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pogorniy commented on Ask HN: How likely are we to see a financial crash this year?    · Posted by u/tropicalfruit
davidkuennen · 4 years ago
My pet theory why stocks have stopped reacting to real world fundamentals is simply because the main sector changed.

Currently that's technology, which happens mostly on the internet globally. I can't really imagine a real world event big enough that would shake up Google, Amazon, Apple, etc. all at once. Sure, individually they can be threatened by innovation, but generally everything on the internet feels very "detached" from real world events.

If possible even russia would still use those services today.

pogorniy · 4 years ago
> I can't really imagine a real world event big enough that would shake up Google, Amazon, Apple, etc. all at once

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

Now you can

pogorniy commented on Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’   vice.com/en/article/v7d7j... · Posted by u/yoelo
literallyaduck · 4 years ago
Google/Alphabet needs to be broken apart: "The National Labor Relations Act forbids employers from interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees in the exercise of rights relating to organizing, forming, joining or assisting a labor organization for collective bargaining purposes, or from working together to improve terms and conditions of employment, or refraining from any such activity. Similarly, labor organizations may not restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of these rights."
pogorniy · 4 years ago
It's super strange to observe your comment downvoted
pogorniy commented on Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’   vice.com/en/article/v7d7j... · Posted by u/yoelo
Jiro · 4 years ago
Attempting to convince employees of something is not repression.
pogorniy · 4 years ago
Deception
pogorniy commented on Ask HN: Why is today's Internet experience so user hostile?    · Posted by u/julianpye
pogorniy · 4 years ago
1. Maximization of profits.

2. Attempts to regulate and attempts comply with regulations.

The rest are just forms of these phenomena.

pogorniy commented on From Node to Ruby on Rails   nikodunk.com/a-node-js-de... · Posted by u/mokkol
papito · 4 years ago
What is happening? The two trending posts are about monoliths and "stable" languages? Are we finally breaking from the madness of unnecessary complexity, evangelized by the FAANG disciples?

I resurrected a Python project of mine after 7 years. Upgraded the dependency management to Poetry, upgraded the major version of Flask. Boom. Back in business. Try that with a modern Node project after 7 months.

pogorniy · 4 years ago
How did python2 python3 (in)compatibility work for you?
pogorniy commented on Ask HN: Why is machine learning easier to learn than basic social skills?    · Posted by u/btheshoe
pogorniy · 4 years ago
Because we all are different. Your brain is wired in ways which makes some things easier and some things harder. Look at those who feel bored working with things you feel exited about. Find yourself (in another words whats suits your brain more) and don't try to be who you can't become.

> any advice on acquiring these basic social skills?

Find peoples with similar given and ask what worked for them. Advises from "natural" extroverts won't work for you.

pogorniy commented on Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin   kxan.com/news/business/el... · Posted by u/gfitz
tdrdt · 4 years ago
Well they aren't wrong. They protect important visitors.
pogorniy · 4 years ago
Corporate talk: say correct things and do what you want
pogorniy commented on I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency”   twitter.com/ummjackson/st... · Posted by u/null_object
Karrot_Kream · 4 years ago
I think we're not understanding each other here. Let me rephrase this.

Science and technology shouldn't have a political valence, and efforts to politicize science can end quite badly, like the Soviet Union banning the study of genetics on the grounds of it being "anti-Marxist". Technologies and their use can be debated on ethical grounds, but to assign valences is silly and potentially harmful.

pogorniy · 4 years ago
> I think we're not understanding each other here. Let me rephrase this.

That's much better. Because to understand what you meant by example one needed to know reasoning behind the example.

> Science and technology shouldn't have a political valence

It should not. I agree.

Do you agree that atomic bomb is political? At which sate atomic bomb development stops being science and starts being political? At theory level? Experiments? First device? First use of device?

At some stage we start observing that cryptocurrencies impact start having great consequences regardless of the science behind them. Great volume of electricity, centralization of power at hands of middlemen, promises of great future where benefits are reaped by early adopters already today.

Some people feel like looking at cryptocurrencies and blockchain purely from technology perspective, advocating for them, brings more harm than good. And I can understand this position of the author well.

pogorniy commented on I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency”   twitter.com/ummjackson/st... · Posted by u/null_object
pogorniy · 4 years ago
Your comment is about as silly as the Soviet Union banning the study of genetics as a "bourgeois pseudoscience", dismissing it as "anti-Marxist".

If that can't convince you, I can't imagine how you imagine your argument work.

pogorniy commented on Focus vs Coordination   camhashemi.com/posts/focu... · Posted by u/1penny42cents
pogorniy · 4 years ago
It showed me perspective I did not see before. Nice article.

u/pogorniy

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