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by saint_abroad 5y ago
Irrespective of how big Elastic is, this is an escalation of Amazon's behaviour of suppressing the tough weeds of competition. > First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> But an entrepreneur who gets rich by reducing waste and improving productivity by harnessing technology deserves our praise. They're not causing the "poor to get poorer". Extracting more work from the poor is often veile
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> Success is 100% luck. If that were the case, then there would be no disparity.* * That is, unless luck is a function of circumstance. Which is kind of the point of the OP.
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by saint_abroad 6y ago
Progress over the last 400 years is being undone by regressions of the last 40 years. > individuals born in 1980 have only a 45% chance of outearning their parents at age 30, compared to 93% for those born in 1940. https://www
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by saint_abroad 6y ago
Well yes, taken. The 2008 crisis was caused by irresponsible lending by the 1% with the effect of inflating costs for the 99%. A bailout and a decade later we now see irresponsible lending by the Fed having the effect of inflating assets fo
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by saint_abroad 6y ago
Since crypto pays no return on profits it cannot meet the definition of a Ponzi. It is more akin to tulip mania, dependent on inflated futures with diminishing utility. Presently though, it's better than cash, which finds itself in a s
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by saint_abroad 6y ago
Encourage kids to hypothesise, experiment, fail, adjust and succeed: https://youtu.be/9vJRopau0g0 Actively prevent loss-aversion from being the only learned lesson of failure. Encourage risk-taking by providing a safe space
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by saint_abroad 6y ago
Foster an environment where kids can practice asking (the right) questions: https://youtu.be/APVaTRNQmJc Good activities are open-ended for more opportunity to question. Drop an egg, improve its survivability.
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by saint_abroad 6y ago
> In New York, the hospitals are so far under capacity Do you think 20% exposure (at a cost of 17.5k lives) buys you herd immunity? Even in hotspots like New York City that have been hit hardest by the pandemic, initial studies suggest t
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by saint_abroad 6y ago
> tested in that case if you were seeking medical care because it was pretty bad, or the tests were encouraged by a contact tracing regime. The first part would lead towards higher positivity results, and the second towards lower. That,
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by saint_abroad 6y ago
> Vaccination is likely an option for long term COVID-19 herd immunity. To achieve herd immunity for measles at least 90-95% of the population need to be vaccinated. A disease like polio is less contagious, and 80-85% of the population w
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by saint_abroad 6y ago
> I will get tested first before making my kid go through that. If I test positive, only then will I test my child. If I test negative and we are both sick, I will presume we caught something else. If you test positive, why make your kid
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by saint_abroad 6y ago
Enterprise software consultancy is a variation of the design price-list https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/graphic-design-price-list... : $100k Consultancy spec everything $200k Consultancy spec, provides client with dr
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by saint_abroad 6y ago
The concept of UBI is harmed by treating it as an unemployment benefit. UBI is most effective when it helps people pursue /better/ jobs.
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by saint_abroad 6y ago
> You realize that UBI requires monies, right? Like the $1.5trillion tax cut that had "no major impact on businesses' capital investment"? https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/1-5-trillion-tax
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by saint_abroad 6y ago
Dot-com paper companies that had no assets and no revenue also had no debts. Here, we're talking about the vastly different proposition of raising equity in a company where debts outstrip assets.
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by saint_abroad 6y ago
You know you're in serious zombie market territory when bankrupt companies are raising $1b on equity markets: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hertz-seeks-bankruptcy-cou...
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by saint_abroad 6y ago
Without warrants, and thus probable cause, searches are highly discriminatory. This is evidenced by stop-and-frisk, which was effective only in finding criminality among select individuals.
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by saint_abroad 6y ago
Interesting Zoom timing co-incident with the announcement that the DEA has been authorized to surveil protestors. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23397868 Next up: Zoom meeting attendees raided for unlawful assembly.
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
I once got into an argument with a senior technical interviewer because he wanted a quick solution of an in-memory sort of an unbounded set of log files. Needless to say I wasn't recommended for the job, and it taught me a valuable les
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
> Who actually has multi-user systems. Really has them. systemd-homed isn't about multi-user systems, it's about multi-system users. Goal #1: Migratable Home Directories (all the way to the point of "home-on-a-stick")
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
update. LastPass leaks credentials from previous site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20983344
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
I always ask about staff turnover numbers, especially in ratio to new hires. If they're not prepared to discuss or don't know the answer then it's not important to them.
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
Where devops works is that there's shared call-out responsibility when things go wrong at 2am. It won't happen again because they'll take the time to fix things. If management don't also share in the responsibility, it -
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
The cloud is not the automatic solution to the problem of passwords- chiefly that third parties cannot be trusted to keep them secure.
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
Past passwords can be tested against past hashes.
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
>> that is racist. > speaking [...] not English which predisposes one to crime. Even in jest, this perpetuates the view that unless they speak English in one's presence they should be viewed as having a propensity to crime. ed
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
Also, check out g.co/justaline
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
> Once you accept bloat, it’s very hard to claw it back. If your project has multi-minute compiles, people won’t even notice a 10s regression in compile time. Then these pile up, and it gets harder and harder to motivate the work to redu
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
> The abstract notion of making purchases through a computer as simple and take as few steps as possible is “obvious” but it’s also not patentable. The point was that the invention of 1-click buy is patentable as applied to "a sho

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