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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Austin has more current permitted housing construction than any major metro in the nation I see residential construction of all kinds (high density, low density) all over the city including in the middle of downtown Austin will never be a d
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
pretty rich coming from Google who has been bungling its own messaging ecosystem for years
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
A (record?) 92% of Americans now have some form of health insurance (Biden tweeted this last week) Yet our life expectancy continues to decline Its obesity No amount of healthcare access can save those determined to stay obese
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Remember the months of giddy anticipation running up to Uber's IPO...when HN was full of scandalous stories about Travis WhatHisName? How high would it go? $150bln? $200bln? Will they own self-driving tech? What an amazing money fire t
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Intel is the next Boeing...a "strategic" firm fed a diet of government pork Don't worry Intel, Google and their "strategic AI assets" are only a few years behind you in line, you'll soon have company
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
They have joined the ranks of GM and Boeing...revenue from Congress not from sales The CHIPS Act was an Apple-level windfall for Intel...
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
the real lesson here is: don't pour your soul into something you didn't found, control, or have executive power over...because those that are in this category will pull the levers available to them
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
If it were Trump in office, that article would been disembowelled all over Twitter
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
HN is obsessed with the TX power grid....why?
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
it would take twenty years to build enough power generation to satisfy desalination for the west....what do you plan on drinking in the meantime?
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
I hope everyone enjoyed the generation (1995-2022) of abnormally low rates, you won't be seeing that again How did we avoid inflation for so long during this low-rate regime? In 1870 we had the same issue - deflation in the face of mon
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
in addition to the red-flagging that will follow you around perhaps for the rest of your life
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
> So monads are from functional programming, right? kinda. they are needed where pure functional and lazy evaluation converge in a pure, lazy language, you compute things based on dataflow but what is the dataflow of a keystroke from the
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
the perl community is small(er) but I would argue more active and effective than in recent years every perl library I make use of is updated regularly perl itself is released regularly and just had a 5.36 release perl won't be conqueri
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
so many of the most-played artists and songs on streaming services now are from decades past I've tried to experiment with new artists....there's nothing there...gen-z has to plumb the 80s for music to listen to....sad
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
last night I checked my billing page on sr.ht and there was a line chart that had "11.2%" to indicate that currently 11.2% of users are paying...there was also a redline at 13% which I assume is some sustainability threshold if yo
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
but this is gobs of money that could be much better spent by the military just off the top of my head: - dramatic improvements in military IT (search for recent story "just give us new computers") - more investments in unmanned co
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
I predict they will keep pouring money into this pit until they get a success...and then quietly wind down the program. The cost-per-mission will end being ridiculously high with no meaningful gains over just using Tomahawks in volume, over
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
try my approach - read as much learning material as possible - write some non-trivial learning code, possibly a project you already know - get a little frustrated, walk away ....wait three months - come back - re-read what you had done earl
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
right, the loudest bully on the mailing list or slack channel becomes the "boss" now you have two hierarchies - the "legitimate" hierarchy of management, and the hierarchy of popular/virtuous "influencers&quot
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
> This sounds ideal, but I wonder what their secret is to pulling it off in practice. insane levels of personal discipline...just look at the entrance qualification testing they do. these people aren't average
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
and yet, high demand doesn't equate to high comp, most of these languages are race-to-the-bottom markets with low barriers to entry c++ is probably the exception here predict even the Go market will eventually resemble the js market...
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
> If your gun shows up in a crime, you get indicted as well so, someone breaks into my house while I am on vacation for three weeks, ignores the alarm, rips open the gun safe, takes a gun, kills someone...I go to jail? but even in the ca
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Like it or not, most problems you will want to solve are not "purely functional" but rely on sound management of shared mutable state. Haskell advocates will say shared mutable state is done better in Haskell than other languages.
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Every seven years or so now, a new generation gets suckered into believing Haskell is the Right Way
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
people like this would be a lot happier if they just quit internetting. Internet People is a tribe of doomed 30/40-somethings. Young people like my kids are fine because Internet Things favored by the Internet People seem lame and pass
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
the sanction have been a massive geopolitical blunder of epic proportions Russia got rid of US corporations colonizing its economy Russia has compelled buyers of fuel to pay in Roubles Russia is selling to Europe, India and China Apparently
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
The still-unfinished Austin campus will be the largest outside of Apple Park, so....
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
your comment is just so vacuous and low-effort all this ruling stipulates is that jurisdictions are barred from employing arbitrary standards as a means of gatekeeping access to a Constitutional Right (like it or not, that has already been
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
then that city would die and everything around it would flourish

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