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by sakopov 4y ago
I live in California and have first-hand experience with water shortages and all kinds of other fun things pertaining to drastic climate changes. I'm not a Global Warming or a Climate Change denier, but I do want to lay some things dow
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by sakopov 4y ago
Does the west actually believe that Russia has money or resources to expand? It can barely fight in Ukraine. It's a broke country with a superiority complex and any thought of expansion is just nonsensical.
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by sakopov 4y ago
The price of crude oil has been flying to the moon since December 2021. Just look at YTD chart for crude oil. Russian invasion of Ukraine might be one of contributing factors for elevated prices, but it can't be the main one.
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I was driving home the other day and heard on the radio that the LA city government implemented a ban on plastic utensils at city events. This is what happens when you cannot perform at your job and you just do anything which can be persuad
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by sakopov 4y ago
Both of my parents just say that I'm a programmer. However, both constantly tell me I don't actually work because I work from home ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ lol
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Wow, I haven't heard this name for a while. I switched from Soma to DI.FM years and years ago mostly because I was super active on DI's forums and they used to stream my mixes. Glad to see it's still around. It's definit
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by sakopov 4y ago
You can publish to an SNS topic with an SQS queue subscribing to it and invoking your lambda. This provides durability and allows you to configure other nice things like dead-lettering for any message that fails in lambda. You can survive s
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Tell HN: Databaseanswers.org Is Gone
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I graduated during a financial collapse in 2008 with a CS degree. I had about 2 years of internship experience at the time. My college friends were telling me "it's really bad - take what you can get." After weeks of searchin
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by sakopov 4y ago
So, in the dot-com bubble companies were rushing to market with ideas and no products because delivering products was a massive technical undertaking. It seems like we now have companies rushing to market with products -- which are seemingl
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I was one of the top developers at my previous job and recently took an architecture role at a new company where I spend most of my days improving processes and mentoring other engineers. I guess you could say I'm pretty lonely here, b
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by sakopov 4y ago
I do landscape photography and I've repurposed my (fairly dated) DSLR for work meetings. I have a Nikon D600 with Elgato Cam Link 4K capture card and AF-S 70-200mm lens. The lens gives a nice bokeh in the background. It's been gre
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by sakopov 4y ago
I wasn't claiming they're same. Was just wondering what the thoughts are on another stablecoin which claims to be fully backed by USD and how valid those claims actually are. Not sure why I'm getting downvoted.
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> (the other just ignores me and does whatever she wants). This made me remember a funny meme about dogs and cats. "A dog is able to learn up to 250 words and tricks and gestures. A dog can count up to 5 and perform simple math. Equ
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by sakopov 4y ago
What's everyone's thoughts on Gemini dollar? Gemini claims [1] that GUSD is FDIC insured up to $250K and audited [2] by a third party called BMP [3]. I also remember reading that Gemini is used by a number of IRA custodians, so I&
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by sakopov 4y ago
I remember buying 2 new SL-1200s for $400 a pop 15 years ago. I have 3 of them collecting dust in my parents basement. Shocked to find out that a pair of new ones will cost over $2k today.
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The amount of skill shown in the videos is incredibly mind-boggling. One wrong move and you're starting over on the entire part, which would be bad enough using modern tools he's using now and I can't even imagine what it mus
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by sakopov 4y ago
> I think we're realizing that the marketing operation was 70 years of "Russia is scary strong". Reality is Russia is really bad at fighting armies and great at brutalizing civilians. Whether it was a marketing campaign or
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by sakopov 4y ago
> How many fiat currencies from 100 years ago still exist today? I don't know. How many? Fiat didn't even exist 100 years ago. Everyone was on the gold standard back than.
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by sakopov 4y ago
Not disagreeing with you but "this time it's different" is what you typically experience every downturn in the market.
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by sakopov 4y ago
Don't hold your breath. You're 600 points away from 2020 pre-pandemic levels and the way everything is looking right now, you would be lucky if it doesn't bottom out lower.
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by sakopov 4y ago
This [1] and this [2] might set some context here. [1] https://ugapress.org/book/9780820355856/mark-twains-aquarium... [2] http://www.twainquotes.com/angelfish/angelfish.html
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by sakopov 4y ago
Average household income vs Average home price in US over the past 70 years. Looks like an average American is going to be a happy renter in about 10-15 years as home ownership prices reach the moon. 1950 - $3,300 - $7,354 1960 - $5,600 - $
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by sakopov 4y ago
A few months back I stumbled upon a YouTube video of a watch maker servicing a mechanical watch. This started a mild obsession with watch making and I've been watching these videos ever since. For anyone interested, here's an awes
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by sakopov 4y ago
I know next nothing about option trading, but doesn't betting against a stock have infinite loses?
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Blockchain is just a decentralized ledger of transactions. A cryptocurrency is an implementation of digital currency using a blockchain. Blaming blockchain for not having fraud prevention tech is like blaming TCP/IP stack for deliverin
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by sakopov 4y ago
This is a heck of a lot of hard work. I wouldn't dare to call this passive by any means. You're going to spend just as much time updating content when technologies become obsolete or outdated as you did writing original material.
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I agree that there is no such thing as "the algorithm." It is Twitter in its entirety. And with that I have a wild question. Can Musk make Twitter fully open-source on GitHub?
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It seems a little funny to me that people flock to the idea that Twitter's market cap in a fed-fueled stock market when literally everything was moving up is some kind of true valuation for Tiwtter. If anything Twitter is likely tradin
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by sakopov 5y ago
Russia's rotten downfall is impressive to watch. I'm Ukrainian/Armenian who grew up in Russia in the 80s, I had always assumed that the military would at least stay relevant when the economy isn't. It's just been th

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