danmaz74

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901.
by danmaz74 9y ago
It's the first time I see such a complete garbage Putin-propaganda comment at the top on HN (I won't repeat the reasons here - just read the other top answers). I find it very, very worrying.
902.
by danmaz74 9y ago
Same here in Italy. I use them all the time.
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The Fighting Drones of Ukraine(airspacemag.com)
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by danmaz74 9y ago
The comparison isn't with the potential new price of the old one, but with the old price of the old one. Say they were paying X per year for #1. Adjusted for inflation, they're going to pay roughly the same X per year for #2, but
905.
by danmaz74 9y ago
Thx
906.
by danmaz74 9y ago
Any source for "high average IQ"?
907.
by danmaz74 9y ago
> Singapore Air returning this plane already (and there's a second as well) means that the plane simply isn't profitable (or profitable enough) for them to keep flying. They were leasing that A380, and now they'll lease a
908.
by danmaz74 9y ago
Doesn't it make total sense to mothball the desal when you don't need it? Pity about water consumption though.
909.
by danmaz74 9y ago
This would maybe make sense if there was a competitive market, but, how can you have a competitive market for running water in a single city?
910.
by danmaz74 9y ago
Probably because they employed better SEO than the original author :(
911.
by danmaz74 9y ago
I'm in Italy, I have my mortgage in Euro, and I really appreciate the 0.9%/year interest rate I'm paying, thank you very much. Now, IF we exited the euro, devalued our currency, but my mortgage was still in euro, THEN I would
912.
by danmaz74 9y ago
Yes, and Facebook a $bazillion. But at that point, "fiat" will already be a forgotten relic of the past, so, who cares?
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by danmaz74 9y ago
In my experience, it depends a lot on how much competition there is from content farms. If your niche isn't targeted by those, it's easy to find the good blogs. Otherwise, it's very difficult. I suppose that this is a use cas
914.
by danmaz74 9y ago
> clearly, Hans Monderman has never driven in Mumbai, India. Or Naples, Italy.
915.
by danmaz74 9y ago
> one big square shared by bicycles, pedestrians and scooters You mean, no cars?
916.
by danmaz74 9y ago
> Pastel extrusions, used for colored pencils, are laid by hand onto grooved wooden boards, where they will dry before being placed in pencil slats. It blows my mind that they do this manually... I wonder how often, if at all, they updat
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by danmaz74 9y ago
IMHO the "less wrong" isn't very relevant, while the "useful" is the important part :)
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by danmaz74 9y ago
> All models are wrong, some are less wrong than others. All models are wrong, some are useful
919.
by danmaz74 9y ago
> There haven't been that many large scale attempts to revolutionize society in history and some have worked just the way some people expected without hindsight. Which ones worked "just the way some people expected without hind
920.
by danmaz74 9y ago
I'm not saying "But what if the Marxists said the same thing?". I'm saying that trying to revolutionize how society works based on a theory never worked as expected in history, and cited the Marxists as the biggest examp
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by danmaz74 9y ago
You can't design rationally a new human society and expect it to work as designed. It's the same error that Marxists did.
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by danmaz74 9y ago
> Indeed. But this is just as true if the spending on food is funded by a consumption tax. The problem is that eating food IS consumption. For very poor people, food is the main consumption. That's the bad of taxing consumption - th
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by danmaz74 9y ago
I wasn't thinking about technical constraints, but economic ones. The market that would be able to benefit from this kind of optimization would be very limited as a % of PC gamers (which is already a limited market compared to consoles
924.
by danmaz74 9y ago
Isn't that the kind of optimizations that you can only make for consoles, where you know that all users have the same hardware?
925.
by danmaz74 9y ago
Unfortunately I don't have time for a full response, but: * I don't want to tax wealth at 90%, that's a straw-man, but let's use it as an example anyway * In your extreme scenario, there would be an increased demand for
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by danmaz74 9y ago
I interpreted "equality" from the OP as equality of outcome, it looked pretty clear in that context.
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by danmaz74 9y ago
> Social mobility is not what "land of opportunity means" it's not meant to be an equal society in the normal sense. It's meant to be a society with opportunities. Social equality and social mobility are almost opposi
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by danmaz74 9y ago
> ...in a universe where superfluous administration is cut first, it is not. You think you live in that universe?
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by danmaz74 9y ago
Definitely agree. What would be really great is an easy way to symc the status between client and server, with generators for the api and a client library to manage the status which could then be used with react or any other similar front
930.
by danmaz74 9y ago
Be careful what you wish for. Skepticism about official experts/science/the government is helping fake news a lot, eg here in Italy.

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