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by david927 3y ago
I wasn't directly quoting him
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The article talks about it.
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by david927 3y ago
This article would be fine but it tries to argue that subtitles lower the degree in which you experience a film and that the "film snob" take is to not have them if it's the same language. I have never heard of this take befo
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by david927 3y ago
He is not just one of the two or three greatest directors ever but also wildly influential. Genius. Exhibit A: https://vimeo.com/153979733
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by david927 3y ago
Yes. This is just anti-competitive behavior and it won't work.
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by david927 3y ago
I was going to make a similar joke: you look at them and choose Postgres
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by david927 3y ago
Speed limits on roads exist; if someone's speeding, it's a question of enforcement. Similarly, we're born with human rights as ratified in the UN Declaration of Human Rights. To your point, they're moot if not enforced
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2023)
38 points by david927 3y ago|43 comments
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by david927 3y ago
Fajny!
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by david927 3y ago
I always thought the John Wick character represented death itself.
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by david927 4y ago
I was curious and wanted to put that same data together -- so thanks. That curve looks terrible and yet it confirms what I expected.
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2023)
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by david927 4y ago
RIP Petrodollar 1971 - March 29, 2023
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by david927 4y ago
I'd argue. I think it was both. Yes, it was an answer to Java but remember, VB apps didn't scale. They exploded at scale. And no matter how much you, as an organization, promised yourself you wouldn't scale up that VB app,
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by david927 4y ago
This is an important step that needs to happen everywhere.
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And in the 90's, what people would do is to do the prototype with VB and expect to write the app in something else. But then the executives would see it, think it's 80% done because the UI was done, and push forward with it in VB
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by david927 4y ago
The poor domestic monetary policy is the equivalent of one or two fewer lifeboats but make no mistake: the end of the petrodollar is the iceberg.
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by david927 4y ago
This is, by far, the most important story of the decade and explains a lot of what we're seeing. The implications for the US Dollar are especially dramatic.
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by david927 4y ago
Koch's Law
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by david927 4y ago
Supply issues are a bit of red herring. Compare industries with more and fewer supply issues and you'll find that it doesn't play an oversized role. The main catalyst, and by that I mean essentially the only catalyst, is monetary
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by david927 4y ago
> It would cause a global financial crisis That's coming in any case. The water is out for miles.
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by david927 4y ago
But if you make depositors whole, we'll have to switch to banks as custodial accounts. These private companies can't make huge profits off of deposits in good times and be, essentially, insured by tax payers in bad times.
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by david927 4y ago
Someone in this thread wrote this: "California Universities just had the most applications in history. UCLA 145k applicants, UCSD 130k applicants. Respectively they are both down now to about a 3% and 5% acceptance rate due to the spi
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by david927 4y ago
Rubbish
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by david927 4y ago
I don't want to interrupt your strange missive against the Swiss but they took Jewish refugees during WWII and it provoked Germany. Hitler called Switzerland "the mortal enemy of the Third Reich" and while, yes, their banks
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by david927 4y ago
Princeton University Professor of Economics Alan Blinder said literally the opposite on Bloomberg today.
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by david927 4y ago
> for no reason For reason. This is far from over.
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by david927 4y ago
The brakes have to match the accelerator on the car, or you're going to be in for a hard time -- even if that means the car will go slower. You have to figure it out differently. Things will go fine (really well, in fact) during expa
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by david927 4y ago
If only we had thousands of years of history showing that this happens every time. Every. Single. Time.
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by david927 4y ago
Well, it's now a multi-polar world between NATO and BRICS countries. Certainly people can believe (realize?) that a proxy war is going on, but to say so as a nation, and to assign the provocateur of that, is to essentially choose a si

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