Kinrany

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by Kinrany 3y ago
Here's one idea. Effective land tax drives the sale price to 0, so it may be better to make taxes absolute, not relative to value. When someone wants to give up land because the taxes are too high, they just tell the city government. F
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by Kinrany 3y ago
The taxes can be delayed until the property is sold. This still disincentivises using land as investment but works fine for people who just don't want to move.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Every time something is described as opinionated.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
If all your competitors match your prices with no delay, lowering prices gives you no competitive advantage but makes your margins worse.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
You can, and probably should, have reasonable defaults. Configuration should be version controlled, but separately from source code because it describes deployments, not images used for deployments.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Fair! And I have to say that the docs are pretty good considering the huge surface they cover! Same underlying API, but so many languages.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
It really doesn't help that Slack requires an account, isn't searchable and doesn't preserve history :)
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Ask HN: Properties of a Production Service
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by Kinrany 3y ago
I was going to comment on the same quote. The problem is that one may still want concurrency even when a single thread on a single CPU is enough.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
The direction is good though. Instead of a fine they could be required to pay a space janitor to clean up their mess in the next N years. That would provide funding and motivation for space janitor companies to improve their technology fast
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by Kinrany 3y ago
The docs could be better, but it's as easy as: 1. Install Nix from https://nixos.org/download.html 2. Find the package from https://search.nixos.org/packages 3. Start a shell with `nix-shell -p <nam
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Chief part-time officer? :) Congrats, this is an amazing project!
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by Kinrany 3y ago
This is a very poor argument. Immediately sentencing every criminal to death would also save at least one 9 year old girl.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
The problem I see is that tables and views are a poor general purpose interface: if you don't know what the indexes are, you can't guarantee reasonable performance.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
I think GP was talking about a database-level API specifically
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Rather than 2, isn't it better to let a single application own the database and manage the schema?
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by Kinrany 3y ago
The same adversary trying to hack twice with the same method is entirely plausible though. On the other hand if they invited GP to their HQ, they'd have a lot to lose unless the companies were entirely fake.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Don't use them, duh. Pay enough money to get a copy on premises if it ever gets useful enough for that. In the time they'll get around to changing their procedures, models will get small enough that it will be a non-issue. Disclai
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by Kinrany 3y ago
You can't use coins without someone enforcing rules against counterfeit.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
They should keep copies of all that data, yeah. Being successful in killing closed platforms shouldn't result in any losses for them.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Their goal should be encouraging people to demand open software and hardware, not being principled. Youtube and Twitter have power, not acknowledging that is dumb.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
> And lord knows actual governments, even the EU, aren't going to enforce consumer protections. Ah yes, we don't trust an actual elected government to enforce consumer protections, so we'll trust a private monopoly instead
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by Kinrany 3y ago
So less freedom is good because freedom is good but any extra freedom will be stolen anyway? This is an idiotic take.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Great title.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
What does it do better than all the popular languages?
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Everything on top of machine code exists solely for the benefit of human understanding.
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Postel's law is for implementations of underspecified standards and for backwards compatibility, the problem is the misguided attempts to somehow use it in new standards.
568.
by Kinrany 3y ago
From my understanding speculation is one of the reasons bitcoin works as a payment mechanism. If bitcoin was literally worth 0, any one company could decide to make money on it by using Bitcoin as their personal stablecoin. That would be en
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by Kinrany 3y ago
Can be two buttons, one for buying and one for selling
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by Kinrany 3y ago
I don't see how attacking the "remote work is work" side of the debate vs "only office work is work" helps promoting "unpaid work is work".

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