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by david927 4y ago
You're right in some places, but it's more complex than that. Yes, the USD is backed by the "full faith and credit" of the US government but the Petrodollar's global reserve status is fading. Saudi and Russia are b
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by david927 4y ago
I mean how does he know it's not "thousands of RPC calls" -- he spent six years and never got it to perform, so he doesn't know. "You're wrong!" ? Based on what? If I worked for six years on something a
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by david927 4y ago
I don't know if it's easy to explain but history is certainly filled with examples of monetary policy gone off the rails. The Nixon Shock in 1971 set off a chain of dominoes that can be seen here: https://wtfhappenedin1
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by david927 4y ago
You could be right. But how do you know the consultants Musk hired are wrong? How does Eric know? Maybe there was a situation found where that did, in fact, happen. Certainly with a large number of microservices, it could happen. Maybe
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by david927 4y ago
Thanks for the correction. You're right, and I can't tell you either, so I shouldn't really argue.
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by david927 4y ago
Yes, but he went on to say that it is truly slow and that it needs more spend, which is another way of saying, "You're wrong! It's not that! ... but I have no idea what it is," which isn't a very good response.
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by david927 4y ago
It doesn't matter if it's "thousands of RPC calls" or not. Eric's response is, "It's definitely not that! It's... well... we don't know... so just spend more money on servers." That respo
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by david927 4y ago
He said it's "net spend" and that's another way of saying, "It's fine." It's the equivalent of admitting the engine is running hot, but saying, it's not a problem with the engine, it just needs
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by david927 4y ago
Eric essentially said, "That's not why the engine is running hot, it just needs lots of oil." That's a stupid response.
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by david927 4y ago
Performance has been bad forever. Twitter has had forever to fix it. They haven't. By definition, the existing developers aren't smart enough to do it. The developer here is trying to throw smoke because he's embarrassed.
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by david927 4y ago
The developer, Eric, is in the wrong here. The product is especially bad. The new CEO is trying to reform it. Eric is saying "spend more," which is the refuge of bad architecture. That's not the answer. And instead of pri
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by david927 4y ago
Sure, and I'm a big proponent of labor. Musk is certainly not. That said, Twitter's architecture is a Rube Goldberg contraption and Musk is clearly on a warpath to fix it, so to come out publicly and yell, "It's fine,&q
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by david927 4y ago
Twitter, from day one, has been poorly architected. Defending that is pretty stupid and then to do it publicly is, well, kind of asking for it.
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by david927 4y ago
Not to be contentious but some people may ask, "How much of that revenue is real?" and, "How much of it is inelastic?"
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by david927 4y ago
If you're thinking that we would create AGI but contain it and asking would it breech that containment? Yes, and in a trivial amount of time, in all cases. The next question is, "Would it go on to end humanity?" No, I think
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (November 2022)
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by david927 4y ago
So much fun. What people may not remember was that there was a tremendous amount of competition back then. You had Borland and Lotus and many others, and the future wasn't set at all. There were crazy entrants like Omnis 3/Quart
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by david927 4y ago
Oh, that's a good question. It's been a long time. I'll do my best to find it but I very few memories about it, other than what I mentioned and that the premise was (in part) to nurture your child based on their personality
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by david927 4y ago
I read a book by a professional nanny and she believed that the behavioral individuality that you would find in babies already at a few months old (liked to sleep a lot, often grumpy, often giggly) would follow them to adulthood. I think t
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by david927 4y ago
This is like one of those math problems where the person made multiple errors which canceled each other out. Yes, modern literature, of which American Literature is among, can only be described as moribund. But that has nothing to do with
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by david927 4y ago
A void. It looks uneven, not like a chamber, but quite large.
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by david927 4y ago
I think you've said it all here. No substantial improvements and, if anything, it has set us back by allowing for even more gluttonous behavior.
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by david927 4y ago
I know this is about how remote work and that we don't know how bad the collapse of commercial real estate will be -- how huge the tsunami will be, but the sea has pulled back miles from the shore. But in this case, for SF, it's b
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by david927 4y ago
In the Czech Republic, and I'm sure this is true in some other countries, many of the exams are oral. The student is given a prompt and they have to stand in front of the teacher(s) and talk about it, giving as much detail as possible
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by david927 4y ago
It doesn't require 7,500 people to keep the lights on.
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by david927 4y ago
There's a concern that the rise of jellyfish is due to over-fishing, and so the response of, "Hey, let's eat the jellyfish," is, well, worrisome.
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by david927 4y ago
The top comment is, "This is what Coldplay sounds like to Radiohead fans," and that's the funniest thing I've read in ages.
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by david927 4y ago
Which is all to avoid having to admit you're in a recession to avoid the self-fulfilling prophecy aspects of that. Economists, of course, have a lot of pressure sometimes to avoid speaking the truth, lest they exacerbate the situation.
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by david927 4y ago
Gold is one of the few areas which should do very well.
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by david927 4y ago
> probable recession Not to be pedantic, but we're already in a recession, defined by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters. What's coming for the US and EU, given bad debt levels and inflation levels, is much, much worse

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