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by jameslk 6y ago
> I'm always amazed at how often cops approach every day tasks with weapons drawn. Reading the article (and being aware of the ongoing story) there's no indication (to me) that there would be any hostility facing the officers.
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S&P 500 PE ratio reaches new high since 2009(multpl.com)
2 points by jameslk 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Is there a consumer-friendly Pi-Hole?
8 points by jameslk 6y ago|6 comments
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by jameslk 6y ago
I see, thank you for the explanation!
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by jameslk 6y ago
Isn't this pretty similar to what Dremio does?
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by jameslk 6y ago
When did I say anything about the power of governments relative to misery/injustice? It seems you've picked a strawman to attack with little relation to what I said.
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by jameslk 6y ago
> I agree 100%. As an Asian American it is baffling how throughout years of propaganda, so many Americans firmly believe that personal freedom and democracy cannot co-exist with a competent and effective government that has all the tools
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by jameslk 6y ago
I don't usually go off on the deep end with conspiracies, and I don't believe COVID-19 was intentionally spread, but I do think the needed response to fully control the spread of a virus creates perverse incentives for government
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by jameslk 6y ago
I wonder if/when they're going to shutdown Google Voice too? What business value does it bring them other than more data collection?
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by jameslk 6y ago
Unpopular truth: Lowering page weight doesn't often help web performance. https://www.speedshop.co/2015/11/05/page-weight-doesnt-matte... > Bandwidth is not the problem, and the performance of the web
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by jameslk 6y ago
The article is kind of fluffy. Not everyone should save and invest the same way. Someone who's closer to retirement shouldn't necessarily be investing like an "optimist" (i.e. more risky long-term portfolio), and they&#x
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by jameslk 6y ago
I'm no expert in this, but I'd assume this works the same way as any other market for used items: those who will resell your item will pay a lot less for it so there's margin for them to make a profit.
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by jameslk 6y ago
Wow what a great example. I hadn't heard this story before but I will be certainly be referencing it. Thank you. Article I found about it: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-07-02-01...
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by jameslk 6y ago
Yes exactly, it's like everyone is arguing past each other with different assumptions about how taxes will be used. Take this quote from the article: > “We need the wealth that has been generated in the city to be shared more broadl
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by jameslk 6y ago
> The money will be used for what it always is - some of it will be good and some of it won't be very good. Once it's in the pot, it gets stirred around and all sorts of people and projects get a full bowl. That's not what
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by jameslk 6y ago
Why do these discussions always revolve around the collection of taxes instead of how the taxes will be used? Would anyone be complaining if they knew the taxes would be more beneficial? Conversely, wouldn't we reject these new taxes i
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by jameslk 6y ago
I actually purchased the 35,000 lumen corn bulb mentioned in the post you linked to. It's actually really big and awkward to place and has kind of a loud fan. Currently I have it propped in a corner since it's too heavy to be held
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by jameslk 6y ago
> They had a user-friendly system previously... Now users have to learn GitHub and author raw HTML! - I would point out that not all documentation writers are developers! So you'll need to know HTML and how to create a Pull Request
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by jameslk 6y ago
I'd love to see an open source real user metrics analytics system like this. Lighthouse is great for getting a general idea of web perf but it doesn't tell you what real users experience. Currently the only way I've found to
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by jameslk 6y ago
Source code: https://github.com/vercel/commerce Looks like it's still largely a work in progress
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by jameslk 6y ago
> It's depressing how conventional it has become for a relatively intelligent population, like the HN audience, to only know about criticisms of IQ and basically nothing about its positive value. What do you consider it's posit
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by jameslk 6y ago
I wonder what the verdict would be for a guy who has a bird?
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by jameslk 6y ago
Hey there, sure! Feel free to reach out. I think you guys are on to something great. Hope I can help
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by jameslk 6y ago
I've been using Retool very seriously over the past few months. It's definitely helpful to iterate on some UI ideas and prototype. Once you want to do anything complicated that involves any sort of logic, it becomes very clunky si
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by jameslk 6y ago
As Chrome slowly takes over all remaining browser market share and more websites are becoming Chrome-only, one feature I wish Firefox had was a way to open a "Chromium tab," which would just be a tab that contains a frame of a Chr
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Faster Web App Delivery with PRPL(addyosmani.com)
64 points by jameslk 6y ago|32 comments
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by jameslk 6y ago
Where are you getting your numbers for COVID-19 deaths for SF? Cumulative deaths in SF for COVID-19 is 123 so far according to https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/COVID-19-Cases-and-Deaths/d...
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by jameslk 6y ago
It seems all too frequent that this is the outcome of many things in the US. Like universities and healthcare. More and more money becomes less and less effective. When there's so much demand and so little supply, it seems the supplier
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by jameslk 6y ago
> The CEO also noted that the system would be able to get commuters from home to work most of the time with no interventions. I'm so glad it will be that easy. I guess we'll know if there's still some bugs if it still driv
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by jameslk 6y ago
https://archive.is/uEdiH

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