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by virgilp 6y ago
No matter what you do, this is the news they'll get from Russia. So the only reasonable strategy is to handle that as a separate and independent issue (combatting fake news from Russia) that shouldn't affect your vaccination strat
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by virgilp 6y ago
This seems quite a leap from "C# doesn't (yet) have union types" to "structs are horrible in practice". Not all usecases require union types.
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by virgilp 6y ago
No. I'm saying I don't feel the need to protect any side [+] from being called names. I'm saying people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. That kind of stuff. [+] note how you just assumed "the other s
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by virgilp 6y ago
Except a lot of those individuals will happily brand you to pigeon hole all your views with a dislikable group, so at this point I think branding them back is fair game.
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by virgilp 6y ago
> What's a lever puller? Sorry - trolley problem, pull the lever to kill one person and save 3 others, that kind of metaphor. > stopping using that vaccine will cost lives In the EU, there are alternatives (e.g. in my country I c
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by virgilp 6y ago
There's been plenty of suggestion that other EU countries' decision to suspend AZ is somehow a political decision, and not primarily motivated by health concerns. > Its important to keep perspective. Yes, it is - on both sides.
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by virgilp 6y ago
On one hand, you are right. On the other, even Sweden suspended it (Astra-Zeneca is a British-Swedish company). I wish HN would stop pretending everything is fine with this vaccine - it might really be problematic. https://www.re
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by virgilp 6y ago
The founder might've earned more at a FAANG or different companies, just like the other early employees presumably did. He didn't contact the investors to buy them out for $1 - the investors did, because the tax cut was worth more
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by virgilp 6y ago
> but it obviously wasn’t worthless I disagree, there's nothing obvious about it. On the contrary, I argue that it WAS worthless (in the same vein that "ideas are worthless" - not that they lack anything of value, but th
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by virgilp 6y ago
In EU at least plenty of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are still incoming, so there are actually alternatives to AZ. Do not forget that these vaccines are still very new, plus there's the possibility of a production issue with the AZ vac
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by virgilp 6y ago
Yes the risks are not that high, but neither are the rewards. Basically you choose to do something (marketing, sales, dealing with bad clients) over something else (meetings, corporate bullshit, dealing with bad managers). Maybe you get mor
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by virgilp 6y ago
It's really not that simple. I made a small fortune being salaried. Would I have made the same money self-employed? Maybe, but I'm not sure - the risks are a lot higher (the rewards too, but like I said, far less certain).
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by virgilp 6y ago
Actually, yeah, my original reply was dumb, I forgot quicksort :) It can be n*n for properly-sorted arrays too, depending on pivot selection (for randomized pivot selection, it's n log n).
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by virgilp 6y ago
Also, already sorted data.. in reverse order. If it's already sorted in the right order, quicksort takes linear time. This is an important difference - data you use might indeed often be appropriately sorted, but in practice will seldo
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by virgilp 6y ago
One of the things that rubs me wrong are articles that present a solution with no downside. Even if I were to mostly agree with the article you quoted, surely there must be downsides to the "functional architecture"? And, sure eno
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by virgilp 6y ago
The article actually addresses that, and the answer is "much, much less: see silver". Or in the case of Tezos, I guess it's something like, "see brass".
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by virgilp 6y ago
That could very well mean that mostly the below-average men are creating accounts on OkCupid, though.
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by virgilp 6y ago
This might very well be what Revolut already does :D (you can 'purchase bitcoin' or sell it at the prices they determine; but you can't transfer it out of Revolut).
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by virgilp 6y ago
You can't create more bitcoin but you can create more USDT and exchange it for bitcoin.
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by virgilp 6y ago
> The rebrand won't change me using it, but I really can't see the positive in this. Anecdotal but I was somewhat reluctant to consider them as a "bank" due to their name (seemed like a service geared towards money tr
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by virgilp 6y ago
Not sure how and why they are creating them, but it's definitely a fertile breeding ground. Look what happened to Stallman - no corporation could bring him down, but the activists did.
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by virgilp 6y ago
> They wanted this employee gone. Why? Speculation? Because she was good friends with Gebru, and was continuing the (internal) drama that they wanted stopped. Assuming that Jeff Dean actually took the right decision in firing Gebru (I te
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by virgilp 6y ago
That would be a legitimate concern but the article focuses so much on stuff like "look how much edits Apple made!!" that it's really hard to tell if it was a concern for the author, at all; or if there are others (e.g. it spe
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by virgilp 6y ago
AAAH. But, are you talking about the UK /EE average, or the UK/EE average software engineer? Those are two very different populations.... In EE, as a sw engineer, you will do much better than your UK counterparts if you compare yo
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by virgilp 6y ago
> That sounds super exploitative tbh. It's not, at all. You know very well what you get into, and have every option to get out at any point, with zero downside to your career. You get paid, get to learn a lot, get to experience buil
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by virgilp 6y ago
Do note that they appear to have fine-tuned the program. I was one of the early participants - initially the blue box was a "secret" because Mark Randall genuinely didn't know what to put in it. In the meanwhile, the blue bo
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by virgilp 6y ago
I wouldn't mind, but I don't know what - ask if you have specific questions. There's ample material on https://kickbox.org and https://home.getkickbox.com/ (basically all the contents of the red b
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by virgilp 6y ago
Basically, you work it out with your managers/ organization. Getting the resources to do the product is part of the challenge.
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by virgilp 6y ago
While I worked for Adobe, one of the executives there (Mark Randall, serial entrepreneur that was "acquired" by the company, awesome guy) launched the "Red box" initiative that eventually become https://www.ki
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by virgilp 6y ago
> Behind paywall Tip: if you contact the author(s) of a paper that is of interest to you and ask for a version of it, there's a good chance that they'll gladly accommodate. I think generally authors don't even have any fin

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