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by tarsinge 4y ago
That's not how it works, WhatsApp had 50 engineers when it had 900M users[0]. Beside iMessage is not only used by 10k, some estimates put it at more than 1 billion users[1]. [0] https://www.wired.com/2015/09/wh
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You are missing key informations here (see below). The study you linked is on obese people primarily aiming for weight loss, it’s absolutely not of good quality for judging IF because calories and protein intake are not matched between the
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> Apparently Facebook, the website, is crumbling on the inside (technology) This is what makes me really uneasy about React. I feel there is too much cargo cult of a technology that doesn’t even work for their creators in the first place
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It’s not that simple, a lot of places in the world don’t have the means to preserve archeological artifacts. Also past a certain date I’m of the opinion it’s a shared human history (because the more we go back the more we share ancestors) t
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by tarsinge 4y ago
I think you get bombarded with hate because of the larger problem of extreme polarization on social media. All subtlety is lost, you are associated with the one anti-science group, opposed to the one pro-science group.
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by tarsinge 4y ago
Related discussion from less than a year ago: 20 year study of global wealth demolishes the myth of ‘trickle-down’: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29483131
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Another commenter posted an interesting article regarding how PoS works: https://0xfoobar.substack.com/p/ethereum-proof-of-stake
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Can you be more specific? I’m a fan of the books and I quite enjoyed these first episodes. I didn’t notice obvious politic agenda and diversity was handled quite gracefully (i.e. not noticeable if you are not looking for it), nothing clashi
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by tarsinge 4y ago
Yup, the Witcher series did a great job at that (I say this as a fan of the books but not the game). E.g. Elves are discriminated because of pointy ears, not skin color, so no reason to limit the cast the story works equally well.
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No because by this rule TikTok is less problematic, it's just entertainment, it doesn't take the crown from FB/Twitter/YT for doing the most damage to society. Same for surveillance, the surface area is just too small co
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by tarsinge 4y ago
That’s my sentiment too. The daily hit pieces on TikTok here on HN reads like a desperate US tech sector admitting weakness.
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I have an alternative for B2B that worked not too bad for me as a typical introvert sales-averse SE: working a few years in customer support, pre-sales and solution engineer, ideally all three at the same time (in B2B obv.). Then you’ll hop
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by tarsinge 4y ago
I got so tired repeating this and trying to convince others that just I created my own agency. Clients are happy, I’m happier, so I guess we are not totally crazy.
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TikTok and IG are mostly for entertainment not for learning, not sure how efficiency apply. Also we are talking about an instant stream of short clips, not old school YT where launching a video requires clicking and waiting.
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To my understanding you can’t have both huge inflation and debts, absolute value of debts don’t change contrary to everything else. If everything (including salaries) does x2, then debts get divided by 2. Inflation has positives too.
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by tarsinge 4y ago
From what I've seen with old country side houses in France just insulating the roof and the windows can already bring very good results (heat lost through walls is usually only around 25% of all the losses). A quick and cheap solution
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CC will hurt the economy whether you like it or not. The more we wait, the more pain there will be. The populace is struggling, but it’s nothing compared to what comes so why not start adjusting expectations now? There is still a lot resist
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I don’t really see how it meets that definition. It’s not a note or a contract, it’s just numbers and a global state, it represents nothing.
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The discussion was on technical feasibility, that Germany is irrational (because it’s not a question of wanting to store, it’s a choice between that and fossil waste = storage in the atmosphere = climate change) is another.
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> It performed the only sane solution to the problem - stopping. You can't possibly predict what the most likely thing is to avoid an accident, because there is a multitude of factors beyond just 2 cars moving towards each other. Ar
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Bonds were not a good idea because rates were historically low. If you can't time the market then why bonds should not be 20-40 percent of a portfolio?
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I recommend looking up hairless bear too.
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How can it be expensive if it save you billions of dollars?
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OTOH let's not underestimate what kind of scheme smart people can come up with for billions of dollars. Maybe what he didn't see wasn't the market crash but that he could not back away as easily as he tough.
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While Mithril is interesting unless you are resume-building I'd avoid anything React-like until you are a small team and just go Vanilla JS with events, it can go a long way if you are a solo dev, especially if you have a backend exper
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That’s just the definition of the concept. The true nature is what cause the theory to fail so that we need additional parameters.
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Maybe they meant high voltage amps
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And the corollary is high voltage with low amps do nothing to you too, neither amps nor voltage kill you alone.
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> turning up the heat Well that was long due: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2013/mar/11...
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The problem is that choosing to be unprofitable is a strategy that maybe worked (or just was fashionable) the past decade under very specific circumstances (lot of free money chasing higher returns in a context of very low rates), but other

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