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You can hire contractors and temporary workers. This isn't a new concept.

Even though 1M/day sounds like a lot, $10B (their funding from Microsoft) would last them 27 years at this rate.

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Because it is a regional hegemon and wants to protect its assets and there's nothing Syria can do about it.

This is a vibes based argument though. I can make similar claims about how improved worker satisfaction will lead them to work harder, make less mistakes on the line, boost morale and have a multiplied effect on productivity as they not only work better themselves but the entire team works better if they're happier. There are even some studies to back up these claims, so I was just curious if there's evidence to the contrary.

I'm legitimately curious if there are studies or any kind of evidence that backs up your claims. Specifically, evidence that shows causation between more vacation days and lower worker productivity leading to companies shutting down their businesses.

Where's the fun in that? Let's design heuristics that work culturally in some parts of the world and be imprecise instead!

Just searched for something technical and didn't get GeeksForGeeks as the first search result unlike Google. I'm already sold.

When is the last time you watched a Keynote by GE CEO announcing a new dishwasher? The point is that they are pretending like its some sort of revolutionary new product instead of a run-of-the-mill minor cosmetic upgrade

Same story here. Why should I spend years toiling away in a clean-room for shit pay when I can 3x or 4x my pay doing a much easier job?

Incumbents reinforce their moats through labyrinthine regulation (and bribery?) and are smarter than their predecessors in adapting to newer technologies.

Why not? Incredible claims should have equal amount of scrutiny. I am glad that HN has a default skeptical bias - we don't want to be swept up in frenzies. If anything, HN is still relatively prone to these frenzies from time to time.

52% correct seems awfully high - I am guessing it's inflated because of the easiness of the questions on StackOverflow. In my experience, at least in my domain, I will be lucky it it can generate an answer that is more than 5 lines of code without a single error. Still incredibly useful - just have to handhold it and watch it very carefully when going through a solution.

The market is simultaneously efficient and yet refuses to offshore absolutely every job to make more money and increase profits. Strange world we live in.

Meet is barely usable - I don't understand how Google can make such a garbage product when their other products are actually decent (Pixel, Search, Android etc.)

Besides economics, is there another profession where you can be so consistently wrong without facing zero consequences? Maybe op-ed columnist?

Watching Rich Hickey's talks turned me from a "software is a grind" kind of a guy into a "software can be beautiful". Highly recommend watching every single one of his talks if you are a young programmer. It doesn't matter if you end up using Clojure or not - his philosophies and enthusiasm are infectious.

Yes - Meissner effect is also called Flux Pinning. Superconductor will remain pinned to the magnet in any orientation. Diamagnet will only repel. The video shows horizontal hover - that confirms Meissner effect.

You will hear many explanations, but the real one is that the US leadership in hard science is fading. We are too cerebral and cyber - Asia has picked up the mantle now.

Working on a Word Processor, especially one that is mature and stable, sounds like the most boring, awful thing I could work on.

However, here are the list of release notes for LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/

You can see man bugs were fixed in the latest release.

What may sound dreadful to you might be interesting for someone else.

While capitalism sounds nice in practice, it results in the destruction of the planet because the profit motive eats everything alive and leaves nothing behind for future generations.

I am glad someone made this post and I learned about this software. Never heard of it before even though I consider myself a GNU aficionado.

Because Ads are more profitable than APIs

It makes intuitive sense.

If I speak Japanese at you (and you are a non-Japanese speaker), I will just confuse you. Instead if you spend two years learning Japanese, then I share some information with you in Japanese, you will learn something new and become more knowledgeable.

I don't understand how people can use a browser without Container Tabs. This is a killer feature of Firefox and so many people don't even know about it.

They had the Uber ATG group - they laid everyone off and gave up on their AV research. How is that cynical? That's a fact.

I would recommend reading this entire page: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socialism/

But if you don't have the time for that, just read the intro paragraph.

Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon

I went from San Fransisco to Shenzhen. This is the kind of lies Americans tell themselves to make themselves feel better. Chinese infrastructure is 2-3 decades ahead of US in major cities - the only way you to deny this is to put your head in the sand.

What class of actually useful algorithms are limited by unordered search?

Totally agreed