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by sobani 6y ago
Let others evaluate the language for you. Unless a feature of the language is game-changing for you . This might mean it solves a problem that would be very hard to solve otherwise or it might mean it looks very interesting to you. Which I
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by sobani 6y ago
https://www.justetf.com/en/find-etf.html?assetClass=class-eq... Here is a link to ETFs available in Europe that have a worldwide focus. If you have no clue or preference, go for the top one. It's large, cheap and
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by sobani 6y ago
One thing you can consider is: What if your company is Enron 2.0 and goes bust next month. Do you have enough savings to last until you find your next job and are your other investments on track for what you need for retirement? If you answ
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by sobani 6y ago
I don't see anything in the article close to implying that you should drop people who are down on their luck. All I read is: If you talk a lot with finance oriented people, don't be surprised if you start thinking in finance orien
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by sobani 6y ago
Wasn't there that time right after the Boston bombings where different members of a family had searched for things like 'pressure cooker' and 'backpack' and then got an FBI visit on terrorism suspicions?
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by sobani 6y ago
When I worked as a 'consultant' (glorified contractor) .Net developer, the company charged > 90 Euro / 105 USD per hour for my time. So that would make my going rate be > 800 USD / day. This is in a country where 5
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by sobani 6y ago
@boltefnovor just commented about a related experiment [0] > “Causal understanding of water displacement by a crow” > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerUbHmuY04 [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by sobani 6y ago
#7 to #9 would never get admitted anyway. The question you should ask is whether being able to admit #6 is worth it. If #10 is some trust fund baby who couldn't study himself out of a wet paper bag, then probably not. But if #10 is mer
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by sobani 6y ago
If I deliver a bunch of bytes at jet@spiegel.com then that's the destination. Now you can decrypt it with your public key and get `Have a nice day. Regards, sobani` and see that I'm the sender. If I'm worried about leaking my
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by sobani 6y ago
Encrypting the sender is pretty easy. Deliver the encrypted message+sender at the destination. Only the receiver will be able to decrypt it and see who the sender was. Encrypting the receiver is a lot harder though. It will probably involve
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by sobani 6y ago
People already know Google exists and whether or not they want to work there. For most people (projecting here) the only recruiting Google has to do basically comes down to: We think you're good enough to have a chance. For 99.9% of th
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by sobani 6y ago
The income:price ratio would be better if you only consider NYC/SF prices. If you also take in account the vastly lower prices in other regions, suddenly the ratio would become a lot more favorable in those other regions.
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by sobani 6y ago
You failed to return the numbers that are neither divisible by 3 nor by 5. Also I'm pretty sure your code will never return "Fizzbuzz", since 15 would already be matched by %3. It's quite ironic that you had all the time
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by sobani 6y ago
Why would you want to work for a company which has only those desperate-enough-to-jump-through-hoops applying to them?
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by sobani 6y ago
I'm only 90% sure I know the syntax of a for loop in my chosen language, C#. The reason for the missing 10% is that I never write this syntax. Most loops are covered by a foreach or by LINQ (think: map and reduce, buy nicer). The few t
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by sobani 6y ago
> SpaceX is literally taking queries for the sale of private Mars tickets[0]. The only thing close to 'private Mars tickets' is the footer which says: "For inquiries about our private passenger program, contact sales@space
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by sobani 6y ago
> Not everyone has the same wants and needs. And that's why 4G is useful for a lot of people even if it's not useful for you specifically. 5G will be similar. _You_ might not benefit, but a lot of other people will.
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by sobani 6y ago
> The legal concept of fiduciary responsibility, and actual de facto laws, legally compel the board of directors and executives of for-profit corporations to produce profit for their shareholders. False. There are no laws that compel a c
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by sobani 6y ago
Breonna Taylor was asleep when she got killed. Which instruction did she not follow?
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I guess that would make you one of the 4% to whom the lizardman's constant applies. https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
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by sobani 6y ago
> the propellent is O2 and CH4 [1] > that results in CO2 and CH4 The chemical reaction of O2 + CH4 -> CO2 + CH4 does not compute. More likely is the reaction 2 O2 + CH4 -> CO2 + 2 H2O. So no methane emissions, that's the ac
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by sobani 6y ago
I'm up 75% this year [0] by buying companies I like and holding them 'forever'. But if someone asks me for investing advice I'll still tell them to go for index funds. Because while I might be lucky enough to trounce the
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by sobani 6y ago
With stack ranking a manager must rank the entire team from worst to best and fire / warn the lowest ranked person in the team. Imagine a team with the 10 best people you ever worked with. Now fire the least great of them. You must,
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by sobani 6y ago
Ancient Athens had a democracy. It also had slavery. And of course women are more like children than full adults, so they're weren't allowed to vote too. Democracy does not require Universal Suffrage. Also fun quote from Wikipedia
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by sobani 6y ago
Related: The Netherlands used to included religion in its national records. This allowed the Nazis to have a comprehensive list of all Jews.
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by sobani 6y ago
> > in which 80% people speak a language in daily life, > Citation needed. According to Wikipedia, in May 2013 82% of respondents spoke Russian at home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea#Ethn
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by sobani 6y ago
> Can you name many EU startups that IPOd or got acquired for an impressive amount during the last decade or were even considered "unicorns" at any point by anyone other than themselves? You mean besides companies like Spotify,
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Wouldn't it work the other way around in this case? Since you tried to negotiate about the non-compete it should come as no surprise that there is a non-compete and you could reasonably expect it to be enforced. In fact since they sign
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There is a big difference between using the Enneagram to get to understand yourself and others better and using it to judge people. No profile is 100% correct, but some companies act like they always are. It's similar to unit test code
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> any historical examples where government policy other than deregulation has increased the efficiency with which a resource is used? Not really an example, but any government policy that deals with a tragedy of the commons situation. Ta

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