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by ido 3y ago
IBM still “invent computer hardware” (e.g. POWER/PPC CPUs are still being developed) and have been doing it more or less ever since “computer hardware” as a concept was commercialized. You’re probably aware that the PC itself is an IBM
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by ido 3y ago
yes
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by ido 3y ago
I didn't say you're wrong, just added it as an aside/addendum :)
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by ido 3y ago
Funnily enough in many countries (India, China?) iPhones are definitely considered luxury/premium (compared to the competition, i.e Android).
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by ido 3y ago
Are we not allowed to use the article as a springboard for conversation? Am I obligated to only restrict myself to what the author wanted to talk about without expanding the realm of discussion with the people on HN?
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by ido 3y ago
How does this not answer your question? If the XPS was more expensive even before adjusting to inflation, than the answer is no: the macbook was not the most expensive computer I ever bought (both adjusting and not-adjusting to inflation)
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by ido 3y ago
I think you severely underestimate how fast the M2 series is.
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by ido 3y ago
My old Dell XPS was actually slightly more expensive (even before adjusting to inflation - I was researching online and at the time it was the most recommended high-end pc laptop). And macs retain value a lot better than PCs - you can likel
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by ido 3y ago
I'm not trying to make a any gotchas. Yes, if all you need is MS Word and a web browser you can use a 10-15 years old laptop, I don't think this surprises anyone here (in fact its why most people these days use phones instead of P
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by ido 3y ago
Honestly, the new MacBooks are faster than any desktop I ever had - I don't feel a need to sacrifice mobility for more than that.
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by ido 3y ago
Nice. Now try to do the same as (some types of) programmer or 3d modeller or video editor. The newest MacBook with an M2 chip compiles and runs my projects drastically faster than the 2015 Dell XPS Skylake-i7 laptop I used to have and the G
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by ido 3y ago
I agree that the open source section was a bit strange and not really necessary for the article's actual focus - when I read it I immediately thought this will create a completely avoidable flame-war.
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by ido 3y ago
It was more like a polished graphical off-shot of Angband. But I wouldn't call it a "version of it" anymore than I'd call Battlefield a version of Doom (or any platformer a version of Super Mario), they are simply games
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by ido 3y ago
Great article, but it did give me the "an elephant is like a rope" feeling—it seems like it's one person's idiosyncratic perspective, some of which I agree with and some I disagree with, and there
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by ido 3y ago
I assumed they were being sarcastic, especially as the farmer in the example is 10 years younger.
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by ido 3y ago
Anecdotally, in Berlin almost all street view pics are from 2008. It's actually kinda nice to take a tour of the past that way sometimes!
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by ido 3y ago
I'm not saying it's a good idea medically, just that "having first child at 33" is hardly out of the ordinary, it's pretty much normal and expected these days. I wouldn't really expect someone with only a B.Sc.
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by ido 3y ago
As a fellow someone who turned his interest into a business (that I'm still currently running) I agree it's a challenge but having a career as an employee is also challenging in a different way. For example I found having to seem
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by ido 3y ago
I disagree with such blanket statements. I would phrase it as - know what you're getting into, starting a business will mostly have your running a business rather than doing the "individual contributor" work. If you still wan
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by ido 3y ago
Normal for the professional class in major global cities.
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by ido 3y ago
Technically yes, but in major western cities these days the professional class tend to start having children in their 30s. I know plenty of people here that had their first child in their late 30 or even at 40 (both women and men) - probabl
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by ido 3y ago
In well-funded fields with lots of jobs (like CS) graduate students often don't have to pay tuition (or heavily subsidized tuition). Everyone I know that got a Masters/PhD in CS actually got paid for it (it was like a job at the u
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by ido 3y ago
We had a whole series of films (RoboCop) warning us about exactly this particular Torment Nexus[0] [0] https://twitter.com/alexblechman/status/1457842724128833538
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by ido 3y ago
I don't refute anything you say, it just sounded like OP thought something like "well in Europe they all just live in their inherited ancestral homes" where as the reality is that people mostly rent, and of those that own a l
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by ido 3y ago
So you know many Austrians your age that live in inherited homes? I still visit Vienna 3x a year (my in-laws still live there), nobody I know there lives in inherited homes, they mostly rent (old contract if they're lucky, new one if n
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by ido 3y ago
As a geriatric millennial (born '83) I find the hustle absolutely exhausting, especially when you feel like you have to run just to stay in place.
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by ido 3y ago
I don't know where in Europe you experienced people mostly living in the homes they inherited. I've lived in Austria and Germany since 2005 and 2013 respectively and I think I know maybe one person who lives in the apartment their
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by ido 3y ago
I'm not blaming individual actors acting on incentives, yes the problem is systematic not you personally buying an apartment and renting it out (just like climate change is not your fault personally if you drive an SUV). A decade+ of n
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by ido 3y ago
It's easy to have sympathy for the otherwise destitute grandma who has a little apartment she rents out and lives off of that rent. But as a society we'd be better off if the default for investment was to find a relatively low-ris
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by ido 3y ago
I’ll bet if traffic police started giving them tickets incurring fines for cars that park on the bike lanes they will very quickly do less of it.

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