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Any crappy country feels "normal" while visiting. Not so much when trying to get a job or medical care.

I experience this on a microscopic scale. When crypto was new, there was no way to get price for micro-coins, so I built a site doing that. I got a decent amount of traffic and got…

Finally read the article - the whole things reads like a rich guy making fun of a poor guy for even trying. "Yea, he made money, but he is still lower class, haw haw, pass the cavi…

I think the mods and I just disagree with the line between "hate speech" and common sense, as exemplified here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18527203 Still, can't be mad, t…

Thanks for the heads up. I have no idea why either, but I appreciate knowing.

Anyone who thinks you can go through BUDS/RASP/RIP/Q-Course/whatever injured and "fight through it" is a delusional fanboy. The reality is that it has very little to do with willpo…

Why would they divest now all of a sudden? As far as I know most of the Chinese money went into Toronto houses anyway, though I am not sure why. As far as SF - everyone there seems…

Pavlina is a good author, but I don't believe most of what he says - the whole spiel about how he finished college in a year while starting a video game company or whatever and how…

I have never bought this. I work out (and have for the past 15 years) from 9 - 11pm and go to sleep almost immediately after. Maybe you are talking about initial habit formation. F…

This sounds great, until you realize you still have to memorize a bunch of stuff. Random foreign words are never going to be "intuitive" to you. Neither is whatever "covalent" and …

I wanted to be special, had an illusion of being special, ended up not special, want to be special, Buddhism and other escapism is a load of crap, and here we are.

Heh. A dev at work pushed our Azure cloud key to GitHub two days ago. A day ago we got a $250,000 bill for hundreds of virtual machines running at full capacity. Silly hackers.

I am decent at chess, as in, I will generally beat any casual player and lose to any professional player. I have no feeling of "strategy" in chess. The only "strategical" differenc…

Basically this. A bit off topic, but this is a pretty important quote to me: "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before…

"onclick = saySomething('thethingtosay')" Single quotes for js, double quotes for html. The above is the reason.

I just read all the solutions here, and this seems fair. That way they have no reason to be upset - they can take some profit now, or risk holding.

" but there is a lot of story complexity for why they created this computer that the article doesn't touch on." Didn't read the article, but I didn't see any justification whatsoev…

Same - as said already, not a single one of the characters was memorable, except the comically stereotypical ones (rich daddy tree-hugger fanatic). As far as scientific ideas - the…

Book: The Three Body Problem It's highly praised here. The characters are very dry and boring to me, not sure if it's the translation. I genuinely did not care about a single one o…

How so?

Do I really need to read "Dont Make Me Think"? A friend got it for me and I threw it in a "never going to read" pile assuming it could be summarized as "Things should be intuitive.…

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"Navy officials will accept applications until 4 Jan 2019. Those who are accepted will receive email notifications no later than 16 Jan. 2019, and must respond by 23 Jan. 2019." Is…

I generally use SQL or MongoDB. Used Postgres in a few places - it was used just like SQL is. Am I missing something? The only arguments I heard for Postgres were "free" and "suppo…

Since we are talking about money, I might as well ask - what's your take home as an architect. Seems to peak out at around $180,000 in flyovers. Any other architect, feel free to c…