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think you can do matlab? you can't even do C

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To what extent are Americans even allowed to sell anything in China?

Is it normal for devs to be able to read and understand github reps without any explanations, introductions or context beyond the title? I remember much more of this in github's early days and always wondered if this doesn't faze the talented devs reading it.

I'm guessing his greater point was that fiat cash in general loses its value.

thanks.

$500*60 days +$2k =$32k

>The only Chinese city with clean air is Xiamen.

I was about to disagree but I just looked it up and it seems to be doing a lot better than I remembered.

http://pm25.in/xiamen

>But I can't read the full text.

append the link to sci-hub.tw/

https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21372...

One of the most common instances of generalized experts weighing in on topics they're not actually experts in happens in politically-related posts here, although it usually only comes in the form of downvotes.

You can cite science and demographic facts while leaving out your own overt normative opinions, yet you will still get downvoted from both 'sides' who think they are being slighted if you don't give a clear opinion. Unfortunately this is the way scientific method-driven experts talk (and generally anyone who's into political science rather than political opinion) - but in this domain it really sets non-experts off for some reason.

The thing is, most people are taught at a young age that their political opinion matters a lot, which probably has something to do with generalized experts walking into this domain thinking they're already experts and getting quickly frustrated when they realize they're not, lashing out at the source of that frustration via downvotes.

Back in the day the responses to these kinds of topics used to be via comments, now it's almost always via drive-by downvotes. I used to bemoan the inane buzzword replies back in the forum days because they were typically boring and predictable, but they were still infinitely better than the downvote without comment that is the norm for this site (and even more common on reddit).

anytime you'd like to make a claim or an argument, please put it forth rather than simply eject ad hominems and make snarky vague claims.

Interestingly enough, the US paid $840 million for a Canadian company, CGI, to develop the Obamacare health insurance website.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/healthcare-gov-has-already-cost...

>clicking the link before reading the domain

regret

No one is stopping people from making their own game instead of working for scam artist employers. It's a lesson best learned early in life.

Imagine if [insert_successful_indy_dev_here] thought it was a good idea to gun for a 30k/year job at a big box shop because he thought it would impress his high school buddies instead of actually making his own good games.

People in general are not making conscious choices to seek out foods that give them vitamin C. Why would they? They don't have to seek out vitamin C and they still won't get scurvy with even a 7/11 or burger king diet.

Significant amounts of vitamin C are in potatoes. People in general don't even know that, so I don't buy the idea that people are generally seeking out foods for their vitamin C value to prevent scurvy.

I wonder how many of the people saying 'See? Can't trust google with anything' use Gmail accounts.

You could also ask if someone has an agenda for nytimes.com. This is the 21st article posted to them in 24 hours.

>they often would expect me to have read certain textbooks or know C before they would send me the link on standing up a LAMP stack

My other favorite response was when you would google a question, then you find a forum where someone says to google the question

I agree with this to this extent: if you have no dependents, no plans to save money for retirement, you own your house or have a free living arrangement, you don't need to travel between cities, you don't maintain a car, then this is absolutely possible in many countries.

I just wanted to point this out for any potential digital nomads out there - yes it's possible, but probably not in most people's cases, although I'd like to hear stories of people who've made it work. Personally I could never make it work with less than $1k/month - but much of that was due to housing costs.

Keep in mind though the costs of even bare bones laptop & internet connection business models start becoming significant as a percentage when you operate at revenues this low. Replacing one broken laptop is going to eat more than half your monthly revenue, for example - and laptops/desktops are generally even more expensive when you're not in the US or China.

alright, so 5 particles per cm^3 to 80 particles per cm^3, not grams (as density is normally measured).

i'm not sure why the downvotes were necessary though when I made it clear I was trying to figure out what he's saying.

>5cm^-3 to 80cm^-3

had to look this up to see what you mean. I think you mean 5g(cm^-3) to 80g(cm^-3)

Yes really. It's a direct link to the actual product landing page to buy the product, complete with price information in the HN headline to draw the customer in.

a literal advertisement

Ah I was wondering how Minecraft got so big (I also always thought it was just an open-source thing). Microsoft seems to be really good at hand-holding the masses and sitting them in front of things they didn't know they would've liked.

>Slowly the idea of running your own software on your own devices is becoing arcane.

Ever since I've been using computers (late 90's onward), my experience has been that running your own software has always been arcane. I can count on one hand people I've known in the flesh who've done this. Peoples' eyes get wide as if you're about to empty their bank account with your mind if you tell them you wrote a script or a program to do even the simplest of things.

Joe and Jane Phonetypical of today wouldn't have been the proprietary software-creating types of yesterday, they would've been the AOL, Microsoft Word and solitaire-using types.

We'd be in agreement, and I don't believe I suggested otherwise. IQ is a predictor of success, it's not a measure of success. Groups and individuals with higher IQs tend to have better outcomes and there's about a hundred of years of research backing this up. Their involvement in successful democracies is no exception.

I also have 100,000 posts scattered about forums from the early 2000's, but very few (less than 1,000) since after 2010. The trend towards downvote groupthink is not an insignificant part of the reason I've dropped content generation.

>Democracy doesn’t really have easy shortcuts

The easy shortcut is IQ and education cannot improve it.

I always wondered why math notation hasn't been replaced by code.

While math notations can be interpreted in different ways, code is going to give an unambiguous result.

Why don't mathematicians, especially those writing in machine learning or computer science domains, do this? Is it just a problem of agreeing on a common language?

This is almost like the exact opposite of the reality of eastern and western culture. Healthcare for example is full of free clinics where people get free care. I worked at one.

Also, the differences in religious institutions in east and west is also vast. Food, shelter, and healtchare are provided for free by thousands of churches in the United States, I'm not familiar with anything similar in the East and I've spent many years there.