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by nsv 5y ago
I agree completely that better price discovery would help the issues greatly. Many times the doctor's office will not even be able to tell you how much a procedure or medication costs until after you get it, which is nuts. If there wer
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by nsv 5y ago
Apartments don't have to be cramped, they can be spacious, and they don't have to be noisy, if you build them with thick walls. So the question becomes: why aren't we building more apartments like this? City living (at least
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by nsv 5y ago
If many countries near Russia prefer to align themselves with NATO and the west, how will violent behavior from Russia improve the situation? It seems like it will do the opposite.
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by nsv 5y ago
>The only way to stop the Russian aggression is to negotiate with their government. And get sent to prison? There is no negotiation in a country without free speech.
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by nsv 5y ago
>Russia can do whatever they like to their people. This is a callous viewpoint. My heart goes out to the Russian citizens living in an effective dictatorship.
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by nsv 5y ago
As an American: I agree with your point broadly, but I would love to see the world punishing Americans e.g. through sanctions for an event like the invasion of Iraq or Vietnam, should it happen. Such unnecessary destruction of human life sh
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by nsv 5y ago
There's a famous scene in the movie "The Big Short" where a character is talking to a stripper about her investment properties. The movie is about the 2008 housing bubble.
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by nsv 5y ago
Someone has to own the property, why not the person who lives in it?
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by nsv 5y ago
At least social media has an element of democracy to it.
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by nsv 5y ago
Big difference between millionaire and centi-millionaire or billionaire though. You can save a million dollars just by making the median American salary and making large contributions to your 401k over 40 years, due to the power of compound
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by nsv 5y ago
What is the difference between luck and privilege?
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by nsv 5y ago
Well, retail and food service is a classic example of a high-turnover industry.
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by nsv 5y ago
Seems like a cool DIY project if you get the time to do it!
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by nsv 5y ago
When wordle first started to rise in popularity, I saw a lot of comments that the one-a-day format was too limiting, and people would get bored and forget about the site because one puzzle doesn't offer enough engagement. I think that
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by nsv 5y ago
I'd be surprised if you see that Rust code is significantly slower than equivalent C code; this isn't how it pans out in most benchmarks. The killer for Rust is executable binary size, which even with no-std and other tricks can s
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by nsv 5y ago
Well, 1.1 is a rational number. It is the ratio 11/10. Web sqrt(2) perhaps?
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by nsv 5y ago
You can get these low interest rates because the government subsidises them. If it were a "free market" so to speak you would not be able to get such a rate, and possibly would not be able to get a fixed-rate mortgage at all.
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by nsv 5y ago
IRC has quite a few active users which is not what I'd call "dead". It's true that it's not as ubiquitous as it used to be, but it certainly still fills a certain niche.
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by nsv 5y ago
Just curious, what does that $700 buy exactly? My power bill and gas for my car combined never exceed $200. I assume it's a cost of living difference?
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by nsv 5y ago
Propaganda does not benifit you. It benifits the state. To think that the state's goals are your own is a symptom of being poisoned by propaganda.
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by nsv 5y ago
Couldn't the FSF sue on their behalf?
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by nsv 5y ago
>I also don't think we're going to go back in time and start cutting features out of browsers. Well, there has been a recent spike of interest in small protocols (Gemini, Gopher). It's mostly limited to esoteric tech enthu
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by nsv 5y ago
But then why not use a mailing list?
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by nsv 5y ago
The fed plans to raise interest rates as soon as early 2023.
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by nsv 5y ago
You won't find much support for an opinion like that on a site named "hacker" news, haha. A lot of backup services (tarsnap comes to mind) prioritize scriptability, as I imagine many people run backups from cron or a systemd
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by nsv 5y ago
To add: when you install software yourself you choose this, when your install software from e.g. a distribution package it is chosen by the package maintainers, and to a larger extent the maintainers of the distribution. This is one of the
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by nsv 5y ago
In the US at least, the fed plans to raise rates by 2023.
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by nsv 5y ago
This is true, but it's important to consider also things which might artificially constrain supply, such as laws that make it harder to build housing or policy which incentivizes buying homes as an investment. A commonly repeated stati
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by nsv 5y ago
If something costs tens of thousands of dollars, it must be looked at in terms of ROI, or otherwise be reserved for the ultra-wealthy.
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by nsv 5y ago
This is similar to what e.g. the TikTok "for you" algorithm does, right? Interacting with content will make it more likely for you to see similar content in the future. Cool site!

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