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by lend000 5y ago
This really hits the nail on the head. The OP cannot change human nature. The most vicious personalities in the business world, currently forced to create value (except where already able to seek rent from government inefficiency) would ins
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by lend000 5y ago
Really great article on modern CPU architecture. Don't be deceived by the domain name.
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by lend000 5y ago
While I offer no opinion about whether vaccinations should be compulsory, it must be stated that if they should , it certainly isn't because of your argument about pure democracy. In a pure democracy, 90% of the population can choose
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by lend000 5y ago
Thanks for the response. To clarify, does this mean that only some EC2 instances will be eligible (i.e. if I have an older EC2 instance I will have to re-create it)?
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by lend000 5y ago
If you have an existing EC2 instance with EBS storage and want to convert it to the new Nitro SSD, what will be the process for migration? E.g. a live swapping of attached storage devices, a quick reboot, or spinning up a new instance?
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by lend000 5y ago
If I were an Eastern power and I were falling behind in the space race (due to the success of private companies in the West like SpaceX), intentionally triggering Kessler system doesn't seem like the most improbable policy.
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by lend000 5y ago
Is there a way to filter these by remotely exploitable? Things that can be compromised locally just seem like the cost of doing business at this point (for non-business use, anyway).
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by lend000 5y ago
If there were no other options besides asset stimulus and doing nothing, I may agree with you. But we can do other things (like UBI) that improve equality of opportunity, provide a safety net, and are probably net positive to the overall va
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by lend000 5y ago
The problem is that people who became temporarily wealthy but would have lost wealth through misallocation of capital are allowed to keep their wealth and repeat their misallocations instead of allowing new, potentially better capital alloc
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by lend000 5y ago
An important takeaway from the wealth inequality chart: every time that wealth inequality has substantially decreased in recent history was during a recession. Staving off recessions at all costs for political reasons is a horrible policy.
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by lend000 5y ago
Picking one deficit is very different than averaging them: [0]. However I tend to agree that prior to Obama, presidents from the Democratic Party were the more fiscally responsible. [0] https://www.thebalance.com/deficit-by-
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by lend000 5y ago
This is one of the more accessible and straightforward microbiology papers I've read. There's no fluff; it tells you how to reproduce and where to buy the materials, and it seems to balance terms in the jargon-heavy field with sho
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by lend000 5y ago
Flagged for toxicity. The internet is an interesting social experiment. People have a few basic options when confronted with new information that conflicts with what they know (and therefore makes them do work -- rewiring the brain is evolu
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by lend000 5y ago
A couple of recommendations for you: 1. Avoid one of, if not the most common logical fallacy on HN: appeal to authority / credentialism. 2. Do not assume you know anyone's career, life history, or background on a mostly anonymous
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by lend000 5y ago
> one of my frustrations with visiting hacker news are these threads on non-tech topics Then you proceed to learn about CPI in detail for the first time, and use your incomplete understanding to refute mine. I've been down the rabbi
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by lend000 5y ago
Same thing they do with the current system. Normalize and replace, and don't expect much of a shock from relatively low volume items breaking in and out of the 900-1000 rank.
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by lend000 5y ago
Skimpflation is one problem with CPI -- falling under the umbrella of somewhat arbitrary hedonic adjustments. But the main problem is more fundamental. CPI is calculated by surveying what a bunch of median Americans bought, and weights it b
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by lend000 5y ago
Not mentioned enough on this topic: not all engineers are software engineers and not all software engineers never need to touch hardware. If you plan to work on/with web frameworks, advertisements, data science, or pure CS topics for y
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by lend000 5y ago
Reading today's newspapers, you'd think Southern California just survived the apocalypse after the half inch of rain last weekend.
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by lend000 5y ago
It's true that F isn't a good leaving group, but that's a double edged sword. By the same token, continuous exposure means that when it is occasionally substituted into organic molecules throughout the body, it will be not ea
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by lend000 5y ago
I know this is an attempt at humor, but this kind of low quality engagement has no place on HN. Carbon is the backbone of almost all compounds used by life. Feel free to check the ratio of poisons/non-poisons containing Carbon and thos
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by lend000 5y ago
You'll find fluorine atoms in a disproportionate number of poisons, while other halogens are much weaker. It really is an anomalous atom and the comparison to Chlorine is not accurate (which is less electronegative than oxygen). I wond
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by lend000 5y ago
Yeah, but if dark matter exists, it clearly is NOT non-interacting. It should certainly be easier to detect than a massless neutrino (which we can detect convincingly now).
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by lend000 5y ago
I think it's because we aren't talking about some exotic, rare, or weakly interacting particle. We are talking about either an extremely common or extremely strongly interacting (or both) variant of matter which we somehow can&#x2
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by lend000 5y ago
You're preaching to the choir.
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by lend000 5y ago
I think it's important to distinguish between sin taxes and externality taxes. Drinking alcohol, for the most part (although not entirely), is purely a sin, and does not inherently affect the public. Smoking does, either in a minor and
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by lend000 5y ago
SpaceX has a commanding lead in space transportation, and it's looking increasingly insurmountable as they continue to scale. However, the space industry will produce many opportunities, and plenty of companies, including ones that don
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by lend000 5y ago
I would posit that most of your points are relevant for the economy as a whole, but you are missing inflation, which is probably the 2nd or 3rd most important factor for the economy as a whole (after your number 2 and your first number 3),
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by lend000 5y ago
I wish there was more data on the reaction mechanism. It's unclear which way the equilibrium would shift at the high temperatures present on Venus, or if the solvent is an important part of the reaction/would be in liquid form on
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by lend000 5y ago
It's nice to be able to blame something on a culture, but the reality is that some percentage of people are somewhere on the spectrum of morality where they are prone to doing this. I don't imagine judges are a particularly amoral

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