s4vi0r

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by s4vi0r 9y ago
Do you have a source for the dividends thing? I've always seen/heard that Quebec takes an insane amount of Provincial Equalization funds - like almost 10x more or something like that.
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by s4vi0r 9y ago
Note that he said higher quality, and not better . There is a bit of a difference, as better could mean different things to different people. You can find plenty of things about the (raw) denim subculture as far as Japan goes, this is prob
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by s4vi0r 9y ago
Viruses are the OG nanobots. Not only do they look robot-y, they also technically don't count as living IIRC
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by s4vi0r 9y ago
What's the difference between mainland European and American (north American?) grains?
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by s4vi0r 9y ago
That's not true at all... What would possibly make you think that?
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by s4vi0r 9y ago
Elm is pretty kludgy - its nice for learning FP for beginners, but because they're really committed to staying in that niche (which I think is great tbh, the more people write functional code the better!) the language lacks a lot of ni
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by s4vi0r 9y ago
Yeah, but then you're writing PHP :^)
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by s4vi0r 9y ago
No, prostitution and pornography condition society to see sex workers (20% of them are Male, and likely a significant portion transgendered as well. Thought it was interesting that you only mentioned women) as workers, which is what they ar
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by s4vi0r 9y ago
....why? I mean, yeah, maybe in a social studies class, but I fail to see any reason otherwise.
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by s4vi0r 9y ago
Nobody is ever "pretty happy with the way things are" in the context of a country or company. It is absolutely in China's best interest to promote their culture abroad, and they absolutely do spend tons of money doing it. Als
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by s4vi0r 9y ago
I think you're either intentionally or unintentionally looking to create/perpetuate controversy where there is none. The post you linked mentions itself that most people weren't even aware of the origin of the image, which I
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by s4vi0r 9y ago
What do you mean? I've yet to deal with an NPE in either language. I mean, its possible, but you'd have to be trying pretty hard to get one IMO.
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by s4vi0r 9y ago
Windows laptops are unequivocally trash. Regardless of spec advantage, I have never used a windows laptop (e.g. dell, lenovo, hp, samsung) that hasnt had issues with something. Its absolutely ridiculous and unacceptable that a $1000-2000 la
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by s4vi0r 9y ago
In Canada its within 2 years for 12 (or 13?) year olds (I.e. a 10/11 year old can consent with a 12/13 year old) and within 5 years for 14/15 year olds. Though I'm not sure if that covers self distribution of cp (e.g. if
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by s4vi0r 9y ago
I've seen plenty of listings for jobs in Germany (on HN, even) paying like €50k for a senior position (5+ years experience). Ignoring currency conversion, that's right around the money you'd expect to make as a fresh junior d
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by s4vi0r 9y ago
Isn't a Monad just the fancy name for a type/structure that implements map and flatMap in a lawful manner?
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by s4vi0r 9y ago
The JVM and tools + libraries built around it are great. Java itself is trash, IMO - I really don't see any reason you'd want to write Java instead of Kotlin. Saves you the hassle of boilerplate, introduces plenty missing features
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by s4vi0r 10y ago
Why even buy em in the first place? Seems more like a product tailored to people who aren't really tech savvy, which I'd be surprised to find on HN.
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by s4vi0r 10y ago
I feel like stories is kind of misleading - I was hoping for literal stories, while instead it seems like it's just a non-standard name for your discussion/forum section
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by s4vi0r 10y ago
These are the actual averages (not adjusted for SF cost of living): https://hired.com/assets/reports/state_of_salaries/img1@2x-2... IMO if you're happy where you are, and the cost of living is really low
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by s4vi0r 10y ago
Unless Amazon really fucks something up, Walmart will never be able to attract the tech talent that Amazon does. Nobody wants to work for Walmart.
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by s4vi0r 10y ago
Isn't Dotty just the name of the new compiler for Scala?
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by s4vi0r 10y ago
Whatever it is they learn/how they learn/etc it seems to be grossly inefficient. I noticed literally no difference between my Canadian students and Chinese/Korean students as a TA at a top university here, other than the inte
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by s4vi0r 10y ago
Just curious, what are some examples of difficult/weird vowel or consonant sounds that you think English has? And why do you think Spanish is easy in terms of sounds? IMO Mandarin is pretty difficult since it has both tones and weird v
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by s4vi0r 10y ago
hangul is probably my favorite writing system, but I wouldn't really consider it any simpler than an alphabet type system. Can't speak for abjads, though. Also, converting spoken Korean into text can be tricky for non native speak
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by s4vi0r 10y ago
How commonly do WD Greens actually fail? I'm either strangely lucky, or the whole unreliable WD Greens thing is way overblown because I've been using three 1TB ones without incident for 5 years now..
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by s4vi0r 10y ago
How far would you say you got at the end of 6 months? I took a Japanese 101 class a couple years ago and still remember some basic phrases/verbs/etc and how to read katakana and hiragana as well as probably 50 or so kanji. Been th
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by s4vi0r 10y ago
I'd imagine most people would probably love to live in Switzerland, but isn't it also stupidly hard to get a work visa if you're not already an EU citizen? IIRC the company has to prove to the government that nobody in Switze
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by s4vi0r 10y ago
>It's a conservative wet dream. Man, c'mon - why you gotta lump all conservatives in with these people? You can be a conservative without being an absolute anti-science/anti-intellectual/anti-environment/etc luna