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by zarkov99 7y ago
I really hope you are wrong on this last one but the way the virus is being so disgustingly politicized leads me to believe you might be right.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
I think a few things will change, at least for a while. I think there will be a shift towards remote work of all sorts, likely with an accompanied improvement in tele-presence tech. Maybe VR will benefit from this tail-wind. I think some ty
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Ask HN: How will the world change post pandemic?
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by zarkov99 7y ago
This is such bullshit. As soon as the body count starts to rise all this nonsense is going to out the window and the "exceptional" Swedes will be ordered to cower in their homes just like everybody else.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
There is another, more sinister reason for low base: typically if you have a non compete and are forced into a one year garden leave, they can get way with paying you just the low base.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
You seem to believe that one person's desire for prompt information is more important than another's think time. That is only true in rare cases.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
I think its likely this would turn into $1K per month for a while. And, yes, for some people it would make an enormous difference.
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Coronavirus Can Live for a Long Time in Air, on Surfaces(npr.org)
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Ask HN: Pros and Cons of going remote first on a startup?
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by zarkov99 7y ago
I don't think that is fair. The Japanese, Korean, Italian, French and other Americans still have not made any worthwhile EV cars either. It's Musk's drive that is the anomaly not German complecancy.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Only rarely do you write emails were the message is complex enough that writing will force you to think it through carefully, which is the (very real) benefit the author is referring to. Someone said writing shows you how sloppy your thinki
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Anecdotally, it is definitely highly disruptive to me. I have red light shifting in all my devices and I bout some blue light filtering glasses and that does make a difference in how quickly I fall asleep.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
That used to be a problem for me when I was on Windows. Linux, docker and Dropbox have solved that problem. Now the real difficulty is posting on HN and similar.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Yes, I agree. I think there is going to be a move away from the free/spyware based model back to actually paying for the services/product. There is far too much corruption with the former.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
That is hard to imagine isn't it? Sleep is a pretty big deal.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Well sure, but these guys did not make that much money because they were better CEO's, they benefited from the context of the times. What Musk has done with Tesla and SpaceX, simultaneously is absolutely mind blowing and it is hard t
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by zarkov99 7y ago
There is anecdotal information that he does indeed do what he claims. And he is the most impressive CEO in this generation, perhaps in history, so long hours must work for some people.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
They are definitely bugs I am sorry. There might be easy work arounds, sure, but they are bugs nonetheless, in that these characteristics do not benefit their owner or anyone else.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Is there a rendering tool for statecharts, something like plantuml?
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by zarkov99 7y ago
You assume one-on-one conversations. In a group setting even a strong bully can be subdued by the group. In such a group, a man isn't going to be allowed to insult a woman without other men stepping in. But you bring a good point. Shou
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by zarkov99 7y ago
A little bit. It was a lot easier to escape exclusion by changing your identity in Usenet compared with the real world so motivated trolls would often do that.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Not exactly, the real world implications could go well beyond observing your targets emotional response.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Yes. The underlying threat of violence, or at the very least social exclusion, if one goes too far is what keeps most in person conversations far more civilized than their online counterparts.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
So pretty much the opposite of the identity BS that drives so much of the culture war.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
It's not just the loss of data in communication, though that might be part of it, it's our lack of mechanisms to deal with the scaling of the number of interlocutors. If you messages are being read by 1000s of people it is a certa
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Former European here. I came to the US for grad school, then went back home to Europe and I could not wait to return to the US. I still love Europe for the culture, history and food but the US has nature, limitless opportunity, optimism, dy
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Larry and Sergey are probably spinning in their graves, I mean private islands. Google has become what they so despised.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Both of those are fantastic, data intensive in particular I think is the best book I have ever read from O'Reilly. Glad to hear this one is as good.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
I apologize for the incivility, it was uncalled for. By successful I mean people who are really good at programming. The overall point I was trying to make was that good programmers are drawn to the machine at young age, out of love not out
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by zarkov99 7y ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligenc...

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