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by jjav 2mo ago
> Because contrary to urban myths, C is a normal high level language like everything else. It's a myth that this is a myth. Have you ever worked with newbies learning C? These students split pretty hard into two camps (of course the
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There are many options, probably mostly equivalent, just depends where you can negotiate a price agreeable to your budget. But to answer the question, currently using Inspectiv.
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Yes this is true. "In general, any vessel equipped with a VHF marine radiotelephone (whether voluntarily or required to) must maintain a watch on channel 16 (156.800 MHz) whenever the radiotelephone is not being used to communicate.&qu
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> and nothing bad has happened This is the same reasoning for not wearing seat belts or a helmet on a motorcycle. Nothing bad has happened yet so obviously there is no need for any protection.
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> universal payments system that requires absolutely no efforts from companies. Indeed. I use a third party company (not HackerOne) to handle our bug bounty and the primary reason is so they handle all the payment hassles, I don't n
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If you want to put it that way, yes. The US government is split into three branches with separation of powers. The executive branch does not have the authority to give orders which bypass laws and the constitution. Any agency that follows
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> A 'robust' healthcare system that the government runs is a pipe dream. Oh yes, the usual argument of how what most industrializes nations (and many poor nations as well) have achieved, is somehow seen as impossible just becau
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> what should be ICE's interest? Like any agency, their primary objective should be to follow the constitution and all the laws.
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> How does this square with FOIA obligations? ICE doesn't exactly have a track record of following any laws or courts in general. So I wouldn't expect them to answer any FOIA obligation. This is the fundamental flaw uncovered i
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> I guess I'd rather have the state maintain a monopoly on violence. Yes, until they go completely outlaw rogue like ice has done in the USA.
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> The US is not really capitalist, it’s an oligarchy - a small number of people like Larry Ellison essentially control everything. This oligarchy is the inevitable conclusion of capitalism, unless there are regulations in place to preser
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> Freedom means parroting whatever nonsense Trump says today. But even more contradictorily, to them "freedom" means violently eliminating all freedoms (of press, assembly, protest, personal liberties) that don't align w
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> "Dictator" is a word that has a particular meaning. Indeed it does. What did you think the definition is?
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> If you want to optimize traffic throughput you can replace numerous intersections with roundabouts. Roundabouts are awesome, love them. Be pragmatic, the world is not going to replace every intersection with a roundabout, as good as th
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> Right turn on red is an insane idea that any sane person would heavily disagree with. Obviously not since it is so widely adopted. Right on red is an extremely useful optimization so you don't sit waiting for nothing when it is cl
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The philosophy that most resonates with me is Colin Chapman's "simplify, then add lightness”, so I really hate everything about what cars have become (even ignoring the spyware part, for a moment). I want to buy a car that is like
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by jjav 2mo ago
> As someone who has hung out in Reddit's personal finance areas for many years now, the paniced posts of March 2020 and in 2022 were very real. Those were just minor blips. 2020 was a very short-lived dip of less than 30% and 2022
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> Yeah, but did you know which ones from the start? You don't, you can't. You pick the best ones, many won't give you much return or even a loss, but sometimes you get a 100x. My best return was over 3000x, those are the o
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> Sticking with index funds is very good advice: Believe what you like, I'm cool with that. I have many Wall Street friends who are aligned with your approach, so you are in good company. My returns over the last 30 years obliterate
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There is some luck, for sure. But it's not pure luck. Find good companies in an industry segment you fully understand (for me, that's Silicon Valley enterprise tech), invest early and hold on. You'll have many losers, that&#x
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> And experiences come from the bulliest of bull markets. That is very true and a trap that is important to be aware of. Anyone who started investing after ~2010 has only ever experience a bull market, so expect severe pain at some point
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> Some people want a new car all the time. Leasing is not a bad way to do that. True. But does that make any economic sense? If you're so rich that it doesn't matter, sure why not. But for most people leasing is a terrible econ
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> The seller explained us how a lease was so much better financially than outright buying. Of course a lease is better than buying.. for the dealer. So the seller was honest, just not entirely transparent. Leasing is one of the dumbest f
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> Never buy or sell an individual security. This is controversial but very bad advice. No index funds, by their nature, will ever match the return of high-flying company stocks. If you have very little investment capital available, then
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When young and lower income (lower tax rate) the best deal is to max out Roth 401k and Roth IRA if you can. Then you'll have a lifetime of tax-free appreciation.
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> So if I want to actually read the article I'm going to have to load their page. Right here, that's how HN RSS feed works. I only follow HN through the RSS feed. But it only gives the title and links to content and comments. B
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> At least in capitalism you have the choice to look for a malware-free alternative. In the US capitalism, can you find a mobile phone OS that respects owner freedom?
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> When ecommerce was getting big When was that? It was getting huge in the late 90s and we all know now it was indeed the future. But it still took a huge dot.com crash because the valuations got ahead of the curve.
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> How would one position oneself as an individual investor if one believed this thesis? If you knew when , it would be easy. But nobody knows the when. It might be tomorrow, next week or in 12 months or maybe two years or five. A drop i
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> Wealth isn’t sitting in a global database that can be queried. Palantir (and every government intelligence agency) has that global database and can query it at will.

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