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by spir 8y ago
Obligatory blackmail scene from the Dark Knight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z6o1GIEsQE
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Tell HN: The best business book Trump didn't actually write
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Ask HN: Gmail Equivalent for Inbox Reminder Shortcut on Android?
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by spir 8y ago
This link compares search volume for Scala, Rust, and Kotlin for past 12 months in U.S. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F091... (Scala wins by a large margin!) Awhile ago I chose Scala for a
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by spir 8y ago
Netflix is excellent value for me. Amazing original shows: Stranger Things, Ozark, Bodyguard, Bird box, Maniac, Narcos.
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by spir 8y ago
From a fundamentals perspective, blockchain has a bright future: lending - https://dharma.io derivatives - https://dydx.exchange forecasting/gambling - https://www.augur.net on-chain "US dollars
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by spir 8y ago
I think that in a general macro downturn, cryptocurrencies fall further than other asset classes: In a macro downturn, cash becomes more valuable, and, ceteris paribus, this decreases the cash price of all assets, including crypto. The popu
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by spir 8y ago
I am someone who spends a great deal of my time reading about blockchain and attempting to separate hype from fundamentals. There is a growing body of nuanced evidence that it's not the case that "it is scams on top of scams"
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Ask HN: [from a16z article] Why are Chinese business models more sophisticated?
14 points by spir 8y ago|13 comments
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by spir 8y ago
Came here to say this. 15 years of Steam monopoly is coming to, well not an end, but a transition point. Great news for game devs!
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by spir 8y ago
Good call. I love TypeScript, and wouldn't build a web app of even small scope without a typing solution at least as good as TypeScript, and it's the best. But, as you say, pattern matching sum types is a weak point in practical u
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by spir 8y ago
Augur (with their REP token) is a decentralized Oracle, with two caveats: 1. the price feed used by Augur for USD/REP is currency centralized, but will become decentralized in v2. 2. Augur v2 will use the DAI stablecoin, so that market
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by spir 8y ago
Perhaps you will still enjoy Squadron 42, Star Citizen's single player campaign that's an on-ramp to the MMO.
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by spir 8y ago
I think the core lesson of this article isn't whether the author's right or I'm right (below), but rather that a lack of rigor and specificity should set off alarm bells in our head and evoke the questions "how does he k
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Big Tech Companies Will Drive Web3 Adoption(medium.com)
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by spir 8y ago
This article seems to use the terms "unemployed" and "jobless" interchangeably. People who stop searching for jobs (eg. due to despondence or poor health) are excluded from the official unemployment rate, yet they are jo
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by spir 8y ago
> “The economy is already at full employment.” On a recent EconTalk[1], Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard, said, in their recent sample, 11.9% of U.S. men aged 25-55 have been jobless for over 1
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by spir 8y ago
A great bargaining chip for unskilled workers would be the viable alternative of unemployment backed by universal health care and basic income. EDIT: this idea is in the article: More radical ideas like a universal basic income—a welfare p
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by spir 8y ago
In my house, there is a design flaw in Alexa which encourages this failure mode: there is a single volume level for the system, instead of separate volume levels for Alexa voice vs. music/application audio. I keep my Alexa's volum
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by spir 9y ago
"Euvoluntary exchange" is one of the most important ideas of our time. I think an understanding of euvoluntary exchange motivates one to focus on the root cause of a worker having poor alternatives, and not the perceived injustice
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by spir 9y ago
This econtalk episode featured an interesting comparison between US rural poverty and 3rd world countries. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/10/chris_arnade_on.htm...
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by spir 9y ago
I wonder if these naysayers realize that their modern lives stand on the shoulders of giants like Musk, and that Musk's predecessors had to deal with the naysayers' predecessors. Reminds me of the "Are we the Baddies?" s
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by spir 9y ago
Congrats! Looking forward to being a customer.
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by spir 10y ago
3 employees, wow! Sounds like it would have taken 300 employees twenty years ago. Reads like an advertisement for basic income.
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by spir 10y ago
Beautiful post, thank you.
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by spir 10y ago
Why did this disappear off the front page so quickly? It has 934 points and is 4 hours old. Do stories have a customizable weight? Did this one start at the top, like the YC recruiting posts?
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by spir 10y ago
A real pleasure to watch, great job!
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by spir 10y ago
At Amazon years ago, a director once told me "SDE3s are very happy, SDE1s are just happy to be here, and every SDE2 thinks he should be a SDE3."
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by spir 10y ago
Thinking back to the fellow who gave all of his employees a raise to $70K, parts of that ended up going badly for him. As a thought experiment, I wonder what might go well or poorly in this case? The publicity is great. Employee loyalty fro
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by spir 11y ago
Very surprised to see no other comments related to Vive. Search and you'll find rave reviews of the Vive, which apparently launches this Christmas, and made the incredible decision to natively support full-room (15x15 feet) virtual rea

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