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by rnk 4y ago
Yes, you summarize the entire cycle very well. There's nothing creating wealth other than the next group of people buying some crypto thing, then that is 'invested' by buying other things that are paying interest, but eventua
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by rnk 4y ago
Generally people don't lose all their investments in a stock or index fund. They might go down in price 10% on fund xyz but won't lose all their value. Do you not get that difference with this, this would not happen if he bought s
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by rnk 4y ago
Because they paid high interest rates! That's how all these scams work, one after the other. Pay high interest rates to attract customers (impossible to achieve rates), create tokens of your own, trade them to other places paying high
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by rnk 4y ago
Crypto has shown that decentralized actors certainly screw you over. All those laws and corporate governance and backup from the govt for banks (which costs something in terms of fees the banks pay) yields people not losing their deposits i
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by rnk 4y ago
Those claims would benefit from supporting details. Somehow you know the hearts of humans?
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by rnk 4y ago
The courts have decided that the federal govt can put restrictions on money they give the states. It's also not the same thing as states passing laws saying you as an individual or business are disallowed from making your own choices a
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Of course protecting our ally Israel in special ways is exactly what these laws are intended to do. People get all bent out of shape when someone criticizes the US, and the same happens with regards to Israel. Countries make mistakes, it&#x
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Google had great engineering practices and infrastructure, the best of my career across several FAANGS. If only they didn't make launching products (and killing the old one) the way for advancement.
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by rnk 4y ago
That never happens. I mean that always happens. Because we are cultured, democratically minded Americans, we are immune from the human passions that other people suffer from, that desire to take the other person's goodies.
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At my cabin I have starlink, limited solar power and a generator with propane that comes on (power goes out a lot). Eventually I'll run out of propane and food (everyone has some emergency food supply for a few weeks at their cabin, ri
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by rnk 4y ago
It doesn't look professional, it could beore likely to be rejected as spam.
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This is a great idea. I didn't teach my kid how to drive stick shift and I feel bad about it. My grandfather knew how to drive heavy trucks and tractors and use those skills in world war II, and I never thought about it but he didn&#x2
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by rnk 4y ago
For one of the leading database engines, I created the cost model that the database uses to pick between database query plan choices for almost every query (except trivial ones). For that same database engine I led the card estimation team
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by rnk 4y ago
DCFC do have car-id communication between the car and charger, and they can be configured to connect to specific accounts from the car so you can"plug and charge" with nothing else if your car is registered with the charger networ
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by rnk 4y ago
Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for mentioning it! https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/189/brandenburg-v-o... . I would have expected it to have been Vietnam War resistance, instead of civil rights o
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by rnk 4y ago
Microsoft used to do this. I worked in a startup with an exec a few years later and he admitted they did it. I think everyone does this. We had 10s of thousands of employees at Microsoft, and they'd send out these updates on windows st
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by rnk 4y ago
Well great humble brag response! There are some known aerospace projects that ran over, but the software world has so many problems it is not embarrassing, it is just reality. I'm on a project with a goal of shipping in around 4 months
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by rnk 4y ago
If you read the article, it refers to using a long discredited restriction on free speech from WW1. This refers to the law used by President Wilson to put people arguing against the war into jail. That this kind of law has survived this lon
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by rnk 4y ago
A lot of places in WA state are super cheap, as in 12c/kwh in the Seattle area, mostly renewable.
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What is the imo? There are many imo things. International mathematical olympiad?
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by rnk 4y ago
Of course they do it because they can manufacture something that people will pay for out of nothing, and then can use that for other things that get them real value.
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by rnk 4y ago
If you keep doing it over and over like Tucker Carlson, then it's clear it's wrong. He keeps asking questions as a way to push people to certain views. He's alarmist in these 'questions'. He asks them that way as a
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by rnk 4y ago
This was a few days ago, but just saw your message. He said he'd let people who were banned for using hate speech come back, so yes, he said it. That does not encourage advertisers.
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by rnk 4y ago
I think you are probably right that most problems are hardware, but there are a lot of broken chargers (display out, not fixed). People just report them all the time. look at reddit.com/r/electricvehicles. But yeah, it's pro
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by rnk 4y ago
so work somewhere else. My company is interviewing people (some have jobs and only look at us as a fallback in case their job dies, no panic), other companies are trying to hire me. I got 4 pings on linked in this week. I still get random &
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by rnk 4y ago
Can you give some more info on the size of this project? Hard to understand why a culvert on an unpaved (and presumably small water source) would cost much. Almost any project on a highway costs a million dollars.
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by rnk 4y ago
We do tax them, but it's indirect, because property taxes go up. You could do it by say taking 25% of increased property taxes and remitting them to transit costs. That's an interesting idea I never heard of before.
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by rnk 4y ago
How do you pay for infrastructure without taxing someone? Mass transit has other goods than the immediate user.
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Tesla has been the defacto standard, yes. But their lead has been declining. All the other ev car drivers would have been better off if they could use tesla charging stations, since the entire industry is basically terrible except for tesla
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by rnk 4y ago
The tesla plug has a decade of successful heavy use behind it, and it doesn't have a history of failing despite being the most used ev charging system and plug in the world (comparing to the ccs standards around the us and the world).

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