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by ptero 5y ago
Raising taxes beyond a certain point tends to decrease the total tax haul as those with lots of money move income to other jurisdictions and some of others work less, leaning harder on social system (further increasing the public debt).
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by ptero 5y ago
> Bikeshedding like this is why Linux will never achieve any significant market share for average consumers. In my opinion, this is a good thing. Aiming for increasing "market share for average consumers" usually implies focusi
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by ptero 5y ago
It is normal. However, in my view maintaining coding skills helps with being able to switch employers, if needed. Which might come up unexpectedly. And as it is easier to keep a skill than to relearn it from far behind I would spend 1-2 h
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by ptero 5y ago
I stand corrected -- currently, the difference with spot price is about 2% each way . Lower than 10-20%, but much higher than ~0.5% I remember earlier. I suspect this is due to recent gold price volatility, but not sure.
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by ptero 5y ago
Using reputable dealers that deliver orders placed online. Strange as it sounds, it is, IMO, one of the better and safer (definitely low commission) ways to get gold. BD Bullion, APMEX are good ones. I did not check very recently, but when
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by ptero 5y ago
I don't see either high spreads or illiquidity. At least in the US the spread from reputable dealers is under 1% for bullion; slightly more for coins. It is certainly a feasible (and, in current low interest rate scenario, inexpensive)
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by ptero 5y ago
That is an awkward wording, but the author explains exactly what he means in the next sentence, agreeing that switching FAANG for a startup for financial reasons is stupid. If you switch, do it for other reasons.
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by ptero 5y ago
No one can guarantee a successful exit, but if it does happen a cofounder typically makes out very well, while engineers with options usually end up with a token amount.
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by ptero 5y ago
You perfectly hit the points that rub me the wrong way when looking at the post: redefining commonly used terminology, lack of a short dose of physics for a background, misspelling Navier-Stokes, etc. Neither of those should doom a computat
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by ptero 5y ago
A few random guesses (I am not in any way affiliated with FB); just my 2c: Sharing status of an active event may complicate recovery, especially if they suspect adversarial actions: such public real-time reports can explain to the red team
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by ptero 5y ago
I would definitely be interested in knowing why it is hard. And yes, I was thinking about lookup: for example from (1) a dictionary, (2) a set of proper names and (3) a set of previous crossword answers. While nothing is perfect, but this (
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by ptero 5y ago
Non-existent words should be easy to check for. My guess is answers not (quite) matching the clues. Analogies and cultural references are probably hard for AI to get: is an "empire fighting knight" historical figure or Jedi? One l
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by ptero 5y ago
First, I will add another vote to "don't assume a 7% return" camp. Others already mentioned inflation, 7% average over 20 yrs vs needing 7% every year, etc. But just as much as economics, consider a requirement to move every
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by ptero 5y ago
The article seems to make and fight a strawman argument, making a supposed 10x engineer a problem for information sharing, teamwork, etc. In my experience, it is quite the opposite: while very few of the 10x engineer are indeed "leave
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by ptero 5y ago
Well working peer review is a good thing but is not a guarantee of success: there are many examples of external powers driving things by making sure only those with proper views are selected for the peer reviews. Focusing on reproducibility
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by ptero 5y ago
In my opinion, self-skepticism, the way I understand it, is not a critical attribute: almost any scientist has an emotional attachment to his work and, during investigation, focuses on the good parts. I personally see nothing unhealthy abou
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by ptero 5y ago
This is not new or limited to AI. From synthetic biology to big data, grant seekers know that just referencing the current fads in the proposal can increase the probability of getting funded.
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by ptero 5y ago
I think the opposite: current mass media approach turns science into a religion -- see the explosion of "I believe in science: (insert desired slogans)" posters. Allowing scepticism, including experiments to challenge widely held
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by ptero 5y ago
It is not any unreleased OS though. It is a major release of the most widely used desktop OS in the world, that presumably got through many layers of testing and was released to a small set of outside users before the final rollout less tha
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by ptero 5y ago
> So only metadata [can be shared] and everything that's not e2e. This is probably the best info anyway. What you speak about with a suspected enemy of the state is a lot less important for oppressive regimes than the fact that you
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by ptero 5y ago
It's not just cars, the prices are rising across the board (not evenly), so we have pretty high inflation if you add in the items official estimates excluded.
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Ask HN: Advice for switching to a robotics or a medical device fields
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by ptero 5y ago
I agree with your point, but your first word may get you many a downvote; I would remove the "nonsense" word to increase the penetration :).
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by ptero 5y ago
I can come up with a bunch of possibilities (not sure how important they are for different people), but they revolve around using crypto for transfer, not price hedging, long term investment or short term speculation. An example often cited
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by ptero 5y ago
> I have filed many bug reports for paid software over the years. The bugs were fixed exactly 0% of the time In my experience, the big difference is buying software (good luck with getting Microsoft fixing a bug in office or windows; no
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by ptero 5y ago
My personal experience is that it wasn't just hours. Those who liked math spent a lot of time on it after classes. Those who didn't, avoided extras and still did OK (they would not go to top universities, but the base would be OK,
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by ptero 5y ago
As many wrote, this is a well known problem. Running any commands on external user input is prone to similar attacks. When doing it, one should strongly consider going through an API that will prevent such command execution. And I would go
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by ptero 5y ago
That is perfectly reasonable. Someone else might gladly learn something interesting on the company dime, even if the topic seems unrelated to the job. For example, if my employers offers me a sailing, woodworking or machining class (neither
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by ptero 5y ago
Demanding random, pointless tasks from subordinates is a bad sign, but the Russia example might not be one of those. If a boss needs information s/he can ask a subordinate to make a brief. Sometimes the reasoning behind the important r
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by ptero 5y ago
> We won't have any privacy left if we continue to go down that road. If people look at today's state (phone movement tracking, voice capture, cameras and face ID, etc.) from the mental model of 30 years ago, they would see nei

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