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selectiveshifton Ask HN: Are there any rural tech communities?

Take a look at Rapid City, SD. You can get 4+ acres pretty easily. We have a decent sized tech community that is active and growing.

selectiveshifton Everyone Loves the $100M Deli

If you are talking about

>Small investors who get sucked into these situations are likely to be harmed eventually, yet the regulators – who are supposed to be protecting investors – appear to be neither present nor curious.

then you are incorrectly attributing that to Matt. It was a quote from Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital.

selectiveshifton Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay

Apologies, I thought your response was a reply to a different comment.

selectiveshifton Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay

Can you expand on why y’all makes them feel degraded? Y’all is often used to convey a feeling of warmth towards the addressee or express familiarity, which seems the opposite of degrading.

selectiveshifton World Economy Shudders as Coronavirus Threatens Global Supply Chains

> But if you are not in China, you have no reason to prepare for coronavirus specifically.

Tell that to people in Italy or South Korea.

selectiveshifton Varoufakis to Publish Notorious Eurogroup Recordings from 2015 Meetings

If only political grandstanding wasn’t necessary and we could have nuanced discussions in public.

selectiveshifton Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product

Because people and companies who do this add no value to society. They are parasites.

selectiveshifton Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2019)

Location: United States

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

-Languages: Ruby, Elixir, Perl, Javascript, Python, Java, Kotlin, Scala, lua, C#

-Databases: Postgres, Mysql, Redis, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB

-Cloud: aws

-OS: linux, windows

Resume/CV: Available on request

Email: selectiveshift@gmail.com

Full stack developer with 8+ years experience (5+ years at AWS). Looking for full-time remote gig within the United States. Willing and able to learn new languages/technologies.

selectiveshifton Antidepressant withdrawal: reviewing the paper behind the headlines

I’ve been off Effexor for almost three years now and I still get shivers when I think about the brain zaps.

selectiveshifton Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day

Not unless there was malicious intent or willful negligence. Amazon is a data driven company. The data shows that a “blame” culture results in more incidents. (Airline industry taught us this: https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/maintenance_hf/library...)

selectiveshifton Coinbase down for maintenance

That is what a Market Maker is.

selectiveshifton Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” verdict in API battle

Actually in this case presuming is not understandable, there is no evidence or reasonable grounds to support his statement.

selectiveshifton Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe

How many universes can we daisy chain together?

selectiveshifton Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience

Because this is mainly being used for interns. In general, you don't fly in interns for onsite interviews.

selectiveshifton Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to Staff

Almost all of Amazon.com has been migrated to AWS.

selectiveshifton Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to Staff

As does yours. Any data to back up that number, or just anecdotal evidence?

selectiveshifton Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to Staff

Yes, you get additional stock grants every year.

selectiveshifton Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS

You really should have noted you were using on-demand pricing at the beginning of the article.

selectiveshifton Why Are America's Most Innovative Companies Still Stuck in 1950s Suburbia?

Of course they don't put them downtown. The logistics would be a nightmare (especially for distribution centers).

selectiveshifton Why Are America's Most Innovative Companies Still Stuck in 1950s Suburbia?

>Also consider: how many truly innovative companies were ever created in the city and grew to be quite large?

Amazon is one example.

selectiveshifton Scientists Watch Thoughts Form in the Brain

The great thing about our brains is how malleable they are. We should be creating as low tech a mechanism as possible and then train our brains to use it.

selectiveshifton Google Unfairly Curbs Web Ads and Skews Search, EU Alleges

That is because they aren't a monopoly (40% US market share for phones).

selectiveshifton The problem with reinforced concrete

It is all about good abstractions vs. hiding complexity.

selectiveshifton When Is Cheryl's Birthday?

He does in fact like himself some lisp: http://norvig.com/paip.html

selectiveshifton Would you take smart drugs to perform better at work?

I hear you about the effexor. The only reason I'm still on it is because of the withdrawal effects. Those brain zaps are nasty!

selectiveshifton Amazon Fire TV

https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb/overview-apps-games.htm...

The Amazon Fire TV runs Fire OS 3.0, based on Android Jelly Bean (API level 17).

selectiveshifton Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless (2010)

>> Wouldn't it be cool to invest in or work for a company that explicitly shared some of your own personal values?

This would be very cool. The problem is, these companies are a rare breed - especially for publicly held companies.

selectiveshifton Seattle Mayor: I have Comcast, and I would like better service

A quick search of 'gigabit seattle' will make things less vague: http://gigabitseattle.com/areas/

selectiveshifton Who’s afraid of Jeff Bezos?

> Most of what Amazon does, does not compete with technology companies. In the few places they do, they're not a juggernaut.

Since when is AWS not a juggernaut...

selectiveshifton Final Term - Terminal Emulator

In regards to powershell, check out PowerGUI for a better experience.