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   by api 7y ago

   Vultr is underrated too. I've had nothing but positive tech support experiences with them. Their weird branding turns people off but they do not seem fly by night. We have used them for various things for years with very few problems.
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   by api 7y ago

   Cults are not new. The fascinating thing to me is that in many cases there is no single embodied leader or even founder . Instead the charismatic leader seems to be the cult itself with this being facilitated through a rapid iterative feed
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   by api 7y ago

   There is a market for speculation, black and grey market finance, and gambling that will always give Bitcoin and other deflationary type cryptocurrencies value. People will "play" in these markets just like they play in casinos. T
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   by api 7y ago

   It's kind of fascinating when you put on a neutral anthropologist sort of hat and look at this stuff. Things like the incel phenomenon are basically cults, but they're a new kind of cult for the Internet age. They're like amo
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   by api 7y ago

   If little new housing is built, density remains the same, and transportation is not upgraded, then this applies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent When it comes to what's squeezing the middle class and imp
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   by api 7y ago

   Crash Ceres into it? You just have to... uhh... adjust the orbit of Ceres by quite a lot.
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   by api 7y ago

   I regularly max out 8 as a developer and could certainly make use of 16 or 24, and I am probably toward the moderate end of developer needs. Examples: multiple VMs, big editors/IDEs, local databases, local k8s clusters, local network s
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   by api 7y ago

   AMD also wants to get more into servers, supercomputing, AI, and cloud. That's mostly Epyc but Ryzen is fast enough to play there and integrated GPUs dont matter there either.
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   by api 7y ago

   Mobile is the foot rub. (Autocorrect of "mobile is the future" I saw once.)
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    by api 7y ago

    I think you just nailed the narrative that has been proven wrong: that free trade would move them toward an open society. More generally I think recent history has disproven a core tenet of libertarianism: that personal and societal level f
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    by api 7y ago

    I don't think the 90s were any simpler, but I do miss some things. Popular music was IMHO objectively better even in a pure composition sense and was much more interesting. I also miss 90s cyberculture. There was a more genuine ethos o
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    by api 7y ago

    Side note but isn't it sad that being poor gets you hassled by police? Not only is it irritating but it leads to the poor getting tons of extra nit picky tickets that end up costing hundreds of dollars. It's also racial. I drove w
13. 9583.▲
    by api 7y ago

    It depends a lot on where you live. Cold climates with salt and ice destroy cars. Loads of rain can do it too. Where I live in SoCal cars last absolutely forever. You see people driving early 90s Hondas all the time and they've just gr
14. 9584.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I've predicted for a while that we will soon see phone and even PC SOCs where the machine is one chip.
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    by api 7y ago

    What people really don't get is that the president is not the whole government and has far less power than people seem to assume. All this surveillance state stuff kicked into high gear after 9/11 and kept going through Bush, Obam
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    by api 7y ago

    Gratifying but mostly forgettable and infused with advertising also describes broadcast radio and TV. I remember back in the day one of the biggest concerns was how we could prevent the Internet from becoming like TV. We clearly failed, at
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    by api 7y ago

    For the current military budget we could probably build O'Neill cylinders in Lunar orbit and start a terraforming project on Mars. (Of course don't get me started about what we could do on Earth for this money.) We are just very c
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    by api 7y ago

    Our cultural obsession with work = time = virtue comes from the Agricultural Age and early Industrial Age when there was a more direct linear relationship here.
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    by api 7y ago

    Yup... a shitty app written in X is a shitty app where X is any language, platform, or framework. You can write non-shitty apps in Electron/JS but you have to actually pay attention to resource use, reducing dependencies, styling to ma
20. 9590.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I hear you and those are valid points. Don't blame QUIC. Blame ISPs and middlebox makers for abusing their (literal network-wise) position and breaking the end-to-end principle. History has shown that we just have to encrypt everything
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    by api 7y ago

    People whining about Electron is a pet peeve of mine for this reason. Electron exists because of the sorry mess of half-supported fragmented junk that desktop UI development has become. If you hate Electron don't blame Electron. Blame
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    by api 7y ago

    The other awesome thing about QUIC is that it encrypts almost everything including header information, making middlebox traffic shaping worthless and demoting middleboxes in general.
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    by api 7y ago

    Down payments are the monkey wrench here. The requirement to have a down payment means high prices basically lock people out of homeownership, period. That in turn limits ability to build wealth at all, even at a crappy interest rate.
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    by api 7y ago

    From what I've personally seen the people who get away with incompetence the most are high-charisma people. I've countless times seen people with a certain "reality distortion field" kind of charisma spew utterly inane n
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    by api 7y ago

    Part of the problem is Bluetooth itself. The protocol is an over-engineered abomination full of totally unnecessary statefulness and special-casing and other nonsense. It's really hard to get Bluetooth to work reliably.
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    by api 7y ago

    I haven't tried hg but from what I've seen one major advantage of git that gets under-acknowledged is its speed. Git is fast and fast really does matter for a version control system you use constantly. Is hg as fast as git?
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    by api 7y ago

    One "meta" way of looking at things like this is that it represents a part of the technical debt left behind by the industrial revolution. Eventually we have to go back and fix this stuff, but as with technical debt in most code b
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    by api 7y ago

    My gripe is bad UX. The whole system is needlessly obtuse and esoteric. Git is another popular thing with this problem, but in the case of git it provides so much value it's enough to get me to overcome its obtuseness. For systemd it&#
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    by api 7y ago

    Honestly I dont trust any nutritional science anymore beyond the most well established stuff with loads and loads of large repeatable studies. Even then I have some skepticism due to genetic variation and confounding effects.
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    by api 7y ago

    SEO?