thrwy_ywrht

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by thrwy_ywrht 4y ago
It's also silly to discount the value of non-liquid equity to zero, unless you think there is literally zero chance of experiencing a liquidity event.
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by thrwy_ywrht 4y ago
> some female prisoners in Washington state wanted to know how many male prisoners had been transferred to women's prisons This is such an incredibly bad-faith and transphobic representation of the case that I can only conclude you
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by thrwy_ywrht 4y ago
> people who are just plain nuts Are you suggesting that it's "plain nuts" to be against private ownership of land?
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by thrwy_ywrht 4y ago
> It's no different than evangelicals who try to impose their morality on everyone else Are you trying to suggest that there aren't certain words it's inappropriate to use in certain types of writing?
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by thrwy_ywrht 4y ago
> Could a better thought out measure achieve the same goals? How would you do it? It's a problem that needs to be solved on the supply side. Trying to solve it on the demand side is like trying to damn a river with a sieve.
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by thrwy_ywrht 4y ago
>With the current plan, the city is going to be a city with super high density combined with ultra low density and very little in-between. In other words, it will be full of wonderful enclaves for the wealthy, and sardine-can housing for
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by thrwy_ywrht 4y ago
This comment is indistinguishable from satire.
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by thrwy_ywrht 4y ago
>The fact that you can take out a loan You can take out a loan in crypto that's fully secured against some other crypto. It's turtles all the way down, and has zero relevance to what most people think about when they talk about
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
I know HN is not the place for glibness, but literally: just build more homes. Everything else is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Zoning reform is the answer.
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
>In many countries, including Europe, new properties are quickly snatched by investment Demand for housing is not infinite, and supply of capital is not infinite. Building more units will always help. The quantity of units which are boug
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
>If someone clicks your ad and buys the product during that session, you know the ad worked This is not as clear as you make it seem. Let's say there's a hypothetical product that a consumer only buys once every 5 years. If som
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
>How about I make an app that encourages users to snap pictures of people in public (totally legal) who are eating a big mac? You eating a big mac isn't a threat to me, my family or my friends. This attempt to portray all speeding a
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
>anything which normalises surveillance by citizens on citizens is a death spiral for society FWIW, speeding causes actual deaths of members of society But I don't think this is the solution. The solution is better road design (ro
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
>It's going to hurt even more to find out they really don't enjoy your company as much as you thought they did This is the crux of the issue. There are many people who often feel like cancelling on plans, but it is absolutely
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
>The point of the article is that it's babyish to be so fragile that a friend cancelling plans causes you great pain, or so guilt-ridden that you can't bring yourself to cancel. My reading of the scenario is not that the person
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
I find it a bit strange that the author leads with the example of wanting to "blind cancel", and then suggests that maturity and communication is the real answer to that scenario. People sometimes seem to imply that if we could ju
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
>Around these parts, these new housing units are insanely expensive. So long as the total number of units increases, it really doesn't matter how much they cost, so long as they get filled. Increased supply will bring down rents at
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
Rent controlled apartments are great for people who live in them. They are less good for everyone else.
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
>The "drunk driver returning home from the bar" problem has been solved. It's called a taxi. No need for defective self driving cars for that case. This is just wishful thinking. This is a description of what people should
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
On the other hand, using ever-increasing specificity to emulate !important is about as elegant and semantic as using the hypothetical properties !importanter, !importanterer and !importantererer
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
>Questioning the existence of supernatural powers is considered taboo in much of Nigerian society. >To be openly expressing such thoughts, as Mr Adewoyin was doing in a market, was risky. He could just as easily be arrested for blasph
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
Bugs caused by faulty equivalency-related code have been common for a long, long time in React development. I couldn't guess how many bugs related to object destructuring I wrote, and fixed, long before hooks existed (although I can co
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
>The FED ruined young peoples ability to afford a home. House prices have certainly risen substantially in the last few years [1]. But if the FED is to blame, why has the same thing happened in the UK [2], Germany [3] and Australia [4] ?
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
>But know that after a few years your skills will be out of date and you will have a hard time keeping up with the field This totally depends on what type of engineer you want to be. It's quite possible to be very successful, have a
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
Many/most hot water bottles have a knitted fabric cover. When the heat runs out (which takes many hours), you are not in direct contact with the rubber/plastic body of the water bottle, so there is no sensation of cold or clammine
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
Hot water bottles are very popular in the UK for three main reasons that don't really translate to the US: * Every household has an electric kettle * Kettles boil very quickly (due to power differences) * Most households have radiator-
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
Every hot water bottle tells you not to use boiling water in it, but at the same time everyone I know who regularly uses hot water bottles uses boiling water from an electric kettle.
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
https://www.boredbutton.com/ is one pretty high-traffic example
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
Haha thank you for the nice memory! I've been running the site for 8 years, it's crazy that it's been that long
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by thrwy_ywrht 5y ago
> I'm curious about how much work goes into recording high-quality, looping sounds like this? When I started the site, I mainly used CC0 licensed sounds others had recorded. Then I started recording my own sounds. How much work it i

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