peacefulhat

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by peacefulhat 6y ago
Do you consider USSR capitalist since it had trade, research, and engineering? Incoherent.
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
How much value is knocked off the valuation from US govt threatening a ban?
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
Gives a lot of false positives for words that don't match at all. "aka" -> cha no.
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
the parent comment is that we should build highspeed trains like the ones in other countries that demolish plane travel time and overall checkin to destination time.
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
This is just ignorance. Almost all US treasury bonds are owned by hedge funds, and most of the rest are owned by governments. Retail investors are a tiny share. Whether the hedge funds and governments continue to buy them is not related to
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
> "Even the most hardcore anti-capitalists have to give respect to how the combination of capitalism and technology has worked to lift most of the world out poverty and provided us with the security and comfort only kings enjoyed ju
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
You don't have to do this because there are often good recommendations for cheap tools.
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
It’s a cartel. Good luck with a consumer-driven fix.
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
I can't imagine this working out for producing idiomatic code, especially between very divergent languages like Haskell and C++. Their example is almost straight syntactic replacement, not very impressive. And their real-world use-case
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
I don't think he's that different beyond partisanship. Especially in the YC ecosystem with peers like Balaji Srinivasan. A lot of SV people want to "disrupt" basic foundations of our government like the education system.
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
When you say "Nazi-style concentration camps" do you think millions are soon to be killed?
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
I've listened to some of these interviews and agree completely with the basic premise. However, I don't think it's correct that China's success is entirely explained from simply copying America. Of course copying is resp
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
I tried buying some custom Nikes with "ADIDAS" written on the side. The online tool explicitly banned it. I got the online form to take "PUMA" but the shoes arrived with no custom message.
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
Sure kill billions to save exclusive access to a foundry. It’s not worth it.
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
Talking with Chinese expats in America, one that really sticks out for me is: Despite massive economic backslide under Mao, China would not have industrialized without him. I've heard people who are otherwise very critical of Mao say t
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
What really pissed me off about this whole fiasco was when Ted Lieu chimed in to say he wish he learned COBOL instead of Lisp: https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1246651654373437442 Also this poor explainer video
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
Sucks to see so many engineers on board with locking down the internet. “Made in China” should not be a magical phrase that subverts your normal instincts.
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
I spent a couple days writing a compiler for a custom shader language. It's a very simple lisp with minimal features, but enough to do everything I use in graphics. I compile this into glsl + a struct and functions for cpu side. A lot
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by peacefulhat 6y ago
Once investors become truly forward-thinking, snp will hit $30 quintillion 8^)
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by peacefulhat 7y ago
Then should rents go up? It is now much riskier to be a landlord, risk that is going uncompensated...