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by _xnmw 5y ago
Why don't we build new cities? Because we don't have pioneers anymore. This is actually a really intriguing idea. We should crowdfund the creation of new cities, pioneered by a new generation of dissatisfied priced-out hyper-techi
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by _xnmw 5y ago
> crypto is going to be a major force in global finance for decades to come. Oh it'll stick around alright, and it will be a major force, just like drug dealing and insider trading and other illegal activities and scams that run ram
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The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses(richardhanania.substack.com)
46 points by _xnmw 5y ago|109 comments
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I've found it interesting to note how folks who are pro-choice/pro-life on the issue of abortion often have a morally contradictory stance in supporting mandatory vaccination. So if you are pro-choice, you believe women have the r
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by _xnmw 5y ago
> US government ineptness? Or US citizen ineptness. It's not the government buying this debt You are focusing on this one type of transaction whereas the reality is that the Chinese state exercises influence in a lot of other areas
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by _xnmw 5y ago
A) Fight back by limiting Chinese expansion with US financial influence. Sanctions, etc. B) The US should do something, because if they don't, China will continue to take advantage of US ineptness. States have powers which investors si
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by _xnmw 5y ago
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I say don’t make it illegal, but require it to be counted as paid overtime with a per-minute minimum wage.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I think I finally "get" crypto. This article made me see the light. Crypto is about secession - a techno-anarchy. Decentralized governance with a self-managed currency is effectively creating a new city-state. To be honest, the id
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by _xnmw 5y ago
The Tesla anecdote is a poor example. Of course the US government benefits from its loan to Tesla - Tesla is an American company. By virtue of that fact, all benefit created by Tesla in advancing the state of the electric car industry is, v
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I'd love to see an IntelliJ benchmark/test. As I speculated earlier, the faster IDE startup times may have a lot to do with the much faster disk read speeds.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Thank you, that's the term I was looking for (IOPS benchmark). Do you know how I can test the IOPS speed on a Mac? Looking for a online benchmark, can't find one.
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No it's not strange at all -- I once had a colleague who went on to become a brilliant engineer at Google, but was horrible at the small startup we worked together at, because his solutions were over-engineered, fanciful, totally ignor
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by _xnmw 5y ago
The most striking benchmark for me as a developer is the disk read/write speed. Wonder why Apple didn't highlight that. Nearly 2x as fast as last year's M1 Air or Intel macs - that sounds amazing to me. As a simple web dev, I
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Also: It was butter, the Japanese thought, which made Europeans so peculiarly rank: bata-kusai they called them (using the English word for the foul substance): “butter-stinkers." The terms Bata-kusai, “stinking of butter,” is still a
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Anti-Café(en.wikipedia.org)
60 points by _xnmw 5y ago|70 comments
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I tried to do that last year, but I ended up working on a side-project for fun in my spare time which is now blowing up into a real startup. Once I had a work inbox again, I realized I had forgotten how much I love to work, how much I love
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by _xnmw 5y ago
This is a really bad analogy. We can understand Google Search far, far better than the economy. Google itself is just one small part of the economy. We can test hypotheses, run concrete tests in seconds, and we have SEO experts which can re