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yamrzou
18,101karma·4,324submissions·June 13, 2018
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I wholeheartedly second this advice.
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Reminds me of this comment, which gave me a good chuckle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23534048 …
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Going from a short segment of DNA randomly popping into existence, capable of nothing but self-replication to living organisms, carrying a tremendous amount of intelligence, those are two very differe…
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> It would have been unthinkable 20 years ago that we'd let total strangers drive us home from bars and use our houses like hotels. Well, unfortunately it's still unthinkable in a lot of …
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The breakdown of trust in a society is a vicious cycle that seems hard to break. When a mistrust dynamic sets in, how can it be reversed?
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There was a survey from 2017 about developer salaries in Europe that can be helpful here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15088840 Btw, it still accepts new answers. Maybe worth …
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I wouldn't call that "stuck in the past". I think it is a very beautiful lifestyle, to be able to live away from the industrialization and closer to the nature.
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I think it should seen as more similar to gold than to money. We don't use gold to buy goods either, but it has a value, because people believe it has. The value of Bitcoin is disputed because no…
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What kind of restructuring of internet routing would alleviate this issue?
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> Because in 10 years nothing you built today that depends on JS for the content will be available, visible, or archived anywhere on the web. That's what web archiving technologies are for. Se…
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As another comment said: to pursue passions that do not pay well.
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There has been a number of HN submissions about decentralization and Internet freedom today, probably as a reaction to the deplatforming of Parler: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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Interesting project. How does it compare to Briar https://briarproject.org/ ?