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by spir 3y ago
For one thing, he wrote a picture book of his principles, and I think it's terrific https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Success-Ray-Dalio/dp/19821...
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by spir 3y ago
I admire Ray Dalio's principles and his effort to promote public education around his principles and macroeconomics. If more rich successful people tried help educate the public the way Ray does, the world would be a better place.
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by spir 3y ago
Pete Davidson joked that depression is a rich person's condition because it implies you have a life you shouldn't be depressed about. Same with software engineers?
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by spir 3y ago
I appreciate it, but long-lived branches aren't the problem here. Let's say you're working on dev, you add two commits, and now you want to merge these to main. Most people don't know that GitHub has no PR merge method t
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Tell HN: Linear history is broken when using GitHub PRs
2 points by spir 3y ago|2 comments
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by spir 3y ago
I was hoping somebody would chime in on the sustainability of helium for airships. I'm a total amateur here. Is there no hope of finding a new source of helium? Is there any opportunity for airship gasses that are reasonably competitiv
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by spir 3y ago
Thanks, this is great.
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by spir 3y ago
For sure. Crypto people hate Sam. A lot of crypto people knew he was unscrupulous and opposed him before FTX blew up. There were a lot of signs he was a bad person and the effective altruism thing was B.S. But, pretty much nobody in crypto
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by spir 3y ago
Is the reality of their dire straits really so clear? And the connection of those dire straits to CEO compensation?
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by spir 3y ago
I was hoping somebody would pick up what I was trying to put down, which is that there's a fuzzy spectrum between silly examples and a self-evident duty of care between employers and employees.
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by spir 3y ago
It seems that Western society is divided over the question as to whether or not employers have some broader duty of care to their employees beyond the economic arrangement of employment. If the CEO of a factory had to sell half their mainte
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by spir 3y ago
You only perceive corporate landlords as the greater problem because we're not living in the counterfactual reality where there are millions of new apartments that are inexpensive, tiny, safe, quiet, modern, clean, dignified, and well-
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by spir 3y ago
One year ago, Ethereum completed the "merge" and successfully transitioned from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake. At the time of the merge, the most economically productive use for graphics cards was to mine Ethereum. The merge cau
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Ethereum would have consumed 0.2% of global electricity this year(twitter.com)
1 points by spir 3y ago|1 comments
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by spir 3y ago
Payment systems like Central Bank Digital Currencies, FedNow, India's UPI, or ISO20022 won't be able to compete with the broad and deep benefits offered by public blockchains. For example, using Ethereum L2s or other public chains
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by spir 3y ago
If you end up being wrong, and crypto becomes a globally ubiquitous economic backbone, how will you rationalize having been incorrect in your present view? You're a long-term hacker news community member. Like all of us, you pride your
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by spir 3y ago
np thanks for the response! It's always been this way. If you might know somebody at GitHub, maybe they could take a look at the linked feature request?
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by spir 3y ago
Pardon me, but I believe you misunderstand how GitHub has implemented "Rebase and Merge". In this case, github will generate new commit IDs even when the rebase is a no-op. As far as I know, it's impossible to merge a GitHub
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How can we get GitHub to support fast-forward-only merges for PRs?(github.com)
4 points by spir 3y ago|5 comments
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by spir 3y ago
GitHub is nearly 15 years old, and there is still no way for a pull request merge to be fast-forward-only (linear history) AND preserve the same commits as pull request source branch. Today, if you want to preserve commits in your developme
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by spir 3y ago
We'll never turn permanently away from crypto because the underlying technology and networks are a revolutionary improvement.
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by spir 3y ago
Criticize crypto however you like. Much or all of it is justified. But, don't make the mistake of believing that crypto is a nothingburger. Crypto tech, including stablecoins and NFTs, will eat the economic world.
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by spir 3y ago
Last week, the Federal Reserve issued an important update on twitter. So no, I don't think twitter is worried about losing NPR. Twitter has the strongest network effects of any contemporary social network.
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by spir 4y ago
People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Programmatic Decentralized Public Chains (aka Crypto)
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by spir 4y ago
HN community member response: Given that Ethereum launched in July 2015 and prior to that, no programmatic blockchain existed, on what basis did you select your parameter of 7.75 years as the amount of time necessary to elapse before we&#x2
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by spir 4y ago
cheers, and thank you!
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Warn HN: I've never seen the HN community so delusional about a major tech area
5 points by spir 4y ago|16 comments
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by spir 4y ago
The reason this is not true is because the best stablecoins, like American-run USDC, have excellent transparency and are backed 1:1 in cash and short-duration treasuries, with no fractional reserve system. https://www.circle.com&
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by spir 4y ago
Over the weekend, before an FDIC settlement was announced, uninsured SVB deposits were reportedly trading between $0.75 and $0.90 among private sellers. In other words, both USDC and uninsured SVB deposits had the same market response over
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Trad Fi vs. Bitcoin vs. Ethereum: comparison of product features(pbs.twimg.com)
1 points by spir 4y ago|0 comments

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