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by rcme 3y ago
Every night my wife and I put the kid to bed and just kind of zone out on the couch for two hours, each on our smartphones. We don’t talk. I kind of love it? Like it’s not lonely but it’s a time for our brains just to do nothing after a lon
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by rcme 3y ago
I went back and re-read our thread and you’re right. I was too focused on race. When you implied I had an indifference to the struggle of others by calling me a “white and rich guy” you weren’t only calling me a racist, but sexist and cla
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by rcme 3y ago
Ah, the “you’re just a rich white guy” argument. Okay… How can I refute that? I would have responded the same way if you made a comment about climate change or any other political topic. It seems exhausting to think about your entire worldv
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by rcme 3y ago
Yes, it is bothersome. You mentioned race issues, but you could have easily mentioned climate change: “is it really so unreasonable that people want to talk about keeping the planet hospitable?” Or abortion “is it really so unreasonable wom
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by rcme 3y ago
Is it exhausting looking at every offhand HN comment through a racial lens? Plenty of rich white people like discussing politics. There are only two main political parties in the U.S. One of them has rich white people as their entire shtick
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by rcme 3y ago
I think the word "minimally" makes it sound like the changes to existing libraries are "to an extremely small extent; negligibly." "At a minimum" would fit better, because the minimum of a set of things can sti
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by rcme 3y ago
I’m sure market segmentation was part of the decision. I talked to a high up person at Nvidia about their general strategy around gaming. Nvidia sells graphics cards by having the absolute best graphics performance for gaming. This isn’t pu
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by rcme 3y ago
The thing I absolutely love the most about HN is that political discourse is generally discouraged. I genuinely believe people who like talking about politics are miserable humans.
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by rcme 3y ago
I’m not commenting on your theory, but what I love about HN is that, for the most part, people comment purely to talk about a topic. There’s very little self promotion. It’s very nice.
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by rcme 3y ago
A huge amount of NodeJS is written in native code. JS is single threaded. Async work doesn’t work without native code. JS doesn’t need a GIL because it only has one thread.
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by rcme 3y ago
What I meant by rendering is not scene staging: lights, camera position, etc. what I meant was that when you implement a rendering engine, you need to make artistic choices. Like when you implement a lightening system, there are a number of
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by rcme 3y ago
They gimped consumer GPU cards because crypto miners were buying them all and their core gamer market was being priced out. Making dedicated mining cards was actually trying to do less for crypto, not more.
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by rcme 3y ago
A photo of a public domain painting is only in the public domain if the photograph wasn't distinct enough from the photographed work. Rendering requires a number of "artistic" choices so I doubt that precedent would apply her
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by rcme 3y ago
Yea I definitely need variable length arrays.
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by rcme 3y ago
Those numbers could also be a consequence of more people trying to rent out AirBnBs right? That’s always the biggest issue trusting host-reported occupancy rates.
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by rcme 3y ago
I was laid off and took a year off doing nothing. It wasn’t too big of an issue when I recently went looking for a job.
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by rcme 3y ago
There are good typed deserialization libraries. Personally, I prefer runtypes but there are options.
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by rcme 3y ago
Price is just a proxy for value so there isn’t much of a functional difference between the price being $0 and not having the object.
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by rcme 3y ago
Programming, objectively speaking, is nothing like balancing equations. When balancing equations, there is only one right answer. When programming, there is a goal and a series of subjective choices need to made in order to reach the goal.
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by rcme 3y ago
Is feeling secure in retirement not a relevant factor? Is having wealth to do things, even if you don’t exercise that wealth, a completely irrelevant factor? Is leaving generational wealth for your children irrelevant? Let’s say you had to
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by rcme 3y ago
So the only way to subsidize supply is indirectly via demand subsidies? I find that hard to believe.
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by rcme 3y ago
The U.S. has the same tax incentive, but there is an additional tax incentive, called a 1031 exchange, that lets you pay no capital gains if you invest the money in more real estate.
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by rcme 3y ago
Why don’t we try removing all the insane tax incentives first, e.g. 1031 exchange, and then see what happens? There are so many incentives for investment in real estate. Even if more housing was built, investors would snap up the properties
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by rcme 3y ago
> Even though I could sell and get a lot more than I paid for either, the fact is that unless I wanted to put that money into something other than a house I'm not going to turn a profit. You’re already profiting simply by having a h
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by rcme 3y ago
You could leave lathe off of the tops and bottoms of your walls and cover those sections with baseboards and crown molding. Then you pop off the baseboards / crown molding to get access behind the wall.
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by rcme 3y ago
No it was a demand shock that caused demand to plummet meaning storage facilities were still full as futures created before the demand shift expired. Basically people bought futures expecting to have capacity to take delivery but then reali
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by rcme 3y ago
The price of oil was negative because no one had any place to store the oil and they absolutely needed to take delivery of it. It’s a very different issue.
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by rcme 3y ago
Why would you want to look at access panels every day for a once-in-a-decade issue? Patching a hole in a wall is really easy, all things considered.
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by rcme 3y ago
850K BTC was about $250 million in 2014. Today it’s worth 25 billion. That should give you an idea of the scale difference.
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by rcme 3y ago
Crypto has existed for 14 years, but it has only become mainstream in the last 6 years. Binance, for instance, was founded in 2017. So 6 years from founding to crackdown. OxyContin was invented in 96. The effects were already terrible in th

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