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by rapsey 4y ago
> Zeihan thinks withdrawing permission to use that property will make the Chinese industry flail and die. More likely they'll just steal it. Bleeding edge chips are a giant international effort requiring tech from Europe, US, Taiwan
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by rapsey 4y ago
Yeah sounds like the comic books and video games are going to turn children into psychopaths argument.
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by rapsey 4y ago
It has been quite forcefully tested throughout the year. It has barely showed any weakness yet we have been hearing USDT is on the brink for years now. The story is getting old. Like a permabear seeing financial doom behind every corner.
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by rapsey 4y ago
No it is not. If USDT has survived till now it is unlikely to fall.
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by rapsey 4y ago
Because like Zuck said, Twitter was a clown car. Engineering could build good stuff. The management and board was however one clown after another.
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by rapsey 4y ago
That is what I said. It is for people who want an echo chamber. > I mean seriously, what if twitter turned out to be a bad idea? Twitter fills a void where there is no real alternative. How can it be a bad idea? If you are morally oppose
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by rapsey 4y ago
These exoduses 9 times out of 10 only create some insular single topic community. For people who want to participate in an echo chamber. Anyone who thinks Mastodon has any hope of being the next Twitter is delusional. It is the next Parler&
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by rapsey 4y ago
How well does CockroachDB run in practice, how much babysitting does it need? I am sure there are a bunch of people with experience running large clusters doing a high amount of transactions here.
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by rapsey 4y ago
Covering parking lots requires a scaffolding structure to hold the panels. The cost of this structure is probably higher than the panels. A much better plan would be mandating all large building roofs to be covered by panels unless unsuitab
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by rapsey 4y ago
Crypto would be perfect. If only humans were robots.
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by rapsey 4y ago
Well I had a major project for which Rust was the only logical choice. I very quickly found Rust to just be very enjoyable to use. So even if something is in the Eralng/Elixir wheelhouse I would still prefer Rust. I do not use an actor
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by rapsey 4y ago
Locking api in std returns Result which is very annoying.
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by rapsey 4y ago
> I did C/C++ for years 10+ years ago, but since learning Ruby and then Elixir I've loved the functional approach. Not Elixir but I spend 10 years in Erlang before moving to Rust and prefer to never go back. A statically typed
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by rapsey 4y ago
Because it requires that library with that API be maintained forever. Guaranteeing it eventually becoming unused because the language is evolving and better APIs can be made. For instance mpsc and mutex libs are commonly not used because cr
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by rapsey 4y ago
No they are building in the US because the US told them they have to. TSMC is the biggest chip Taiwan has to convince the US to defend it from Chinese invasion. The most advanced fabs and the most capacity will definitely remain in Taiwan.
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by rapsey 4y ago
> It is stunning that Europe has failed to participate in the tech boom of the last few decades. In my view much lower level of financialization is a big culprit. The stock market is nowhere near what the US stock market is. This limits
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by rapsey 4y ago
Rust is used at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, DropBox, Meta, Cloudflare and a bunch of others.
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by rapsey 4y ago
A different data point. In the November HN hiring thread, Rust has more mentions than C++.
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by rapsey 4y ago
I wonder how much C++ is being learned by new generations of programmers. I suspect Rust is taking over there but that is a completely baseless assumption on my part.
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by rapsey 4y ago
Yeah but they probably spent the money on stock buybacks.
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by rapsey 4y ago
I don't understand your point. Google says Chinese manufacturing jobs pay $11k per year in 2020. This is a salary level of a south/east European factory worker.
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by rapsey 4y ago
Your point is very strange. Apple did not just suddenly decide in 2018 to manufacture in China. It is what they have been doing for like 10-15 years before that. If you count from iPod on. In mid 2000s it certainly was not an option to manu
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by rapsey 4y ago
A factory worker is living on minimum wage. Nowhere near average.
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by rapsey 4y ago
Ok name the countries.
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by rapsey 4y ago
> Also with the $200B in cash they had When exactly are you talking about? > $200B would buy at least 5 or more latest-gen chip plants, easily, or at least give TSMC all the capital they needed. $200B and a decade. Also do you think
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by rapsey 4y ago
There was no alternative at the time regarding overall production. China gave them the option to be extremely flexible and efficient. Other countries like India/Vietnam is copying the Chinese cookbook. Ony TSMC is capable of producing
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by rapsey 4y ago
> 1. Labor cost is an issue but at 530 per month as of 2020 Chinese mfr labor is still relatively cheap and only twice as expensive as India. Only by US standards. You can pay that much for a factory worker in eastern/south Europe.
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by rapsey 4y ago
No the entire app is not react native. Only parts of it.
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by rapsey 4y ago
The US has the most effective propaganda machine ever devised.
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by rapsey 4y ago
It is still printing money though.

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