US: New York City
Poll: Where do you live?
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#422Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, our power grid does have a tendency to fail regularly across the US. Texas last year, California's rolling blackouts, NY blackouts, etc. There's a reason that upper-middle-class homeowners have been buying Generac generators en masse.
Power grids tend to fail just about everywhere that experiences extreme weather. Its not necessarily a US-only thing. Its just that the US experiences a pretty large share of extreme weather compared to most of the developed world. Far more tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, etc. affect the US than say, Europe.
California's rolling blackouts were not the result of any particularly extreme (for California!) weather. Similarly, hurricanes are not new to most of the hurricane-afflicted parts of the country. Wildfires have been a force in the US for a long time, and the West has experienced seasonal wildfires for decades.
The difference is the US doesn't generally build or maintain infrastructure in a fashion commensurate with the extant risks here (which are different than those of e.g. Germany). Obviously, it is possible to keep a grid running when it is extremely cold outside, see the Nordics and Russia, for example. The US just makes systematic choices not to build & maintain to that standard.
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Fun fact: there's a program in Japan that interviews and follows foreigners. One of the first questions is "where do you come from". Most Americans answer with a state name.
I've watched some YouTubers do that. For the people that say "United States," a common very follow-up question is "where in the United states"? That tracks with my own personal experience internationally: if I just say "the US," people ask for more specifics. So I now just respond with more specificity to start.
Here's the thing: when I answer to such a question that I'm French, I also do get the followup question "where in France?". (although if the question is "where do you come from" rather than "where are you from", I now answer that I come from Japan, which gets WTF looks and different followup questions (but I only do that outside Japan, where I live))
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Yes, it's argued here that this is how Silicon Valley won out over the Boston area (DEC, Pr1me, Wang, MIT, so many other great universities): https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/2/13/14580874/google-self...
The more liberal atmosphere around non-competes surely played a role. Silicon Valley was also ideal because the land was inexpensive in the early days, compared to most metro area real-estate, the weather was vastly superior to East Coast cities like Boston and NY, and the culture on the East Coast was stuffy, slow and rigid (whereas there was excitement to going west, blazing a new trail; the culture of California w…
The "silicon" in Silicon Valley got its real start with the "Traitorous Eight", who had the audacity to leave an employer and go immediately into direct competition with that employer. Not sure what role state laws played in making it possible.
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>> Of course, in 2008, pure investment banks largely failed. Each US state is about the size of a European country, sometimes with similar population. That's one of the things that always comes up in polls of what surprised Europeans about the US when they visited - just how big it is.
China and India has a bigger population, and China has a similar landmass as the US yet is just one option in this poll.
No choices for Hong Kong or Macao.
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I'm currently working on a vue + vuex server side rendered PWA with client side hydration.i found the perfect UI component library which only adds ~3mb of overhead,which went paired with Chart.js and of course wrapped with VueCharts.js should be able to query a graphql endpoint to process the results and display in the browser. What do you all think of kubernetes, overkill?
I thought it was serious until I got to the 3mb part, that was where the tone became clear. It's funny because I found the first sentence so upsetting. "With client-side hydration" -- I was just thinking to myself god these stupid buzzwords, what does that even mean, just another recycled concept with a new web 3.0 name.
Client side hydration might be the waterboarding of data visualization.
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Current top 10: 'US: California' '79 points' 'Canada' '48 points' 'US: Washington' '39 points' 'US: New York' '36 points' 'Germany' '35 points' 'United Kingdom' '34 points' 'US: Massachusetts' '19 points' 'Netherlands' '18 points' 'US: Colorado' '17 points' 'Sweden' '16 points' Colorado #9? Really?
As percent of total responses, as of right now: 'US: California', '10.87%' 'Canada', '5.79%' 'United Kingdom', '4.51%' 'US: Washington', '4.45%' 'Germany', '4.45%' 'US: New York', '4.32%' 'US: Colorado', '2.10%' 'US: Texas', '1.97%' 'US: Massachusetts', '1.84%' 'France', '1.78%' The US in total makes up 49% of responses so far (even though it is nearly 10pm in most of Europe) Edit: quick and dirty one-liner to get th…
Is there are reasonable way to do this on a mobile browser?
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#428Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ask codegolf.stackexchange.com, there's probably a Mathematica one-liner to display a globe with colour-coded areas.
I never understood the purpose of languages with unicode operators that can supposedly express a 30 line script in like 2 symbols. Are they purpose built on the spot for CodeGolf?
If ask for a "histogram" of the data, did I just write a 30 line script as a single word?
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Does it? May it be that HN is more or less known among tech workers in country “X” (eg: due to language, etc…)?
Sure, you can even say that both France and Germany just have larger populations than Italy. But still I would argue that being open to the international tech scene is pretty important to have a local tech scene. It's also crucial to keep up with innovation.
Would you say that consuming HN is some sort of "benchmark" that measures how open a society is to the tech scene?
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#430Great to see several people from Mexico! BTW, the fact that only the US country has options separated by state reminds me of when I lived in Europe, and sometimes we got together with a bunch of international. Invariably the "where are you from" question would pop up, to which almost everyone would answer with their country... except Americans, who would answer with their state haha. Once, I asked someone where they…
As an American I do this because I always get the follow up question of where in the US. It’s just more efficient this way.
If you asked someone where they're from, would you expect them to say, for example, Almaty instead of Kazakhstan?