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by smt88 2y ago
In GP’s shoes, why bother to learn Mongo then? What’s the benefit? Postgres has a good-enough (if not better) document DB inside it, but it also has a billion other features and widespread adoption. Mongo needs a huge benefit somewhere to
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by smt88 2y ago
There’s a service in my city that advertises itself literally this way
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by smt88 2y ago
The transliteration was done by the passengers themselves, by the shipping company that transported the passengers, or by interpreters at Ellis Island. While many of these immigrants wouldn't have been fluent in English, they still wou
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by smt88 2y ago
> rule it out as a widespread normal practice That's the part that's a myth: that it was widespread or normal. Of course small errors would happen. But the main reason it didn't happen frequently is that employees at Ell
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by smt88 2y ago
US answer: Home care professional who does housekeeping and cooking. Easy to find on Care.com. You’d expect to pay $20-50/hr depending on your location, probably 2-3 hours per day. If you need this kind of help to launch a startup, you
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by smt88 2y ago
“Name changed by staff at Ellis Island” is a myth. Some people, including many Eastern Europeans, did change their own names to make their ethnicity less obvious or to shorten the name (Schwarzenegger => Schwarz, Stein => Stone, etc.)
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by smt88 2y ago
It has static types because the compiler won't let you change a variable's type. It's exactly as statically typed as C#. Both allow explicitly-declared dynamic variables, but they're disabled by default. === is incidenta
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by smt88 2y ago
It's not a statically typed language. No one is claiming it is. It's a dynamic language with static types.
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by smt88 2y ago
The debate seems to have mostly ended in a victory for static types. The largest languages other than Python have them (if you include the transition from JS to TS). Python is slowly moving toward having them too.
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by smt88 2y ago
The simplest explanation is that the juiciest records were destroyed a long time ago, and released the remaining ones would only lead to speculation and a decrease in trust of the agencies involved.
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by smt88 2y ago
Imagine a future where all of your communications are mediated through an AI. You'll never know if any of your messages are being repeated as written. You'll never even know if the sender exists or not. This is truly dystopian and
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by smt88 2y ago
In unregulated environments, it's often more cost effective to be a bully (in the market or the courts) than to sincerely compete. You can see the same behavior from Meta (which buys competitors instead of innovating) and xAI (which is
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by smt88 2y ago
Unfortunate compression issue. Here's what it actually looks like: https://www.polygon.com/news/516748/super-mario-grocery-nint...
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by smt88 2y ago
It didn't survive. It turned into rock.
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by smt88 2y ago
AI has value the way self-checkout has value: it's anti-consumer and widely hated, but it (can) save the companies money and will therefore be too widespread for anyone to opt out.
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by smt88 2y ago
It's insane to me that anyone would "trust" an enormous for-profit company in the first place. It requires a deep ignorance of history.
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by smt88 2y ago
JVM probably has a better ecosystem, so Kotlin wins in that regard. I would also say there's a huge and painful difference between C# and TypeScript, which is that C# has nominal typing (no equivalency between types unless they'
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by smt88 2y ago
I'm not going to log in to Xitter to read the rest of his tweets, but it doesn't seem like Miguel regrets using C# or is particularly in love with Dart. He's very complimentary of the goals and governance of Flutter, which is
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by smt88 2y ago
I live in the US, and I didn't have an option to vote against Big Tech. Both parties were deeply sycophantic toward that industry.
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by smt88 2y ago
> maybe just had it less accessible Yes. That's the whole point. The old way of avoiding the work was: - find someone else's essay, maybe buy a Cliff's Notes or search the internet - read the summary - write your paper I
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by smt88 2y ago
I think it's the death of essays and also of reading. Why read a book when AI can read it for you? Teachers I know have already seen this happening.
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by smt88 2y ago
A) If being useful were enough to make a product successful, we'd still have Google Reader B) We have no way of knowing how well Blume's product actually worked C) Health insurance is heavily regulated, which means it's not a
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by smt88 2y ago
It's certainly much worse. It's often difficult to tell when a company is dead unless they announce it. Many other failures (likely most of YC's portfolio) will have died by being acquired for less than the most recent valuat
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by smt88 2y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but it's not an odd coincidence. It's an explicit response to Musk's Nazi salute.
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by smt88 2y ago
The answer is that what they want isn't ideologically consistent. They want him to be hard on criminals who do things they don't like. The biggest drug dealers alive are the Sacklers or maybe McKinsey, and they're not in scop
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by smt88 2y ago
I understand your point, but it has become a waste of energy to try to point out hypocridy and ideological inconsistency among that group. It's better to ignore the rational reasons to oppose them and focus on the emotional ones. For s
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by smt88 2y ago
The classic SV tech crowd wasn't worth following anyway. It was an endless stream of self-promotion and people pretending to have great wisdom because they exited one company once (or, worse, got a job as a VC).
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by smt88 2y ago
It's childish, privileged, and detached from reality to tell people to quit literally their entire career to avoid using Windows or Chrome. There are industries (not just single companies) that use Windows. The degree of moral puri
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Hundreds of millions of people are required by their employer to use Windows
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by smt88 2y ago
> Well I guess as a Windows user I can't have a 'Standards First Web Framework'. Windows has had a Linux subsystem for years. This should not be an obstacle for you anymore.

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