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by robocat 5mo ago
I liked the playfulness of: Mixed metaphors which sound nice at first glance, but slip away from meaning like an echo chasing itself off a cliff. Similes that catch in your mind like river trouts tangled in the roots of a redwood tre
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by robocat 5mo ago
A worldview where you see manipulation in everything seems sad. I suspect the guidelines explain voting behaviour: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by robocat 5mo ago
Yeah. Rocket first stage Approx. unfueled mass: Super Heavy: 200000 to 280000 kg Falcon 9 first stage (without Falcon Heavy side boosters): 25600 kg
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by robocat 5mo ago
I used to think that. A simple home. Plus a basic middle class income - to cover necessities and a some extra disposableincome. I figured 1 million for a home and 1 million for investments. Nothing too flash, just cover the basics. The Nat
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by robocat 5mo ago
> founder-like skill set Successful founder is deeply filtering for very uncommon skills. Effectiveness, grit, decision making, independence, technical plus sales ability. University is a shit filter in comparison. The current word is &q
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by robocat 5mo ago
That is zero-sum thinking. I'm not sure how one can learn to see the world in a more positive light...
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by robocat 5mo ago
CGT is fine. I wasn't trolling, but I have unfortunately deviated from the topic. What isn't fine is my belief that I'm going to be rug-pulled by my government. From multiple sources I believe New Zealand will tax most saving
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by robocat 5mo ago
Why did he need a second 250 billion after the first 250 billion? Makes me think of a inverted Zeno's paradox. Why do you need an extra dollar? I can answer for myself: New Zealand plans to tax the shit out of anyone that has more[A].
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by robocat 5mo ago
You imply that privatisation is the cause. But really I think the government incentives are the root cause. Fortunately I can still find workshops that care about doing a good job (more than they care about ripping off customers). But I fee
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by robocat 5mo ago
> Done right, it can be low burden and low cost The rules mostly penalise the poor (and often unfairly). You are severely underestimating how hard "done right" is. I'm from New Zealand and the yearly car checkup is burdens
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by robocat 5mo ago
Having kids was part of your social status. I think people now chase status in other ways that are less compatible with having kids.
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by robocat 5mo ago
> believers If it were only retail investors, your assumptions could make sense. However plenty of the share ownership is institutional investors. Most of them care a bit more about fundamentals. (I'm ignoring passive investors jus
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by robocat 5mo ago
They would need to build it say 50% better for the US market than the Chinese market. The median weight of a 25 year old guy in the USA is about 30% heavier than in China.
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by robocat 5mo ago
Yes. Perl for core backend logic, automation, legacy systems, APIs. Some other languages used for bits and pieces. https://api.docs.cpanel.net/guides/guide-to-perl
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by robocat 5mo ago
Faster than electric: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/JATO_Rocket_Car
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by robocat 5mo ago
> just a piece of cardstock It would be great if they created some cards like that on purpose but hidden features like fluorescent dyes, or dyes that develop over a year or two. So people throw out the blanks by mistake (until people kno
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by robocat 5mo ago
> race track I presume that F150 ain't getting round the corners very quickly. I reckon optimising for straight line speed is a strange goal.
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by robocat 5mo ago
Alien Hand Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome
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by robocat 5mo ago
Zenith Space Command remote “clicker” remotes did not use batteries: they were mechanical. Pressing a button struck a small aluminum rod inside the remote, producing an ultrasonic tone that the TV detected. > making the TV lou
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by robocat 5mo ago
From article: inherently private 5) needing an always on microphone to work. That ain't privacy
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by robocat 5mo ago
The collective smarts on the Internet can't come up with a better name that might help our brains tag the concept? Although at least it has some cross-cultural references. Why is naming so hard.
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Only if you completely ignore what drives people.
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by robocat 5mo ago
The selfish fighting the selfish. Fat well-fed villagers deciding to destroy the farmers harvesting machine that they know gives them their meals. How much of California's wealth comes from evil capitalist enterprise? How do we reasona
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by robocat 5mo ago
Code vulnerabilities can be attacked industrially at scale by smaller groups. Social engineering requires a lot more organisation from attackers.
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by robocat 5mo ago
> too far out over their skis Bad metaphor. Not being forward enough is a common mistake. When learning, you may want to make yourself _feel_ like you're too far forward. We can commonly think we're too far forward when actuall
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I'm trying to explore how we decide on root causes, and how many seem to want deserving victims to punish. Is "those people who profited should pay for it" a desire to guillotine[1] those "executives walking away with mi
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Same as the heavy focus on rewording in your own words: basically teaching you to plagiarise by cheating. I find it distasteful. Even though almost copying is everywhere (patents, graphic design, business): albeit in other areas it is oft
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by robocat 5mo ago
Correct. I found a PDF of the Operator's Guide. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028227
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My bank does a slightly different cutout notch at the top of the card for credit card versus debit card. It is useful for orienting card when inserting into card readers (or cash machines). Apparently an accessibility thing and maybe a wide
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by robocat 5mo ago
Starting a company needs a lot more than those three skills. Plenty of people choose a pay packet with less stress. Many founders recycle into tech jobs after they discover exactly why failure rates of startups are so brutal. Apparently 15-

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