LapsangGuzzler

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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I think this somewhat inevitable given the flexibility of javascript. The lack of convergence on one single paradigm as a long-lasting set of best practices speaks to all of things that a web framework needs to have in order to accommodate
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
The percentage doesn't matter. FTX basically laundered its reputation through Sequoia. Sequoia gave them legitimacy to go out and be a huge player and tell investors and the celebrities that endorsed them "we're not like the
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I'm glad to see the parents getting some scrutiny here because it sounds like FTX probably wouldn't have been successful without them. But it also wouldn't have been this widespread without Sequoia, and this part really got m
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> Wiedenfels continued by saying that increasing streaming prices would reduce churn, AKA the number of subscribers who drop every month, especially if the company tries to commit more folks to annual plans. He also pushed the potential
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
We're just finally catching up from the decades of stagnation around the research of cannabis and getting out of the honeymoon phase of legalization. Anecdotally, my cannabis use fell into the "use disorder" category and it w
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Right, but once a dev does hit that threshold, they could very easily be upside down on their income if the app goes viral and gets installed at a much higher rate than the revenue it generates and that's what people are mad about. You
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Unity discovers how real the revenue struggle is(reuters.com)
4 points by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago|0 comments
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> the unity thing seems like a blatant attempt at rent extraction Gamepass is literally renting games on a flat monthly fee (which they've recently increased, btw). Unity chose a really stupid approach to handle their new pricing,
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I get why people are upset about the pricing changes because they are harmful. That said, I'd love to see more discourse around the macroeconomics of platformification of gaming (i.e. gamepass) because this Unity move feels analagous t
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> Idiots walk into machinery all the time. Put up signs, do safety training, yell "Stop!" and still Darwin takes his share. It's still on leadership if they choose to hire idiots who get hurt. The solution is: don't
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
What OP is proposing is how most of the modern world handles tax collection. > Their job is literally to collect as much money as possible from people The tax code clearly dictates how much is owed by each individual. Now a private compa
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Do you have an idea what the difference is in cost? A subscription clinic opened up by me and their price was shockingly reasonable to me after years of insurance deductibles and whatnot.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
This is in turn dramatically impacts the price of the home. I bought a home last year during peak sales season in a great neighborhood in a major tourist town at a very reasonable price that had been on the market nearly a week before I mad
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Which will not happen because of the NIMBYism you describe. Local and state governments tend to have a high representation of property owners relative to the folks who really need this change to happen. It's "F you got mine"
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> I often wonder how far away we are from funding being withheld from states with bad public policy as perceived by the party in power. It sets dangerous precedents of coupling human suffering to policy maneuvers This has been going on
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Perhaps, but given the issues I’ve seen with the larger react codebases I’ve worked with around performance and shifting best practices, I wouldn’t necessarily write Svelte off without giving it a fair shot. It’s not like large React apps a
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I’ve been using Svelte for a about 3 years on smaller visualization projects and it works really well in that context. Being able to declaratively define your UI behavior is massive for tools like D3js compared to the more traditional imper
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
True, although landlords absolutely pass the cost of property taxes onto renters when they can and this was certainly true in Austin.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Which makes the decision not to fund things like public transit even more ridiculous. But then again, Texas refused to deploy its literal rainy day find when Harvey hit, so it really shouldn’t be that surprising.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> And more importantly, property taxes can go as high as or low as needed which keep downward pressure on home prices. The major downside of this is that it forces out the lower income folks who originally owned the property. I saw so ma
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I moved to Austin in 2012 and left in 2020. What was great back then was that salaries were almost comparable but the COL was so much lower. Until 2016 or so, Austin had the best salary to COL ratio of tech towns in the country. But that al
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Austin’s public transit is an absolute joke compared to SF. It’s actually embarrassing how bad it is for a city it’s size, but that’s what you get when you live in an anti-tax area like Texas. Perhaps California taxes are too high, but at l
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Her arrangement gives her the freedom to make all of these decisions, which is the way it should be.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> It seems profits and benefits for workers must be extracted at the gunpoint of government regulation and unionization. I agree that it'd be great if that wasn't necessary. Yep. Those of us who’ve lived in the west have never
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> As an industry we're surprisingly very behind in normalizing this. Given the fight we’ve seen over WFH, I’m very inclined to believe that this is intentional by the industry. By focusing on paying top dollar for FTEs and demanding
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Perhaps, but it’s still wild to me how many people approach these topics with complete apathy and surrender, as if the AI takeover is inevitable and therefore we shouldn’t try to fight it. Regardless of how you see the future playing out, i
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> “It’s evident Salinger has a saint complex. He wants to be a saint. The trouble is, he doesn’t have a saintly personality—quite the opposite—he is egotistical, ill tempered, unforgiving. But he wants to be a saint because saints are ab
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> It seems to be another natural reaction, to forget the impact, it fades away. I think this is pretty universal for a society, our collective memories are pretty short and highly influenced by the newest threat. A perfect example of thi
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
AWS and Microsoft are very, very different from Discord. Discord originated in gaming and caters to a largely non-paid user base, that background alone is enough to be skeptical. As terrible as AWS and Microsoft are as companies, at least t
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> how could we really determine whether a tax-bashing neoconservative actively protects labyrinthine tax practices in order to justify adjacent political ends? We rarely have the ability to truly determine a politician’s motives in a con

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