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by glass3 4y ago
If it is not attractive to hold then there will be nothing to rent.
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by glass3 4y ago
Make it a bunch of young professionals with money and you create a vibrant service industry around your vault. Could HN pull this off and seed such a vault? Once there is one successful vault, people will copy it and the housing crisis coul
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by glass3 4y ago
If housing is an unattractive financial asset, how are investors motivated to create housing? Without owners there needs to be either easy credit or state funded housing. However, without a free market there needs to be a way to prevent abu
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by glass3 4y ago
If everyone was as risk-averse, laws would be either much more lenient or the internet would flourish in other countries. I don't get why newspapers don't use Mastodon as a standard for their comment sections. Social networks are
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by glass3 4y ago
There is a difference between open-ended, unscheduled downtime and a known 5 minute reboot window. If I can choose between an ad-free service that reboots at noon and a downtime-free service with ads, I would choose the ad-free service. Who
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by glass3 4y ago
Twitter is not serious enough that there cannot be a timeout. With a second OS partition, the server can alternate between the working copy and a copy that is updated in a VM. For a free service, customers cannot complain even if there is a
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by glass3 4y ago
2050 is possible. There is no need for arable land if food is imported. People will want to live where the nicer weather is. Adjusted by air conditioning from cheap electricity, the advantage is in North Africa. It's not inevitable, bu
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by glass3 4y ago
People have been living around Cairo for millions of years. There are reasons why migration is a one-way street but they can change. There are millions of under-utilized young adults with access to the internet. They will find a way to pros
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by glass3 4y ago
Neither. Why would significant further growth happen in Western (European) cities if cheap solar energy and space is available in North Africa?
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by glass3 4y ago
It's not always for the lulz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_Juanita
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by glass3 4y ago
Which other option is there? Only waist-mounts or backpacks are able to remove the weight of the battery.
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by glass3 4y ago
You have to compare voltage, too.
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by glass3 4y ago
> the utilization rate of TSMC's N7-capable lines will decline to around 50% in early 2023. Will that capacity be utilized by other companies? E.g. what is preventing a RISC-V company from leap-frogging the competition?
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by glass3 4y ago
I try the loci method [1] if it is really important and I have nothing to write it down. There is a number of ideas that I can keep in my had. If I surpass that, I lose memory of most of them. It would be nice to write them down, but the th
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by glass3 4y ago
I am not clever enough to notice a decline but some have argued that there has been a shift from founders to employees in the HN audience. Please don't take it as an insult, but how do you know that you are clever enough to recognize i
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by glass3 4y ago
>As soon as a node can be planted by a malicious actor It's a directed graph that indicate who trusts whom. If you identify a malicious actor, you only have to re-validate the nodes that receive their trust from that actor. You can
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by glass3 4y ago
New search engines will falter. Whoever has a collection of current pages has the data set to be a gateway to authentic information.
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by glass3 4y ago
Time to invest into Facebook where users are clearly identified. How can HN and its open registration survive?
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by glass3 4y ago
If somebody wants to drive their car with coal, it has to be an electric car. Apart from nostalgic maga hats, what's a better match for an electric car than a person who can make America great again by supporting state of the art techn
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by glass3 4y ago
That erratic behavior could also be a means to shift the target market. If Musk and thus Tesla are no longer perceived as left then people on the right are able to buy Teslas without losing face.
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by glass3 4y ago
I am not defending them. I also don't mind calling them names in general. You don't have to figure it out right now.
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by glass3 4y ago
Please try to figure out on your own why it is a dangerous idea. If I would try to argue my point, you would just argue me back. All I will tell you is that there were 4 upvotes for my comment so you can be confident that the idea is not en
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by glass3 4y ago
Calling Russians orcs makes me uncomfortable. That echos a world view that should be avoided to the greatest extend possible.
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by glass3 4y ago
From a different perspective: How many skilled people are needed for 100 creative people? How much of the $100,000 are circulated among creative people? If those transactions are ignored and we only look at the usage of skilled work, how mu
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by glass3 4y ago
* An international food crisis due to interrupted fertilizer supply chains * China will sanction Western countries to influence the war in Ukraine * Twitter will enter the link aggregator market, combining Reddit and TikTok. Searching on Tw