anewaccount2021

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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
A future rural home will have off-grid power (solar + power wall), off-grid internet (starlink) and off-grid water is already solved. Why again do I need to be packed and stacked? And why do we keep talking about urban life as aspirational?
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
the suburbs fell? suburban home prices are up 15% just from last year . homes overbid with multiple cash offers in most metro regions. meanwhile look at the exodus from NYC. the defining story of human geography in the last year is a movem
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
nix is to system management what haskell is to programming...something that intermediate developers will quickly decide solves all problems, but in reality only solves some of its own problems and creates too many other problems. the advoca
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
I agree that once EVs break the $30k price barrier + time for market adoption, we will indeed see disincentives for owning an ICE car...but there will be enough time to get some years out of driving an ICE car bought at a bargain from some
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
An interesting side-effect will be a potential market for crazy-cheap used ICE luxury cars. Once all of the high-earners demand EVs, the market will be flooded with lightly-used luxury ICE vehicles. A year-old Bentley for $30k? The day migh
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Its merely an observation that we must all take responsibility for our national policies, which have created the need for companies like Palantir.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
The 2014 pivot date is a little earlier than I would have though but the trend is there nonetheless. If you are thinking of leaving the Bay Area and having some massive housing windfall somewhere else, act quickly. Austin and Miami in parti
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
As stated in the post, there are read replicas. Assuming their workload is primarily reads, this buys them a decent amount of redundancy.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Massive unemployment and the social pressures of lockdown. In fairness, the article is quick to point out one thing - the murder rate is a neighborhood statistic, not a national statistic. No one in Alaska is impacted by murder rates in Chi
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
You should care less about the murder rate by nation and more by city or neighborhood. Chicago and Detroit are thousands of miles away from where I live - what relevance is the murder rates in those cities to me? Someone living in Alaska wo
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Since gun ownership and the number of guns have both been rising continuously for years, you can correlate them to anything you like. Since the number of guns was over three hundred million when the murder rate was lower, we can also correl
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
I agree with your suggestion of general inflation - everything from corn to oil is inflating....but crypto is in a class all its own and is basically digital tulips (except tulips have greater intrinsic value). As future devaluations for th
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
All they need to do is make it illegal to complete an enforceable contract with crypto. In other words, you can sit and stare at your coinbase account all day, but you can't ever legally get hard currency to spend it, and you can never
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Because governments own gold.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
The US is about to embark on a substantial weakening of the dollar even more dramatic than 2020. They're preemptively heading off the tech elites who think they're immune to it because of their alternative "currency". I
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
This is just the beginning, and every major government in the world will be on board. In the end, fiat currencies are the foundation and core of every industrialized nation. There can be no alternatives. There's just no way bitcoin wil
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
No, zero chance. There is no way you will get states to agree to forever nullify their electoral influence. If you really want perpetual one-party rule, granting DC and PR statehood are also unlikely but far more realistic than abolishing t
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
You've been watching too much Star Trek.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Zero chance, if only because the resulting chaos would put the assets of the wealthy at risk.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
This is such an HN comment. For 95% of the people alive right now, it matters very much where they live and what nationality they are. See: every migrant crisis. Or people who have a bank account insured by their government. Or anyone on an
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Come on. There were at least two Presidents prior to the Civil War who basically shrugged off slavery, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Get some perspective. And before you hang every covid death on Trump, plea
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Stop delivering packages for two weeks, blame the govt...you'll find out very quickly that brown boxes are a real vector of power
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
the US is becoming a risky place to host your infra. you can be deplatformed on a whim, as a result of petty internal ideological resistance anywhere in your supply chain. no infrastructure partner will go to bat for you, they'd rather
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Why stop at Bitcoin? Corn futures, oil prices, all rising What do they have in common? Priced in increasingly worthless USD
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Cheap debt keeps companies on a ventilator. Bailouts where cheap money isn't enough. Regulatory capture. Societal aversion to change. Innovation replaced by Too Big To Fail. Tesla can't replace Ford and GM because Ford and GM have
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
The same people demanding a Patriot Act 2.0 are now apparently chastising Parler for treating US IT as a potential point-of-failure? Maybe this is the market reaction to deplatformning? Russia-as-a-data-haven. Tell me how thats worse than U
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
These science advisors have no good options...they either rubber-stamp the status quo, or they get ridiculed and marginalized for trying to push an agenda of rapid change. For example, a climate advisor who insists eliminating ICE is the on
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
I don't understand his claims of "working to make SF better"...basically everything wrong with SF is the result of policies formed by elected officials, all of whom would be re-elected tomorrow. Is he saying he wants to under
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
Nothing has reverted, they are creating a permanent green zone around the Capitol right now.
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by anewaccount2021 6y ago
pseudo intellectual drivel. at what point do people finally realize that "thought pieces" on substack just don't mean shit in the real world? this is what Lenin would have derided as "bourgeoise intellectualism"...s

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