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MarxOkon Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.

It's the pay, it's always the pay. If our salaries were closer to the U.S. this wouldn't be happening.

MarxOkon A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft

As a Canadian who travels to Europe about once per month I am very excited for this :D

Sites like this often go down when they reach the HN first page. I've naively deployed stuff on AWS free tier with no scaling or anything that's handled thousands of concurrent requests out of the box. Is the HN kiss of death that bad, or is it just that a lot of people use weird/shared hosting providers?

MarxOkon Show HN: Using flamegraphs to read big HN threads

This is epic, maybe it can help fix @dang's pagination problems :-)

MarxOkon Ask HN: How to effectively get feedback from users?

I have had a lot of success cold emailing them after signup with something that's clearly not automated. Most people are surprisingly responsive.

MarxOkon Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal

Yeah! I think Rust is mature enough now that this isn't necessary from a novelty perspective. And it's not really an obscure language. "In Haskell" for eg is still warranted because it's obscure and uncommon, but I don't think this fits Rust.

MarxOkon DigitalOcean App Platform

Is it just me or is Heroku mostly dead now? Most people I know have given up on "PaaS" and gone back to plain EC2 etc. It's just not that hard to spin up an instance and deploy a rails/django or whatever app, especially with Docker now.

MarxOkon The Death of Corporate Research Labs

Big Pharma is a classic example of what happens with private enterprise becomes so powerful that "regulatory capture" occurs. They can charge what they like, and undertake other dirty marketing practices, because nobody can compete.

MarxOkon Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0

UBI has always been a no-brainer. It's economically sound, the research is clear. But it's just not popular enough, because people are scared of the socialist undertones. Look at Yang's treatment in the last election.

MarxOkon Sledding athletes are taking their lives

How does one possibly elicit causation versus correlation for something like this? There are so many possible variables that could explain the connection (risk-taking behaviour for example).

MarxOkon 72% of Americans say social media companies have too much political influence

If only the stakes were as low as the scroll lock key...

MarxOkon In search of 2.11BSD, as originally released

It's surprising how often "utterly useless" project turn into huge companies. I for one will keep pursuing them :D

MarxOkon Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?

In the majority of human evolution (I'm vegan, and doing just fine :))

MarxOkon Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?

All useful except butchering a hog - a human being does not need to eat hogs to survive and thrive.

MarxOkon A researcher on how to live a happy life

It sounds like you're advocating drugs as a kind of shortcut to resetting the mind and noticing thoughts as passing arisings. Can you talk more about your experience with this?