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Fed Raises Rates as Warsh Bucks Trump to Contain Inflation(bloomberg.com)
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https://archive.today/Gxm5i
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> The minimum starting pay for full-time, core operations employees will now be $20 an hour, an increase of $1 an hour for qualifying workers, according to Amazon. The move bumps the company’s average hourly wage to almost $24 an hour. A
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How Did Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) Affect Software Developer Jobs?(docs.bswen.com)
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Interest rates are high by recent historical standards. Something does not need to be sustainable for the transition to be painful. FRED: Federal Funds Effective Rate (FEDFUNDS) - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/fe
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That was my intent, pull the thread.
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Nah, employers are holding wages down due to interest rates and the cost of money. AI is the excuse. Workers have no bargaining power for higher wages without a union, so they are powerless to demand higher wages unless they are in a unique
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I've contributed to building out data centers, as well as managed colos for others, primarily in downtown Chicago at Level3 and at 350 E Cermak. I am familiar with architecture required for reliability and diversity, from power and fib
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In my entire adult lifetime (mid 40s), my ISP has never been out for five days. Compare to Github, Microsoft, Salesforce, and AWS outages that are always occurring in some fashion. Reddit is down constantly in various ways and still continu
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Indeed, the scale Anon1096 refers to wrt distributed systems is anti pattern. It is designed to vacuum up revenue and create enterprise value with scale, not to create resiliency for customers (although resiliency might be a byproduct of a
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> I'm not a fan of Musk, but his driverless cars are already driving around in my city alongside Waymo. NHTSA orders Tesla to prove its Cybercab is legal to sell, under oath - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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LLMs make excellent people better and mediocre people confident, from first hand experience working with both and asking both cohorts to show me how they use them.
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https://archive.today/gXv8u https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Dillard https://web.archive.org/*/https://www.anniedillard.com/
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https://archive.today/4L2NN
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad,_Texas#Controversy
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Texas police dept ordered closed for failing to provide any community benefit(theguardian.com)
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Meta: How did you decide to author this RFC and what was it like bringing it through the process?
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Listen to the first seven minutes. https://pca.st/episode/f18bb602-e179-46e4-adc6-70bf6642725f
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No strong feelings here is what I meant. Certainly, that energy is best directed into aggressive countermeasures and defense in depth of public goods. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.
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California joins Indiana, Delaware, and Vermont in instituting healthcare price caps. https://www.marketplace.org/story/2026/09/09/how-new-healthc... https://nashp.org/state-tracker/
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Different contexts. It is cheap to build your own Let's Encrypt, it takes more time and effort for the world to decouple. Both can be true.
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https://www.npci.org.in/uploads/FA_Qs_Merchant_Discount_Rate...
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Examples provided as technical examples, strong feelings are out of scope for this thread.
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It is. They will most likely eventually need to move to a walled model for Wayback due to scraper aggressiveness (like Reddit deprecating anonymous old.reddit.com), or behind Cloudflare for aggressive bot and scraping protection. Hard to de
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Pulley is shutting down in December - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715530 - September 2026
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Feel free to review the resources provided to answer any further questions you might have.
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Why is it relevant? It doesn't matter, except to perhaps the US consumers who will have to pay billions of dollars more as ratepayers for coal generated power versus renewables over the remaining life of these generators. There is only
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China's coal use has fallen below 50%, and at their current low carbon deployment rates, renewables share of total electricity generated increases ~10%/year. They account for half of all solar deployed globally. They potentially r
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715530
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Please consider uploading to the Internet Archive as a collection.

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