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by czhu12 4y ago
The Disneyland example can't be blamed on wealth inequality right? Disneyland can only host some number of people at the same time, if we were all billionaires, it still wouldn't expand the capacity of Disneyland.
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I use every opportunity I can find to shill for Bret Devereaux's blog, I think its one of the most wonderful things on the internet. He discussed and challenged that common adage that is often portrayed in films. https://aco
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I’d argue there is a difference between what side of the political spectrum California is on and whether or not they are good at governing. You mention that we don’t have good public transit but California is famous for massively expensive
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Well the promise of crypto is that it can prevent nefarious government surveillance, censorship, inflationary policies, etc. If the HN crowd could temporarily look past how crypto is used today to what it could theoretically be, I wonder if
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I'm curious what reddit even aspires to be at its greatest. Most of the popular subreddit's comment sections have top rated comments being something totally predictable and sarcastic. Right now the top post on r/news is [1] C
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Isn’t this comparing inflation adjusted incomes?
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But why do we assume small social media companies are less addictive or harmful than big social media companies?
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Creating regulations like this may end up acting as a regulatory moat for existing social network companies. This probably makes the overall social media pie smaller overall but guarantees incumbents slice of the pie. We've seen this h
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Genuine question: is there still a good reason to build CRUD type apps in Kotlin / Swift in 2022 with stuff like React Native and Flutter out there? Not talking about award winning, unique apps that may require more device specific cap
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Can anyone in healthcare on HN comment on how a surgery could cost 229k? Really curious how that number breaks down in terms of equipment, salary, medications, etc.
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I'd argue that public resources are used all the time to defend the rights of companies. If a car gets stolen for a Toyota dealership, significant public resources are deployed to recover and prosecute. The alternative is one in which
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There is a difference between [advocating against bad laws that promote abuse or favor interests or hamper innovation] and [advocating for no copyright laws whatsoever]. I think we're somewhat talking past each other here. I have no id
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Something being difficult to legislate doesn't absolve the need for legislation. Police are arguably much more destructive and prone to abuse and corruption, but the solution is not to legalize theft. The whole point of legislation is
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I’m not a fan of trying to pass legislation through trade deals, but specifically on the issue of anti-piracy: why shouldn’t content creators have a right to protect their content? Frankly, it seems to me like if a studio wants to show thei
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The tone of this post suggests that if the author simply just shipped, they would be as successful as the competitor. Building successful products is not a matter of “shipping” but also promoting, selling, continually improving, studying us
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I’ve never struggled with weight but I’ve been able to eat cleaner by trying to change my relationship with food. Instead of thinking about it as a pleasure, I thought about it as a way to satisfy an urge in much the same way we need to sat
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Bret Devereaux discusses this at length here: https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch... In short, we didn't stop using chemical weapons because of ethics (if thats the case, we shou
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For apps I've built in the past, I've found the hardest thing was having to pay monthly hosting costs for years (which is pretty much a necessity if you use a cloud SQL database that things like Rails and Django rely on heavily).
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We purchased a shortcode with Twilio for 3k a quarter, then with their bulk pricing discounts, we are able to send text messages with a 70% discount off the ticket price. Source: We send many millions of messages a month via Twilio.
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I’m somewhat disappointed that most of the comments in this thread take the form of: “anything that Facebook does is bad even if it helps people” and “poorer people are better off in the dark than using anything Facebook made” Having some f
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When I was a junior engineer a long time ago. I wrote a change that someone approved, and merged. A few weeks later a senior engineer saw the code in passing, proceeded to rewrite all of it, submitted a PR with a 2 page description tearing
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If you are using rails, pghero is a great gem to get better visibility on your Postgres performance https://github.com/ankane/pghero
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This post really resonates with me, I've been building https://raremints.club as a way for indie, non technical artists to create NFT's, and have really had to wrestle with all things "web3" that would'v
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It's weird to put postgres into the same bucket as elastic search as they are often used for different things. No matter how much you tune / denormalize postgres, you'll never get the free text search performance elastic sear
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I think thats fair, but thats also becomes a truism since no one sets out to over-architect things. My biggest annoyance with this series of posts that show up every few days on HN is just how disconnected they are from the actual challenge
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Because most software exist to provide solutions to customers and not to satisfy the developers. If you're going through a 40 page mortgage application, and an accidental page refresh loses everything you've filled in, thats not i
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I've never quite understood the gripe people have with modern web development. React took off in ~2015 and the only thing that has really changed about it is how you do state management (flux -> redux -> hooks). Plenty of fronten
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Doesn't the publication of this article kinda mess up this scheme?
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Just to throw my hat in the ring, Currently CTO /founding engineer of health tech company that runs a Rails backend that serves about 150QPS. I hear over and over that rails doesn’t “scale”. Performance wise, we have never had a proble
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Maybe you’d appreciate the global supply chain that’s been built out so workers can manufacture goods for a tenth of the price it would be domestically, so other people halfway around the world can complain about shoddy craftsmanship. You h

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