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by rafiki6 7y ago
When it comes to the financial system, the thing that gets most companies is regulation. As much as these tech companies want to play bank, they just don't have the right skillset to navigate the complexity of regulations across multip
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by rafiki6 7y ago
Canada should take the opportunity here and offer some funding to develop VR and AR that can help facilitate the transition away from having animals be captive...a sort of virtual Zoo. If they aim to build something like that and offer appr
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by rafiki6 7y ago
This is where technology like VR and AR can really take off. We shouldn't have to torture animals any longer to further our own species. We can create beautiful virtual worlds for games that are hyper realistic and fully interactive. W
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by rafiki6 7y ago
This is the first and only comment I've read that actually gives credence to the idea of FB making it as a cryptocurrency, but it still falls short of a simple idea and gives FB too much credit for being an "open" player. FB
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by rafiki6 7y ago
I don't understand why you're assuming "everyone" here will be wrong. I have yet to see a comment that has detracted from the value this brings to Facebook. What doesn't make any level of sense is why it's bein
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by rafiki6 7y ago
I can almost guarantee you that regulators will step in and regulate the living crap out of this system if it's found to be actively used for high rates of cross-border transfers and foreign exchange. Governments are a lot smarter than
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by rafiki6 7y ago
You asked two different questions. I'm not going to answer the one about why Facebook is creating a pegged cryptocurrency (other commenters have done a good job of that). As for the value of blockchain here, there is absolutely none. F
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by rafiki6 7y ago
I'm going to challenge you here (admittedly without full context, but to make a point). It sounds to me like the problem you're describing requires a database has ACID transactions which is not Cassandra. Therefore Cassandra is a
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by rafiki6 7y ago
Selection bias. HN community tends towards disliking Google/FB, and will tend to show articles that target those kinds of tech giants. In all honesty, they do have monopolies and it seems that the same type of anti-trust enforcement th
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by rafiki6 7y ago
I'm not sure what companies you've worked with, but the answers to your questions are very easy and come with experience. There's a universe of testable things. You'll never have 100% coverage (this is a software develop
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by rafiki6 7y ago
What is your efficiency metric here? Number of patients serviced? If so, it's not that simple. Imaging specialties might end up becoming more "efficient" (such as radiology), but medical patient data which is used to diagnose
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I don't totally buy this argument. It's not cheap to hire. They might have increased the number of candidates in the pipeline sure, but I don't think the turnaround time to hire is any less. Also, there's the paradox of
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by rafiki6 8y ago
What was the average age/tenure of your managers?
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I think taking any advice given here isn't a good idea. No one understands your mental state or the root cause of your depression, and further no one here is likely to be a trained mental health professional. Given your current state o
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I've visited several developing economies and this is basically it for most of them. You can replace "Chinese" with "Indian", "Brazilian" etc. We live in a bubble in the West.
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by rafiki6 8y ago
> “One thing Chinese founders or unicorns haven’t figured out is how to become a sustainable business. If you continue those [long hours] for 10 years, people will have no personal life any more, they will have no kids, they will go craz
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I do have ask about this desire to "change the world", as I constantly question my own motivations. We all generally think of it in a positive manner, but have most SV companies actually done that objectively? I'm not so sure
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Working from home mostly. I can't focus without a quiet and calm environment. As with many things related to worker well being, companies just don't seem to care about this. I honestly think that had it not been for the conviction
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by rafiki6 8y ago
"Choosing" is a very loose term here. No one chooses that type of situation, but are rather forced into it.
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Ask HN: Is an MSc in Data Science Valuable?
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Depending on who's definitions of birth date ranges you use, Obama might be considered a Gen X president. Also, not entirely sure why there's a generation called "the Greatest Generation". We can say they were all war he
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Of course it's difficult to get jobs there, so how will you buy the cheap land?
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I'm not sure if you got through past the introduction or not but there's this really key piece here: "Now they claim we have got nothing new. And, yet, much of the thought that we integrated in MMT had been lost in the postwa
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Ugh...it seems that no one in the media actually understands what MMT is saying and what's underpinning it. http://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/modern-money-theor... MMT isn't actually proposing anythin
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Not entirely sure why I am getting downvoted here. It's factually correct and relevant to the discussion. I'm starting to think someone is actively trying to downvote my comments.
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by rafiki6 8y ago
> Big-O is just a formal word for how much time you’re going to take, a way to figure out if you’re likely to take more time than available This is a common misunderstanding about big-O. It's not about how much time you're gonn
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by rafiki6 8y ago
My bet is this is related to AML (anti-money laundering) more than BAML being vindictive. Especially since you were using it to pay people remotely. Not forgiving them for poor customer service, but that's what it seems like to me.
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I disagree...the killer app is a smart speaker (i.e. Amazon Music + voice control). That in an of itself is pretty useful, especially when you can get a reasonably good one for under a hundred bucks now. Outside of that, Alexa isn't th
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I'm glad they exist, because unfortunately I need a way to be able to prepare for the silly barrier placed between me and a job I already do but somewhere else. Maybe one day the software development industry will mature enough to crea
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Funny enough I was thinking the same thing. This really isn't any different than the test prep industry for other types of standardized tests. The only real difference is that we have to constantly be doing these tests as people workin

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