whywhywhydude

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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Why is it even surprising? If you look at truly meritocratic high schools - Thomas Jefferson, Stuyvesant, whites represent less than 20% of the student body.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Computer science is like Maths. Do you need to know real analysis and delta epsilon proofs to do calculus? It just amounts to gatekeeping if you are using an abstract and higher level course as an introductory class. Introductory classes sh
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
First, it’s not even clear that a recession will happen. And unless you are retiring and need the money in the next few years, it’s not wise to convert stocks into cash. You are trying to time the market which is pretty much impossible.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Unless you are doing latency sensitive high frequency trading, why would you use C++? Wouldn’t Go or Java suffice?
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Just shows how irrational and jumpy the stock market is. It’s the same company and the fundamentals haven’t really changed, but some people sold the stocks for 40-50% less just a few months ago. Now they are buying it back.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Yeah, great lesson that unless you are a billionaire who is ready to spend millions on superbowl ads, you have no business starting a new brand.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
It’s interesting how a lot of products in Amazon are just rebranded stuff from Alibaba. It seems like the Amazon sellers are auto generating the brand names. There is probably some kind of drop shipping app that does it for you.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
What’s going on with the politicians in Southern states? Why are they spending time making these pointless laws that often infringe on the rights of their constituents? How are people okay with being dictated what books their children can r
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Who is paying for it? Does SF really have that much budget surplus?
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
When it comes to software, consumer grade software used and tested by a billion people is always going to be more reliable than some niche commercial grade software created by a contractor.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
A lot of NYC benefits- subsidized or free health insurance, subsidized housing, food stamps, free child care benefits, etc only kick in if your income is below a certain threshold. It’s very easy to work off the books in NYC and collect the
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Not sure who upvotes these bro-science articles with cherry picked data and obnoxious titles.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
“without affecting cognitive performances” - does that mean calorie restriction makes brain even more efficient by pruning unneeded parts?
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
It cost Americans tax payers $800000 per job for the few extra jobs created by the washing machine tariff- www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/04/23/trumps-washing-machine-tariffs-cost-us-consumers-every-job-creat
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
XMLs, JSPs, Java EE are relics of the old age. They were built during late 90s and early 2000s. No new projects use them. You can’t say Java is bad because of how things were 20 years ago.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Most of the flak that java gets is from people who have never used/maintained java codebase. I moved from java to python and I actually miss java. It’s much easier to navigate and refactor java code. Yeah, you can write code faster in
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
“So the only real difference between the first and the second case is that the H-bomb is smaller, much more expensive per amount of energy released, and explodes inside a chamber” - that sounds like a major technological breakthrough to me.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Have you actually seen Messi play?
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Maybe you should try to get out of your webapp bubble. Most database servers are written in C++. What do you think Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and Solr written in? What makes you think those languages are dead?
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
At the startup that I work at the biggest complaint from customers is no 24 hour support, but my company doesn’t want people to work on weekends or work overnight. Doesn’t four hour week mean even less support? You’d have to deal with crapp
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
“also trying to get rid of that nondismissable login pop up after you scroll a little bit ugh these things ruin the Internet”. That would be a great improvement.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
For people who are unaware, Shopify is a Canadian company and they use CDNs just like most of the highly trafficked websites in the world. Most CDNs just happen to by owned by US based companies.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
I wonder why the Euro bureaucrats are not doing anything about one of the biggest monopolies in the Europe. Guess they are just too busy figuring out another way to milk Google.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Despite being banned by the supreme court, farmers are still burning the crop stubbles. And nobody wants to enforce the rule because it’s a political suicide. Another instance of failed democracy where you need to appease to a vocal minorit
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Shouldn’t the intent be to serve everyone in the country - not just to pander to some powerful minority’s non-sensical agendas.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
I guess it’s cognitive dissonance at play. If you try hard to find a way to interpret the results to justify your drinking habits, you will find it.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Why are you lumping uber in there? It’s not a social media company, and millions of people depend on it.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
People don’t really hold on to grudges for so long. I believe the hatred is manufactured by the media- nytimes, foxnews, bbc, cnn pretty much all media hate him. Why wouldn’t they? He took a big piece out of their pie.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
I am just wondering what makes the most profitable and biggest company in the world to be so greedy. Why do they try to juice every last cent out of everything possible? Is it driven by MBAs like Tim Cook who value money above everything el
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Your comment makes me wonder if people just haven’t had a chance to travel within the US. Except for the coastal cities, for the most part, US is empty.

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