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by pton_xd 3y ago
> No, the international monetary system is perfectly functional, as evidenced by the fact that it supports the global economy just fine. Obviously it is functional, I never said it wasn't! Inflationary systems have a lot of benefits
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by pton_xd 3y ago
Not at all, I'm saying BTC is an asset that hedges against unsound monetary systems.
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> 2.3% to support so little economic activity is just insane. It kind of is! But honestly that's the price we pay for not having sound monetary systems. At this point BTC is, functionally, just an alternative asset that hedges again
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by pton_xd 3y ago
That article says that "after today’s revisions, employers added more than 3 million jobs in 2023. That makes it the best year for job growth since 1999." In what world was 2023 the best year for job growth?
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by pton_xd 3y ago
Banks, insurance companies, etc are all laying off. UPS just let go of 12k people. Tyson foods is laying off 4k. Again, where's all the robust hiring happening?
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by pton_xd 3y ago
Hiring accelerated? Isn't that... the opposite of what's happening? I don't know anyone whose having an easy time switching jobs right now. Where's all this "robust" hiring happening?
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by pton_xd 3y ago
I had the same experience... in Sunnyvale / SF, of all places! I was shocked at how bad the charging infrastructure is for non-Teslas.
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by pton_xd 3y ago
That's the future but raycasting currently has some major drawbacks... namely that everything looks like a noisy mess when you look around. Curious if anyone has plotted GPU compute increases against display resolution + update frequen
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by pton_xd 3y ago
One common use case for DLLs in gamedev is for code hotloading. You can just recompile your game DLL and unload / reload the library, patch up some globals and vtable pointers and voila, your game logic has been updated without restart
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by pton_xd 3y ago
2-3x yearly net revenue, more if you're lucky. Revenue is ultimately a function of DAU, either via ad RPMs or IAP / subscription conversion rate. Also most sales agreements have a confidentiality covenant.
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by pton_xd 3y ago
This seems sort of like understanding machine code vs assembly; it's much easier to learn WAT and translate to/from WASM as necessary using the wabt tools [0]. Either way its super cool how simple WebAssembly is, you can really ge
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> The purchase of a Rolex or Ferrari - or an incredibly overpriced sound system - is an attempt to buy a signal to others that you have taste. In fact you’re signaling how much your lack of taste is costing you. This is just a fundamenta
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by pton_xd 3y ago
Cloudflare covers this in their terms of service: Content Delivery Network (Free, Pro, or Business) Cloudflare’s content delivery network (the “CDN”) Service can be used to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless you are a
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by pton_xd 3y ago
Where should the socially liberal / fiscally conservative live? Washington state passing the capital gains "excise" tax recently was a real disappointment. Texas sounds like a good option except for some bizarre positions lik
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> In order to simplify this whole nonionizing EM radiation cancer debate UV radiation is non-ionizing and causes cancer. End of debate.
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by pton_xd 3y ago
I don't get the analogy. If I have $100 from an unknown source, and then I put it into the jar and get $100 back out, I still have $100 from an unknown source. I can't say, "well, I got the $100 from the jar." The rules
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by pton_xd 3y ago
I think it'd more effectively go into the appropriate hands by at least charging some nominal amount. Advertise that anyone may visit the public library and purchase a subsidized internet-capable device for $20. Or $5. Free just has no
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by pton_xd 3y ago
Fair enough! Maybe the Youtube and snacks example was a bit misleading in that perspective. In my head exercise is in the same category of routine as brushing your teeth, showering, getting dressed, and feeding yourself. If one struggles wi
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> If only the executive dysfunction didn't mess with my ability to form any kind of stable exercise routine. It's not actually about any difficulty in establishing a stable routine. It'd be very easy for almost anyone to m
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by pton_xd 3y ago
I've also noticed LLMs seem to lack conviction on the correctness of their answers. As the paper notes, you can easily convince the transformer that a correct answer is wrong, and needs adjustment. Ultimately they're just trying t
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by pton_xd 3y ago
That makes sense, thanks for the explanation!
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by pton_xd 3y ago
Why did this post suddenly disappear from HN? EDIT: ok it's back but at a much lower rank, weird. I guess I don't understand the ranking algorithm because this post is now lower ranked than others 10x as old and 1/4th the eng
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> Fleecing parents so your kids don't get made fun of for "having the free skin" shouldn't be a business model. Not any different from me guilt tripping my parents into buying me an expensive pair of Jnco jeans back i
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by pton_xd 3y ago
They're not involved in the startup unless they are cofounders.
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> If you are founding a startup and you have a wife, you are more likely to fail than an entrepreneur who is single. At the very least, having to explain and justify every choice and setback to a non-involved yet judgmental person sounds
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by pton_xd 3y ago
It's obvious to me how some people would earnestly consider killing an unborn child to be equivalent to murder. How is that belief "intolerant," except that you strongly disagree with it? Maybe you highly value the ability to
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> If you don't like the law, lobby politicians to change it. Some laws are unjust and it's your duty as a human being with free will to disobey them.
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by pton_xd 3y ago
And, according to the article "the CPI does not directly measure the prices of investments like stocks or the purchase price of homes." So they have a category called "Housing" which presumably does not include the price
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by pton_xd 3y ago
According to the article, $1 in housing in 1999 is equivalent to $1.86 today. That's... incredibly hard to believe. The Case Shiller is up over 300% for the same time period. And $1 in food is $1.84 today? I don't have an index to
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by pton_xd 3y ago
The major con is that only 28% of internet users have a WebGPU-supported browser, mainly because it's not yet supported on any mobile devices. https://caniuse.com/webgpu

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