptero 9mo ago
Yes, after working there for more than 17 years (IIRC he joined Google in 2004).

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