My programming is a hobby that turned into a business. It's just one application that I write and sell online. I think the reason it works (just about) is that my market is a niche of professionals. Usually their boss…
My day job is a school teacher in China. You sometimes have to find a country that suits your lifestyle to do the low hours thing. I'd guess 90% of HNers could very easily walk into a job just like mine too.
It was unskilled laboring work. Others in my situation had criminal records and drug habits but they could do it too. Now I do programming for my own business so no clients to worry about, just self-pressure to give…
This is a nonsense attitude. If you vote for a party, then you 're acknowledging that you want them in power. If you don't want them, stop voting for them. Sure, your action won't get a 3rd party elected, but neither…
It's sad that after 20 years of the web, it still doesn't work properly. These kinds of bugs should have been solved years ago.
How is this bad for anything except Uber's public image? If prices remained the same, cars would be unavailable. If you want that outcome, then simply don't order a ride. There's absolutely nothing wrong with surge…
An attacker could advise your trusting church-mates to download and run an application that turns out to be a virus while they believe it's from you. A real but milder story - a customer of mine once complained about…
If it's only systematic abuses, then the rogue police torturings in Brazil that the article described would count as "crime" and not be human rights violations. I think it's a grey area between the government allowing…
Indeed. Restrictions on women in Muslim countries sound bad, but western countries don't allow women to go topless in public and don't allow prisoners or children to work for money at their own discretion. They even…
It's better for a soldier to die than a civilian. This is why they statistics are always separated.
Keep in mind that every alternative free library to do something adds cost to the task of selecting a library. Some open source projects (not suggesting any specifically) actually do make life worse for people because…
The USA is only number 10 by that measure, so nobody would care if China got to number 9. Go to Singapore or Quatar to find the richest average people, not the USA.
What if the H1B visas were not for foreigners, but for US people from other states? Would people still be making the same arguments? California companies hiring cheap midwest talent and disadvantaging the rightful…
The Romans did - be the most powerful nation. We often see America compared to them, not as a bad thing, but as a good thing that might fail someday. The cruelty of the Roman circus is seen as a curiosity now, even…
When will it be acceptable to be a Nazi sympathiser? It's been 80 years now. We know that being a Roman or Viking sympathiser is acceptable 1500 years later. There must be a cutoff time beyond which we think it's not…
He didn't claim lower mortality, nor that they wanted it. We assume living long is important, but some people value their lives less than others, just as some value their possessions less. It's the nature of tribalism…
You're certainly losing torque with the gearing but that's not a problem. The problem is losing energy. Energy loss can be made arbitrarily small at increasing cost to build the transmission.
Gold is about 20g/cm^3, and although it sounds expensive, there's a lot of gold just sitting in storage. Why not store it underground here instead? This is in contrast to tungsten which has direct commercial value and…
What advantage does this provide over combining all your weights together into one big one? If you want to limit the tension on the cable, just use more cables. You shouldn't be so confident that you know the only…
It's capital cost for providing 1kWh of storage for an imaginary 1 hour. I don't think that makes much sense, since you wouldn't be able to scale down the capital costs in proportion to the storage time. $103/kWh*6h =…
Yes, the Shanghai maglev is about the same speed and distance, and it does spend almost the entire trip accelerating and decelerating. You get to 430km/h for maybe less than a minute. Average speed would be a more…
It sounds silly, but that's how it really is. Treason is often a crime with the harshest punishments, yet also one that's most unclear if it's very bad or very good. Somehow it doesn't seem to get the attention it…
Considering Ireland (except Northern Ireland) is now widely accepted to be independent of Britain, doesn't that mean any "treason" supporting that should also seen as acceptable, and Casement should be pardoned from his…
This is absolutely not an apology. Anyone can apologize when their culture tells them some action was wrong. Whether it's persecuting homosexuals, jews, blacks, or whatever. But the fact is British law still persecutes…
Why not destroy the money? That way it increases the value of all the other dollars and benefits everyone.
My programming is a hobby that turned into a business. It's just one application that I write and sell online. I think the reason it works (just about) is that my market is a niche of professionals. Usually their boss…
My day job is a school teacher in China. You sometimes have to find a country that suits your lifestyle to do the low hours thing. I'd guess 90% of HNers could very easily walk into a job just like mine too.
It was unskilled laboring work. Others in my situation had criminal records and drug habits but they could do it too. Now I do programming for my own business so no clients to worry about, just self-pressure to give…
This is a nonsense attitude. If you vote for a party, then you 're acknowledging that you want them in power. If you don't want them, stop voting for them. Sure, your action won't get a 3rd party elected, but neither…
It's sad that after 20 years of the web, it still doesn't work properly. These kinds of bugs should have been solved years ago.
How is this bad for anything except Uber's public image? If prices remained the same, cars would be unavailable. If you want that outcome, then simply don't order a ride. There's absolutely nothing wrong with surge…
An attacker could advise your trusting church-mates to download and run an application that turns out to be a virus while they believe it's from you. A real but milder story - a customer of mine once complained about…
If it's only systematic abuses, then the rogue police torturings in Brazil that the article described would count as "crime" and not be human rights violations. I think it's a grey area between the government allowing…
Indeed. Restrictions on women in Muslim countries sound bad, but western countries don't allow women to go topless in public and don't allow prisoners or children to work for money at their own discretion. They even…
It's better for a soldier to die than a civilian. This is why they statistics are always separated.
Keep in mind that every alternative free library to do something adds cost to the task of selecting a library. Some open source projects (not suggesting any specifically) actually do make life worse for people because…
The USA is only number 10 by that measure, so nobody would care if China got to number 9. Go to Singapore or Quatar to find the richest average people, not the USA.
What if the H1B visas were not for foreigners, but for US people from other states? Would people still be making the same arguments? California companies hiring cheap midwest talent and disadvantaging the rightful…
The Romans did - be the most powerful nation. We often see America compared to them, not as a bad thing, but as a good thing that might fail someday. The cruelty of the Roman circus is seen as a curiosity now, even…
When will it be acceptable to be a Nazi sympathiser? It's been 80 years now. We know that being a Roman or Viking sympathiser is acceptable 1500 years later. There must be a cutoff time beyond which we think it's not…
He didn't claim lower mortality, nor that they wanted it. We assume living long is important, but some people value their lives less than others, just as some value their possessions less. It's the nature of tribalism…
You're certainly losing torque with the gearing but that's not a problem. The problem is losing energy. Energy loss can be made arbitrarily small at increasing cost to build the transmission.
Gold is about 20g/cm^3, and although it sounds expensive, there's a lot of gold just sitting in storage. Why not store it underground here instead? This is in contrast to tungsten which has direct commercial value and…
What advantage does this provide over combining all your weights together into one big one? If you want to limit the tension on the cable, just use more cables. You shouldn't be so confident that you know the only…
It's capital cost for providing 1kWh of storage for an imaginary 1 hour. I don't think that makes much sense, since you wouldn't be able to scale down the capital costs in proportion to the storage time. $103/kWh*6h =…
Yes, the Shanghai maglev is about the same speed and distance, and it does spend almost the entire trip accelerating and decelerating. You get to 430km/h for maybe less than a minute. Average speed would be a more…
It sounds silly, but that's how it really is. Treason is often a crime with the harshest punishments, yet also one that's most unclear if it's very bad or very good. Somehow it doesn't seem to get the attention it…
Considering Ireland (except Northern Ireland) is now widely accepted to be independent of Britain, doesn't that mean any "treason" supporting that should also seen as acceptable, and Casement should be pardoned from his…
This is absolutely not an apology. Anyone can apologize when their culture tells them some action was wrong. Whether it's persecuting homosexuals, jews, blacks, or whatever. But the fact is British law still persecutes…
Why not destroy the money? That way it increases the value of all the other dollars and benefits everyone.