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by elbasti 1y ago
I manufacture steel/aluminum goods for the US and I have direct experience with these tariffs. Let me explain why it must be this way and how it's actually supposed to work. This is not a defense of the tariffs, just an explanat
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by elbasti 1y ago
Actually, a lof of blind trials are hard to run precisely because it's so obvious if you're not on the placebo side. Like...nobody could ever take a macro dose of LSD or mushrooms and not know it.
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by elbasti 1y ago
Imagine how addicted I am that I use my smartphone even after writing the past comment!
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by elbasti 1y ago
Ah. Well I didn't mention all the benefits, but what I was referring to here were future decisions, not past ones. Decisions I had put off taking because they caused me great anxiety but that nonetheless had to be done, and the soone
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by elbasti 1y ago
I found the truly irreplaceable apps to be: - Uber - Banking - Google Maps For a camera, I suggest buying a real, standalone camera (I have a fuji x100). The photos it takes are VASTLY better than an iphone. For something smaller that fits
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by elbasti 1y ago
Last year I took a smartphone holiday for 4 months (switched to a dumbphone). It was a fantastic time and I regret "falling off the wagon" and getting a smartphone again. I noticed a huge number of benefits, but one of the most su
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by elbasti 1y ago
Sorry, it was a typo (now corrected). I meant to type "CPG" (Consumer Packaged Goods). Ie, stuff they sell in supermarket aisles that is not food.
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by elbasti 1y ago
I asked a good friend that runs a multi-billion dollar CPG business that relies on China imports. His answer: > Almost guaranteed. > There are some categories (toys, pet stuff,computer accessories) where HUGE percentages of goods are
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by elbasti 1y ago
In elixir, ```Map.get("user") |> create_user |> notify_admin ``` would aso be valid, standard elixir, just not idiomatic (parens are optional, but preferred in most cases, and one-line pipes are also frowned upon except for
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by elbasti 1y ago
I was talking about the cost in the US, not overseas.
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by elbasti 1y ago
I actually make pretty high cost products with relatively expensive labor (welders, electricians). Even then, materials & parts dominate.
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by elbasti 1y ago
A skilled assembly worker makes closer to $30 or $40 an hour than $25. And that doesn't account for overtime. A skilled tradesman can make $40+. Manufacturing is skilled, well-paid labor that requires commitment, attention, and care. T
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by elbasti 1y ago
Like OP, I work in manufacturing (after 15 years in startup land). I'm not as experienced as him, but I work in manufacturing that makes similar products on both sides of the US/Mexico border. Let me add some thoughts: 1) Capacit
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Ask HN: Modern Tech Stack for Manufacturing?
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by elbasti 2y ago
My daughter—who is not at all coordinated-learned how to ride a bike with this technique. Holy smokes it works. She learned how to ride in maybe 10 minutes. Tops. Incredible.
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by elbasti 2y ago
pg has been pretty consistent in this position for a long time. His worldview is closest to what one could call "classical liberalism": Free speech, economic liberalism, civil liberties, individual autonomy. That's a worldvie
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by elbasti 2y ago
The fact that WhatsApp is also gigantic in large countries with no intermobility between them (Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria) would suggest that the only issue that mattered was the fact that ~2011, mobile carriers would charge insane rates for S
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by elbasti 2y ago
To reinforce the real-world value of contact secrecy, let me share an example of how WhatsApp's contact broadcasting is creating massive opportunities for scammers where I live (Mexico). In WhatsApp, when you join a "community&quo
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by elbasti 2y ago
Sports betting is zero sum, but the market is very inefficient. So you need market makers (the gambling sites) that will fill any order and that set the initial price. The correct price is often not known for a short while, and that'
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by elbasti 2y ago
This might sound tautological but a particle is, well, a thing that behaves like a particle. Those behaviors are something like: - it has momentum - it's state is uniquely defined by a position in space and a velocity What's not a
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by elbasti 2y ago
In case OP reads this: You didn't do anything wrong. Odds are that "Adam" was a scammer. Perhaps he doesn't know how to code at all and was looking for a job that would hire based on his resume, let him cruise for 2 week
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by elbasti 2y ago
> Imagine if you had $1,000,0000 in your bank account and were spending $100,000 per year, except one year you spent $95,000. That's 2020. It's even worse, because there's positive feedback loops we've probably unlock
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by elbasti 2y ago
I recently took my kids to an child-focused restaurant outside Mexico City where they implemented a funny "selfie-based" authentication mechanism. The place has lots of activities for kids to run around and do, but Mexicans are sc
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by elbasti 2y ago
I don't know if it's on purpose, but the OP shares a title with one of my favorite paintings, Miró's "Birds in space II" [O] [0]: https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/collection/artwork/o
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by elbasti 2y ago
Or, you know, you could drive (or bike! or waymo!) to the local train station, which should have <30 min, well-scheduled, predictable headways to major cities, then take a train that goes 150+mph, and then drive (or bike! or waymo!) to y
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by elbasti 2y ago
> Maybe if they re-invent trains or buses again You joke, but I've heard more than one argument about how self-driving cars will drastically improve traffic because, for inter-city travel, they will be able to drive very close toget
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by elbasti 2y ago
Serious answer: they are lighter, quieter, go slower, handle differently, and have access to different infrastructure. The lighter and slower bit may sound glib, but it makes a huge difference to what it feels like to ride them and to have
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by elbasti 2y ago
The world almanac that shipped with Carmen Sandiego was also used to prevent piracy. There were some parts of the game that would only allow you to proceed by answering a question that required possession of the physical book.
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by elbasti 2y ago
Hi José, thank you for the reply. I hope I didn't come across as critical of the incredible work the elixir (and LV) teams have done. You are all absolute treasures to the programming ecosystem. I think you'll find that my argumen
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by elbasti 2y ago
I love elixir. I use it for basically everything. And LiveBook has become my go-to place to start building toy software. I just can't do liveview. I have a very hard time grokking it, and it has a lot of footguns. (ex: if you need to r

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