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by fleddr 4y ago
Read again: 700$.
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by fleddr 4y ago
That's it, thanks! Summary: It was a massive pain and none of the benefits materialized. Great thing to look forward to for Shopify. Let's meet here again in a year or two for the exit blog post.
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by fleddr 4y ago
The real reason is the shitty CPU on typical low-end to mid-end Androids. They suck at running JS. And I mean REALLY suck, as in 5-10 times slower than an iPhone. I recently came across a ridiculous example of a high-end Chinese phone (700$
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by fleddr 4y ago
I remember reading an article here a few months ago about a big company undoing their React Native migration, as it was a total disaster. Forgot the company name, anybody know?
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There's huge differences in the individual trades and what it means for your body. The vast majority of my friends are in the trades (I'm the outlier with an office job) and over the course of 20 years, many things have improved.
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Pretty funny thing to say on HN, which consists of people in the industry of automating things.
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"Fair is what a person can command from competing for jobs, and jobs competing for workers. Anything else ends up unsustainable, which usually ends up hurting the least able workers." Unsustainable, huh? I'm from the Netherla
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by fleddr 4y ago
If I had to do it all over again, I'd be a plumber. You're not stationary, you're on the move and your day has variety. You spend a lot of time in the physical world and meet lots of people. Your work might at times be smelly
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by fleddr 4y ago
For those wondering how this relates to hairstylists... People are not a customer of "Awesome Hair Inc". They are a customer of Laura, whom happens to work for said company. Because Laura knows exactly how to do my hair properly.
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Exactly, and that was the only point I was trying to make: it's a widespread issue. Some people are so stuck in the giant city "NIMBY" narrative that anything outside that narrow scope simply doesn't seem to exist (or ma
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Random thoughts: 1) My first thought would be that such a conversational search UI would never hit the original website, thus drying up monetization for the content creator. Kind of like snippets in current search. Then I realized that ther
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by fleddr 4y ago
That's clever. We also have a central smart meter in the house. It has a standard port (I believe it's called "P3") that allows you to read out usage. There's devices on the market that plug into this port, connect
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by fleddr 4y ago
Thanks, always useful to hear about real world examples.
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It may go even further than that. Some philosophers claim that the idea of a "self" is an illusion. Your brain produces all kinds of thoughts inconsistent with your "stable self" and then "magically" adapts the
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm also quite paranoid about any chips planted in my brain.
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You're still doing it...obsessing over a tiny amount of places. "The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation — the national housing agency — said in a June report that close to 19 million housing units will be needed by 2030.&quot
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by fleddr 4y ago
"An old house with electric heating and cooling could well be what he has." Definitely could be the case. Your situation is interesting in that it is opposite to the order of transitioning towards a heat pump over here. Perhaps a
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by fleddr 4y ago
I don't use any AC at all, true. But would you say that explains triple the usage? New England isn't exactly in the desert.
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by fleddr 4y ago
That sounds plausible and I had not even considered the possibility of multiple electric cars. It frankly worries me. Heat pumps and EVs are going to spike consumption dramatically, where even smallish price and taxation movements will have
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by fleddr 4y ago
I wonder what causes this high electricity use. Not because it's any of my business, it's just genuine curiosity. He never reveals actual use, only savings. Still, at 0.25$ per kwh charged and an average monthly saving of 210$, we
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by fleddr 4y ago
My point is to stop obsessing over Amsterdam, San Francisco, New York...whichever dense city that can never ever meet demand. Stop defining the housing problem based on the exceptions.
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There's always implied demand as populations continue to grow. But this doesn't turn into an actual buyer during times of economic uncertainty. Thus, a deficit builds up. You will drag along this deficit into the future, it has a
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by fleddr 4y ago
In the Netherlands, 400K would typically be the value of the land + construction combined. The land is often owned by the municipality, then to a developer, and this is the municipality's #1 revenue stream. Regardless, 400K is unafford
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by fleddr 4y ago
Fair enough, but I already acknowledged zoning to be a (local) factor. My point was that it doesn't explain unaffordable homes in vast parts of the world. You've taken the most notorious large city in terms of zoning but that does
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by fleddr 4y ago
I think it's actually even worse than that. You're suggesting that people accept a lesser taste in exchange for the other benefits. As if this is a conscious decision. I think people don't really taste with any attention at a
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by fleddr 4y ago
I want to give some push-back regarding the often-heard phrase that governments should stop restricting supply. I'll be using the situation in the Netherlands to explore some complexities. These may not apply everywhere, but it serves
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I'll specifically go into the pros of private thinking, as that's where you seem to be getting the least feedback. 1. Intent is preserved. When you write something publicly, your output are words that you constructed from your ide
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See, I was trying to find the most innocent progressive topic as to not derail from my main point. Which is not masks. It's unhinged ideological purity inside bubbles, which soft silences speech. Masks was just an example. And yet stil
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by fleddr 4y ago
That's exactly my point. The bubble I was referring to continues to be highly political. It's not non-political.
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What I'm saying is this... Imagine that blogging at its golden ages was 100%. Then in the course of several years it plummeted to irrelevancy, say 10%. Imagine this new revival being successful, that would put it back at 100% of it was

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