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by cloverich 8mo ago
And the president has enormous influence over what congress does (veto). Of course everything is nuanced; the trend is merely interesting especially juxtaposed against people consistently voting for republicans for "economic" reas
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by cloverich 8mo ago
They are arguing its not the recommender that is unique it is the network effect.
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by cloverich 9mo ago
This has been a tough nut to crack, conversationally. My strategy lately has been to flip tue script: Do you think Fascism is bad? How do you define it? What would Trump need to do for you to consider him a fascist. Its interesting to see a
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by cloverich 9mo ago
Many Americans these days absolutely do disagree with all of those things. Educated ones. Theres simply a short circuit belief based pathway in peoples brains that bypasses everything rational on arbitrary topics. Most of us used to see it
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by cloverich 9mo ago
Fascism always wears populisms clothing, but they aren't therefore directly equivalent. Bernie and Trump both support tariffs but for different reasons (and to different degrees). Likewise you can gush about 1950's factory workers
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by cloverich 9mo ago
Its because everyone can see UI, and many have strong opinions on it. Its always the first tragedy of the commons. In a typical tech company built on compromise, fighting the complexity is a fools errand.
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by cloverich 9mo ago
To be clear what level of foreign government organizing protests and riots aimed at creating divisions in the US do you consider acceptable?
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by cloverich 9mo ago
I hear that sentiment from a lot of right wing friends in US fwiw. IME here it's more a coded speech and / or an escape from difficult conversations. The coded speech part steers it towards general conspiracy topics, which are oft
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by cloverich 9mo ago
It will make a _small_ difference, and then also banning individuals from owning multiple homes would be a bigger difference (and then building enough supply, the biggest). We can do all three.
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by cloverich 9mo ago
Possibly but that is not the main argument. The main argument is about the lesser of two evils. Do we want to prioritize the open market of SFH ownership, or do we want to prioritize (maximize) the number of people who can own a SFH. Bannin
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by cloverich 9mo ago
This would certainly drive down prices - how much is an open question. But I think its a fair compromise, UNTIL we actually do have enough homes for everyone. Until then something has to give - right now its people who can't own a sing
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by cloverich 9mo ago
It bugs me but also it comes with the territory - HN attracts an awful lot of programmers, and most programmers skew hard to pedantry (more specifically, noticing and correcting minute details). I'd love the exact same community minus
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by cloverich 9mo ago
This is well known, and why forums that wanted to maintain their quality would consistently lock such threads going back at least 20+ years when I started using forums. Reddit, Facebook, et al, do the opposite. Its why they feel so bad to u
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by cloverich 9mo ago
i think the argument is Venezuela can help - or hurt - Russia.
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by cloverich 9mo ago
The thing that I got stuck on most in 2025 is how often we complain about these centralized behemoths but only rarely distill them to the actual value they provide. Its only if you go through the exercise of understanding why people use the
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by cloverich 10mo ago
Did I read incorrectly? > which is around 3.8kwh, costs $2400 USD. To store 10kwh would cost $7200 USD (which gets us more than 10kwh). 84kwh / 3.8 kwh is about 22. 22 * 2400 is ~53k.
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by cloverich 10mo ago
10th? That is quite the recommendation. Do you think because it is that good, or the mix of quality with your tastes (to a larger degree than normal).
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by cloverich 10mo ago
Finally read Fukuyama's "Liberalism and its discontents" after reading his much larger the origin of political order previously. I enjoyed its dense, survey like nature; I particularly enjoyed his (actual) breakdown of critic
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by cloverich 10mo ago
I have two genuine, straight forward answers for you. One, I have an important codebase written in a non-typed language, that is heavily developed still. So being able to add types to it (assuming I / team prefer that) is nice. Second
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by cloverich 10mo ago
Wait that Anker Solix 3800 costs more than my 84kwh battery containing _car_ (3.8 kwh x 22 batteries)? Something not right.
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by cloverich 10mo ago
This just made my day. This landing was the bane of my existence back in kinder at my friends house, and I'd forgotten all about it. <3
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by cloverich 10mo ago
I love this kind of UI. Can someone elaborate on what HyperCard is exactly?
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by cloverich 10mo ago
When people say leet code they usually mean problems that are easy once you know the algorithm, and hard to impossible (in an interview) otherwise. typical examples would be sorting algorithms or graph search problems, and some companies do
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by cloverich 10mo ago
Information is the product of intellectual work (among other things); it is composed of bits but is not itself bits. We aren't paying for the bits.
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by cloverich 10mo ago
10/meal is very expensive, fyi. A rotisserie costco chicken is $5 for reference; rice and beans is essentially free. Cabbage nearly so.
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by cloverich 11mo ago
Sounds loosely libertarian, but the longer terms one is new. Its long appealed to technical folks because of its simplicity and ability to address a wide swath of policy issues. It took me a long time to break myself out of it. I think key
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by cloverich 11mo ago
consider that books were designed by us, to benefit us. They are inherently optimized to accelerate what we define as book smarts, because that is what we designed them to do. Or another way, book smarts had always existed - its perhaps sim
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by cloverich 11mo ago
> We get on Zooms to talk. Even with the person 1 cubicle over. But why? Required? Culture? Maybe it's the company?
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by cloverich 11mo ago
Possibly that is how you get the world we all know and live in today ^^
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by cloverich 11mo ago
For context 11bn in revenue is 3% of Googles annually. Chat gpt has something like 800 million users. It's completely plausible that they'll fizzle. It's also completely plausible they eat Google or facebook and 11bn becomes

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