roma1n
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6 years ago
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on: The Most Mindnumbing of Office Tasks Made One Man $360M
The really sad part is all the missed positive externalities. Think about what could happen if a few companies owned up to it and said "hey we'll let you have one day a week helping children with their homework or working on a shared vegetable garden or... or... because [insert outreachy marketing speech]"
roma1n
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6 years ago
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on: Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter
How do you enforce the use of a formatter in a project -- pre-commit hook? pre-receive hook? both? And is there a convention to put a specific dotfile at the project root to hint at your IDE/editor that it should use a certain tool for automatic formatting?
roma1n
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Where to go for the cheapest EE degree in the U.S.? In the World?
The French École Normale Supérieure will pay you around 1200 euros per month to study there. There are strings attached though (10 yrs public service commitment).
roma1n
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7 years ago
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on: Show HN: How to start a business in France
No, that is the median EQTP. The average is around 2250 euros/month EQTP.
roma1n
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7 years ago
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on: Show HN: How to start a business in France
roma1n
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7 years ago
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on: Show HN: How to start a business in France
> The "Social security" pays around of 10% of most usual costs, the mutual fund pays the rest...
What? The basic insurance scheme pays at least 60% of a set of reasonable, negotiated fees and the "mutuelle" covers the rest. There are a few corner cases (complicated dental work, optics) but these are being addressed. Usually the out-of-pocket expense is minimal to nil (a "forfait moderateur" of around 1 euro per doctor's appointment for instance)
roma1n
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7 years ago
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on: Belgian Air Force F-16 destroyed by fire during maintenance
Not sure. An ariane 4 rocket exploded due to a leftover cleaning rag in a water line. I would guess the launcher + payload price would top the price of an F16?
roma1n
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Elizabeth Holmes has 200 patents – if tech didn't work, why not noticed?
Carreyrou :)
By the way, the book is really good. Should be suggested reading for anyone in the workforce or about to enter it.
roma1n
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7 years ago
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on: Bernanke Says U.S. Economy Faces a ‘Wile E. Coyote’ Moment in 2020
And debt; and favors work. Seems like a very good thing in moderate amounts.
roma1n
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7 years ago
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on: The Psychology of Money
Yes except that it is not black and white, working or not working. There could be a real case made for working less and directing efforts towards technology improvements that result in less environmental damage. To me, it does not make any sense to think in absolutes.
roma1n
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7 years ago
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on: Price's Law: Why Only a Few People Generate Half of the Results
That's been debunked by examples where hiring (literal) team players that are not shining on their own enhances a team above the level of an 'all-star' team. So why do we keep repeating this nonsense?
roma1n
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7 years ago
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on: Scrum disempowers developers
Is there a prescribed SW development methodology at large technology companies? (e.g. Google). Google in particular seems to be heavy on tooling but, perhaps intentionally discards SCRUM et al from the outset.
roma1n
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7 years ago
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on: Life and death on a superyacht
True. There should be a hard cap on the amount of pollution (carbon emissions, etc.) that an individual may generate each year, wealth notwithstanding. Of course, this would be almost impossible to enforce and trivial to circumvent :(
roma1n
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8 years ago
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on: Why is everyone so busy? (2014)
Thanks so much for that :) I needed to hear that I'm not alone in this.
roma1n
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8 years ago
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on: Million-dollar Strads fall to modern violins in blind ‘sound check’
Or event a decent 20-30 euros bottle of St Joseph or a Côte-Rotie. No need to go into three figues.
roma1n
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8 years ago
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on: The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR
Not really. You have what already exists for handling investments, e.g. you pay Yomoni (a tiny startup) to make decisions for you but your money is handled by one of the big banks e.g. Crédit Agricole. Your point is somewhat valid, but also amounts to "there is a government-enforced monopoly for large companies in the airliner production space". Damn right there is. For the same safety reasons.
roma1n
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8 years ago
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on: Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
Where did you pull your $100 figure from? Suppose this accounting of environment and labor results in paying say $50 for a shirt that would be durable, then this might simply be awesome. Fewer, more durable goods that in the long term may be cheaper through automation. The answer to slavery may or may not be automation but certainly isn't "well, though, that's capitalism for you."
roma1n
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8 years ago
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on: Why Toys?
Maybe because entrepreneurship is not the path to solving humanity's pressing problems? For many USians, health care is a pressing issue but maybe the best chance at improvement is through "EU-style" socialized medicine? My main problem is being afraid to lose my job and therefore my home -- could this be solved by a combination of basic income, better training schemes, and a general reduction in working hours? Other than that, my main issues are noise and pollution -- I guess cleaner and quieter cars would help but fewer cars would be a lot better. How do you make a profitable company around that?
roma1n
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8 years ago
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on: Why Toys?
What would be a good way of promoting social / socialist policies in today's current environment? Also, while the idea of an earning cap does not seem to grab you, what about enforcing a cap on a given individual's ecological footprint?
roma1n
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8 years ago
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on: Why Is Bitcoin Valuable?
OK, so Bitcoin is censorship-resistant. Good. But a practical alternative that would allow high-volume, cheap transactions could blow it off the water. This is weird; I keep seeing 'justifications' of Bitcoin's current value and future success that, to me, can simply be reduced to a sunk-cost fallacy. I have read for instance that Bitcoin's worth 'is the area under curve of the energy expense of the miners' (sunk-cost fallacy) or that it has a "pareto-like" quality, being the first largely capitalized cryptocurrency, that would make it immune from failure.
Are there any justifications for Bitcoin that cannot be explained by a cognitive bias?
