quantumgarbage

7 ms·

1. 31.▲
   by quantumgarbage 1y ago

   Again, gini coefficients or GDP growth measures are, at best, proxies to understand the conditions the bottom decile of your country lives in. Looking at housing costs, life expectancy, food insecurity or poverty rates do a much better job
2. 32.▲
   by quantumgarbage 1y ago

   Switzerland and Afghanistan have an almost equal Gini coefficient. My point is: the Gini coefficient might indicate what your country's income distribution looks like, it however does not tell anything about actual life conditions.
3. 33.▲
   by quantumgarbage 1y ago

   Only 30% of americans voted for him. Yes, that's quite a share of people ready to vote for a convicted criminal, but not to the point where I would say that the U.S. population showed actual agency in this election - and that might be
4. 34.▲
   by quantumgarbage 1y ago

   A seamless, drop-in replacement, for all python users is actually a pretty good feat tbh
5. 35.▲
   Incomplete Musings on Applied Cryptography in 2025(pierredm.xyz)

   2 points by quantumgarbage 2y ago|0 comments
6. 36.▲
   by quantumgarbage 2y ago

   The mistake this post makes is thinking that sole engineering effort is what makes startup win. Most of the things you build will end up in the trash can anyway. But what matters is what you get while doing them, like domain knowledge, impr