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by ccorcos 3y ago
I like this historical example, but it doesn’t not present a way to think about government debt. What is a reasonable amount of debt? Is there a limit? Seems like the conclusion of this excerpt is just “shrug, didn’t happen”
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by ccorcos 3y ago
I get that. And at the end of the day the problem is a relative one. If the US Dollar isn’t the reserve currency for the world, then what will take its place? There aren’t any particularly good alternatives… Bitcoin is volatile with slow tr
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Ask HN: Are you worried about the US dollar collapse?
20 points by ccorcos 3y ago|44 comments
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by ccorcos 3y ago
I’ve been thinking about this comment for a few days now because it’s so true! Pragmatic business decisions are often at odds with recruiting the best possible engineering talent which is probably not the best long term strategy…
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by ccorcos 3y ago
I would love if someone would make a photometry app that ingests video (such as iPhone video of my house or drone footage of my property) and outputs a 3D gaussian splatting model. I want it just for fun, but I’m sure it to real estate agen
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by ccorcos 3y ago
I totally agree. I’m very interested in some kind of data modeling representation that’s a lot more user-friendly. The core problem as I understand it is the difference between references and values.
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by ccorcos 3y ago
You're hijacking the term "ethical" to present yourself as morally superior. Many people don't think they're behaving unethically, and I think you're of the minority opinion. > Many people don’t know about i
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by ccorcos 3y ago
Homebrew says they ask before sending telemetry and you can say no… And you’re sending your IP address all over the internet. Is Hacker News violating your privacy because they have a log an incoming requests? It’s not like Homebrew is iden
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by ccorcos 3y ago
Do you really feel like what they’re collecting is “spying on you” though? They’re collecting errors and statistics to make the product better. It’s all anonymous and you can turn it off. If it were Facebook ads, I’d be more sympathetic. Bu
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by ccorcos 3y ago
I don’t think the exception would be just for foreign companies. It could be a geography set aside for free trade and no tariffs. This kind of thing worked very well in Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and (the entire country of) Singapore for example.
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by ccorcos 3y ago
JavaScript is great for point-free programming! Make sure you check out Ramda.js https://ramdajs.com/ It’s fun in the sense that solving a puzzle is fun, but I avoid it for anything I need to maintain long-term. But it’s go
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by ccorcos 3y ago
I have the exact same thought. What would it look like? I have two ideas. 1. Multiple directory trees that use symlinks to organize files orthogonally. Your typical directory structure may have things split by client / server. But what
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by ccorcos 3y ago
Lots of websites render HTML and CSS from JS (e.g. react). So some of these “static” websites are getting an uncharitable review.
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by ccorcos 3y ago
Aside from the typical planned obsolescence for the purpose of recurring revenue, I found this particular example very interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32462954 It’s classic greenwashing - a more efficient
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by ccorcos 3y ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but they also seem to adjust for inflation when talking about the poor getting poorer “in real terms” but didn’t do the same for the rich people getting richer.
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by ccorcos 3y ago
The 409a discount is the problem here, honestly. Maybe we should lobby the government to change the laws. Because it sucks for employees that the Y Combinator stock option agreement template includes a non-transferability clause. It’s unfai
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by ccorcos 3y ago
People also seem to miss that the hardware-level signatures are the reason they’re able to manage spam so effectively. Opening up iMessage could easily lead to email levels of spam.
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by ccorcos 3y ago
Seems like Apple should give users the ability to download an app while rejecting an entitlement.
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by ccorcos 3y ago
“Getting high on abstraction” is an awesome phrase from this article. Would make a great title too.
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by ccorcos 3y ago
I agree! If people clobber each others updates by typing at the same time in the same input, at least they can understand what happened. That’s much better than not being able to do something because someone left their cursor on something a
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by ccorcos 3y ago
I’m constantly surprised how tech folks seem to undervalue the suburbs.
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by ccorcos 3y ago
I love this article and its ideas, but let's talk about where it falls short in reality. 1. CRDTs are a pain, especially rich text. Schema migrations are a pain. And eventually when you have a very successful product, you'll have
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by ccorcos 3y ago
Definitely check out SocketSupply! https://socketsupply.co/guides/#p2p-guide
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Chonky Menu Re-Creation(nathanmanousos.com)
212 points by ccorcos 3y ago|94 comments
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by ccorcos 3y ago
Awesome tutorial demonstrating how to build really polished UIs in JavaScript — just requires a little know-how
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by ccorcos 3y ago
Do you have a credit card? That is technically debt. If someone has your information, they can open a credit card under your name and max it out. Or even more common, they’ll get a car loan under your name. Since loans are furnished at the
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by ccorcos 3y ago
FYI, there’s a startup doing CO2 → Methane conversion called Terraform Industries. https://terraformindustries.com/ I asked the cofounder of his thoughts here: https://twitter.com/ccorcos/status/16
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by ccorcos 3y ago
> And while this is happening, that slow-moving ecological train wreck, the Salton Sea, continues to dry up. Very odd comment at the end considering that the only reason the Salton Sea exists today was due to a different “ecological disa
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by ccorcos 3y ago
Another failure mode: Not being allowed to choose who you work with. Early on, you joined the company knowing exactly who you get to work with. You were probably involved in hiring for a while too. But at some point 100+, you’re put on a te
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by ccorcos 3y ago
One feature I would love is an ability to export a list of downloaded apps so I can import and re-install from a new machine. Even better if you can sync with Mackup. I’ve been keeping a shell script of all the install commands I run so I c

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