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by api 8y ago
It's not just AirBnB. It's also that real estate has been backstopped by the Fed and the government. So far it's a can't-lose investment over longer time spans, so if you can afford to stack up properly it's a sure
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by api 8y ago
Social trends almost always overcorrect. I wouldn't be surprised if we overcorrect the other way in future generations, then back again, etc. People seem to have trouble with the idea that the optimum is not at an extreme.
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by api 8y ago
I can't speak for everyone, but I for one hate daily commuting by car. I live in SoCal now and one of the biggest things I miss about Boston (where I lived some years ago) is being able to read a book during my morning commute. I don&#
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by api 8y ago
I think one factor he didn't comprehend was lock-in via de-facto standards controlled by single corporations. Take AWS or Microsoft Windows as examples. Businesses that build a lot of infrastructure around those products are stuck with
9995.
by api 8y ago
Bitcoin? Everyone saw that coming.
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by api 8y ago
I have to reluctantly agree. If there is one thing I've learned after 20 years on the open commercialized Internet its that any uncurated medium falls to spam, trolling, con artists, cranks, propaganda, and hoaxes. The bad stuff is eas
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by api 8y ago
If their goal was to destroy our society, they certainly got quite far with that. Since 9/11 we have abandoned American optimism, openness, and sense of a positive future in favor of ideologies that more closely resemble the paranoid r
9998.
by api 8y ago
Most of HN trends young (<=30) and maybe doesn't remember the before time. There was a general optimism and sense of freedom in the 90s that is just gone. We have continued to progress in many amazing ways, but I feel like it's
9999.
by api 8y ago
There is probably a sustainable rate of immigration. Go beyond the rate that can be assimilated and it seems obvious you are going to have huge problems among both the native culture and the migrants.
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by api 8y ago
I have a very different take. As someone who grew up in the 90s I draw the line at 9/11. That event ended the brief post cold war era of peace, prosperity, and optimism. We still have not recovered culturally from 9/11. The optimi
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by api 8y ago
OS inflexibity and lock-down, lack of ports, and heat dissipation for sustained CPU load are probably the big three. Low RAM and storage are also factors for many desktop use cases. It's really cars vs trucks. A phone is a car. A deskt
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by api 8y ago
I have issues with this study but this is definitely flagging abuse. Mods need to clarify that flagging is for spam, trolling, and ads, not disagreement.
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by api 8y ago
It would be better if you had a lot more control to customize it, especially doing things like adding buttons that open links or run scripts. In any case though I likely still would not use it much. My Pro spends most of it's time with
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by api 8y ago
Men can't remember if they had sex?
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by api 8y ago
Keep stuff like this in mind when reading all social science papers. In softer sciences the bias of the researchers seems to have a very strong effect on the outcome.
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by api 8y ago
It would mitigate anthropogenic warming until the sun wakes back up, then wham-o and bye bye Miami.
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by api 8y ago
It's been an ongoing process but there can be thresholds where phase shifts occur. We are experiencing an exponential rise in connectivity.
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by api 8y ago
... which is why SA is so determined to diversify its holdings.
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by api 8y ago
That stuff is kind of like adversarial examples for human brains, and it probably is possible to deeply study the brain and create super indoctrination techniques. At some point we are going to be forced to start regulating persuasion.
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by api 8y ago
The quantitative difference in spreading velocity and general bandwidth is so large it becomes qualitative and looks a lot like a phase change. We burned stuff long before modern steam turbines and internal combustion engines...
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by api 8y ago
Isn't money a form of gamification, especially once you get beyond the most straightforward types of transactions and economic relationships? Wall St is full of click farms where people grind for gold and hidden power ups. What we may
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by api 8y ago
The Borg may turn out to be prophetic. We could turn into a hive mind of sorts. I've already been calling Internet fads, echo chambers, and meme outbreaks "Borgsongs." I seem to recall this term from STTNG for the omnipresent
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by api 8y ago
You definitely see them prosecuting people who accept cash from cartels and terrorist cells or engineering financial entities explicitly to do so . Tether looks a whole whole lot like one of those.
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by api 8y ago
I'm aware of that niche, but I was speaking mostly of the ICOs that promised new technologies and of broader adoption of cryptocurrency across the economy. The thing that's shocked me the most is the amount of money raised by ICO-
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by api 8y ago
I felt the same about Juicero and it's now worth $0. That logic doesn't work.
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by api 8y ago
I'm really shocked by the whole cryptocurrency experiment. We are now ten years in and it seems like literally nothing of value has come of it at all. Billions have been spent and we have absolutely nothing to show for it. I've th
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by api 8y ago
Nuclear has what Elon Musk calls a "high PITA factor" where PITA stands for "Pain In The Ass." A tech with a high PITA factor is one that looks simple and great on paper, but when you actually get into implementation and
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by api 8y ago
Were they real threads that would take advantage of multiple cores or green threads? I remember the days of the green threads lib on Linux. It abused fork to use multiple cores, so it was really just pushing the problem back to the kernel&#
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by api 8y ago
China has also totally rejected environmentalism and monetary discipline. Need energy? Burn coal with no scrubbers and fake the air quality data. Have waste? Dump it in rivers and bribe local officials. Economy slowing? Print money. Need in
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by api 8y ago
You touch on the real tragedy: that all this may be lost in favor of less well thought out interfaces.

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