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by halpert 5y ago
I don’t know why people are so obsessed with “Bitcoin’s utility.” So many things in our life have little utility other than being pleasurable. Many people get on planes to go on vacation purely because it feels good to get away. They don’t
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by halpert 5y ago
I’m not pro Bitcoin. I’m just pointing out that your tire burning scheme is the other 99.9%. You like those tires, but not these ones.
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by halpert 5y ago
I don't wish to improve society. I'm just highlighting people's hypocrisy. No one in the west can complain about climate change. Our entire lifestyle is so wasteful in every way.
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by halpert 5y ago
Food feeds you, but many people choose to eat food that is wasteful. Your home protects you, but many people live in large homes in climates that require heating and cooling. Your iPhone from China does things you like, which really is what
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by halpert 5y ago
I think it'd be rare for RSU's in a public company to be worth nothing. These aren't options, but actual shares. The only way they'd be worth nothing is in the event of bankruptcy.
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by halpert 5y ago
I feel like you shouldn't complain about bitcoin if you drive a car or have been on an airplane in the last year. Or if you have received goods manufactured overseas. Or live / work in a building that uses concrete. Or consume bee
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by halpert 5y ago
One benefit of RSUs that you should consider is that you are granted them at your start date even if they vest years out. This gives you a ton of “time in the market” and they generally appreciate quite significantly if you’ve picked a good
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by halpert 5y ago
If the city wants to recognize "parking in a free spot in front of someone's house when there is a free spot, covered in snow, in front of the car owner's house" as a legitimate problem then the city should codify it int
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by halpert 5y ago
I haven’t used Neon, but from reading the docs, napi-res looks nicer. You add a single macro to the function you want to expose and everything else just works. You don’t even need a special JsResult like Neon uses.
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by halpert 5y ago
Just to add on to this, Russia needs support in the region. Most democratically elected governments do not choose to align themselves with Russia. This is why Putin always props up nearby dictators. Without support, Putin’s regime and power
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by halpert 5y ago
napi-rs is AMAZING. It makes writing native Node JS libraries trivially easy. Great job!
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by halpert 5y ago
Is an operating system really a fair comparison? Most libraries depend on the operating system, and the usage of OS independent libraries would be limited to mostly operating systems. Not a very big market.
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by halpert 5y ago
These are one-sided stories recounted by someone with an axe to grind...
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by halpert 5y ago
Someone who calls the police on their neighbor for parking more than 3 hours, and then parks in the same spot themselves for more than 3 hours is nothing more than a hypocrite.
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by halpert 5y ago
> You can also lean on it in situations like this: you shoveled deep snow for an hour and a half in front of your house to dig your car out and create a clean parking spot. When you come back from your errand, your dickhead neighbor, or
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by halpert 5y ago
That's a much more nuanced argument, so thanks for writing that out. I'll counter with this: widespread lawbreaking only occurs when laws are selectively enforced or not enforced at all. For instance, most people jay walk because
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by halpert 5y ago
From jaywalking to horrific rapes in other countries. Talk about a slippery slope.
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by halpert 5y ago
Laws that are commonly broken shouldn’t be laws.
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by halpert 5y ago
UUIDs aren’t particularly complex. In a lot of ways, they’re more convenient than using an auto-incrementing identifier. For instance, if you’re using DynamoDB, getting an incrementing integer is way more complicated than a random UUID.
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by halpert 5y ago
It would be worth 0 billion dollars. The art show provides a good time for a few people. It’s nice, but not very impactful in the grand scheme of things.
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by halpert 5y ago
If you don't have first-hand contact with your potential users, and you don't know where they are, then you likely lack the empathy to build a great product for them.
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by halpert 5y ago
Not OP, but validating ideas is (relatively) easy. First, you figure out who will use your product. Then, you get a few of those people to use or discuss your product. You only need a few people, and they can be close acquaintances. After s
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by halpert 5y ago
What would the ten employees do? Medical staff can be pretty expensive.
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by halpert 5y ago
This is nothing more than diet shaming.
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by halpert 5y ago
Just think about the waste of a widespread crop infection... The risk simply isn't worth it.
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by halpert 5y ago
They bill by the request or minute for most of the services. Billing for storage is a little more complicated, but many services could easily be limited.
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by halpert 5y ago
I LOVE sugar. I can easily eat two pints of ice cream in one sitting. When working, I can consume ungodly amounts of sugar to keep my mind running. When my blood sugar would get low, I would literally eat 3 snickers bars out of sheer desper
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by halpert 5y ago
To me, Go is just a boring language to write in. It’s target audience is large corporations where individuality is discouraged. I’ve used Go extensively at work, and its lack of expressivity definitely has some upsides on large teams, mainl
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by halpert 5y ago
But you see more of the car. How?
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by halpert 5y ago
That can definitely be a problem, but having someone who can actually sell your product is invaluable.

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