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by safog 7y ago
Doesn't matter even if they did because GC wait times for Indians are ~50+ years right now.
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by safog 7y ago
The language / the cultural barrier isn't as high as it is for an American living in China though. I've grown up speaking English and watching a lot of American / British movies and TV, reading a lot of english literatur
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by safog 7y ago
The autism bit aside, it looks like why they got him in the first place was that a technique he used (spoofing) was illegal in the US. Given he lives in England why was he extradited to the US? Is the summary that US has enough political po
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by safog 7y ago
I think there's several different underlying causes to Windows feeling more secure (not needing antivirus) these days: 1. Security on desktops has been improved quite a bit. You can no longer simply email someone a .exe file that'
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Ask HN: Podcast Listening Numbers
3 points by safog 7y ago|2 comments
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by safog 7y ago
It's surprising to see so many on HN agree with a 4 work week. As a programmer, I will definitely get more done in a 5 day week than in a 4 day week. I assume manufacturing jobs will need to be 5 days or America will be even less compe
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by safog 7y ago
I think these predictions are way too safe, to the point that they aren't predictions at all. These are all very widely accepted views already (in the tech community / HN atleast) which explains why this comment is top currently.
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by safog 7y ago
Who are all these tech workers who want private parties and yachts and pent houses and sommeliers in their apartment? Everyone I've worked with up to director levels at FAANG are mostly content with just investing their riches and mayb
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by safog 7y ago
I feel you here, but it's up to tech leads / Sr. Engineers to push back on management bullshit like this because otherwise the commit messages aren't the only thing in that culture that'll make an engineer miserable. My
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by safog 7y ago
The real question is if anyone would've even cared about the atrocities of Nazi Germany if it wasn't in their national interest to go to war. The reason England and France got into the war is because of Germany's expansionist
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by safog 7y ago
What's the latest on VM tech? Is it still using Virtualbox + spinning up multiple VMs?
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by safog 7y ago
Haha, I think it can be tastefully done. Of course, the PC shouldn't look like a Unicorn puking rainbows, but I'm a fan of having a glass panel that shows off components with some subtle single / dual color lighting. So yeah,
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by safog 7y ago
I bit the bullet and upgraded from 4670k + DDR3 --> X570 Mobo + R5 3700X. Costs ~$500 assuming you can keep your GPU, PSU, Case, fans etc. and you don't want to go all our RGB on everything.
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by safog 7y ago
I'm honestly pretty cynical about EU laws these days. All they're designed to do is to whack around American tech companies until they cough up $X bn for their coffers. Not that America is any better these days, NJ recently decide
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by safog 7y ago
We-work'd boarding house.
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by safog 7y ago
Inspirato keeps spamming me on Instagram with this exact ad. $2500 / mo, any of their hotels across the world. No idea if this is some glorified time-share.
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by safog 7y ago
They claim they'll be profitable by 2021. https://www.fastcompany.com/90420691/lyft-stock-skyrockets-a...
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by safog 7y ago
From Q3 results, it sounded like the company was profitable just on ride-sharing itself and was losing a ton of money on eats + cargo + autonomous vehicles R&D. I wonder what a fair valuation would be for just the ride-sharing business
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by safog 7y ago
Yes, some of it was organic, but towards the end of the bubble, folks were looking at tether printing and using that as a signal to buy / sell. People even during the bull run called out tether for being the biggest risk to crypto mark
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Ask HN: Who's the Next Tech Unicorn?
1 points by safog 7y ago|0 comments
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by safog 7y ago
Re: upscaling, I was reading another article on HN about a specific species of plant when grown in sufficiently large quantities (6x size of Texas I think) would basically bring us down to carbon neutral. We can probably scrounge up that la
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by safog 7y ago
Yup I agree with you almost entirely. The only thing I was thinking of was if evolution would optimize for the amount of energy a plant receives vs other things like survival, reproduction etc and how much efficiency we can gain by optimizi
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by safog 7y ago
One thing I've never been able to figure out is that given Crispr, why it wouldn't be possible to engineer an organism that can suck much more CO2 out of the air than any existing tree / algae could. Even more ideal if we can
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by safog 7y ago
So one thing people seem to be ignoring is that cloud != automated provisioning of VMs by engineers. There’s so much more AWS, GCP and Azure offer these days that trading away all the stuff like metrics, monitoring, dynamo-dB, s3, lambda, s
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by safog 7y ago
It seems very unlikely that they are unedited. Any link to that claim? I just re skimmed the article and didn’t find anything along those lines. For example I would guess this pic has some photoshop to emphasize the light and atleast some s
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by safog 7y ago
So I want to throw out something quickly - just because someone claims a photo has been shot on an iPhone doesn't mean that they shot it in the same way as you or I would. Lots of people have special lenses that they attach in front of
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by safog 7y ago
I was trying to run a similar arbitrage operation when the Tesla powerwall was first released but the breakeven was ridiculously long. Mine was to charge the powerwall when electricity was cheap on the grid and sell during peak. I found tha
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by safog 7y ago
You can put a price on those things. Insurance: 2400 / yr (guesstimate, maybe lower) Miles driven per year: 50k [1] Cost per mile (Incl depreciation) = 0.26$ [2] Cost per year to drive = 0.26 * 52k = 13520 Total = ~$16k per year in pos
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by safog 7y ago
There's a bunch of special cases along these lines - As an Indian citizen, I'd normally need a visa to visit Mexico / Costa Rica but I live in the US on a work visa which means that the visa requirement is waived. This is jus
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by safog 7y ago
That's like 6x the size of Texas. Can probably pull that off if everyone in the world pitches in. Not sure what other effects like invasiveness of the species factor in.

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