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by taylodl 1y ago
Mine is only an anecdote. I've been in this business for decades and I've never seen or even heard of anything like this. Even so, I think we agree a therapist would be really good for him to get over this patch.
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I'm thinking you need a therapist more than you need HN. I've been in the software development business for 40 years and I've never once heard of anyone being afflicted with this problem. Maybe a therapist could also help you
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You're right that Taiwan held the China seat at the UN until 1971, and that the ROC and PRC are rival claimants from the Chinese Civil War. But it's important to clarify that most countries do not formally recognize PRC sovereignt
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> Taiwan is Chinese territory as recognised by everyone. Most countries do not recognize Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan. However, they also don't officially recognize Taiwan as an independent country. This is the position of str
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Repeating Apollo is a strategic blunder and a tragic waste of money and resources. It's such a lame goal that even success is a failure.
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Nonsense. The US won the lunar space race decades ago. China is still trying to catch up. The US launched six missions to the moon and from that, a total of 12 men have walked on the moon. We don't need to repeat that effort just to
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by taylodl 1y ago
I’m not talking about rhetorical support or diplomatic gestures. I’m talking about real aid - military, logistical, and strategic support in the face of actual Chinese aggression. If Japan and South Korea see that the US will not materially
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I don't think that's obvious. There's some thought that it may be best to confront China now before they become a superpower, because afterward it would be obviously "No." Taiwan is more critical than you may thin
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The US will absolutely confront China over an attack on Taiwan just to secure its own processor supply chain. If production is moved to the US, then Taiwan can count on losing that US defense. Trump has undermined his own negotiation.
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Trump removed that bargaining piece when he threatens to not support NATO allies and he fails to honor existing US treaties. Trump has seen to it that his word means absolutely nothing and treaties with the US are only worth the paper they&
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The bulk of Trump's tariffs were enacted during the 2nd quarter and now the job market is contracting in August and September as a result: which was both predicted and expected.
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"or face the punitive 100 percent tariff" - how is this not a you'd better do as I say, or I'll shoot my foot off situation? Trump hails himself as a negotiating genius, so what am I missing here? - Taiwan makes the bu
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by taylodl 1y ago
Of course - Trump lacks honor. He's so crass he sees that as a virtue.
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Why not treat email as a dynamic event source? Imagine an architecture where incoming emails are parsed to extract key metadata such as sender, subject, category, priority, and body content and then published to a local Kafka queue. From th
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I reject sections 5.2 and 7.2 of the article. There are alternative explanations for the apparent phenomena of wave function collapse and Many Worlds is just one. Another is that the observer itself is a quantum system: a set of entangled p
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by taylodl 1y ago
There's nothing the article's author is saying that's wrong , it's just there are additional considerations. For example, how many applications are using this database? If it’s more than one, replicating business logic
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'We need the smartest people' - we can afford. That last bit is the unspoken part. They want to maximize their headcount for a given budget. They're just responding to market dynamics. Also, FAANG do not hire the smartest p
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This is what corruption looks like and there's a large faction of Americans cheering this on in the woefully mistaken belief that they're ending corruption. That's the price we're paying for decades of declining public e
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What - you expect them to admit they hire the mediocre? Anyway, the labor market is a market like any other - the consumer, in this case the employer, wants to get the best product (labor) at the cheapest price (salary). This isn't com
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Windows is a mature market, and companies tend to focus on the areas of their business providing growth.
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Given Trump's horrid track record with Covid treatment advice, which has been linked to thousands of deaths, why would anyone listen to this man regarding any medical advice?
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Alright. So offshore development it is! Putting snark aside, I'd rather work with the H-1B visa holders who are here locally. Not only does it make it easier for me to coordinate and deliver my projects, but there's a lot of local
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The United States is, by all appearances, a willing accomplice.
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There's a lot of optimism in this article, but I think there are a lot of realities needing to be considered. I'm just going to go point-by-point how I see things unfolding (based off my 40 years of software development experience
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Turing said there will come a time when you can't!
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No WFH in Michigan!
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"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." - Max Planck This is o
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I had never even thought of that! I had just assumed that Tesla would be responsible, but you know what they say about "assume!" Holy Cow! Now you've got me thinking there's another reason to not utilize a Robotaxi, bu
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My benchmark for full self-driving is simple: if the manufacturer assumes full legal responsibility and liability for the vehicle’s actions, then it qualifies as autonomous. Otherwise, it’s just driver assistance and isn't capable of b
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I wait until Apple stops supporting my phone or I run out of memory. I then go out and buy the smallest iPhone I can get my hands on having twice the memory. The last time I did that was in 2020 when I got my iPhone SE2. They're rumo

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