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by systemvoltage 3y ago
Driving in general is. We can argue about specifics, you just made up 103 mph number but that's an acceptable speed on Autobahn. The core argument is: Do we want 0 deaths? If so, what is acceptable number of deaths? And I shed light on
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
Acceptable trade off. Driving and transportation are fundamental to economic growth. We should however enforce laws of speeding. Not through tyrannical measures like this though. You can’t say “I want a DIY culture” but also “it’s unlawful
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
I agree but the irony is strong here. Criticize dismissal of politicians and then proceed to do exactly just that.
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
We can put entire humanity's electronic items and plastic in a dump with minimal environmental impact. Focus on bigger ticket items. The elephants in the room.
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
Speak for yourself. I prefer a smaller phone with non replaceable battery. I don’t ever want to DIY my phone. I don’t care about repair. I’d prefer iPhone for this reason: it’s a highly optimized device from packaging standpoint and vertica
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
What if I am fine with this minimal amount of waste? All the greenwashing by Apple and other companies does not reflect the actual material damage of the environment. Just like recycling doesn’t always make sense and it is highly situationa
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
I think Cloudflare beats the price for most regular TLD. Nothing else comes close.
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
I remember last year’s zeitgeist that after 75% of the people are fired, Twitter will stop working. It works even better now. And they’ve added lots of features. Not a fan of the new branding, but I prefer free speech and community notes ov
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
Yeah this I’ve seen everywhere, but more related to the company size. In a 50 employee company, it’s hard to pull that off. As organizations get larger, you get this as inevitable part of human nature. If the salary table is flat, then high
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
I wonder if they offer equity. Hierarchies always form, they tried this with Gore Associates in Arizona (totally flat company structure) and has major problems.
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
Can you show us where exactly is OP’s comment indicative of a “celebration”? They’re simply citing examples.
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
If Garry Tan posted on HN, he'd be flagged. Every single tweet.
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
Pretty much all progressive policies of SF have been a total and utter disaster. While Asian countries adopt Capitalism, we're here nibbling our way into full blown communism–intermediary stage being socialism.
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
VAT is literally the reason for sluggish EU growth. 20% tax prempts many buyers from purchasing the good in the first place. We should do the exact opposite of VAT taxation.
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
I think you're talking about reseller exemption. Boeing or any other manufacturing company. For example, in the chain of iron ore -> steel -> pistons -> engine -> car: In USA, each of the middle steps get what is called a &
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
Like what? Can you point to such a resource?
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
It’s crazy that so many people are duped by a political slogan 40 years old and still going strong. SSE has both pros and cons. It’s far more nuanced than that.
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
What do you consider to be politically neutral?
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
No need to guess what happens, Native American reservations are some of the poorest, worst places in US for various metrics: https://ifstudies.org/blog/what-can-we-learn-from-native-ame...
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
It's cool that they have $$$ to spend on stuff like this. I think we should encourage it if it doesn't make their products worse. This thing is decoration. It's useless. And that's why it's fine.
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
You're pretty much spot on, I was addressing the trend and the rate of change, and a more general zeitgeist. Of course, the drumming of the state expansion that you see ad-nauseum on HN and elswhere. Anti-car culture. The kindness indu
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
Mostly, not absolute. We have flukes like Theranos and FTX. But for the most part. It's not a matter of opinion, the media and progressives have convinced themselves that we should abandon capitalism while Asian countries have adopted
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
Unpopular opinion: Wealthy individuals are inspiring and we should listen to what they have to say. They became wealthy by building stuff that millions if not billions of people value. May be you're forgetting this? Or is this just the
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
I don't know much about the internals of python (or compiler theory stuff), but it would be cool to productionize a script with types and make a static binary out of it. pypy/mypy and other projects are fine but they don't su
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
I fundamentally have issues with Raspberry Pi brand. It markets itself as a “open source” company but it is anything but. Sure you can get pcb files, but the real stuff is the binary blobs for qualcomm processors. None of that stuff is open
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
> has been to ignore it This is putting it very mildly.
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
It tells a lot about corporate culture that when this happens, we celebrate it. It should be the expectation, not celebration.
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
I presume this architecture would look very different today? With supabase, spanner, cloudflare, etc? When scaling, the database bit is the least clear to me. How do you create an "isolated" database per customer?
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
It also made air travel painful and more expensive. The overhead of TSA is not insignificant.
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by systemvoltage 3y ago
You can’t excuse your way out with “it’s different for different people”. Guess what? Literally all medicines are. That’s why we use scientific analysis and statistical measures. No shit, things affect people in different ways. That’s the w

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