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India is not safe country for women in general. I don't know about Pune but it should be a similar situation. You can hardly see any women traveling alone at night in most Indian cities. Our law enforcement are just terrible compared to west. Crimes are high. There is nothing like 911 that will take care of you in a matter of minutes if something bad happens. Take most advices on India with a pinch of salt and please don't relocate here untill and unless you have experienced India first hand by yourselves. Most places are overpopulated and over polluted. People dont follow traffic rules and everything about India is completely opposite that of the west. A western colleague of mine got hit by car almost twice in the firsy day we went out. You can hardly find any foreigners in Indian cities unless its a tourist hotspot. In most cases there is nothing for you to justify moving to India. Look at the H1B visas from India and number of Indian students doing masters in foreign countries. Almost anyone who can relocate from India would do that in an instant if they have the resources.

You should take a look into this blog post
https://medium.com/@oliviagoldstein/a-year-in-india-told-by-...
Why not ? You should check Niman area. Lot of coffee shop where writers and other artists likes de hangout. As said a lot of remote workers are living here. I know some people working for big US tech companies living here.
Where did I say anything about legality? Obviously it is legal to be a Putin supporter in Russia, just like it's legal to beat your wife. Both things are pretty bad though.

EDIT: nice job completely rewriting your post so that the replies no longer make any sense
>RT is a popular website.

Yeah i love their chemtrails stuff....

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Lol Fox is as bad as RT coldtea.. your attempt at whataboutism is terrible.

Just because fox is crap doesn't mean RT isn't a Putin owned propaganda network.
Except the western world (or a large part of) will never think for itself. They just replace one voice with another that seems more credible and removes the need to think and analyse. Thinking is hard. Getting your 'facts' from the guy with 200k subscribers (he must be legit, right?) on YouTube. That's easy.

Politics, science (I mean, go look at people talking about chemtrails or flat earth), whatever. There was a paper about this that made the front page of HN a few weeks back. Was a good read if you can find it.

I'm with you though. It's all a bit of a mess. Perhaps politicians have always been such self serving, blowhard scumbags - but until the internet and quick, global discussion was so ubiquitous we just didn't notice en mass.
I type while programming, I call it typing driven programming, it's part of the Voltaire family of programming methods.
I will. Thanks for the suggestion.
Libre office is simply not good enough, tbh. The first thing I tried.
Didn't US torture people at all? did you know what fucked up shit done by CIA? didn't they kill millions of innocents in stupid wars? oh i forget something you guys think your government is good because it put their people in bubble of safety while killing and torturing non Americans and supporting terrorists nations. and that all matter i live in peace but fuck everyone else.
The current obsession that companies exist solely for making money for shareholders is an historical aberration. If that's still the common view in a hundred years or so, it will carry more weight.
> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Instead, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Had the same idea as I noticed that working in a nested way slowed me down a lot. Been trying to do this but I often lack the discipline to actually work this way and not dive into the local improvement I just thought of.
Neither latex nor LyX is a replacement for Office.
Definitely not a natural intuitive "people person" though I am outgoing and get great joy and energy from meeting new people.

I was informally diagnosed with Asperger's by teachers at school. Also I didn't really get my social life together until I started doing what I do best — analyzing the crap out of how it all works.
The job market for tech in Stockholm is larger than Copenhagen + Malmö combined.
I strongly recommend Chiang Mai, especially Niman area.
You’re oversimplifying. The key point isn’t the note-taking, it’s about putting newly discovered sub-tasks on a backlog rather than tackling them immediately. It’s good advice, and not something that comes naturally to everyone.

“Thought-driven programming” is a good idea, of course, but are you thinking in an effective and productive way? Are there approaches you can use to be more effective? I hope you agree that there might be some value in identifying and teaching such approaches.
The principle seems sound, but if you just say that short-termism is not advantagious in the long-term, how do you account for most of press today, and what makes Bloomberg special?

The grandparent comment's argument about how Bloomberg is incentivised not to print crap by making it's money through terminals sounds almost convincing, I have to admit, but I see someone thinking "why not have the pie and eat it too".
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A Block chain must be write only & resistant to tampering, via global consensus.

Git isn't write only, you can rebase. Its can't handle global consensus. You can read other peoples "world" and merge into yours, but it cannot aggregate the consensus and reject "illegitimate" change. You have two choices: "ours" or "theirs"
Sure, coasts will have issues, but like you said yourself, there is quite a lot of land mass to to absorb the population likely within the same polity.

I've understood the predicted changes to weather patterns are such that the area between the tropics will be most impacted. This includes more droughts etc. So it's not directly related to sun's radiation, just about how the heat will be distributed in the global weather and what effects it will have. I don't know why tropics are more affected than other areas.

https://theconversation.com/why-blowing-the-1-5c-global-warm...

I only slightly exaggerated my comments about telt camp conurbations. People are already drowning by the thousands trying to reach Europe via Mediterranean crossing because the landmass of Africa offers so little hope for the future even risking drowning is better than staying. Imagine how much worse it will get when the climate gets more inhospitable (the problems are not caused by climate but by corruption but worse climate is not going to help the issue).
Actually approx 100 PB of raw capacity thanks to redundancy, I was told once.

Unsure if this is on RAID or ZFS.
I think what you are referring to is the golden visa program (or Resident Permit for Investment program): https://www.expatica.com/pt/visas-and-permits/golden-visa-po...
Which is neither here nor there concerning the discussion. As if Fox for example doesn't have all kinds of crap in their programming?
Python has easy-to-use shared-nothing message passing concurrency libraries based on threading, so no, you don’t have to worry about data races any more than you do with JS.
In my experience, not a lot of developers manage to organize their thoughts well enough to write them down.

Maybe you manage to work with only people who can write down their thoughts coherently. But that's the rare exception and not the norm.
Trump is allegedly richer so if we're going with the "wealth = corrupt" attack here then Trump was still a worse choice than Clinton.

>Clinton dynasty ended.

2 people isn't a dynasty.
Yeah, the BBC has been a cunning voice for British interests since forever.

RT in comparison is amateur hour.
A perfect reflection of why Linux is a failure on desktop. If org-mode and latex are sane replacements for office for average users, may the kernel gods save us all.And this is from someone who knows how to use both.
The trick to getting the rich to pay their taxes is to simply seize their companies and keep the profits.
This says Webkit doesn't emit these instructions yet: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184023
The amount of time I have wasted dealing with this in the past, and no doubt in the future, is much greater than I would like to admit. It highlighted the importance of plain text csv/tsv files and regular file backup/duplications. In my opinion Excel should be avoided at all costs when doing the majority of analyses, however for ease of use and data linkage sometimes it can't be avoided.

However, I don't understand why Excel wont allow the user to set a standard format for blank cells (i.e. plain text) and maintain that format until the end of time, unless the user specifically resets it.

Select all, format cell before pasting data into a sheet should work as expected. However, formatting is ignored as soon as anything is pasted into the spreadsheet.

I can't help but find this ridiculous. Is that too much to ask for? Is this behaviour more convoluted to implement or are there unforeseen consequences that are beyond me?
Not Germany. EAST-Germany. Different country (at the time).
The US is going downhill quickly, and I wouldn't advise anyone to move there.

However it's still a long way away from countries like Turkey or Uzbekistan or Russia.

Compare the US to Brazil or South Africa sure, point out how it's no longer in the same bracket as Canada or Denmark or NZ, but comparing to Turkey or Thailand does a disservice.
I'm not really confident about the quality of the cultural life in Portugal (let alone Braga). Do musicians tour there ? What about the classical music offer (a good marker in my opinion of intense cultural places) ? How many art museums, do they host touring exhibitons ?

Also education is not very convincing (considering op might want a family). Universities in Portugal are not that great nor renowned. Many qualified young people go work abroad by lack of local opportunities. I've also heard that healthcare is messy if you can't pay. It doesn't sound like a healthy country to me.

I guess Portugal is good enough if you just want sun, decent food, cheap QoL and good internet, but I wouldn't consider it a thriving intellectual place by any means. But maybe in OP's words, good intellect = finding a sufficient concentration of other engineers. Then it might be enough.
Temperatures to rise 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030-2052 without rapid steps – U.N
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A neanderthal skull juxtaposed with one from a human shows the more-primitive elongated shape mentioned in the article or primitive human species:

public.media.smithsonianmag.com/legacy_blog/skulls.jpg

To me it is fascinating to imagine what this species was like with their larger brains, but smaller frontal lobes, which are believed to have been more-focused on their senses and athleticism.
Totally agree. A lot of these fonts are derived from old type writer fonts. I try not to include pure type writer fonts, but I'm probably not really strict here. It's a bit sad that even new monospace fonts like Noto, seemingly designed for displaying code or at least for digital purposes, don't have at least a distinct dot.

Personally, if the characters on line 3 in the example code look too similar it's a no go.
Remember that a "box" is a unit for commodity.

Your mid sized mainframe will be at least a full rack, plus ancillaries. This can be analogous to a rack full of blades.
What is that even? Google searches just bring up academic papers or Haskell stuff.

Looks like nobody properly understood it yet, if it's so hard to explain what it even is.
> despite living in a rich planet people are starving

A overused rhetoric that does not hold much ground when you realize that poverty is decreasing fast everywhere around, and faster than we expected it to.

https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/World-...
Have you been to instanbul? I agree with everything you said, but a country and its people are more than their ruler.
Is deleting your account and creating an anonymous one to just check local events a viable option?
This was in the context of having "an intellectual atmosphere", though.
So... were Bloomberg just bare-face lying, then?
So true, but if you are foreigner here, you can let most of the shit go. It doesn't hurt to have a Hungarian speaking friend, I have to agree.
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Also, the value of currency is not because of paying taxes, its because you agree it has value. In the same way that gold has "value"

if that were the case US Dollars would have no value in failed states.

There is nothing inherent in value, its down to consensus.
I hope I'm not the only person who browsed the comments looking to be sure a bunch of people in tech don't intend to move to where I intend to retire.
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> But both Bloomberg and the author are pursuing long term strategies.

Are they though? Where's the metric that measures credibility, or is that something that's left to human discretion? People will optimize for the metrics they're measured against, and it sounds like in this case they've chosen a metric that conflicts with the aims of a news organization.
Went there, couldn't find any valuable insights / discussions. Feels more like a cult than a group of healthy independent thinkers.
I saw your link elsewhere in this thread.

Pden is a decentralized microblogging app

What does that mean exactly? Without any screen-shots or detailed information I'm none the wiser as to why I should try your service. I'm certainly not handing over my email address without more information. Just a bit of UI feedback there.
Ha.. yeah, I left that bit out. It was several dead ends and I finally ended up with something that was stupid simple. It seemed like more trouble to explain than it was worth.
I'm curious. I've read a few (mostly fictional) accounts of early companies, and the drive for profit seemed stronger (if anything) than it is now.
Exactly, the same reason some hyperloop stuff is probably going to get done in southern Spain.

Europe is only good for short vacations and subsidies. Except maybe London. If they finally escape from the EUSSR
> Much Closer to the Porto international airport via Bus, Train or Uber/Taxi.

It's 50mins train and 15mins uber, from Coimbra to OPO.
Yes. In particular, if you use the same place to note down things you want to do in the first place. Then it boils down to continuously reviewing the list and picking the next thing to work on.
>RT in comparison is amateur hour.

And yet RT a Putin propaganda station are promoting the video in the article, a video made by Krelim supporters..

You can call them amateur , you can't deny what they are trying to do.
I would take CT/IL/NJ off of any list just due to the situation of the state finances. Taxes are going to rise a lot in the next 10 years, and government services are going to be reduced to make their debt payments.
Not necessarily true. There are some series A/B startups that offer extremely competitive salaries and stock options for top talent.

And also, I think he/she means if you can't get behind what Facebook is doing, maybe jump to Apple who "supposedly" have security and privacy as their top priorities and in the mean time receive a raise.
Working fine for me on mobile safari. Sometimes someone will post a long headline that doesn’t wrap, which makes the list pages miserable to browse until you click “hide” under the offending post.
Its just a bit boring if you are young. As a young student its fantastic but as a young professional, it can get monotonous
Ask HN: So news is bad for us, but is the solution to follow people directly?
There seems to be an agreement among the HN community [1] that "news is bad for you" [2] and that we need to find a replacement for the primary news feed providers, cause their main purpose is to make make profit and not to keep us informed.

My idea of an alternative news feed is to keep following inspiring people you encounter, like a professor you have in university, or the no-name author of a movie. Following should be agnostic of a social network platform, just to keep track of all their public feeds. That way you would build up your personal network of people, that keeps growing and producing more value.

Whats your thoughts on that?

Maybe we can keep this on a conceptual level, and avoid technical problems of networks in general (like power laws and spaming), implementation details or reward mechanisms.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16763604
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli
I spent my 20s traveling around the world, working and living from many places. My favorites are (skiping cities already in this thread):

- Brighton, UK: awesome music scene, lot of activities, chill atmosfere. Good connection to London (< 1 hour by train) if you need to do networking. Great for freelancers, not so many tech jobs. It is also quite expensive compared to other places on list.

- Brno, Czech Republic: my hometown and place where I decided to settle down after years of traveling. University city, great place for gastronomy, bar scene and coffee. Very cheap: you can live very confortably for 1200 USD/month. Good place when you want to hangout and when you earn money remote. Close to Vienna or Prague.

- Cluj, Romania: a bit more off the beaten path feel. A bit run down, but having good youngful atmosfere. It is very cheap, good food, easy to meet new people and find friends. English is widely spoken among young people.
If that's the case, the popularity won't necessarily translate into revenue.
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Ah yes, the ol' give us money an power or we're all doomed trick.
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> The current obsession that companies exist solely for making money for shareholders

Making money for shareholders is an instrument to secure long term/regular investment. It's not the "end goal", and almost no company's mission is "to make money". Money is just the blood stream that enables everything else.
The "East German coffee crisis" article is referenced in the "See also" section, for what it's worth
I'm still in the game, I'm not talking about giving up. I can put up a better fight and do more if I don't have to deal with children. Its better if I don't have children until I feel more optimistic that climate change can be a solved problem.
I heard that the taxes are quite high in Canada and so is the cost of living.

Can you shed some light on this?
And for the good paying but "immoral" jobs there's a queue. The rest of the world is hungering for >200k$ IT Jobs, especially in Europe where the competence is also there.
> That said, the fact that they shipped a v2 of Spectacles that didn't fix any of the core problems with the original isn't a good sign.

What are the core problems you are talking about? Personally the biggest issue with me in v1 was how flashy they looked, v2 got rid of that and now it's a great device. I made some really good footage with it. People are missing a really good experience not having it imo.
Glasshole has been used for a long time to describe a personal style of egotistical glass artists. It had a new meaning added.
EU is mainly European Commission and European Parliament. We have not the same experience as US with lobbying. It is well known that european commission is too much complacent with lobbies and with US influence.
I'd say fix your personal problems and stay in your home country. If you can currently afford to live and work in SV, you can move 500-1000km in any direction and live cheaply, while staying in your own country.

"Intellectual atmosphere" is a meaningless buzzword. If you're looking for high-earning academics to hang out with you've gotta live in an expensive city near a university. If you mean you like a hipster-y atmosphere, you'll find such people nearly everywhere if you go looking for them.
>"The most common form of traffic light theft is "smash and grab" which is entirely mitigated by getting the right kind of windows and not leaving your stuff on the seat/where it's visible."

That's quite a statement that the experience of waiting at a stoplight would be improved by investing in special windows for your car. Does this to all of ZA or just Cape Town?
It's not large scale though. But if you have 50-100 fairly clued up users, macOS is better by an order of magnitude in terms of internal computer support tickets. The last people we had using Windows were struggling with all kinds of Windows-related issues and also the fact that Windows has bizarrely become terribly user-hostile. The UI is absolutely atrocious, in my opinion.
What metric is that measuring? The standard of living? Or the amount of money people have? Because those are 2 very different things. What about access to affordable health care? Access to clean water? Access to nutritious food? Poverty measures so many things. Not just having money and wealth.
I moved from Bucharest to Cluj-Napoca. The food is far better in Cluj and with great variety: vegan, asian, italian you name it! Some restaurants are Michelin star level according to some, though none have been officially evaluated. Most food places close at midnight. 1 in 10 people work in IT in this city, there are meetups on any tech stack you want and the Universities are the best in the country.
For me Barcelona easily wins of Melbourne; no idea what the criteria of most livable city is; streets littered with homeless, completely dead nightlife during the week and only average during the weekend (and I am 44, so I am not looking for much but even that is not there) and expensive. Barcelona or Lisbon are a lot nicer imho.
+1 for Bangalore
There is Hyderabad and Pune as well
For money is good enough for me. You probably doubt me, but I'm not callous, mercenary or indifferent to the experiences of others - I'm just buying into a system that is objectively working. Spend some time clicking through https://ourworldindata.org/ ... we're not doing as badly as you seem to suggest.
Thanks for sharing that article, I'll share that with my parents.
There are cars in the city center and there are traffic jams most working days. Maybe one of the reasons so many people cycle there.
That you probably won't get a raise (rather, a huge pay cut) is one thing; another problem is, when you start looking for positive impact in the world, the list of companies to work for starts to rapidly diminish. I tried that, and for now I had to settle for companies that are not actively trying to make the world a worse place.
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Don't students in the North America cook at all? In university I used to eat a subsidized lunch, and take care of my breakfast and dinner myself.
>>There are some series A/B startups that offer extremely competitive salaries and stock options for top talent.

Not everyone is top talent though - and I don't think there's anything wrong with being an average programmer and not wanting to work on morally wrong projects.
Adding to my own post

> ... Apparently economically that didn't make sense for Intel because you'd have to re-create virtually a whole industry that is based on clocked chips.

Also you'd have to invent a sales/marketing scheme as an alternative to the existing one that is based on increasing clock rates. GHz is to the PC what HP (horsepower) is to the car. That might come to an end obviously but now at least we have cores.
https://ourworldindata.org/water-access-resources-sanitation
The East India Company (amongst many others) did heinous stuff solely to make a profit.

If anything, the drive for profit is a little less now.
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If you haven't tried Vietnamese coffee you're in for a treat! While many people probably consume coffee from Vietnam in the "usual" way, I think if you order a "vietnamese coffee" you'll likely be talking about this:

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/vietnam/travel-tips-and-article...