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by halfcat 3y ago
Why aren’t insurance companies required to operate like market makers in the equities markets, where they’re free to choose the price they’re offering, but must offer a price in the market they’re in? If the roof needs replacing (in the in
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by halfcat 3y ago
Blind leading the sighted
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by halfcat 3y ago
Now I’m waiting for: “Show HN: Multiplayer Towers of Hanoi in Postgres”
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by halfcat 3y ago
> Git Integration This is it for me. Does anyone know a good way of version controlling views in Postgres?
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by halfcat 3y ago
Servers still fail, regardless of how much redundancy you build in. Especially in a home, where kids spill a gallon of fruit juice and don’t think to tell anyone until 2 days later, pets knock things off tables, fires happen, power outages
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by halfcat 3y ago
> sole purpose is to further technology When, in all of recorded history, has this not been humanity’s sole purpose? The only difference over time has been the pace of progression.
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by halfcat 3y ago
You might like Workflowy. It’s not circles, but you can infinitely zoom into a tree of hierarchical data. https://workflowy.com
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by halfcat 3y ago
“You don't have to write any JS.” But you can, if you want.
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by halfcat 3y ago
Part of the challenge of a reference implementation is that HTMX works with every backend. The Hypermedia Systems book [1] has a reference implementation in Flask (Python), but that’s less helpful if you’re in a very different ecosystem. I
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by halfcat 3y ago
Yes, the confusingly named “Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL” https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/postgresql...
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by halfcat 3y ago
> if you get caught later, they can sue you for it if they find out Is it illegal to have 2 jobs in your country?
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by halfcat 3y ago
Exactly this. The curtain was pulled back and people realized the lies they were being fed by companies. Turns out the business won’t fold if people are remote, and if you’re out sick that immovable deadline gets…moved.
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by halfcat 3y ago
Is running an app on ethereum still over 100x the cost to run it on, say, AWS? I hear CEOs talk about how this will revolutionize the world, but realistically no one needs a cryptographically secure immutable ledger to validate that someone
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by halfcat 3y ago
> I think people should stop using PyPI altogether Sorry if this is a naive question, but what would the alternative be?
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by halfcat 3y ago
It’s not about whether you think their revenue will crater (or any other fundamentals). It’s about answering the question: Why is the current price of puts wrong?
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by halfcat 3y ago
Very cool, thank you. Isn’t the notional value of ES 50x the future contract price (or 10x MES)?
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by halfcat 3y ago
> when SQL Server is (or can be) doing most of the work Can you say more about this? Do you mean using stored procedures heavily or something else?
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by halfcat 3y ago
Is it correct to say you need a multiple of 50x the value of SPY to execute this strategy (if the minimum you can hedge with is 1x MES)?
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by halfcat 3y ago
When would one want to use this, compared to, say, Celery?
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by halfcat 3y ago
Some of the best career advice I ever received was to work for, and with, people in the same phase of life that you’re in. The only times I’ve experienced burnout were when I worked with, and for, people who were in different phases in life
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by halfcat 3y ago
The question remains: Does quantity map to speed or consistency? Maybe it depends whether it’s an individual or group effort? For an individual, the feedback loop would seem to have a speed limit, as they’d need to evaluate the prior work
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by halfcat 3y ago
I think the value in this case is for the slow writer (or slow creator of anything) who perceives it to be a race (gotta go work for Big Corp and crank out PRs faster than the next guy). When a person is stuck in that belief, which they oft
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by halfcat 3y ago
If you take two normal distributions, and shift one to the left a bit, and shift one to the right a bit, the peaks are not far from each other. But all of the inhabitants of each tail end will be almost exclusively from one group. So if mal
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by halfcat 3y ago
Cal Newport has a new book about this, Slow Productivity, worth reading if one is interested in more on this topic
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by halfcat 3y ago
The financial situation of writers always seems a bit mystical and magical to me. How can they spend so much time writing? Are they independently wealthy? Do they have a job we just don’t hear about, and they write in their own time? Do the
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by halfcat 3y ago
> the structure is fundamentally flawed and needs to go away What’s a structure that improves upon this flawed structure?
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by halfcat 3y ago
> If he loses 99% of that He also made ~99% of his wealth after age 56.
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by halfcat 3y ago
> django-livecomponents Sounds cool. This one? https://github.com/om-proptech/livecomponents
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by halfcat 3y ago
Web assembly will take hold long before that happens. Blazor lets you write C# that runs on the frontend. I’d expect to see more of that pattern before browser vendors replace JavaScript.
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by halfcat 3y ago
How do fishbowl planets fit in here? Fishbowl planets are something along the lines of: the outer shell is ice, but possibly filled with water, meaning there might be intelligent life that developed and thriving inside the internal ocean, b

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