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by yks 9y ago
These days "ship" is literally used as "change in production"
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gangs have an hierarchy, experience with violence and disregard of ethics. if you and your "brothers in arms" are veterans you have pretty good odds otherwise not so much.
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by yks 9y ago
if you want to come up on top after civilizational collapse you'd better join a gang or have a cabin in an extremely remote and secluded location, otherwise sorry but your stash will be seized by aforementioned gangs regardless of your
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by yks 9y ago
It's never been 2 months for 485 maybe apart from exceptional cases. 6 months was possible though.
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Ask HN: How to use AI to be a better software engineer?
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by yks 9y ago
In Bangkok I got two wisdom teeth removed in a single operation with a local anesthesia for $300 without insurance, in a good modern clinic where everyone speaks English.
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Russia will be considered a democracy by the West when it will become one. "Subjugation to the US" is irrelevant, Ukraine is irrelevant. Kremlin makes you believe otherwise in order to not become a democracy, and it is very succes
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by yks 9y ago
if you want to recite Kremlin propaganda on this website, please respect the readers and use more sophisticated tropes. Reasons your text is a poor attempt: Kremlin propaganda about "democracy = subjugation" predates Ukrainian sit
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by yks 9y ago
yeah, cause Kremlin presents being "free and democratic" as being "subjugated to the US" to its general population. unfortunately, Russians who could see past that little trick were either exterminated or emigrated long
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by yks 9y ago
you are pretty much saying that the most effective way to be an engineer is to not be one
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The kickstarter project doing the same but via genetic engineering ran out of money earlier this year https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/whatever...
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by yks 9y ago
Pretty relevant short fiction story: http://blog.ncase.me/take-your-time/
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by yks 9y ago
but can I switch between different cost basis methods per transaction basically? exchanges don't provide any tax info anyway.
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by yks 9y ago
If I buy N btc every month for different price and then sell some fractional amount, what would be the cost base? It appears to be possible to name the lot being sold but I can't find the consensus, internet in general advises FIFO.
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by yks 9y ago
or even abandoned "forks" like Ethereum Classic for that matter
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Exactly, there is nothing wrong with individuals not doing anything useful and just modestly living on inheritance but it's a serious problem (if not the most serious for mankind) when people who just happen to win the birth lottery ar
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by yks 9y ago
You gonna have a bad time in Silicon Valley with attitude like yours, young man :)
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by yks 9y ago
It is used as a synonym of "doer" or "builder" but in the software/internet related industries, e.g. this website. Which is a bit strange since "to hack" doesn't carry good connotations, neither a &qu
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by yks 9y ago
what happens when all possible bitcoins are mined then?
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by yks 9y ago
Is GraphQL substantially better than OData (created 5 years earlier)?
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For one, thermonuclear fusion can give us much cheaper and cleaner ability to cool down/warm up our habitats.
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Postpone immediate danger until we're sufficiently technologically advanced to deal with other issues? Or, in other words, build MVP first instead of starting the heavy project which ultimately cannot be finished by the deadline.
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by yks 9y ago
The UK is a setting of quite a few prominent dystopias (e.g. 1984, Brave New World) and that imprinted in my susceptible young mind that while the UK seems to have always been on the "free" side of the societal spectrum, it's
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by yks 9y ago
I started using F# scripts instead of PowerShell or compiled C#. Just got to copy Fsi.exe and a few other dlls onto the target machine for it to work.
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When Paul Graham writes about Lisp as a "secret weapon" I often wonder that .NET is that "secret weapon". C# is absolutely powerful and the ecosystem is such that you can actually work on your startup and not on fixing a
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by yks 10y ago
what if the customers are engineers?
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H-1Bs are law-abiding people and therefore the easiest immigrant group to attack, unlike illegals they will leave when told so.
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When looking forward to what could be a good change, it's easy to miss out the importance of the intent of this reform. H-1B system is inefficient, but the intent of the current administration is not to make it efficient but to score t
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by yks 10y ago
Can you give an example of Krugman lying (not failing predictions and not personal opinions)? I agree though that he writes in offensive way to conservatives.
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by yks 10y ago
People prefer to be infatuated with immortality/longevity and I imagine working cryogenics would be an absolute market success with those insulated people.

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