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by hnuser847 3y ago
That's a good point. This might be a better example: irb(main):009:0> String === String => false irb(main):010:0> Integer === Integer => false irb(main):011:0> Class === Integer => true i
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by hnuser847 3y ago
The switch statement in Ruby uses the `===` method under the hood. `===` does not mean "equals" like it does in Javascript. Instead, `a === b` means, does `b` belong in the set of `a`. irb(main):001:0> Integer === Integer
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by hnuser847 3y ago
Seas are connected to the ocean. Lakes are land locked.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
> What would people think if there was an american movement to stop using foreign loan words in English because they're diluting our culture? The difference is that English is THE dominant global language, pushed by two global empir
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by hnuser847 4y ago
But now you're asking the government to regulate against a hypothetical damage that may never occur. The problem with "vision" is that we can all let our imaginations run wild about new technology is capable of. I remember ha
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Can you help me understand what exactly is so scary about ChatGPT? The only places where I see this hype/fear around ChatGPT is here on Hacker News. I've played around with it a bit and the magic wore off in less than 10 minutes.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
This chart is even better: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
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by hnuser847 4y ago
> Seems like a housing price crash and AirBnB regulation would make them look a little bit less like geniuses, no? Idk, I know of a ton of RE investors who would love prices to go down, precisely so that they can pick up more properties.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Real estate investors and even regular old homeowners have always looked liked geniuses for exactly this reason. When the dollar loses value every year, loans are cheap, mortgages are subsidized and largely purchased by the government, and
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Reminds of the Navy Pier Flyover in Chicago, a half-mile long bicycle/pedestrian bridge that took seven years and $64 million to construct[1]. Not saying that this project was simple by any means, but why did it take seven years to fin
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Wow, that's a really interesting observation and describes me perfectly. I wouldn't consider myself a "real" entrepreneur, but I've always had a side hustle and I own some rental properties. I took me until the age
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Even in this example where inflation doesn’t occur, consumers will never benefit from the productivity gains that allowed producers to make more apples. Something clearly changed that allowed more apples to be produced. Maybe a significant
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by hnuser847 4y ago
There's nothing stopping you from having both at the same time, with the caveat that your contributions to the IRA may not be deductible if you earn over a certain threshold.[1] [1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/article&#x
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Yes, and while less goods were being produced, the Fed simultaneously brought an obscene amount of new dollars existence, resulting in even greater inflation.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
You act as if governments throughout history haven’t committed atrocities a thousands times more gruesome than this. I’m fact, I can think of a fairly famous example within the past hundred years.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
It’s because our federal government purchases the majority of residential mortgages, and therefore indirectly sets the standard for the entire market. It’s a major reason why real estate is such an attractive investment.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Imagine a world in which the government caps the number of new cars that can be manufactured in a given year to 1,000. The price of cars would skyrocket across the board. People would respond to this new reality in predictable ways. They wo
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Why would an LLM be better at this than Google?
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by hnuser847 4y ago
I feel your pain and switched to high quality, physical cookbooks instead. Recipes on the web are generally garbage unless they come from an author that you’ve already vetted.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
I’m not going to defend crypto, but this is a bad argument. One Satoshi (the smallest increment of Bitcoin) is currently worth $0.0002289.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
We started co-sleeping with our son at first wake at around 8 months, and have been doing that continuously for the past 7 months or so (basically he sleeps with us in bed between 2 and 6ish AM). I've enjoyed the arrangement but my wif
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by hnuser847 4y ago
> This thread makes me wonder if Americans have such info (whether a call is a likely spam) automatically pop up when receiving text or calls. We do have that, but it probably depends on the carrier and the type of phone you have. On my
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by hnuser847 4y ago
> Your totally ignore the key element here: a new technology is allowing denying entry at a whole new scale. Nobody really has an objection to organization blocking a single individual who is might cause trouble. But blocking an entire c
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by hnuser847 4y ago
TL;DR A personal injury lawyer ("in a wreck, need a check?") was banned from an attending a show. She attended anyway and was asked to leave. Computers were involved.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
The big corporate gyms are dirt cheap and typically have onsite daycare for a small fee. My wife and I pay $55 a month for a family membership at LA fitness, and daycare is $5 per visit or $15 extra per month. No indoor track, though.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Yep, I live in Chicago and I'm about 10 miles from my parents' house, as the crow flies. I have at various times in my life regretted not moving around and living in different cities, but I didn't feel the urgency to move a t
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by hnuser847 4y ago
If it you makes feel better, at the age of 34 my therapist handed me a "feelings wheel" as a way to help me name my emotions[1]. Prior to that, my emotional vocabulary essentially consisted of "anger" and "joy"
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by hnuser847 4y ago
> free daycare France has free daycare and yet has had a below-replacement level birth rate since the late 70s.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Tech stocks have been getting slammed over the past year. Amazon, Alphabet, Netflix, Meta, Microsoft, Tesla, Snapchat, and Uber are all down 25-81%. Apple seems to be doing okay though.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Honestly, that doesn’t seem like that much. That’s only ~13 large plates at the gym.

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