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by aey 7y ago
Do you have kids and a family? My parents couldn’t move to a home within reasonable distance to their kids and grandkids.
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by aey 7y ago
Does it? Nothing to do with that massive tech industry? Seattle is a socialist paradise I take it? If you can get all the Google engineers to go on strike unless Mountain View agrees to build 50,000 homes, it will be done over night.
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by aey 7y ago
Amazon just did it. Everyone doesn’t need to pack up and move. Those homeowners seem to have a majority in the area. Seems moronic to run a trillion dollar company at odds with the local government. NYC has an income tax. I bet SF will h
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by aey 7y ago
Transfer tax is totally fine. But governments that try to get between families will end up on the loosing end. What inevitably happens is that the rich get loopholes and the middle class pays. At least in California everyone gets the same
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by aey 7y ago
So why can’t FAANG build offices in Detroit? In the Bay Area the lack of affordability comes from concentration of high paying jobs in a small area. They have the economic clout to push the area to build more, or expand in another part of
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by aey 7y ago
Not quite. A working family living in a city for generations shouldn’t be displaced by taxes on unrealized gains. If the city wants to tax at current prices, they should guarantee that price for 5 years.
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by aey 7y ago
Why is that bad? A family lived in the city for generations, and now due to the tech boom and a property bubble they should be forced to move? It makes a hell of a lot more sense for FAANG to open offices somewhere else.
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by aey 7y ago
100%! My fault for conflating ABI and ISA. The C ABI that is first supported by a new llvm backend typically doesn’t have those features implemented. Which makes porting a higher level language like rust non trivial.
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by aey 7y ago
But none of the standard libraries expose those failures. Did you end up writing an std_lib?
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by aey 7y ago
How did you deal with lack of allocation errors? In my mind, what would make rust a fanatic kernel language is tracking allocators with types at the compiler level like it does for Send and Sync.
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by aey 7y ago
Not quite. Not all ISAs are equivalent and not all llvm backends are equivalent. Rust depends on a few features that are typically not found in embedded systems, like multiple return registers. I wouldn’t even call ARM an embedded ISA anym
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by aey 7y ago
I wish Qualcomm took all that legal revenue and converted it into a fab. They are basically limiting their upside now. Patent licensing for wireless standards has to be "fair". If the LTE/5g patents were open, they could c
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by aey 7y ago
Apple uses more die area for their chips. So it wouldn’t be cost competitive with what Qualcomm and Samsung ship.
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by aey 7y ago
Imagine I was offering you a way to own piece of a “giant art”. This particular art takes 100 terra-joules of electricity to build. It’s the biggest one in the world. There are enough people in the world that would pay a non zero sum for
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by aey 7y ago
I find it fascinating that there is a 5 day lag of crypto news to hacker news. I wonder if it’s possible to track this lag across a wide range of industries and information outlets.
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by aey 8y ago
If you are planning for sticking around another year, ask for more stock, double it! They can’t double your salary, so you are not missing out on a meaningful opportunity cost of capital. Right now your best bet to increase your grant as h
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by aey 8y ago
I am working on one https://github.com/solana-labs/solana But also take a look at the most promising sharding project: https://github.com/nearprotocol/nearcore Two complete different approaches.
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by aey 8y ago
100%! There are on-chain scaling projects in the works though.
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by aey 8y ago
No, because these fake transactions occur of-chain, in a database managed by the exchange.
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by aey 8y ago
Microsoft is spending X per year on engineering. So Windows has a marginal cost. Because I am overcompensated and have spare engineering time I can dump it into a free Linux product to force Windows out of a market. Redhat is actually taki
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by aey 8y ago
I think we are getting close to machine generated pulp fiction :).
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by aey 8y ago
So a startup shouldn’t try to gain market share with a free product? Is Linux dumping on Windows?
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by aey 8y ago
But different products are often different markets. An author of science fiction could write a romance novel with 0 overlapping readers.
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by aey 8y ago
They using profits from one area to reduce their prices and grow their driver fleet in another.
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by aey 8y ago
How is that different from any company using profits from one product to build another one?
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by aey 8y ago
My fault! Filecoin is great! We are also building a blockchain that is based around Verifiable Delay Functions and has been open source from day one. VDFs can be used to track time in a permissionless network in a way that works before cons
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by aey 8y ago
We have been Apache 2.0 open source from day one. https://github.com/solana-labs/solana Kudos to filecoin! And choosing Apache 2.0 as the license.
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by aey 8y ago
How does this compare to threadripper sha extensions?
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by aey 8y ago
If you can get 10k grassroots users, you can make the argument for raising capital to scale the company through marketing. If you can't get any grassroots users by giving away the product for free and you need to pay to acquire them i
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by aey 8y ago
Those were not their first 10,000 users.

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