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by eldavido 5y ago
I think this is an insightful comment and I'm sorry to see it get downvoted. I live in a large condo building. It has its pros and cons. It's great, in theory--750-1000 people pooling their expertise and funds to tackle infrastruc
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by eldavido 5y ago
The claim is correct, but incomplete. It's true that many commercial real estate developers design buildings to roughly match depreciation lifetimes, reason being, depreciation reduces tax and once your basis hits zero (the item is ful
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by eldavido 5y ago
Buttigieg was pushing a vehicle mileage tax (VMT) based on how much you drive. Eliminate the gas tax, just charge directly based on the amount of road use.
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by eldavido 5y ago
It's interesting you think there necessarily are "losers". Interest rates are set in a competitive market. At any given point, there's a relatively fixed supply of money being put into what's on offer. For buyers li
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by eldavido 5y ago
Not what you asked, but stories like this are why competition is critical to the economy. All large human systems, government, academia, business, whatever, converge to this. Everybody's comfortable, nobody's working too hard, sur
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by eldavido 5y ago
I have a nagging feeling the rules are different in fields like sales, trading, sports, or others where performance is more precisely quantified. The reality, somewhat sad in my view, is that in most places, software shops, architecture fir
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by eldavido 5y ago
Yeah, this is how I see it, too. Sort of a gradual convergence. On the static side, Java and especially C# are simply _better_ than they used to be. Type inference is great - I can just write var x = new List<Thing>() rather than havi
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by eldavido 5y ago
> Main thing I wanted to say is that we all love to shit on how Silicon Valley has basically gotten rich off investing in websites and SaaS products over the past ~15 years 500 years ago, these people would've chased Jewish financie
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by eldavido 5y ago
Nailed it. This article is a textbook example of why STEM people shouldn't be so quick to dismiss things like political science. What we're talking about here is governance -- laws, norms, and fairness. Nobody lives on an island.
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by eldavido 5y ago
"Venture Capitalists are just hedge fund managers who can quote the Tibetan Book Of The Dead." — Taylor Mason, Billions, Season 3: Flaw in the Death Star.
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by eldavido 5y ago
I've thought about this. Keep it completely static, no back-end server required, minimal front-end javascript, mostly plain HTML. The key, as many others have said, is to make it easy to copy/archive (on computers, archive.org, et
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by eldavido 5y ago
It's low (100-200ms). Read my post above
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by eldavido 5y ago
C++. 200ms cold start. provided.al2 runtime environment. Lambda success story: Started with a .NET Core API about a year ago. Monolith-first. Mix of clients across mobile and React. Async/await is one of the better things about C# (the
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by eldavido 5y ago
This is what I do. It seems to work ok. Google Meet perf really is terrible though. Makes me wonder if the entire idea of in-browser video is misbegotten. Slowly but surely, I've noticed my general exasperation with browser apps growin
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by eldavido 5y ago
The whole issue is the general prudence of taking on debt. It's a question of efficiency. Too little and you miss out on opportunities to produce and grow, too much and you're super-fragile. Over-indebted companies is a very Anglo
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by eldavido 5y ago
100% agree. Prime video is garbage through and through. I much, much prefer Netflix. I think Benedict's larger point is correct that I might put up with shitty Prime streaming because I want to watch what's on it. But it's no
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by eldavido 5y ago
I used to read a lot of writing like this and still do (tech strategy newsletters--Stratechery, Benedict Evans, etc) The hazard of reading stuff like this is that it makes the world seem much more orderly and predictable than it is. Case in
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by eldavido 5y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | US | Remote-only We’re Dials: Github for property maintenance. Today, huge skyscrapers and hospitals track maintenance items (furnace repair) using legacy “building management systems”. It’s what you’d expect: desktop s
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by eldavido 5y ago
Great illustration of why respect for individual rights is so important. There will always be some megalomaniac, whether dictator, president, cop, or some authority figure, who "knows best". Individual rights are the brakes. They&
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by eldavido 5y ago
I think this is a big part of it. I've worked in Silicon Valley ~10yrs and I'm surprised how little actual work people do at these 60-80k jobs. It really isn't comparable. The way SV people work, the expectations, level of re
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by eldavido 5y ago
I think this is a great point. You need some way to account for what the stock has done over the period. My understanding of tax is that escrowed shares (common for longer grants) aren't beneficially owned by the employee until the ves
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by eldavido 5y ago
Interesting to see the US somewhat following China's lead here. Industry/government/defense cooperation has a rich (and somewhat ugly) history in the US, but seems to have fallen out of favor in recent decades, whereas China
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by eldavido 5y ago
FYI there is an entire book at deals with this topic called "10% less democracy". Basic idea is that the US has become too democratic. Places like Singapore have a different attitude toward this that's worth understanding (no
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by eldavido 5y ago
Nice comment but I think this is a bit wide of the mark. Schools are a state and local issue in the US where party is less significant. Look at the difference between a "republican" in, say, California's central valley vs. th
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by eldavido 5y ago
I see this happen a lot, where we need to make some kind of practical decision in politics (how much to pay teachers, how to set water rates), and it inevitably descends into an ideology-driven discussion of fairness, the meaning of life, a
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by eldavido 5y ago
Speaking for myself, the biggest shift was mindset. You can really approach business in two ways and they're completely different. Decide which is for you. One: the artisan/boutique way. You can make plenty of money this way, it&#
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by eldavido 6y ago
Data point: wages are higher in the US than most other countries, even for equivalent jobs. I routinely see development jobs in Europe offering 40-50k Euros that would pay double that in dollars in the US, and the US also tends to have lowe
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by eldavido 6y ago
I tried Rust this past weekend. It feels like a language that delivers on the promise of C++ -- fast, good "static" tooling, no VM, scalable to large projects -- but if C++ was designed today, with 40 years of hindsight and we cou
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by eldavido 6y ago
Google the term "liquidity preference". It's generally understood to be a function of real GDP and interest rates. GDP up = more demand for currency to be able to transact. Lower rates = holding cash has less opportunity cost
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by eldavido 6y ago
Totally. And this is why I think all this "move to the suburbs" business is overblown. Physical proximity still matters a hell of a lot. Especially on the margins when making something 1% easier is the difference between doing and

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