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by api 7y ago
Yes, absolutely. Cloud is the new mainframe and SaaS is the new closed-source even if the software it's running behind the scenes is nominally open.
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by api 7y ago
"Worlds of scarcity are made out of things. Worlds of abundance are made out of dependencies." I don't necessarily agree with the abundance premise. Worlds of dependencies are worlds that demand time-consuming labor (ours or
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by api 7y ago
Encrypt all the things.
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by api 7y ago
Depends on the density and transit available. There are some American suburbs of big cities where you can live with no car, but not many.
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by api 7y ago
I think it's sort of a feedback loop. Restrictive housing policies kicked off housing inflation which transformed housing into a speculation vehicle and a financial instrument which in turn incentivized more zoning restriction.
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by api 7y ago
Gen X has been screwed too, just not quite as hard. From all the reading I've done over the past decade or so, I've come to the conclusion that the thing that has been most damaging to younger generations has been real estate hype
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by api 7y ago
Your second point could only be true if markets were infinitely intelligent. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.2284.pdf
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by api 7y ago
Throw in creative ways to extract fees without them looking like fees and I think you've accounted for most of it. One of the things I've learned by watching the cryptocurrency saga is that money and finance belong to the class of
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by api 7y ago
Three things make the bubbly/scammy nature of current generation cryptocurrency very obvious to me: (1) The fact that nearly all cryptocurrencies move in unison even though they differ widely in adoption and real-world use cases. Many
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by api 7y ago
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." Also if Tether implodes the exchanges you're using to short are also likely to implode or exit-scam (since they'll know the gig is up), and there is no
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by api 7y ago
This isn't a great solution. Every IT person knows "its always DNS," and you have to set up IP stuff to bring up DNS in general. DNS is brittle and doesn't deal well with multiple network domains or debugging if the netw
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by api 7y ago
Here's a positive one: smart phones with maps have helped bring about the EV revolution. I got an EV recently and quickly noted how annoying to near impossible finding chargers would be without an app.
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by api 7y ago
Same thing happened with cars. Nobody knows how to work on them anymore because they became easier to use and more reliable.
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by api 7y ago
That would be politically tough for Intel. They used to lead the pack in foundries.
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by api 7y ago
The supply of currency is fixed, so as its value grows the rate of return required to make an investment attractive increases. Eventually you only have HODLers. If Bitcoin were the only currency people would be forced to spend it on essenti
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by api 7y ago
Let's see you try to enforce your laws Terran!
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by api 7y ago
You can see this in cryptocurrency. My hypothesis for a long time has been that the 2017 Bitcoin price blow off was actually a hyper-deflationary collapse. Before that peak Bitcoin was starting to see adoption. The peak and its aftermath co
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by api 7y ago
I can't wrap my head around beer at work. Zero productivity for the most part, though I have rarely experienced the Ballmer peak in the domain of bug fixing.
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by api 7y ago
If TSMC does this and Intel doesn't then by proxy AMD will absolutely destroy Intel on every metric.
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by api 7y ago
Many editors and terminals have a flag to disable ligatures.
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by api 7y ago
"Great artists ship" - Steve Jobs (apocryphal?) It's better to ship and start iterating than to sit around and refine without sufficient real world feedback.
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by api 7y ago
Well paid workers, OSHA, and the EPA vs countries with dirt cheap labor and no worker or environmental protections... which do you think will win? The big question for me is how in the world so many smart people convinced themselves it woul
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by api 7y ago
Fascinating... I always thought that stuff would be the last to be electrified.
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by api 7y ago
Ahh, but those things didn't have the MIT name associated with them. I really can't stand the elite university system. It's not that these schools are bad, just that many others are also good but don't have the brand.
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by api 7y ago
On planet negative interest rates, the time horizon for showing results in business is getting longer and longer. It may be the early stages of post-scarcity but it sure is weird.
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by api 7y ago
It should. The web rendering engine is a good way to render but JS adds lots of bloat.
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by api 7y ago
I'm thinking of something functionally similar but more efficient and geared toward UI use.
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by api 7y ago
The DOM is just state in the browser. I'm curious about whether there's any APIs out there to manipulate that state from code outside the browser, e.g. C/C++ code that is including and instantiating a web control. It seems li
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by api 7y ago
That looks like it runs browser side though. I was thinking of something that can control the DOM from behind the browser UI window for local UI development use. Basically just use the web renderer as a renderer in place of e.g. Qt.
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Ask HN: Non-JavaScript DOM Manipulation
3 points by api 7y ago|8 comments

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