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The article doesn't touch upon education much at all, which I believe is a central part of social (im)mobility. Problems arising in society later on will simply stem from the early…

Being serious here: What exactly is a "fintech" company? Every financial company on earth that isn't in someone's backyard is at-heart now purely technological (computers, algos, t…

I find it quite funny, rather intruiging, that we seem to have gone full circle on trusted sources of information. Historically, a face-to-face meeting was considered as the ultima…

This is essentially exactly why I have not chosen to do a PhD, but go into industry. The bureaucracy is intense in academia and you can in some places spend far too long brown-nosi…

About the article specifically, it's rather insubstantial and doesn't provide any more insight into company dynamics other than heartfelt paragraphs. Still a healthy reminder thoug…

It's about willing to do the job good, and not just for the money I think. But anyway, I think that maybe my above story is all just gobblewash. Overnight, I was thinking about how…

I have a little story about this kind of thing, where doing something rather simple and low-skill can make an absolute fortune. One night I was talking to an older friend of a frie…

The parent comment wasn't saying that nobody was saying otherwise...

I suppose. I come from the C and C++ world, before I moved onto webdev (quite rare for a young millennial like me to be dinkling around with static C-related languages, I've been t…

Wow. That's disturbing!

Not having the same code on paper and on machine so to speak does make debugging typescript a little hard. It's a little bit of a black-box. I code typescript for Angular 2/4, and …

I don't know what you MEAN, I read it just FINE.

It's certainly a phenomenon that exists, we've all seen and heard of false accusations to damage people's reputation, business, and such. "Scandals" have been around since humans h…

I agree that whenever these political topics arise on HN, you generally get the same situation - a few politically unpopular comments being downvoted to oblivion, even if the comme…

There could be some hidden costs that the publishers incur, no? I'm just playing tenth man here. I'm not the most knowledgeable about scientific journal companies, but hosting thou…

> According to a tweet from anti-virus company Avira, [these attacks] were taking advantage of the EternalBlue exploit previously leaked by the group known as The Shadow Brokers So…

I think maybe your definition of "resolved" is a little skewed. It is not about the features of the object, but more by the Rayleigh Criterion [1][2] So we can already (and have be…

Hmm, i've definitely heard that story about decreased competition being a factor in USA post-war prosperity, but I seem to have been misinformed, since after looking at [1], it was…

That's amazing resolving power, even if it's been done (maybe not in the exact same way) for quite a while now. Hopefully newer telescopes like the James Webb Telescope will be abl…

Yes but was the decrease in demand greater in magnitude than the increase in sales due to less competition? I'de disagree, but getting numbers on these things is very difficult sin…

I'de say it was rather large, since looking around, it's believed that it was very big pre-WWiII, but a quick look for numbers isn't revealing any good sources. I suppose it'll jus…

Firstly the linked source is paywalled so that's ignored. Secondly, we are talking about post-war USA, so very generally '45 -> circa '70, not 2016 and the modern globalised world …

Well, a lot of historians say that the USA's economy flourished post-war not necessarily because they "won" it (hard to define concept these days), but because everybody else's man…

Doesn't solve the problem. This approach contributes to urban sprawl, which is normally bad for the environment (people doing 2h car commutes is incredibly polluting, verses a shor…

Just skim-read through that story. Sounds pretty part-and-parcel for these kind of things, it's the same where I live too (UK). The first step is always to include irrelevant stati…