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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I don't disagree that adding housing depresses house prices, at least in the short term, but the causal flow of extended low interest rates and a preference for income tax over land tax and the interrelation between expectations of inc
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I also agree. I actually literally had this thought yesterday walking down the street and I'm far from a low level security researcher. Row hammer[0] is a real attack worth actual money to thousands of entities. This attack is literall
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
> This is why cities are dying. No. Cities are far from dying, at least in the vast majority of the countries I've been to. There are bike lanes, lower crime rates, better parks and waterfront areas. They feel alive inasmuch as the
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I still can't believe they changed their mind about this. It's the cause of so many bugs and security issues.
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Haha, yeah I know what you mean. It also makes it hard to be a passenger in a car with an inattentive or distracted driver.
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Very few people internalize the OODA loop. I've reacted fast in situations and it saved lives, but I wasn't born that way. I had trained for years as a kid in a program literally called Life Savers[0] which taught swimming in cont
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I talked to Joe briefly on the phone about ten years ago. He has a very sharp mind for financial related startups and his insights truly impressed me. If he said this, it says something to me.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I agree on renewables and they are certainly part of the solution, but we can meet our energy without fossil fuels if we really leaned into nuclear the way the French did. It's simply a matter of political will. Musk looked at the regu
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
It's about security and ease. If it were secure to install arbitrary code on a computer, we'd have more apps. If it were easy to compile across platforms and handle every weird OS call, we'd have way, way more apps. Browsers
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> Apple thinks it’s a good idea to strip out security code from the source... Because it makes it easier for attackers to find vulns. That's why they do it. The high payouts on these platforms are evidence that it isn't as simp
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Because you're missing the other half of the exploit market: Selling vulnerabilities for big cheques. https://zerodium.com/program.html
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It's a funny coincidence, but I also happened to hire Samantha at around the same time (her rates have gone way up since then!) and she was just a dream to work with. I learned so much about writing from her and worked with her until I
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
This is one of my favourite posts on Hacker News of all time. There are so many obvious lessons for the very definition of a programmer of any skill level to learn in this metaphor that it feels hollow in comparison to how beautiful the sto
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
It isn't just portion sizes as your other replier has mentioned. Like I said in the previous comment, I applied a lot of energy studying nutrition in order to simplify it for myself and I have other take aways I didn't post and th
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I was about to hit 200lbs (90kg) almost a decade ago and I freaked out. I poured into learning everything I could about nutrition. I got down to about 11% bodyfat—167 lbs / 76kg with a good deal of muscle—before mellowing out a bit. It
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I know a guy that set up a food operation in a sea container in Toronto. It was a whole ecosystem of food producing organisms. Fish in the water, herbs like dill, tomatoes, all sorts of stuff. He'd sell it at 4x grocer prices to pricy
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
(Aside: I love your username, haha.) They do it because, unlike our profession, it's hard to find out when you're wrong right away so they read a lot of competing theories and know that the models are only pale comparisons to all
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I agree with your general comment, but since forests can be used for construction materials they come out a little better than merely being a buffer since the wood gets used in housing or manufacturing in places where steel or concrete woul
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Well, I respectively disagree. Some actors want money, some want power. What I was trying to convey was that in the west, most actors want safety and prosperity and peace. For example, these people from my country talk at length about the n
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Eh. I get it. The nazis put my family through hell. Playing as them would make me feel shitty too.
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I've saved a couple of lives before. I resuscitated one guy's breathing after he'd choked on his own vomit behind a speaker at an open air concert. I only saw him because I like to stand behind the speakers where it isn'
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Not the person you are responding to, but I liked Fair Game and The Billion Dollar spy. Cyberspies was also decent, but it's less exciting and more technical. I don't share arminiusreturns' view on the intelligence community.
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I completely disagree. I'm on two separate projects right now. One is a legacy mess of unnecessary if statements where none are required (in Django, but that's not the issue) and the other is one is a Rails project I took over fro
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I think a little checklist would help me remember things that are easy to forget, like updating documentation or making sure that a test exists to reproduce the issue. That said, at the end of the day tools exist to help us, not slow us dow
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Using checkboxes in GitHub issues is my secret weapon. There is no way to mark an issue as done or glaze over the details that way. Checklists in general are a great thing. I wish there was a startup that made community sourced checklists f
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The code I wrote for a company I cofounded and sold was written on a seven inch netbook as well. I wouldn't do it today, but I got to tell ya spending some years writing code on a tiny screen really does make you a better programmer. I
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I actually did write a license at one point, but I realized that the core issue here was buy-in from the rest of the hacker community. It's like trying to end slavery. Until there are enough of us willing to work an underground railroa
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Nope. Because the loss-making shell company has a stakeholder worth more than a billion USD. The core issue here is all these lawyerly lawyers try to parse words and contracts and it's all bullshit. The core point about OSS isn't
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I don't want GPL. I want a license that prevents unpaid use by any entity that has any stakeholder worth more than a billion USD. That's it. That's all I want. MIT-Billionaires. Want to take funding from A16Z? That's a m
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
There are ways where it can, but it is usually more secure to stack encryption despite what people on HN tell you. The NSA does stacks double for the secure version of the mobile phone that they give to high level diplomats and POTUS and th

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