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Thanks for the effort; I have a little feedback: - Very few of these are labeled with a clear reference to source and date (think APA style). - They don't seem to be in order chron…

Learning about ham radio was one of my new "pandemic hobbies" and I got my license in June. I don't think it's dying at all; in fact, to me it's much more exclusive than Internet c…

If the UK allowed its citizens to bear arms, then the headline could be American Guns are Reducing UK Crime...

This is kind of a stupid take on the movie. The main message of the movie is that citizenship carries with it not only privileges but also responsibilities. Granted the action is s…

On top of that, you have to realize that these countries (YT, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc) are completely obedient to the government of China. Not because it's their biggest mar…

How does it make it better that they've arbitrarily decided to censor videos that contradict China's volunteer propaganda agency?

It kind of depends how big this is going to get. I'm using Java/Spring/Thymeleaf right now for an "enterprise" project but that has certain considerations: it may have a 20+ year l…

Is it a coincidence that this headline pops up the same month "Minority Report" was added to Netflix?

Steel Beach by John Varley. It's been 20+ years since I read it, but the main character is a newspaper reporter and as I recall he writes notes in the field on some kind of a scree…

Location: Maine Remote: Yes, please Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL, Docker, etc. Security+ certified. Résumé/CV: https://joeclark-phd.github.io…

Depends on what you want to do! For me, I want to live in a small town in the woods, raise chickens, that sort of thing, so I would pick a region first, then look for interesting b…

How about picking a company that does something you'd love to be involved in -- building rockets, brewing artisan beer, raising cattle on the western prairie, etc. -- and go become…

I suppose it depends on why the academic is writing code. I've written simulations for social science research -- basically to extrapolate the results of certain decision making st…

I've seen others link Joel Spolsky's method before. In short, you divide ownership equally within "tiers". The founders split the company equally between them. For the first group …

Let's say you want to give this free internet to marginalized communities - remote pacific islands, for example. Maybe you could provide internet to the islanders for free, and get…

"Ask HN: electrical tape or blue painter's tape, which is better and why?"

World War II ended the Great Depression. The linked article mistakes correlation for causation. Also it suggests there are times when "economies need governments to run deficits" a…

Since cryptocurrences are basically pyramid schemes, and sooner or later you run out of suckers, probably never. Don't interpret this as me saying that fiat currencies are much bet…

There is a lively debate in the Western world about just how free the free market should be, but very few even on the political left think that "for-profit" == "evil". If the publi…

I think more generally the issue is that most of us are "skimming" off the work of others, in the so-called "service economy" or "knowledge work". Being a lawyer, banker, insurance…

This would have been real useful to me about a week ago as I was writing several of these types of queries! On the debate of "timestamp vs timestamptz" I reached the opposite concl…

Are you a kid in school? If so, I suggest approaching companies in your local community and specifically saying you want a job "for summer vacation". IMHO the biggest risk for an e…

"Shop Class as Soulcraft", by Matthew Crawford It discusses the intrinsic characteristics of work that lead to satisfaction, growth, mastery, and ultimately happiness. The author i…

Well, why do you actually want the MBA? What are you hoping to get out of it? Remember you're going to be sacrificing two years that you could be spending on something else, so it …

Unless you're targeting the Harvards and Whartons of the world, either should be fine. Graduate schools aren't too picky, they just want to know that you have the ability and are g…