mihaic

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by mihaic 7mo ago
Fine, good enough. Still better than decabillionaire or top dog at the Fed.
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by mihaic 7mo ago
By your logic, you didn't put in much effort into your message. Besides not capitalizing the first letter of every sentence, everything else looks great though for me, and I'd imagine it was low effort for you. Those messages betw
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by mihaic 7mo ago
I've always found something profoundly deceiving about all these "just create value posts", as if absolutely everyone could simply by some hard work actually create significant value for others. The barrier to being able to a
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by mihaic 7mo ago
I was born in a communist country in Eastern Europe, which is now crony capitalist. The issue is extremely complex, and all I can say in such a short paragraph is that ideologically-driven implementations are doomed to fail. It doesn't
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by mihaic 7mo ago
> If you wish to invite yourself into their responsibilities shouldn't you also invite yourself into their bedroom first? You're turning of question of measure (how much should society be involved in raising children) into an
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by mihaic 7mo ago
In general, I argue for less state control on anything. But your argument seems flawed from its core. If someone is a bad parent, should we simply ignore it and let the children turn out idiots as well? And the line is often blurry, so that
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by mihaic 7mo ago
I'm not sure how "commas inside strings in CSVs can cause bugs" becomes newsworthy, but I guess even the vibecoding generation needs to learn the same old lessons.
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by mihaic 8mo ago
We have that implemented, it's just that nobody wanted it. Our pitch basically was that "Why can you buy today's paper on the stand, but can't do the same digitally?" Turn out the answer is complicated.
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by mihaic 8mo ago
I've made a start-up that has really tried making micropayments work (blink.net) and I know there have been many other attempts. Some of the pain points can always be addressed, as it's just implementation difficulty (having an au
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by mihaic 8mo ago
I've personally converted html to plaintext with beautifulsoup in python, and used that as the plaintext version. Did not have complaints, but I honestly don't know who actually reads the non-html version.
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by mihaic 9mo ago
I've had a similar path, and I always recommend KDE with its taskbar on Ubuntu, it made the transition smoother for me in terms of preserving workflows.
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by mihaic 9mo ago
Success doesn't have to mean getting your way, but rather making a meaningful change in your direction. Even opposing groups often can find a way so that both get a better situation. For instance, taxes can overall be lowered while tea
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by mihaic 9mo ago
I can't believe Angostura prefers grumbelbart2's link to OPs...
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by mihaic 10mo ago
Not really. At that point TV was competing with cinema for attention, and each needed to provide something different. Now the mediums have merged as well.
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by mihaic 10mo ago
> How many competitors do you need? Apple, Disney, Netflix, Comcast, and Paramount are five major competitors. I actually already agree that the number is not the problem. I can't articulate better, but somehow these don't actu
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by mihaic 10mo ago
Technically, you're right. I feel like there needs to be new terms to describe though the staleness of the industry. "Oligopoly" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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by mihaic 10mo ago
It's always great to read about how the people the own the means of distribution aquire also the means of production, trying to create a meta-monopoly. /sarcasm I'm rooting for someone on the regulary side disliking all the c
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by mihaic 10mo ago
> "Defeatism" is yet another shibboleth for people who refuse to accept reality. Sometimes you'd be right, as some people use this as a shield to do whatever naive thing they want, and build sand castles. But I don't
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by mihaic 10mo ago
Stop spreading defeatism. Either channel these energies into something better, or just get out of the way.
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by mihaic 11mo ago
Sure, history matters, but I'll return the burden on you to argue why Israel/Palestine matters specifically in this context. Otherwise, it's irrelevant noise to the topic at hand.
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by mihaic 11mo ago
Please don't make this political, especially since it's about a cool project and not the minutia of the data. I'm sure you don't want the Iranians claiming ownership of the region due to whatever Cyrus and Darius would h
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by mihaic 11mo ago
> I don't understand how deflationary policy is a wealth tax. The wealthy wouldn't lose anything, would they? Wage earners would always receive "fresh" money, so their relative purchasing power grows compared to someo
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by mihaic 11mo ago
Modern inflation punishes wage earners much more than capital earners, as the second category is closer to the money printing machine, and benefit better from it. A deflationary policy would hit capitalists a lot more than wage earners, sin
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by mihaic 11mo ago
I have been using inheritence for 15 years, and have sometimes regretted it and sometimes loved it. It does have actual benefits if you can limit its usage, and don't use the full insanity that languages like C++. I generally dismis pe
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by mihaic 11mo ago
I don't think it helps if you're arguing their position. We don't want to allow them to upsell. They're crossing the line into social ostracization grounds. At this point, their destruction of social trust is so severe t
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by mihaic 11mo ago
I think it's not at all self-contradicting. HN is a niche forum that is all about making things that scale. Most human interactions shouldn't scale, there's no space for them to be absorbed except by other humans. Only the ve
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by mihaic 11mo ago
Sorry, but what you just said is bullshit, and I'm not even sure you know it. Plenty of copyright holders don't want their creations to be trained on LLMs, regardless of cut. There is no voice for them. The general statement of la
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by mihaic 11mo ago
Again, I think JS/Typescript has a better syntax, since the implicit syntax is better when unbranched, like x => expression, but it's harder to read the more branches there are, since it's hard to visually scan where resul
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by mihaic 11mo ago
Each taken individually is something I can ignore. But there are so many of them that it's no longer trivial to ignore.
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by mihaic 1y ago
I'm actually fine with almost all the decisions that Rust made in terms of logic and concepts, but specifically don't like the synthax itself: the symbols, keywords like the consonant-only "fn" instead of "func&quot

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