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He was asking what algorithm you're using. Are you using a MaxEnt classifier, CRF, something else?

What's the alternative? Every winter months of lockdowns, economic disruption, overflowing hospitals and hundreds of thousands of needless deaths?

Just get your shots. Stop being pricks about it, it's not a big deal.

Very worrying if true

> I tried to convince the CEO of Research In Motion, who I worked for, that WhatsApp would end up destroying his business. He thought I was insane for thinking something so small and simple could have such a big effect on his big, important company. Yeah, well, whatever you say, man.

Well, he had a point. What killed BB was the iPhone, not that their chat app was going to lose out to the competition. They simply had a product that was inferior in every single important way.

I'd love to work on reliability. Unfortunately, my TODO list contains months of new features that need to be shipped, asap. My clients push aggressively to get the new stuff done, reliability almost never something they're interested in, as long as it is not embarrassingly obviously broken feature.

I do what I can, given the constraints imposed on me (since I also hate buggy software), but it's very tough when it's not a key customer priority.

As someone else said -- supply and demand. But also deeply ingrained nepotism - there's a tendency to overpay bankers, bureaucrats and mid-level executives, which reduces the amount of compensation available to other roles, e.g. engineers.

It's like all of these people got together and decided an engineer should make 40k euro. So, regardless what company or EU country you go to, you are never offered more.

As a result, all the good engineers either moved to the US or work remotely for US-based companies and that's why there isn't a European Google, Apple, Microsoft and so on.

Looks like the executives, bureaucrats and bankers don't care too much, as they continue to be able to make good money off their legacy industries. Alas, tech innovation in Europe is pretty much dead and eventually the market will punish this behavior.

"won't someone please think of the children" ..

> The UK has a favourable human rights record compared to almost everywhere else in the world.

Julian Assange would disagree with that.

> Civil amenities are also significantly improved, as well as one of the most effective (physical) and cheapest health care services.

It is cheap, but it sure isn't as effective as private healthcare. Wait times on NHS treatment start at several months and can be years. I don't know about you, but waiting months to have a serious condition diagnosed and treated isn't what I'd call 'effective' healthcare.

> it is still an excellent place to be.

Oh, it sure isn't for tech workers. The taxes are very high, the public services you get back are shoddy, certainly shoddier than what you'd be able to afford with your job in the US. The salaries are 2-4 times lower, depending on your experience.

On the other hand, if you're working at a low income job, then it's not too bad -- you usually can qualify for certain benefits like housing and min wage is livable in most parts of the country (except London). But, given the context, I assume OP is a tech worker and, for a tech worker, unless you're fleeing war or conflict, there are many, much better options. The US is the obvious one, but even working remotely from most central or eastern European countries is going to be a better experience and lifestyle than the UK.

Even if so, I think it is a bit far fetched to image that China will go after pseudoanonymous commenters from 10 years plus in past on an American internet forum.

weird that you'd create an account to post something that basically amounts to a threat of retribution, in case someone posts something bad about China.

Not the patience but the aptitude for it. Writing code simply doesn't require the same amount of intelligence as writing a sentence.

Interestingly, this is unacceptable in the US and probably most of Western Europe. However, I know of more than one bank in Eastern Europe where online banking simply doesn't work after midnight, until about 6am.

iTerm 2 is just a hugely superior app, if you're doing real work in the terminal. otherwise, it probably doesn't matter.

why wouldn't it sound as good? I don't care if the phone takes a million pictures of me, as long as the data doesn't get transmitted without my explicit permission.

She watches TV

He may not be all-knowing, but my retired, former customer service employee grandmother knows Bitcoin is produced with dirty energy in China. It's not exactly secret knowledge.

So, it's obviously a pump and dump.

you can setup whatever caps and alerts you want, it's not hard

It's a half-truth. Yes, for you to be an employee, they must do all of that.

However, in practice, a remote worker can move anywhere, create a company (in the country where they live), send invoices and get paid. The catch is you need to take care of more taxes and admin work and there are none of the employee protections. You're essentially providing B2B services.

So, there are no legal issues for your old employer, as long as you're comfortable with that. It's mostly that employers would rather own you, as that gives them certain rights and benefits vs. just purchasing services from a contracting firm.

for me, it costs money to make sure that my CPU-intensive workloads run the same or better, the gains probably aren't huge, so it's just not worth it

Only worth doing with brand new clients where I've not vetted them yet and there's no mutually established trust and respect.

For clients where I've worked with them for many years, these are just a waste of time. I know they'll pay me. They know that I'll deliver. I am careful to not agree any work that I won't be able to do. And they are very careful to not ask me to do work that they can't afford.

If they really can't pay me, then I know they've went bankrupt, so no amount of contracts will make my invoice recoverable. I accept that as the cost of doing freelancing.

Not at all, Buffet rambles a lot. It takes significantly more effort to understand the points he is making.

His writing style is quite good though and often very insightful.

I don't send proposals. Clients come to me with what they want, we send a few emails back and forth to clarify things, I build it. I charge an hourly rate for however many hours it takes me to build it.

We can hope, but, if you're going to need hard drives in the foreseeable future, you might want to go buy them now.

I don't know what their plans are. Just from the amount of buzz I'm hearing around me. Reminds me of the early days of Ethereum.

Just the amount of buzz and interest I'm hearing. One data point (which is the only one I can share without revealing personal info on this public site) is that my local hardware store sold out of 8TB+ HDD drives and, according to the employee there, that hasn't happened in many years.

I hold no Chia or crypto at all, however, from what I am seeing around me, Chia is going to be really, really big.

No. Due to the moderation and flagging dynamics, this place is an echo chamber and it wouldn't be worth it for me.

That does not change the fact that they are tax deductible.

The truth is YC at 125k is a ridiculous deal. They're essentially banking on the brand name being valuable enough for you to give up significant equity for what is, in reality, very little money. This is getting more and more true each day as YC accepts more and more companies, from anywhere, in more and more batches and you get even less access to contacts and mentorship.

I'm on a mid 2015 MacBook Pro and I don't have this issue. Yes, it eats RAM, but it does not degrade my system's overall performance.