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by volgo 8y ago
I think a very inconvenient and ugly truth is slowly dawning on Facebook and society in general: connecting people at mass is bad. Facebook may go down in history as the next Big Tobacco or Big Fast Food that touted new innovation as a mass
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by volgo 8y ago
Wouldn't be surprised if it's scandal filled like the Catholic church. When you combine mysticism and people in position of absolute spiritual leadership and people who willingly believe it, you get some interesting relationships.
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by volgo 8y ago
A common illusion that developers tend to have is the "I'm right, why can't they just see it" syndrome. Without knowing the full story, who knows what actually happened there. When you're working on a team, it'
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by volgo 9y ago
There's no such thing as Taiwanese characters. The island uses Traditional Chinese characters
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by volgo 9y ago
There's certainly a fair amount of people from Taiwan who call it Hokkien as a matter of accuracy I don't think that's the case here though. There's nothing specifically different from the Hokkien spoken in Taiwan. It&#x
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by volgo 9y ago
Hokkien is a type of Chinese dialect. The only reason people rush to call it "Taiwanese" is because of politics, not cultural.
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by volgo 9y ago
You're factually right. But this is HN and everytime we discuss something of Chinese culture, the comment will always be "welll actualllly" or something about Taiwan that's completely irrelevant just because people here
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by volgo 9y ago
That's incorrect. Scientific and neutral ideas that do not fit the mold cannot be safely discussed
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by volgo 9y ago
The same cannot be said today. If you even hint at non mainstream idea about gender or race in the Silicon Valley, you'll be shunned immediately
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by volgo 9y ago
I believe that. Anecdotally, I know people from past work experience, the ones who rattle to an outsider (either to another department or to the public) are generally the "frustrated asshole" type with a huge sense of entitlement
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by volgo 9y ago
That would be admitting that Chinese technologies are gaining momentum. Not something you're suppose to say here on HN :)
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by volgo 9y ago
I think there's a little bit of confirmation bias mixed with a bit of jealousy toward younger developers. The fact is, technology doesn't really matter that much to the success of a business. Business sense, ability to spot what&#
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by volgo 9y ago
Wrong. There's negative China articles coming out every day. If you just browse HN you'll find a fair selection of them
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by volgo 9y ago
I clicked and dragged the image to my desktop. Did I do something wrong?
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by volgo 9y ago
Relevant: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by volgo 9y ago
The key to finding a great salary as a remote employee is not to start out being remote first. Find a medium sized company that doesn't mind people working remotely, and then work your ass off for them. Then after a while ask to work r
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by volgo 9y ago
Ok, I'm changing my current city to Paris then
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by volgo 9y ago
Does anyone know how one can mark him/herself as a "European Citizen" on Facebook so that this GDPR protection applies? Not for me personally, asking for a friend.
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by volgo 9y ago
This is actually fine for something like healthcare. We get into this sacred idea that you _must_ have the best healthcare and treatment. Once you declare something as a _must have_, it becomes extremely expensive. Think education, healthca
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by volgo 9y ago
Sounds like your ego is talking. This is called confirmation bias. When you firmly believe in something, you'll find the search results for it. Name any "initiative" and I'll find you at least 10 articles on it
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by volgo 9y ago
To anyone who actually reads annual reports on a regular basis, this is a copy/paste for basically every single tech company, on every year's annual report There's like 50 pages of this stuff that covers literally every possi
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by volgo 9y ago
That's strangely worded headline. "Not viable until 2020"? I see it more as "as soon as 2020." Do people not realize that's like 2 years away? If we can start mass production of electric cars by then, that&#x27
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by volgo 9y ago
This is essentially Trump's argument against free trade. Your companies makes so much money in America and you don't have any rights here, why shouldn't we restrict you? Free trade isn't some right, it's just better
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by volgo 9y ago
Hard pass
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by volgo 9y ago
Some of the skills tested in the study seem more like arithmetics rather than financial skills: - "About a quarter could not work out how much change they should receive from a shop..." - "About one in three adults struggled
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by volgo 9y ago
People here seems to be mentioning short sellers being connected to this research as if there's some sinister collusion going on. This is the entire point of short selling, and SEC encourages this type of activism. It allows people who
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by volgo 9y ago
The point is the counter balance the other side - companies have an incentive to overstate their upside and understate their risk. Short sellers want the opposite. So they both present their best cases and let the public decide, much like h
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by volgo 9y ago
It's not their problem. There's no obligation for them to give any warning at all. They can just go public, short the stock, and watch it fall. The warning is just a polite thing to do
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by volgo 9y ago
People here seems to be mentioning short sellers being connected to this research as if there's some sinister collusion going on. This is the entire point of short selling, and SEC encourages this type of activism. It allows people who
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by volgo 9y ago
"2 locations" sounds little because your mind is psychologically focused on the number "2" and not on how economically powerful those locations are. The Bay Area economy alone is larger than most countries in the world.

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