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by typon 3y ago
You can hire contractors and temporary workers. This isn't a new concept.
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by typon 3y ago
Even though 1M/day sounds like a lot, $10B (their funding from Microsoft) would last them 27 years at this rate.
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by typon 3y ago
ouch
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by typon 3y ago
Because it is a regional hegemon and wants to protect its assets and there's nothing Syria can do about it.
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by typon 3y ago
This is a vibes based argument though. I can make similar claims about how improved worker satisfaction will lead them to work harder, make less mistakes on the line, boost morale and have a multiplied effect on productivity as they not onl
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by typon 3y ago
I'm legitimately curious if there are studies or any kind of evidence that backs up your claims. Specifically, evidence that shows causation between more vacation days and lower worker productivity leading to companies shutting down th
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by typon 3y ago
Where's the fun in that? Let's design heuristics that work culturally in some parts of the world and be imprecise instead!
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by typon 3y ago
Just searched for something technical and didn't get GeeksForGeeks as the first search result unlike Google. I'm already sold.
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by typon 3y ago
When is the last time you watched a Keynote by GE CEO announcing a new dishwasher? The point is that they are pretending like its some sort of revolutionary new product instead of a run-of-the-mill minor cosmetic upgrade
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by typon 3y ago
Same story here. Why should I spend years toiling away in a clean-room for shit pay when I can 3x or 4x my pay doing a much easier job?
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by typon 3y ago
Incumbents reinforce their moats through labyrinthine regulation (and bribery?) and are smarter than their predecessors in adapting to newer technologies.
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by typon 3y ago
Why not? Incredible claims should have equal amount of scrutiny. I am glad that HN has a default skeptical bias - we don't want to be swept up in frenzies. If anything, HN is still relatively prone to these frenzies from time to time.
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by typon 3y ago
52% correct seems awfully high - I am guessing it's inflated because of the easiness of the questions on StackOverflow. In my experience, at least in my domain, I will be lucky it it can generate an answer that is more than 5 lines of
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by typon 3y ago
The market is simultaneously efficient and yet refuses to offshore absolutely every job to make more money and increase profits. Strange world we live in.
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by typon 3y ago
Meet is barely usable - I don't understand how Google can make such a garbage product when their other products are actually decent (Pixel, Search, Android etc.)
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by typon 3y ago
Besides economics, is there another profession where you can be so consistently wrong without facing zero consequences? Maybe op-ed columnist?
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by typon 3y ago
Watching Rich Hickey's talks turned me from a "software is a grind" kind of a guy into a "software can be beautiful". Highly recommend watching every single one of his talks if you are a young programmer. It doesn&#
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by typon 3y ago
Yes - Meissner effect is also called Flux Pinning. Superconductor will remain pinned to the magnet in any orientation. Diamagnet will only repel. The video shows horizontal hover - that confirms Meissner effect.
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by typon 3y ago
You will hear many explanations, but the real one is that the US leadership in hard science is fading. We are too cerebral and cyber - Asia has picked up the mantle now.
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by typon 3y ago
Working on a Word Processor, especially one that is mature and stable, sounds like the most boring, awful thing I could work on. However, here are the list of release notes for LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/downlo
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by typon 3y ago
I am glad someone made this post and I learned about this software. Never heard of it before even though I consider myself a GNU aficionado.
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by typon 3y ago
Because Ads are more profitable than APIs
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by typon 3y ago
It makes intuitive sense. If I speak Japanese at you (and you are a non-Japanese speaker), I will just confuse you. Instead if you spend two years learning Japanese, then I share some information with you in Japanese, you will learn somethi
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by typon 3y ago
I don't understand how people can use a browser without Container Tabs. This is a killer feature of Firefox and so many people don't even know about it.
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by typon 3y ago
They had the Uber ATG group - they laid everyone off and gave up on their AV research. How is that cynical? That's a fact.
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by typon 3y ago
I would recommend reading this entire page: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socialism/ But if you don't have the time for that, just read the intro paragraph.
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by typon 3y ago
Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon
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by typon 3y ago
I went from San Fransisco to Shenzhen. This is the kind of lies Americans tell themselves to make themselves feel better. Chinese infrastructure is 2-3 decades ahead of US in major cities - the only way you to deny this is to put your head
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by typon 3y ago
What class of actually useful algorithms are limited by unordered search?
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by typon 3y ago
Totally agreed

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