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by jppope 5y ago
Articles like this are literally why I come to HN
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The City as an Ecosystem(wrathofgnon.substack.com)
2 points by jppope 5y ago|0 comments
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by jppope 5y ago
I wonder if they are going to announce their EV? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28437914
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Ask HN: When is Apple's EV going to be released?
11 points by jppope 5y ago|27 comments
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by jppope 5y ago
McFunley had a whole piece on this called "Choose Boring Technology"... https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
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by jppope 5y ago
As software developers/ engineers we love talking about this issue... but realistically it's just a symptom of the growth in our industry. Anyone who pretends you can accurately assess a candidate in 3 hours worth of interviews is
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by jppope 5y ago
Apple is the master of planned obsolescence.
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by jppope 5y ago
Note: This was 5min of google search and reading abstracts/ overviews. Unfortunately I can't commit the amount of time necessary to provide a full rebuttal right now. From Representatives: - https://posey.house.gov&
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by jppope 5y ago
> "the hard thing in this discussion is to differentiate between consumption and investment" Indeed. Even harder is to acknowledge our government already has enough tax money, and further tax revenue will not be used prudently,
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Arguably they aren't cheap... they're just able to externalize their greatest cost: roads. If the cost of building and maintaining the US road system were baked into say the cost of gas or registration... you would be looking at a
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by jppope 5y ago
> "In this case Americans have chosen the suburbs in droves." "chosen the suburbs" implies that there was a choice. The limited walkable cities that have been built since 1950 (like Seaside, FL) are some of the most c
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by jppope 5y ago
thank you!
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by jppope 5y ago
I wrote an article about this exact topic: https://jonpauluritis.com/articles/10-technologies-you-need-...
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by jppope 5y ago
I've been thinking about this for a while... and I am really starting to believe that management is the subsection of the workforce being most overpaid these days. Also, I wrote an article on developer pay that might be relevant to th
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by jppope 5y ago
The author isn't going for direct metaphor. But it appears to be around the concept that icebergs eventually melt. So if you were traveling/floating on an iceberg it would eventually go away. A well built ship on the other hand co
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by jppope 5y ago
As an American... this model is crazy
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Technologies You Need to Be Aware of (2020)(jonpauluritis.com)
4 points by jppope 5y ago|0 comments
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by jppope 5y ago
This is a beautiful reimagining of a different way to do cities. We need more of this in the world right now.
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by jppope 5y ago
Wrath of Gnon is one of my favorites.
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by jppope 5y ago
Seaside, Florida is an example of building at "human scale" in the states
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by jppope 5y ago
I'd have to argue against the notion that towns/ European style cities are "economically obsolete". Yes, they are virtually impossible to build from scratch at the moment (zoning, building codes, developers, etc), but th
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by jppope 5y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the cost as a major downside of hydrogen fuel cell cars. The Honda clarity was set to be priced at roughly $350,000 for something that looks very much like a civic.
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same
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by jppope 5y ago
Dug it up. SEC updates => https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-191
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by jppope 5y ago
The (self directed) Roth IRA was "designed" to let people invest their money into assets that they choose.
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by jppope 5y ago
Didn't the SEC just change that?
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by jppope 5y ago
Yes... the investment return from Facebook
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by jppope 5y ago
They actually are opening up to unaccredited investors, you just need to have a CFP or CPA or something like that (not sure of the actual requirements, I just know that they recently changed them)
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by jppope 5y ago
The intent of ProPublica's entire series of articles is to imply that wealthy Americans are immorally building their wealth. They are taking advantage of the fact that the public doesn't have basic financial literacy to turn the p
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by jppope 5y ago
Definitely worth giving it a try for a week or two. I already noticed that they put stackoverflow snippets right in the results which is fab

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