I'm developing a theory that America's thoughts on what technology is capable of swings wildly between two poles (possibly with every generation?): A strong luddite streak that pooh-pooh's technology, followed by a…
I think you might misunderstand the statistic. He's saying one out of every 70 deaths. If there were only 70 deaths a year, one would be from a car accident. Far more would be from suicide, cancer, and heart disease.
I love suburbs. They get lots of hate here but I'd take one over a city in a heartbeat. I like doing things that require garages and back yards and sheds.
Okay replace slavery with indentured servitude. Does that sound any better?
I did and think the reply's tone was perfectly reasonable given the parent comment's dismissiveness. Yeah I do like interacting with people. Even "minimum wage workers" who last time I checked were still people.
But one is venture-funded, the other warchest-funded. That is not equal footing; the pools of money are not infinite and Uber's is both shallower and far less ensured.
With apologies to Mister Sinclair: It is very difficult to make a developer finish a game when his salary depends on not finishing it.
One is forward-looking, predicting the outcome (winning) by looking at current data (objective comparison). The article tries to twist this around to be backwards-looking: if it won,it must be better. Which is a…
Sure that's fine. Economics still isn't science, even by the relaxed definition.
Because Apple is about as done as it can be with general purpose computing. I think it's safe to say they will make no more significant investments in it. Closed ecosystem computing is their golden goose now, they have…
Or as the article points out you can just not go to college at all.
I promise you - promise you - that anyone who would read that letter knows everything you're saying in it anyway.
Never have to look far in a thread like this to find the kid who thinks economies work like Econ 101. Here's a piece of advice: anytime you find yourself concluding with "it's that simple" you're probably not thinking…
I've been in the bay area for a few decades. I've gone from my salary paying for my family to have a nice rental house in Cupertino to renting rooms from friends so we have a place to live. And I make double what I did…
SE:L was good but veeeeeery slow.
You underestimate how many levels of engineering at Google are entirely populated by recent college grads. It could absolutely be unwillingness (I agree it's probably not blind ignorance) to pay attention to the lessons…
The counter argument would be that we learned many decades ago the societal consequences of employment that does not cover basic needs. We can't pretend a human can survive in many parts of America on that kind of wage…
And the whole thing is effectively structured as a 4th amendment sidestepping initiative. Which is why it will never go away.
That's a tacky and pointless comment.
I disagree completely. Just what do you think the people you interact with every day are like when you don't see them? This is puritanism, nothing else.
These luxury towers are shitholes. They're run like hotels, the property managers are complete pricks, and things are broken constantly. I don't know why anyone would think quick-build apartments from cheap developers…
Because that's the craziest fucking thing you've heard this year?
Yes, surely that's the reason.
The daily HN dose of anti-car hysteria is here right on schedule. I can't help but think there's some deep-pocketed companies making sure that "autonomous cars are our only future!" and "there's no point in trying to…
We should remember the only reason in many states buying a car is a transparent process is because the government realized this kind of billig/invoicing is exploitative and unfair. Almost every argument applied to the…
I'm developing a theory that America's thoughts on what technology is capable of swings wildly between two poles (possibly with every generation?): A strong luddite streak that pooh-pooh's technology, followed by a…
I think you might misunderstand the statistic. He's saying one out of every 70 deaths. If there were only 70 deaths a year, one would be from a car accident. Far more would be from suicide, cancer, and heart disease.
I love suburbs. They get lots of hate here but I'd take one over a city in a heartbeat. I like doing things that require garages and back yards and sheds.
Okay replace slavery with indentured servitude. Does that sound any better?
I did and think the reply's tone was perfectly reasonable given the parent comment's dismissiveness. Yeah I do like interacting with people. Even "minimum wage workers" who last time I checked were still people.
But one is venture-funded, the other warchest-funded. That is not equal footing; the pools of money are not infinite and Uber's is both shallower and far less ensured.
With apologies to Mister Sinclair: It is very difficult to make a developer finish a game when his salary depends on not finishing it.
One is forward-looking, predicting the outcome (winning) by looking at current data (objective comparison). The article tries to twist this around to be backwards-looking: if it won,it must be better. Which is a…
Sure that's fine. Economics still isn't science, even by the relaxed definition.
Because Apple is about as done as it can be with general purpose computing. I think it's safe to say they will make no more significant investments in it. Closed ecosystem computing is their golden goose now, they have…
Or as the article points out you can just not go to college at all.
I promise you - promise you - that anyone who would read that letter knows everything you're saying in it anyway.
Never have to look far in a thread like this to find the kid who thinks economies work like Econ 101. Here's a piece of advice: anytime you find yourself concluding with "it's that simple" you're probably not thinking…
I've been in the bay area for a few decades. I've gone from my salary paying for my family to have a nice rental house in Cupertino to renting rooms from friends so we have a place to live. And I make double what I did…
SE:L was good but veeeeeery slow.
You underestimate how many levels of engineering at Google are entirely populated by recent college grads. It could absolutely be unwillingness (I agree it's probably not blind ignorance) to pay attention to the lessons…
The counter argument would be that we learned many decades ago the societal consequences of employment that does not cover basic needs. We can't pretend a human can survive in many parts of America on that kind of wage…
And the whole thing is effectively structured as a 4th amendment sidestepping initiative. Which is why it will never go away.
That's a tacky and pointless comment.
I disagree completely. Just what do you think the people you interact with every day are like when you don't see them? This is puritanism, nothing else.
These luxury towers are shitholes. They're run like hotels, the property managers are complete pricks, and things are broken constantly. I don't know why anyone would think quick-build apartments from cheap developers…
Because that's the craziest fucking thing you've heard this year?
Yes, surely that's the reason.
The daily HN dose of anti-car hysteria is here right on schedule. I can't help but think there's some deep-pocketed companies making sure that "autonomous cars are our only future!" and "there's no point in trying to…
We should remember the only reason in many states buying a car is a transparent process is because the government realized this kind of billig/invoicing is exploitative and unfair. Almost every argument applied to the…