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901.
by pwinnski 4y ago
Yes, inflation is currently a world-wide issue, and explanations at the world level lead somewhat obviously to the pandemic and Russia's invasion of the Ukraine. But here in the USA, people like to believe it must be political and loca
902.
by pwinnski 4y ago
The initial investment is paid by subscribers or financed by the government grant, both mentioned in the linked article. The monthly income of $55 or $79 times 70 people is $3850-5530/month gross right now, which is likely not a full-t
903.
by pwinnski 4y ago
I've used Lombok, and I wouldn't describe it as "generating boilerplate," and yes, I see that GP used those words first. Instead, Lombok allows me to mark fields with an annotation and then use getters and setters that n
904.
by pwinnski 4y ago
It's easier to imagine a nefarious plan, and to lump everything negative together into one big ball of conspiracy, but it's not reality. Realty is far more complicated than anyone's mental model, and each of the things you de
905.
by pwinnski 4y ago
I think the veneration of "the founding fathers" as a special group of wise people who set down words in the 18th century that will--that must--be held in reverence as unchangeable in perpetuity, well, I think that sounds a little
906.
by pwinnski 4y ago
Do you think there has been fewer permits issued under Biden? Because there haven't[0]. There were many thousands of existing leases not being developed[1], and now a record number of permits--both in percentage terms and as raw number
907.
by pwinnski 4y ago
I don't think this is an issue with Java, it's an issue with Spring. I'm baffled by the popularity of Spring.
908.
by pwinnski 4y ago
In Spring-land, I think you mean. I enjoy Java. I do not enjoy Spring.
909.
by pwinnski 4y ago
It's hard to see how C# will ever find wide usage outside of the MS ecosystem. It's so intrinsically tried to MS.
910.
by pwinnski 4y ago
This is how thinking that crypto is in any way anything like anonymous trips people up. As soon as you claim ownership of an NFT, your address is known.
911.
by pwinnski 4y ago
What's the difference between conning wealthy rubes out of $100M and building a business that earns $100M? I don't really care which is easier. Neither are easy, but the latter provides value to more than the con artist, while the
912.
by pwinnski 4y ago
There isn't, and it wasn't used for valuation. The number appears nowhere in the purchase document which assigned the valuation; nor does any reference to it. It could be 20%, or 50%, and it wouldn't have any bearing whatsoev
913.
by pwinnski 4y ago
I think predictions of leisure time underestimate the power of those holding the capital. In the past, there was a leisure class, and we certainly have the productivity to have one again, but instead we have billionaires and continue to wor
914.
by pwinnski 4y ago
I don't see any underestimation of the fax in the piece. I think commenters here are dramatically underestimating the fax, to the point that I'm not entirely sure Krugman was as wrong as he seems to be. I mean, from an economic or
915.
by pwinnski 4y ago
Your professor was 100% correct: chips haven't been getting faster, though, and for precisely the reasons they stated. However, parallelizing work onto separate cores turned out to continue to extend performance, so it didn't matt
916.
by pwinnski 4y ago
"Today, we do subsidize the cost of overhead of running Web3.Storage..." So it's free until it's not, like most things.
917.
by pwinnski 4y ago
I think I'm supposed to feel insulted, but clear communication is very important, so thank you for suggesting that I communicate clearly. I suggest you also pursue clear communication, in which words are used to communicate what they m
918.
by pwinnski 4y ago
A book (and author) referenced in this very piece!
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I often don't know whether my potential business partner has integrity, in which case this advice wouldn't help me. If I do know, then this advice is so obvious as to be meaningless. Unless I'm an idiot, in which case, again,
920.
by pwinnski 4y ago
This would be horrible advice if it were not completely useless. As it is, it's only disgusting. I don't find it inspirational, and there is nothing actionable.
921.
by pwinnski 4y ago
The link was specifically labeled with a line from the essay: "Live in the future, then build what's missing." PG goes on to say that's how "many if not most of the biggest startups got started," which sounds m
922.
by pwinnski 4y ago
> "always nice" is a matter of speaking. Incorrectly. It's a matter of speaking incorrectly.
923.
by pwinnski 4y ago
Given the language twitter surrounded that number with, they probably could. They called out that it was uncertain, described how they estimated it in detail, and stated that reality could be higher or lower. Given all of that, they could h
924.
by pwinnski 4y ago
IANAL, but I've read Twitter's SEC filings, and I don't see any potential inflation. The section on bots is extremely clear and specifically states that reality may be higher or lower than their rough estimate, after explaini
925.
by pwinnski 4y ago
Amazon was making profit in one area of the business and investing it in another. Uber is not making money in any area of the business that is sustainable for more than a single quarter. Not the same thing at all.
926.
by pwinnski 4y ago
It's a little unfair to pretend that the author said "they've never offered anything of value," rather than stating that their offering is worse than taxi services now. Taxi services have improved in several ways since U
927.
by pwinnski 4y ago
As outlined in the trial, that was 800k/day during a specific week, he claimed that was the highest ever figure. He had previously claimed that profit was 20% of that, when pushed he said 20-40%, but documents suggest it's more li
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by pwinnski 4y ago
As revealed in the trial(s), that's not true. He continuously promoted that false story for many years, even after he first started running into legal trouble as a result.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
This is such a bizarre thing to read, as it runs completely counter to my own experience. If your problem is that people have AirPods in their ears but are actually using external mics, as you say, then okay, you've run into something
930.
by pwinnski 4y ago
Excellent. This focuses on word recognition, which is a large part of vocabulary, omitting the need for meaning. I suppose it also provides chances for people who don't know words to work out new words based on phonetic patterns and wh

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