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hedvig··on What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?
Yeah but reading about it but also being able to communicate about it on the largest network (the one in question too) are 2 separate phenomena. No one can go on there right now and say I'm deleting my account, who's with me?
hedvig··on Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today?
And the glyph rendering is offloaded to the gpu, which as any good development team should know, is much faster.
hedvig··on 23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline for $300M
And what percentage of your net-worth and/or your insurers bearance would you be willing to commit to the yearly treatment they'll come up with (not a cure)?
hedvig··on Black Tide in Brazil
Lift the sanctions.
hedvig··on Black Tide in Brazil
The Carwash Judge Moro who Bolsonaro appointed as anti-corruption czar turned out to have rigged the whole operation in colluding with other justices - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/alleged-le...

Very similar to the US and elsewhere where the right act in bad-faith to take over democratic processes.

hedvig··on Nearly 1 in 5 Millennial Renters Expect to Rent Forever in Some Metros
If enough like-minded individuals disagree with you, we will force the change.
hedvig··on Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank
Terrible analogy.
hedvig··on The MLM Epidemic in 13 Maps
I don't get this common mindset here that people should just be left to the wolves. It's disgusting
hedvig··on PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub
>found to harbor ill gotten gains

Ah yeah like they were on the hook for laundering Mexican drug cartel money?

hedvig··on Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery about eigenvectors and eigenvalues
If we didn't use mathematics in science, what else could we have used?
hedvig··on John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence
Fusion John, we need you in fusion research. It's only 10 years away
hedvig··on Nuclear fusion is 'a question of when, not if'
>operating with microseconds of latency.

What are the numbers if you know, of the speed or rate at which plasma can destabilize?

hedvig··on Nuclear fusion is 'a question of when, not if'
Any specific good material that I could read more on this?
hedvig··on Tech and Liberty
Or the Architect's speech in the Matrix correct? Where he reveals that the One is an accepted anomaly accounted for in the system.
hedvig··on When George Soros Broke the British Pound (2014)
What does velocity of money indicate?
hedvig··on Apple Commits $2.5B to Ease California Housing Crunch
> Supply and Demand is nice in theory, but really, pricing is more a game of "ask the maximum amount you can get away with".

Most relevant point, well said. Is there any academic term for this?

hedvig··on Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space
>assuming that a civilization is still on an increasing curve of propulsion system velocity

I think this is the error

hedvig··on Will Tesla and Google Kill the German Car?
Agile for car production?
hedvig··on U of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100k per year
Okay - can anyone actually cite me even a class, let alone a degree, that has the word wicker baskets in them? If not, stop using this straw-man term.
hedvig··on American business schools are reinventing the MBA
> de facto, restricted to graduates of the top-N (3 or 7 or whatever) MBA programs.

Isn't this a problem?

hedvig··on Over a Third of Americans Battle Job Burnout Every Single Week
There is no one group "supporting" another group.
hedvig··on Private firefighters go to work for California's wealthy
Because the media and manufactured consent that gets pushed down on those "more people" surely leads to them making objective educated decisions.
hedvig··on The Liberty City
Yes, and it deserves to be pointed out, no?
hedvig··on Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
How long for a "full" tree to decompose?
hedvig··on Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
I think its still fair to say that economics is not a science the way medicine is.
hedvig··on Uber lays off around 350 more across Eats, self-driving and other departments
>At some point your engineers figure out nothing they are >working on will present well on their resume, and they >either get burnt out or flea.

Shouldn't the fact that they were part of standing up solid reasonable solutions reflect well on their resume, to reasonable hiring managers elsewhere?

hedvig··on Sleep Deprivation in NBA Players
TV Manufacturers need to start including this feature.
hedvig··on Dyson has scrapped its electric car project
> address the lack of finding engineering talent

Why can't our "betters" resolve such a problem instead of side-stepping it. That's what a good person would do.

hedvig··on Why is Middle School so hard?
>Do they plan on staying in Germany using their degree?

Ah - you betray yourself here. I thought you said it was just that they didn't speak the language, not that they were foreigners in a precarious situation, to be undeserving of a certain education. I guess I'm lucky that I live in the U.S. where we've had to deal with integration of various peoples from the start and have made peace with the fact that policies that end up excluding a certain group can indeed be called racist if the effect is so. Despite its contrition over the past perhaps Germany still has some growing to do.

hedvig··on Forget philanthropy. The super-rich should be paying proper taxes
His dad somehow obtained rights to mines in Africa, you're going to tell me he "figured out how to make a ton of money" with that kind of start?
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