MrPatan

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by MrPatan 3y ago
Where's the trust in a bitcoin tx?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Steady state thinking. Of course gold would become cheaper, sure. But you will have bought all the actual productive assets first! This is the same trick economists play when saying "inflation doesn't matter". It doesn&#x2
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by MrPatan 3y ago
> But the solution to that is fintech and regulation, not crypto Why? Now we have a trustless, decentralized, tech solution, why do you still want the "guys with guns" solution?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Yes, and I'll do you one better: everybody should have their own company and there should be no "employee" option. Everything should be contracts. Makes it clearer it's not a family relationship, it's business.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
That's a success story. The 2 month version could be sold at all, the 6 month one can't, so it's not worth considering its technical merits. Then the client/stakeholder buys in, the sunk cost, well, sinks in, and things
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by MrPatan 3y ago
It is. The reason is most people can tell red from green and big from small, and most people use graphic designs daily, so will have an opinion on whether a design element should be bigger or redder. Other professionals with a similar pligh
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by MrPatan 3y ago
What's possible with the medium, whether you like it or not, is a lot. I understand where you're coming from, but it's not where most users come from. Leaving scrollbars or whatever else unstyled and sticking out like a sore
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Can't upvote more, so will repeat: read impro. It's short. I wonder if it's more useful to a certain kind of person for whom this stuff may be less readily legible, but I suspect there's a lot of that kind here. Read im
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by MrPatan 3y ago
So we're killing crypto again. Okay! This time around just buy some while it's cheap. You may learn a thing or two. About finance, and about yourself. At 50k you remembered checking it when it was 25k, and regretted not buying.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Custom scrollbars, as in "I'll hijack the scroll events and draw custom stuff on the side of the element" kind of custom, yeah, that's bad and buggy and annoying. Being able to style native scrollbars is a godsend which
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Reddit has been doing a great job for my use case. Since I decided to quit it a few years ago they've made so many absurd changes that every time I land on it by chance I can't make head or tails of it, can't find the post,
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by MrPatan 3y ago
The mind that doesn't want to risk entertaining "wrong" truths can't stand being reminded of the fact.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
I used to think the inevitable "but the tire pollution!" commenter was just run of the mill hn pedantry, but it's been so consistent over so many years... I hope the pay is good, at least.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Talking about kitchens, what happened to the data Uri kitchen at hixie's?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
DCA is about ease of implementation and regret minimisation, not ev optimisation.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Banks don't like to give money back to shareholders, they keep it for the bankers. Why would you buy bank shares?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Aren't those same people now voting directly, with their wallets, to let an industry die? Why do you want to add a middleman politician to the process? Do people not know what's good for them? Why would they then know what'
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by MrPatan 3y ago
I came to a similar conclusion about how some people strive to reduce what they call "visual noise" on their programming languages, by removing things like semicolons, parentheses, curly braces, etc. and others, like myself, who
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Why would an industry dying be a problem? Why would you "regulate" to keep it alive? (which means keep it alive with our money) Who decides which industry should be kept alive and which should die? Let me guess, you do.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
"News deserts" is too close to "Just desserts". Maybe they need an ubi for marketers and lobbyists as well.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
People take pills from known criminals , with high risk of fentanyl OD, just for fun. Yes, I think people would indeed take pills prescribed by AI, just make it a robot wearing a lab coat. Also pilots! I mean, pilots kill themselves and a
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Do you reckon there's pharma people right now wondering how to make LLMs push their drugs? Take fine-tuning trainers to "conferences", perhaps? Will they try to make their own? What a next few years...
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Amazing. A collection of "People who don't like his personality", plus his literal political opponent, are your best sources on how to identify the next Hitler. Let me say that again: If a democrat you like says somebody is
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by MrPatan 3y ago
And how will you tell such a monster appeared? Through your independent research? Or because the TV told you?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Once you bought into "whatever means necessary", what evidence would it take to change your mind?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
> The law would also make it illegal for a landlord to refuse tenancies to families with children, or those in receipt of benefits. What could possibly go wrong?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Here is the problem, and it's not a technical problem, you guessed it, it's a people problem, and it doesn't have a solution, because people suck: - It's probably more difficult to do great work WFH than F2F. But I mea
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by MrPatan 3y ago
It'd be nice if it that doc window could just not steal the focus. At least with TypeScript it does.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
The first segways were written off... and now you have electric scooters on demand on every city of the planet. The first NFTs were written off... by you and other writter-offers. If you didn't write them off back then and minted some
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Why not: "increased local prices increase density"? People want to build where they can sell for more money. Supply and demand still apply.

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