JohnHaugeland

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by JohnHaugeland 2y ago
> I would greatly appreciate any feedback on the site as well as any advice on how to grow it. This is very cool Things I would want: 1. Appropriate growing zone (ideally USDA hardiness zone low and high limit for Americans; others for o
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
It is not appropriate for you to speculate publicly about the mental health of people you've never met. It's so inappropriate that in the field that's actually trained for this, they're disallowed by compact, even with e
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
On Reddit I do. They have consequences here At any rate, I've learned that my commentary here is considered inappropriate, so I should probably drop it.
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
Flagging a gentle and reasonable statement like "that isn't what I meant" isn't a practical way to handle disagreement, and doesn't follow HN's rules The punishment culture for not being part of the crowd has g
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
It's getting to the point where even if I just say "that isn't what I meant" or "that's a paraphrase, not a quote," I get flagged for it
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
This model has been tried many times in gaming, and has never succeeded
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
AI can create inoffensive wallpaper
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
Ray Kurtzweil predicted this in the 80s Predictions rely on everyone forgetting how wrong you were
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
> You either hate yourself or you don't use the Web too much. This doesn't seem like an appropriate thing to say. Good luck to you.
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
That's FEE
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
No, and that isn't equivalent
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
you can buy physical media?
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
I have some trouble with "telling a third party developer they can't replace parts of your server-driven app for their own profit is a dystopia."
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
"In terms of the costs, if you are small, the free tiers (and cloud platforms in general) are great. If you are at the point where you are paying $5-10k/month, you are almost certainly overpaying by using cloud services." The
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
> R2 is an object store. It is literally a drop-in replacement to S3. A CDN is a thing where you can put things, and request them by web, and have them geo-distributed. R2 is actually a CDN. So is S3. Yes, I'm aware, the vending c
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
R2 is radically cheaper than doing it yourself It's a CDN, not a filestore. CDNs mean hundreds of locations.
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
> The whole idea that since they have economies of scale, they must pass those savings on to you is a misunderstanding of how companies work. You're responding to someone who said "can," not "must." What they sai
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
> This is the Trillion Dollar Paradox described by Martin Casado. You’re crazy if you don’t start your business in the cloud, you’re crazy if you stay there. That's not a paradox. You're not crazy in either case. Starting in t
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
> In most businesses I've worked in: > >developer costs >> infrastructure costs That's what we said at my first Kleiner company. All the time. Pretty soon we had a $100k/mo server bill. We were just webhosting
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
76%. More than three quarters. For wind, the number is 72%. No, that isn't acceptable. If you take information from climate experts instead of vendors, they say the acceptable line is 5%. Solar is not clean. Wind is not clean. Three
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
Renewables are only cheaper if you count nuclear as a renewable. When people say solar is cheaper, they neglect to consider the supporting subsidies, or the fact that 76% on global average of solar power is actually natural gas in-fill. At
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
> > If you make something in a country, it's subject to that country's laws. > > I don't know how this would be true. If anything operating from a country makes you subject to their law. We're saying the same
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
> Your wall of text is incoherent and reveals a deep lack of understanding of the blockchain I'm sorry that you chose to exit the polite conversation. Have a good day. . > Ethereum is now a green blockchain. No, it's not.
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
> When using Ethereum I never agreed to the US intercepting my data just because a relevant node is randomly in their jurisdiction. You seem to be under the impression that the law doesn't apply until you agree to it. . > If a no
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
> Not sure that's true (most of the founder folk appear to be non-US based, and the foundation is Swiss if I'm not mistaken) Sorry, I could have been more clear when writing. This was my fault. I meant this physically. The ne
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
In fact, I've already received one reply of that form in private.
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
I'm discussing the law, not an analogy. It's a real system that was made in the United States. You don't have to be a company to be subject to the law. If you make something in a country, it's subject to that country&#x
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
so i don't mean to seem rude, but, i'm not really sure what other options there are if ethereum isn't bound by us law, is it that they should be bound by someone else's law, or not at all? like, you know that if you&#x27
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
I'm confused. Is the idea here that something from the United States is not bound by United States law because the person who made it doesn't want it to? Google's also bound by US law. They're also international This is
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by JohnHaugeland 4y ago
Fortunately, in a great many ways, that just isn't how this country works.

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