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by mhuffman 3y ago
>Think the prize is politicized and corrupt? Whatever - it's not about you or your opinion. Here's a hot take -- I think all the Nobel Prizes, not just the Peace Price are politicized, corrupt, pop-culture-ish, and basically ju
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by mhuffman 3y ago
While your thought experiment is noble, many parents are worried about violence, their children actually learning usable skills and not just social/political ideologies (not taking a side, but that is a thing now), and being prepared t
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by mhuffman 3y ago
This is the answer. But if they are going to, I would recommend a book called "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann. It is a book with the most clear communication on this topic and others that I have ever re
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by mhuffman 3y ago
> Because immigrants can compete down at the level of rents. On a per house level, undocumented immigrants can often pay more than others because they are willing to live many more people to a house with rents being charged on a per-pers
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by mhuffman 3y ago
>what insane market maker would offer this much volume and take the downside risk? At the time the downside risk was near zero, right? It was basically free money for them ... till it wasn't!
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by mhuffman 3y ago
>If different components of your system are talking over a pretend network you've already architectured yourself face first into a pile of shit. How do you have your file delivery, database, and business logic "talk" to ea
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by mhuffman 3y ago
Which video?
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by mhuffman 3y ago
How did you get it running? Drivers seem ... tricky ... to get a hold of.
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by mhuffman 3y ago
I think they are banking on size. Like some companies have so many customers and there isn't a readily available alternative that it really doesn't matter how they abuse their customers. They will be turbo-fucked if an alternative
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by mhuffman 3y ago
> ‘true’ Einsteins, Edisons, and Teslas wouldn’t be so easily distracted. ... or maybe they didn't have the distractions and that was key?
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by mhuffman 3y ago
>I think it will continue to gain currency with a lot of folks who are serious about their work at companies with other employees who are also serious about their work. If your job is not face-to-face with a client/customer, then th
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by mhuffman 3y ago
Has there not already been some kind of court cases for photo-realistic paintings or drawings that incorporate people's likenesses? This seems like something that should have been figured out by now, even before the AI-apocalypse!
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by mhuffman 3y ago
... except, that "pro" scrapers use parallelized calls from rolling ip addresses. It is one of the only ways to scrape things like Youtube... so I hear!
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by mhuffman 3y ago
Your first two videos have been hackernews's, and can't be downloaded or viewed. But they look like they might be valuable content.
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by mhuffman 3y ago
>You want taxpayers to pay $500 per night for homeless? I would be furious to be paying confiscatory taxes and have those taxes go to literally putting zombie drug addicts in hotels. If my memory is working they are paying about $60k a
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by mhuffman 3y ago
Depending on how you installed windows, logging into Windows is enough to have you logged into Edge (and other MS services) when you open it.
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by mhuffman 3y ago
>You're hyping up Xi Jing Ping, who is considered an idiot in most elite circles including Putin, too much. I don't really care what Putin says but I do think they are thinking more long-term. Only here and in Europe do people
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by mhuffman 3y ago
I wildly misread the title and was fucking astonished at the feedback.
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by mhuffman 3y ago
> Military recruitment ads are everywhere all of the sudden. It is because all branches of the military are struggling to recruit. IMHO it is because there is a mismatch in the mentality of the people at the top of the military and the p
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by mhuffman 3y ago
> China is no longer the "world's factory". It will stagnate for 10+ years, similar to Japan's lost decades, but with worser birth rate than Japan today. idk, Japan seems like it thought the party would go on forever,
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by mhuffman 3y ago
>Ideally, pre-industrial levels of CO2 ppm and stabilization of planetary scale changes I don't see how this is possible with our current population growth trajectory.
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by mhuffman 3y ago
There is a book called "The Mom Test" that has this perspective.
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by mhuffman 3y ago
There is a big difference between Apple tipping its hand and China printing out a bazillion clones of it before it even hits the market and testing to see if you actually have a market to start with. Apple does not have to test to see if it
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by mhuffman 3y ago
Well, I mean, software in general is one of the only items I can think of where you can intentionally sell someone something that is broken and promise to fix it in the future if they keep paying you, otherwise make it unusable for them.
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by mhuffman 3y ago
Also, just the fact that it is easier to soak a person a little at at time ($7 per month) rather than hit them with a big price all at once ($495).
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by mhuffman 3y ago
I mean, you are taking shit for this comment for some reason, but it is absolutely true! At some point I don't want to have to pay for dozens of apps every month. Just charge me what you need and let me have it. If it is broken when yo
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by mhuffman 3y ago
Spoken like a true AWS user!
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by mhuffman 3y ago
Generally, Safari is the only common web browser (on desktop and iOS) that I have quirks with these days. Whatever will work on Chrome will work on Edge. And Firefox seems to always "just work" as expected.
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by mhuffman 4y ago
>Then obviously the problem is not with MMT but with something else. Correct, I clearly stated what I thought it was. >Are are suggesting that the rich are the problem? Not at all! I am claiming that the govt. officials that have thei
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by mhuffman 4y ago
My education is in economics and finance. I just happen to have also programmed for a long, long time. The first thing I would say is that economics is as slippery as nearly any other social science. So no one really knows what will and wil

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