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by lvl100 5y ago
Agreed. We desperately need a few large scale public projects. But the country (US) is so divided that no one’s going to agree to anything that selectively benefits one region over another.
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by lvl100 5y ago
I agree they had to spend the money to prevent a depression. I don’t think anyone is here contesting the amount of money unleashed. However, I am really disappointed with where that money went. It went into “non-productive” assets and activ
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by lvl100 5y ago
In the past few weeks, Nasdaq top 100 lost something like $4T in value which is more than what we lost back in 2020. That’s a lot of money. And also consider the money lost in crypto. People are going to be more prudent with their spend and
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by lvl100 5y ago
OK, but you realize you can say that about all the big techs now? Google is not an ad company. It’s really an “AI” company with far more valuable R&D. Same with Facebook. If we are looking at tech companies purely from research assets a
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by lvl100 5y ago
Man, I wish Steve Jobs were alive to witness the total domination. I imagine he knew but perhaps not to this extent.
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by lvl100 5y ago
Are there any regex builders that work with natural language inputs?
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by lvl100 5y ago
In my mind Claude Shannon is the greatest mind in modern history (move over Einstein!). He’s vastly under-appreciated outside of CS circles.
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by lvl100 5y ago
This reminded me of my experience with them a few years back with MQTT. They were pushing their Bluemix/cloud hard and I just wanted to test it out. Never again.
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by lvl100 5y ago
This so much. They basically let Snowflake (among others) eat their lunch. Back in 2015, IBM actually had a good chance but leadership just dropped the ball.
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by lvl100 5y ago
The bigger and more interesting question for me right now is who’s going to be this decade’s IBM? I want to say Amazon.
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by lvl100 5y ago
Healthcare IT is all garbage. It’s as if the people who invested in the space specifically did not want any of the inefficiencies to go away.
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by lvl100 5y ago
I like 1Password but I’d never trust them for corporate “secret” management.
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by lvl100 5y ago
I personally never had those issues. You can certainly test drive Bitwarden for free. Importing from 1Password is rather straight forward.
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by lvl100 5y ago
So they think people will put on a headset in order to shop. Versus me picking up my phone and ordering something within a minute. Or texting someone a simple message. What VR and metaverse miss is that they haven’t solved the asynchronous
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by lvl100 5y ago
I’ve been using Bitwarden, LastPass and 1Password for the past few years. Of the three, Bitwarden gave me the least problems. LastPass is by far the worst. While 1Password is generally good about keeping up with its features, it is on the p
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by lvl100 5y ago
USPS, despite seemingly negative public perception, has some very cool tech features. My favorite is informed delivery.
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by lvl100 5y ago
I am pretty bearish on the the semi space especially after TSMC comments last week. I really think they’re expanding at the worst possible time. Understandably, this is largely due to politics.
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by lvl100 5y ago
I am betting this is not going to last. Their core products are losing customers.
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by lvl100 5y ago
I use Amazon cloud and photos are free with Prime. If I get close to 1TB in cloud storage with videos, I back up to local FIFO.
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by lvl100 5y ago
What this study misses is how much BTC is fueled by altcoins. It’s an ecosystem that’s rarely discussed.
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by lvl100 5y ago
This has to be one of the best comments I’ve read on HN.
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by lvl100 5y ago
We are back to a point where you’re better off buying shows and movies a la carte.
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by lvl100 5y ago
Depends on what you see as success. Often times it equates to money and that’s a bad way to view success. A good deal of monetary success is by luck and/or exploitations.
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by lvl100 5y ago
Are they still using pandemic as an excuse for not having live customer service? Paypal is simply the worst. I’ve once had to reach one of their execs to get a problem resolved only they couldn’t get it resolved.
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by lvl100 5y ago
I am convinced college is more or less priced off of prestigious private high schools where the parents simply pay cash. For the wealthy it is acceptable to pay 60-70K per year for their kids. Clearly this represents the wealth gap in this
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by lvl100 5y ago
Rates will have to rise to cut inflation. But EM countries will be the ones to pay the price in the end. I understand most people on HN likely enjoyed a great run in tech bubble but you have to admit speculation here is simply mind boggling
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by lvl100 5y ago
I don’t care about slow productivity. I care more about FAKE productivity. Talking about people who schedule emails at odd hours or people who are there to cheerlead. That’s basically 80% of white collar workforce.
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by lvl100 5y ago
In my 20s, I was doing data science at a very high level spanning multiple disciplines. Truly state of the art. I would like to think I was quite good at my job. I am 99% certain I would not have passed the interview bars set today. More sp
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by lvl100 5y ago
That’s not fair and I didn’t mean to come across that way. But a good portion of people who worked 5-7 years in SV (or in other tech hubs such as Boston, NYC, Seattle/PDX) have $$$ in the bank.
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by lvl100 5y ago
Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad deal in 2022? $500K is not much and you’re effectively giving up a big chunk of your equity for reputation and “access”.

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