heliodor

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The Roman empire declined too. It wasn't because they were worried about global warming. Decay is inevitable. Plenty has been written and argued about the rise and fall of civilizations and how their political systems and culture playe
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If you're going to make a high level argument, you should base it on something higher than two particular laws that have been passed by the government.
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Government is reactionary. And slow.
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It depends on whether you have a contact that binds you to pay until you cancel. Gyms force such a contact. Most SaaS websites don't. They'll cancel your service if they can't collect and move on with their lives. Some day, s
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By the same logic, you should not be using Saudi Arabia's oil. Some places have more of something than they need for their own consumption. Trade makes sense.
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He'll be remembered just as much as we remember the railroad barons; which is too say, not that much. Such is tech.
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> 2.7x higher disk usage than TimescaleDB ... A classic tenet of computer science is that you can trade speed for space and vice versa. A database index is an example of this concept. While the article complains about "benchmarketin
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Ask HN: What would be some interesting uses of analyzing data from HN favorites?
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Maybe "not waste time" means do something big and important, impactful. But that feels overwhelming and that prevents you from getting started, which can manifest as lack of ambition. Once you work on something for a bit, you star
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This is how many status pages operate. Checking for complaints on Twitter is more reliable than checking the status page. But in this case, Twitter is down.
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I found GravitDesign for OSX and haven't touched Inkscape since.
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You're overlooking the fact that it starts with the qualifier "in all criminal prosecutions."
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"Tens of seconds" versus "a few seconds" is quite different in this scenario.
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Our politicians are too overwhelmed with lobbyist requests and their own corrupt interests to handle the no-brainer issues.
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Infrastructure: GoDaddy has plenty of competition. Facebook and Google don't.
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What would remove the distortion would be a 3D plot on the surface of a cylinder. However, connecting the end of one year to the start of the next is not what's important. Having a undistorted line graph that plots each year would be m
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by heliodor 5y ago
So... you got more for your used car and paid more for your new one. Which is exactly the point being made by the parent comment that you can't capitalize on the upside. You'd have to sell and step out for a while.
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Search for SaaS skeleton or boilerplate. Examples: https://www.saaspegasus.com/ https://usegravity.app/ https://buildasaasappwithflask.com/ https://bullettrain.co/ https:&
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> none of it was spent making people better off The money was given to contractors. They became better off. People talk of government wasting money as if the money is being burnt but that money is not being destroyed; it's given to
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Or you change jobs to one that gives you free snacks. Back when people worked in offices...
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What's premium is that you're faced with a better human being. You can easily tell when your driver is a random dude or a former taxi driver. Also, taxi drivers try to claim their credit card machine is broken. They'll tell y
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Disenfranchise: deprive of a right or privilege What right or privilege are you saying people have with regards to money?
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This post is mad at the wrong company. The root cause is the design choice for the operating system to hide the scroll bar.
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If you're going to quote the article, please mark it as such.
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People complain about the the many ways Amazon is crossing moral lines. Instead of asking to tax rich people, how about fixing the inadequacies of the government so that Amazon can't transgress moral lines as often and make as much pro
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The concept of blank templates is sorely missing from many apps. Even task management apps don't implement it.
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People's ethics are all over the spectrum regardless of career path. The root problem is that we need to worry about the ethics of our politicians. Overall, they seem like a pretty bad bunch!
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It would probably be more motivating to give the money to a cause or person you hate.
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You're thinking of this from the wrong point of view. This is about evolution and dominance. A culture in which work is highly valued (even so far as at the expense of the individual) will expand and squeeze out other cultures. The sam
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The parent comment was complaining about unequal tax treatment, not about interest rates. The interest rates aren't particularly important in this concept. Just that you have enough collateral so that you can life off the loan while th

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