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Re:Ask HN: Are you preparing for a market crash? How? on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:23AM (#25716227)
There will never be a market crash, unless people stop putting in their work hours (the only things to cause this would be a major global war, natural disaster, or a black death -scale pandemic)

As long as work continues, there is still massive economical growth potential remaining as like half of the global population still barely participates.

I'm talking about a long-term crash(5+ years) btw. Minor dips don't matter in macro scale

Re:Working from Bed on Monday January 04, 2021 @02:40PM (#25636769)
Idk how you can destroy your back working from your bed, unless you do some idiotic posture. Just lay down, face up, back to the bed, computer on top of your stomach.

Know a person with an actual destroyed back who can't even drive a car, but is able to work from bed.

Re:Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries on Sunday October 11, 2020 @10:42AM (#24746124)
You'd be surprised how many new websites out there are still made by importing JS from a random CDN, no version control of course, code is uploaded manually through FTP
Wonder why California doesn't have any outdoor offices.

Respitory viruses are pretty much limited to spreading indoors. I also assume having a nice green outdoors view would be much less stressing to the workers when compared with a traditional office environment.

It's really easy to set up and disband. Just run power and internet cables, set up some desks and off you go. No need for expensive construction.

Re:Covid-19 in Iceland: Violated Isolation and Infected over 100 on Saturday September 26, 2020 @01:24PM (#24600494)
Travel creates new unidentified clusters, the tourists also tend to leave the area rather quickly => very hard to find and trace who originally caused the cluster, and who were in contact.

Tourists also tend to have much different riskier behaviour compared to the average native inhabitant of a city (eg nightclub hopping many days in a row)

Re:Tables: Tracking work for teams on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @01:35PM (#24557459)
Diversifying.

Simplified: If you spend $1 million each on ten projects, each of which have a 90% chance to fail and 10% chance to bring in $100m in profits, then it is absolutely worth it

That farmers market is probably around 1000x lower risk than meeting your neighbours or friends, btw. (assuming indoor meetings)
Re:Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI on Saturday August 22, 2020 @04:56PM (#24247190)
Half the point is the delay of gratification. If you want to see the different islands of Hawaii, there will be some downtime while you're cruising. The tension starts building once you get closer and closer, until you finally get to see the absolutely epic view.

Comparing Google Earth vs Flight Sim is the same as watching 3D images of hiking trail end points vs actually walking through the trail.

Re:Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI on Saturday August 22, 2020 @04:45PM (#24247129)
According to many long-time flight simmers, the performance of this title is about the same as previous ones, with the addition of 10x improved graphics. So that's why they don't care and you're getting downvoted on Reddit.

PS: It's a next gen game built for the future in mind, GTX 1070 is basically outdated. Expect to require a 3xxx series graphics card for good performance.

Re:How two British orthodontists became celebrities to incels on Saturday August 22, 2020 @04:39PM (#24247102)
We have x-rays now, they don't need to be dead if we want verify if their teeth are crooked.
Re:How two British orthodontists became celebrities to incels on Saturday August 22, 2020 @04:35PM (#24247070)
There are still hunter-gatherer populations of humans who have the same lifestyle as they did 10 thousand years ago. Wouldn't studying their skulls settle this debate?
Video games of some sort, where the game map is a 1:1 replica of the real world using streamed GIS data.

The new microsoft flight simulator is already kinda there.

Re:Nasal vaccine against Covid-19 prevents infection in mice on Saturday August 22, 2020 @09:43AM (#24244080)
I'm very interesting if we switched to using nasal vaccines, would it help soothe out the rabid anti-vaxxers?

A large part of the movement IMO stems from the fact that subconsciously, humans tend to associate long sharp needles = pain = bad

Re:Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed on Sunday August 09, 2020 @05:11PM (#24102946)
There basically wasn't a proper "modern day" pandemic before this. The previous one was the spanish flu in 1918 which was very quickly forgotten due to a much larger pointless massacre (world wars)

Air travel increase is a big factor why it got so bad so quickly, even in the past two decades basically everything has changed. We have hundreds millions of people basically teleporting between continents every day.

Re:People work longer and different hours under lockdown on Sunday August 09, 2020 @01:50PM (#24101391)
It's how "work" always was for thousands of years, before the office culture meme changed it during the 20th century