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by yaacov 5y ago
The limiting factor is inflation! If we get massive deflation from a “dollar short squeeze” (which I don’t actually think is likely but it’s what OP was suggesting) that means we need more inflation, which printing money would produce.
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by yaacov 5y ago
Are you predicting large scale deflation? That’s the opposite of what we’re seeing now, but if it happens the fed can fix it by just printing money.
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by yaacov 5y ago
From my new grad offer letters 2 years ago :)
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by yaacov 5y ago
That’s because of visas. In the US you can study CS at a good school now and make $200k straight out of undergrad. Makes a technical PhD a lot less tempting
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by yaacov 5y ago
My reading of your story is that you decided during an interview that it wasn’t a good fit (totally fair!) and then responded to that situation by rudely provoking your interviewer. If you think that’s an appropriate response in a work sett
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by yaacov 5y ago
> just because money Money is really important, probably the single most important constraint for state universities.
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by yaacov 5y ago
It’s a reference to an internal Google comedy video mocking these tendencies (one of the characters is an anthropomorphic broccoli)
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by yaacov 5y ago
What’s the purpose of this test? Why would they use boiling water for green tea?
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by yaacov 5y ago
With almost half their manufacturing in China, I wonder how they’re thinking about geopolitical risks right now.
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by yaacov 5y ago
Mythical man month
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by yaacov 5y ago
Coming at this from a personal-choice-oriented perspective, the answer for those women is not to get an abortion for themselves regardless of whether the law in their state allows it. Of course, that doesn’t solve the problem for those who
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by yaacov 5y ago
I used to go sit on the roof of my yeshiva with my chavrusa instead of studying. We were in the old city of Jerusalem so we could watch the Palestinians rioting and getting tear gassed on the Temple Mount. Then he got kicked out of yeshiva,
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by yaacov 5y ago
This feels like a submarine piece. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by yaacov 5y ago
Yes, Microsoft has famously never had any major issues with antitrust
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by yaacov 5y ago
If you can’t get promoted internally, try getting promoted externally :)
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by yaacov 5y ago
It’s defamation to link to the author’s wiki page?
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by yaacov 5y ago
I know a good number of Hasidim (no Satmars though) and they seem about as happy on average as everyone else, maybe a little happier.
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by yaacov 5y ago
What do immigration quotas have to do with anything? I think you’re just using this climate thing as an excuse for nativism.
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by yaacov 5y ago
Black people mostly aren’t immigrants and it’s not fair to demand that they assimilate if they don’t want to. America forcibly enslaved black people for hundreds of years, then excluded them from our society and political process for a few
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by yaacov 5y ago
The word ‘white’ means a lot of different things. Those groups may not have been considered white socially but they were always legally white for the purposes of immigration, not being enslaved, not being subjected to Jim Crow.
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by yaacov 5y ago
It doesn’t have to be either-or, lots of people have multiple streaming services
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by yaacov 5y ago
I know someone who works on policy for a major App Store (not my employer, or I wouldn’t be blabbing). They outsource content testing to an overseas operations team whose metrics are based on numbers of cases reviewed, with no review qualit
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by yaacov 5y ago
A couple weeks ago we discussed Slime Mold Time Mold’s hypothesis that obesity is caused by environmental contaminants that are concentrated in downstream areas of watersheds. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27823670 I
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Contra Slime Mold Time Mold on obesity, part 2: watersheds(nothinginthewater.substack.com)
2 points by yaacov 5y ago|1 comments
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by yaacov 5y ago
This is more a question for google than HN in my opinion. Whether it’s the most depends how you count and there are usually small countries that come in higher. But US is always near the top in the lists.
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by yaacov 5y ago
Seriously curious, where do you live where you can take a baby to a bar? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
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by yaacov 5y ago
They should be able to find a nice 1br in Seattle for 20-25k/yr. Even in the most expensive neighborhoods it shouldn’t be more than 30k. Your numbers are higher than I’d expect
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by yaacov 5y ago
I don’t know this dude, and if you know he’s just scamming the system I’ll take your word for it, but when I’ve experienced serious physical pain I’ve found video games much more helpful than OTC painkillers.
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by yaacov 5y ago
Nuclear is cheaper than coal, which is why coal market share is collapsing way faster than nuclear’s is shrinking. But they’re both having trouble competing against cheap gas and solar.
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by yaacov 5y ago
It’s still bad, but the tweet mischaracterizes the report. Nowhere does it say that 8th grade algebra or 12th grade calc will be removed.

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