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New comment by pogorniy in "Ask HN: How likely are we to see a financial crash this year?"

pogorniy — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:20:33 +0000

> 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

New comment by pogorniy in "Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’"

pogorniy — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 17:28:54 +0000

It's super strange to observe your comment downvoted

New comment by pogorniy in "Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’"

pogorniy — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 17:24:48 +0000

Deception

New comment by pogorniy in "Ask HN: Why is today's Internet experience so user hostile?"

pogorniy — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 11:21:46 +0000

1. Maximization of profits.

2. Attempts to regulate and attempts comply with regulations.

The rest are just forms of these phenomena.

New comment by pogorniy in "From Node to Ruby on Rails"

pogorniy — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:59:40 +0000

How did python2 python3 (in)compatibility work for you?

New comment by pogorniy in "Ask HN: Why is machine learning easier to learn than basic social skills?"

pogorniy — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 12:24:05 +0000

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.

New comment by pogorniy in "Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin"

pogorniy — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 07:26:03 +0000

Corporate talk: say correct things and do what you want

New comment by pogorniy in "I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency”"

pogorniy — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:43:14 +0000

> 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.

New comment by pogorniy in "I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency”"

pogorniy — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 07:56:17 +0000

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.

New comment by pogorniy in "Focus vs Coordination"

pogorniy — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 18:11:43 +0000

It showed me perspective I did not see before. Nice article.

New comment by pogorniy in "It's time for a data-first front end revolution"

pogorniy — Tue, 18 May 2021 19:07:54 +0000

Nevermind. I saw the code by the link.

New comment by pogorniy in "It's time for a data-first front end revolution"

pogorniy — Tue, 18 May 2021 18:44:52 +0000

> Application state is a trivial problem to solve.

This is very interesting. Can you show example which you believe trivially solves state?

New comment by pogorniy in "It's time for a data-first front end revolution"

pogorniy — Tue, 18 May 2021 18:39:52 +0000

> one that really tackles the data layer well

I believe this should be rxjs. It's composable: have a stream or streams create new derived streams easily. It's lazy: you can describe what to do with data before it's available. Handling state for the multi step or async operations (loading state, cancelling requests, retrying operations) is a breeze. "Wire" your application with rxjs and you'll never have trouble modelling state with it. Typescript-friendly. It allows be both sync access to the value (BehaviourSubject) and async (Observable). I work with it closely last year and there was no situation I could not model with rxjs.

But people will stick to whatever is hyped by well-known-internet-company. Marketing wins, not quality.

New comment by pogorniy in "The “Marketing Is Evil” Problem"

pogorniy — Mon, 17 May 2021 10:09:00 +0000

Marketing the marketing. Good try but not.

New comment by pogorniy in "For some, diligence against Covid-19 remains an expression of political identity"

pogorniy — Tue, 04 May 2021 14:43:45 +0000

Same as unmasking

New comment by pogorniy in "Ethical anti-design, or designing products that people can't get addicted to"

pogorniy — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 10:15:18 +0000

Your dealer passing someting: have a detox from time to time, take care my friend

New comment by pogorniy in "Ask HN: Why do companies ask employees to set goals?"

pogorniy — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 21:52:38 +0000

> I wouldn't want to work for a company that sees that this way.

Don't choose corporation then

New comment by pogorniy in "Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments"

pogorniy — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:33:55 +0000

> Once you do business in a country, you follow the country's rules. > Unless of course the country is a banana republic,

Smelly-smelly. Don't pretend you're holding to a value of "rule of the law". You're holding to the rule of the strongest.

New comment by pogorniy in "Ask HN: Why do companies ask employees to set goals?"

pogorniy — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:28:47 +0000

It's a tool to get more ROI per employee. Employees compete for promotion or bonus with their peers to appear better performer within given framework. And produce extra value for the shareholders. And this framework turns into a game which experienced people can play to get more benefits.

New comment by pogorniy in "Evolutionary biologist slays the beast of Individualism"

pogorniy — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:59:02 +0000

How come that our policies and practices contradict the idea that people care about each other?

I see a lot of compassion and action on individual level. But at society we leave more people behind. And as people who are capable to act (those who have enough both mental, time and other resources) tolerate such way of things maybe it's aligned with their system of values (i.e. capitalism and individualism).