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by _xnmw 5y ago
Wait, what, one of the best text search engines for the whole internet runs on a residential broadband connection on a home server? My mind is blown.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
> Laravel has to jump through a lot of hoops behind the scenes to do what it does, leaving you with a framework that isn't particularly nimble and design patterns that often aren't particularly applicable to the rest of the PHP
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by _xnmw 5y ago
As a solo bootstrapped SaaS founder that literally relies on my app to pay my rent and food, I owe my sanity to Laravel. I've been doing web development for 10+ years. Nothing else understands the needs of a business owner AND solo pro
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by _xnmw 5y ago
People don't want a "policy", people want a "digital currency" that just works. As much as I despise the whole crypto scam craze, it exists for a reason, because banks aren't working. A new free banking policy
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by _xnmw 5y ago
> Weird, all I personally know from 80s Yugoslavia is from people who came to Germany to work on construction sites Selection bias. Emigrants tend to be the least happy people - there's a reason they left. Emigrants are not a good s
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by _xnmw 5y ago
No. Cultures exist. Races exist. Unique human modes of being exist. One of the most devastating effects of the European Union was the absolute desolation and loss of beautiful cultures in Eastern Europe, such as Croatia and Romania. Entire
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by _xnmw 5y ago
The ability to send money to any American, instantly, with zero or minimal fees, without having to load my money into a private network like Venmo. Gee, whiz.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
- Maximum demonstrated throughput ~1.2M transactions per second. - Geo-replicated latency <1 second. Amazing technical feat. [1] https://github.com/mit-dci/opencbdc-tx
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Agree on the privacy points, disagree completely on the security aspect. A centralized, government issued digital currency is FAR more secure than a decentralized one. The best security is deterrence: there is no better deterrence than havi
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by _xnmw 5y ago
What is easier: getting 20,000 banks in the US to adopt a new protocol, or issue a new central government USD app? In theory yes, regulation could enable easier banking and faster transfers, and this has been tried with SEPA in the EU -- st
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by _xnmw 5y ago
> Dollars in things like Venmo are already digital currency. Yes, but I would prefer to NOT use a private network like Venmo if possible. For one, if it was government-issued with government benefits, everyone would have it, not just tec
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by _xnmw 5y ago
In other words, you're saying crypto really isn't about financial innovation, it's actually about anarchy. Well I want nothing of that.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Ever heard of FBAR? [1] The IRS already has access to all your domestic and international bank accounts opened in your name, even if not in the US, because they are required by law to send this info to the IRS, or risk being sanctioned by t
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by _xnmw 5y ago
This is exactly what I want: a trusted centralized database for no-fee instant domestic and international transfers - I want this NOW. A million times better than any crypto scam, because: 1. I trust the USG. 2. The value of a currency come
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by _xnmw 5y ago
It is just as foolish NOT to dismiss ideas that can waste your time.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
This is a truism, a platitude that can be said about anything. Can even be used to argue the opposite - history could make a fool of PG's tweet. I'd like to hear technical or social arguments for what makes this "thing"
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Lack of intellectualism in the American political discourse is a common refrain even among the American left, not to mention the rest of the world, after becoming the laughing stock of the world during the Trump era. Of course this does not
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by _xnmw 5y ago
> By your theory, the political conversation should be worst in the countries ranked most democratic, which I don't feel fits the facts as well as the opposite. I didn't say the political discourse was "worse", I said
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Yes exactly, that was my point. High quality political analysis is niche in the US, but it is more mainstream in Russia.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Yep, and the corollary effect of living in a non-democratic country is that the political discourse is far more intelligent, because they're NOT trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Over the past few years I learned Russi
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Unrelated, but the replication crisis in medicine is the primary reason why anti-vaxxers have a right to be skeptical, even if they're wrong and spout nonsense. Now we *know* that a large percentage of cited medical research is fraught
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Relevant: McNamara fallacy from yesterday: http://mcnamarafallacy.com . Numbers are not a substitute for actual embodied knowledge.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I do not believe that the war was "not winnable" in Afghanistan. The Soviets managed to defeat the Taliban precursors (Mujahideen), and left behind a Soviet-propped government that lasted longer than the Soviet Union did (3 years
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by _xnmw 5y ago
That's what I use DevonThink for. Local macOS app with encrypted local filesystem. It just indexes basically everything from email to webpages to actual directories of plaintext files on my filesystem. And it can do automatic OCR of im
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Ask HN: What's the largest serverless setup you've seen?
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Agreed, as the founder at a fintech SaaS which uses multiple bank APIs like Plaid and Nordigen. Screen scraping is not just insecure, but also unreliable and fragile. Most problems I've seen with bank connections happen because screen-
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I feel very uneasy about this, and I am not sure why. I feel like the "meat and potatoes" of any application is its data and backend code, not the frontend. Frontends can change among clients, or even be given up altogether (just
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by _xnmw 5y ago
As a solo bootstrapped SaaS founder who literally relies on my app staying online to pay my rent and food, I chose NOT to use the cloud, even though I have 6 figures in cloud credits. I use the credit to spin up a single beefy baremetal ins
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Using cloud-managed backups can lull you into a false sense of security. I've heard enough of horror stories of the snapshot/restore mechanism failing for some reason, especially on certain edge-cases when you use huge amounts of
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by _xnmw 5y ago
This is a straw-man argument. Of course if the cloud could save me time and energy, I would use it, but it doesn't. In my experience, you spend just as much time in the long run tweaking/configuring the AWS console as you do simpl

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