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by rank0 5y ago
Portland and Austin are the very essence of "trendy city" those places are very expensive. I'm not arguing that people move to small towns. There are hundreds of cities in the US with 100,000+ populations (not even including
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by rank0 5y ago
Ah I see I misunderstood. FWIW though there's businesses scattered all over my neighborhood and seemingly no zoning rules. Lots of folks, especially the ones on this forum, would probably not live in Atlanta simply because of their per
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by rank0 5y ago
There are absolutely good jobs in every city in America. Entertainment can mean anything...and frankly people should be able to find fun things to do on their own without needing bars, nightclubs, concert venues, etc. I concede that good sc
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by rank0 5y ago
Sorry man that sucks. I own a property that's effectively a duplex in Atlanta. My buddy owns a duplex in Denver. It's not everywhere that mixed residential homes are banned! Are you in CA?
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by rank0 5y ago
I'm arguing that people should lower their standards. It should be easy to understand that not everyone can afford own property walking distance to the city center. I fully agree with you on prioritizing primary residence.
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by rank0 5y ago
Yeah those are good points. I live in a bit of a bubble where most folks around me either WFH or have to travel to work. There are absolutely "specialist doctors" in every large city though...
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by rank0 5y ago
The quick demo looks pretty dope, but I am never gonna pay a subscription for a closed source token-identified cli tool. I would have paid a one time fee for a similar tool that doesn't phone home to check my api key every time I use i
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by rank0 5y ago
I think people should expand what "desirable" means to them. There's a ton of suitable houses all over the country. Everyone seems to need to own a SFH in a trendy part of a trendy city.
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by rank0 5y ago
I think you’re missing the OPs point. He’s saying that the ability to lend and borrow with interest is a fundamental precondition for human economies. That’s why economic growth is not optional. Just look at the past 100 years. We have obse
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by rank0 5y ago
Doesn’t “usury” have a predatory connotation? I think just the concept of debt is what has allowed our human economy/society to develop. Nobody would ever be able to start a business without debt. (Unless you’re already rich) Nobody wo
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by rank0 5y ago
Wow. Fuck this so much. I’m never using ddg again. I think I’m going to move towards searching specific sites rather than using a generic internet-wide search provider.
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by rank0 5y ago
Monero is my favorite crypto project and the only token I still use today. Their randomX pow protocol is brilliant and the anonymity is opaque as you can get! Requiring those huge memory pages for efficient mining is a great solution for de
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by rank0 5y ago
Things like this where companies reinvent traditional payment processing “but with crypto” is the antithesis of what crypto used to stand for. As a former believer in the original goal of private p2p digital cash, I am saddened by what cryp
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by rank0 5y ago
It’s meh compared to existing mainstream browsers but being in beta still I don’t fault the project. The support for standard web extensions is incomplete and even ublock origin doesn’t work properly. Hopefully they can iron out the kinks o
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by rank0 5y ago
I’ve been using the beta for both iOS and macOS and tbh it’s just “meh”. It’s still in beta and as such has quite a few bugs. I’ve drifted back to FF. Although I gotta say I love Kagi search. I hope there’s a way to use the service TRULY an
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by rank0 5y ago
It requires lots of knowledge and elbow grease. Your security concerns also greatly depend on what services you plan to make publicly available. The most important basic groundwork is proper firewall setup and network segmentation. Your per
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by rank0 5y ago
Are you aware the US is facilitating the ongoing war in Yemen? It’s all about strategic interests. The US commits war crimes when it suits our agenda…just like the Russians. It’s kind of scary how much power the USG has over the world. We’l
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by rank0 5y ago
are you living under a rock? Do you remember the recent oil pipeline and meat packing facilities that got ransomwared? Ton's of government sites and corporations get hacked. It's way more than what's publicly available too. M
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by rank0 5y ago
Why are the comments so negative? Live a little guys...It's just a neat little toy project!
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by rank0 5y ago
Defense in depth is just a design philosophy for security controls. It absolutely makes sense and doesn’t have to be implemented as “disjoint security software/vendors/contracting” It can be the justification for things like datab
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by rank0 5y ago
Genuine question: Are EVs and battery powered tech actually sustainable? Lithium is a finite resource which needs to be extracted from the earth via mining (or maybe this new evaporation technique). Surely there’s not enough lithium for eve
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by rank0 5y ago
Oil isn’t optional. It’s the most important commodity in the world. Nobodies lifestyle on HN would be possible without it. It’s the natural gas too. Europe needs natural gas for power. Is Europe’s supposed to deprive its citizens of electri
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by rank0 5y ago
That’s fair I just assumed you were shilling because you mentioned web3 and metamask. I totally agree and hope the web moves in that direction. Unfortunately I think the tech giants will fight tooth and nail to retain their sso products. Pe
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by rank0 5y ago
I see this a lot as a justification for crypto and tbh I don’t buy it. Why can’t we just use key pairs without all the commodity token nonsense? Blockchains are a hyper redundant global network of adversarial servers. This is the silliest
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by rank0 5y ago
This describes <1% of Americans. You seem to be lost yourself. What exactly do you disagree with me on from the original comment?
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by rank0 5y ago
Where are they arguing that? We’re moved far away from OP. The original point that Americans “live in fear” is what I object to. You’ve turned the conversation into something else entirely. You think the entire country of 350M lives in fear
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by rank0 5y ago
> It's disingenuous as hell to clump "cities" together, as if going to Anacostia in DC is the same as going to Georgetown. I don't understand what you're arguing. Cities unequivocally see more crime than rural ar
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by rank0 5y ago
> My bubble extends well beyond "small town USA". Paradoxically, I don't have a single friend in Chicago, Denver, Miami, Los Angeles, etc that carries a gun. And yet, I know people in each of those cities that own firearms
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by rank0 5y ago
I know you're just sharing your anecdote, but the vast majority (over 80%) of Americans live in urban areas. Many cities do in fact see violent crime. Although I don't own a firearm myself, I totally understand why someone else wo
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by rank0 5y ago
Well they have a free version and paid subscription with extra benefits. I can't remember exactly why because this was years ago, but I just didn't find it useful beyond a simple bookmarking system. Not worth the annual/month

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