EdgarVerona

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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
This is how I feel, precisely. There are real, human consequences to these price increasing theories. It will be felt by people who are, by a large margin, not the target audience of Hacker News. It'll be felt by people who have to
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
Unfortunately we don't have the data, only the evidence of whether their capacity is meeting demand. Right now it's not - but we will see in a week or two. If it continues to not do so, it seems rational to believe that they hav
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
I definitely agree with that. I'm totally in support of the idea of limiting quantities, and I do think that would be a rational solution in the face of these current extenuating circumstances.
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
> only the producers who could scale without "too much" cost would scale. > the rise in price incentivises the market to produce more of the product / incentivises more producers to enter the market It sounds like this
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
> To a very good approximation, the marginal impact of any hoarders on the scarcity of a product is zero. Hoarders are not trying to drive scarcity themselves, they are trying to buy a product now because they think the price will rise,
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
> They only would have made the decision to scale production if they estimated the profit from filling this short-term demand would make up for the cost of having to eventually scale back the temporary investment. It's not exactly h
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
But if we created it at the dramatically and artificially increased demand that it has right now, it would be disastrous for that industry once this panic subsides. Imagine the increase in infrastructure these companies would have to bui
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
Really? Regardless of the consequences? What becomes of that toilet paper when this fear has subsided? What becomes of the companies that had to scale production, create new factories, hire new workers etc... when the existing glut of su
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
You neglected to mention that when people see fake headlines about toilet paper scarcity, there's a nontrivial percentage of people who see that as an opportunity for said arbitrage. There's two kinds of hoarding happening here: f
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
A lot of people in this thread are willfully ignoring some basic facts here. These products are being made in sufficient quantity for everyone. There is not a significant decrease in production. There is a significant increase in h
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
Just a few weeks ago, I had to dig back to try and root cause a very old bug. It ended up being in code from back in early 2012, but the root problem was drift in functionality that it didn't keep up with and eventually broke in an un
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
Until I switched to google for my email, Pegasus Mail was my go-to client. Amazing to see it still kicking after all these years, and still updating! Kudos to him for keeping up with it!
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
That is pretty brilliant.
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
What does common core have to do with how they get compensated?
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
I agree about fast food work being draining. Even on the hardest day, I've never left my software engineering job at the end of the day feeling half as exhausted as I did at my high school fast food jobs. From standing for 8 hours a
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
I was sort of in a similar situation when I was your age - in over my head at a complex project where the owner had never heard of version control (though in my case, I was too green to realize that it even existed). They had 30 copies of
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
I agree. Though I would also feel pretty disheartened if I got a call from them after that decision was made - "Hey, we need someone of your skill level to come in and fly some test planes" "...okay"
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
If an entity can choose to discard ethics because it negatively impacts their bottom line, then they probably had no ethics to begin with.
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
It's sad because it's true.
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
Agreed. This is a case of an untrustworthy "authority." It is in G2A's extreme best interest to pretend there's not a problem, I wouldn't trust any numbers that they put out as if they are authoritative. I should
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
Chargebacks. So the idea is that the unethical agent buys the keys (either themselves or with a stolen card), sells them to a key reseller, and then initiates a chargeback to get their money back (either for themselves, or the person who h
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
I'm impressed at the creativity and disgusted that they thought this would be okay at the same time.
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
Yes, ActiveX was the sauce that made VB quick and even fun to use! I tell people it was the Python of its day.
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
Yet another interesting benefit of/interesting feature of VB is that it was the Python of its day in terms of the "there's a library to do that" factor. Not only was it easy to pick up, but (while not built-in like Pyth
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
I agree with your perspective on this, as hard as it can be to admit.
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
This one's definitely a weakness I still have. I read that and thought "yeah, I do this in a lot of places and often end up regretting it." I think named parameters don't actually help, because the underlying problem wi
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
Definitely true. And I think, in retrospect, that's not so bad. I think the important part is realizing - and convincing people to allocate time to it - when it needs to be refactored: when it reaches a point that it can't susta
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
This is certainly a difficult problem, and I think that as we learn more on this subject people are going to be increasingly uncomfortable with the answers available to us and what it means for the products we create. What I feel is that, r
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
Thank you for sharing, and for going so deep on it!
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by EdgarVerona 7y ago
There's a tender place in my heart for Pascal. The first language I was taught was Turbo Pascal (I had sort of taught myself QBasic before that, as much as one can from reading the help manual and stumbling through), and the built-in

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