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by traviswingo 8d ago
It’s not really a “loophole,” it’s a standard way to give away absurd sums of money. Have you ever tried to donate billions of dollars? It’s actually extremely difficult. You have to find causes you’re passionate about/things that soci
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by traviswingo 9d ago
This literally just happened to me for a storage unit we got to store a bunch of baby stuff while deciding if we’re going to have another kid. Started at $87/month for a 5x10 unit. Plenty of space, and I added a six-foot-tall shelving
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by traviswingo 16d ago
I’m not meaning to be abrasive here, but these comments are also getting old and tired. And it’s not even relevant to what’s actually on the site linked. Who cares if the site is LLM generated? Did you care before when you saw the same Word
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by traviswingo 18d ago
Reminds me of this video: https://youtu.be/4ZK8Z8hulFg?is=HpS4BWeDbVRsnBPI
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by traviswingo 19d ago
Copy -> paste -> redact secrets That flow would be considered unsafe, and probably common.
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by traviswingo 19d ago
I think it’s great that we’re discussing this more often as time goes on. This is not the first post I’ve read this month about this topic, and that’s a good sign. I also think it takes a certain level of intelligence to be able to _notice_
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by traviswingo 21d ago
I’ve long suspected it’ll take us _almost_ going extinct to actually take this stuff seriously. There are too few of us who understand asymmetric risk, and too many in power who are willing to roll the dice for the entire species for profit
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by traviswingo 21d ago
> The technique isn’t necessarily the right choice for every repository or developer, but is an alternative to explore.
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by traviswingo 1mo ago
Microsoft acquires GitHub and subsequently moves all infrastructure to Azure
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by traviswingo 1mo ago
GitHub is on Azure. Azure is notorious for being terrible. There was a post here recently from an ex-Azure engineer explaining all of this in a multi-part series. Edit: Found the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by traviswingo 2mo ago
I quit my job in September to co-found a disclosure editing, sharing, and reviewing platform for real estate professionals. https://docuview.ai We’re slowly positioning ourselves as the place where the majority of the transactio
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by traviswingo 4mo ago
I wonder how long it’ll take this thread to become a proxy of r/creatine.
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by traviswingo 5mo ago
I can’t prove it, but it feels like the world recently decided that spamming/scamming is acceptable, so the number of spammers/scammers has increased dramatically. The number of spam calls, texts, emails, iCloud account unlock req
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by traviswingo 6mo ago
Good eye. The ticker was using the observed rate of change over the two most recent data points, so it's actually biased towards the most recent inflation numbers. I've updated it to simply use the slope between the oldest (Januar
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by traviswingo 6mo ago
I think you're confusing "created a visualization because I thought it would be interesting" with "just learned about inflation." :)
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by traviswingo 6mo ago
Yeah, same here. Perhaps the Big Mac Index [0] is what you want. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index
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by traviswingo 6mo ago
Hey all. This was merely intended as a fun visualization of inflation over long periods of time, in a format that’s slightly easier to grok for most people. That’s it. There’s no further intention behind this, I just thought a real time “de
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USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000(onedollar.today)
79 points by traviswingo 6mo ago|77 comments
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Show HN: Real time purchasing power of $1 USD since 2000(onedollar.today)
5 points by traviswingo 6mo ago|1 comments
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by traviswingo 8mo ago
This reads like a Douglas Adams quote
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by traviswingo 2y ago
This literally made me lol. Not sure if it’s true. I might be true. But come on!
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by traviswingo 2y ago
Lol
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by traviswingo 2y ago
This reply cannot be understated. Those who are strong advocates for highly leveraged equity positions who use real estate to justify either have yet to experience a true market decline, or are simply really green to investing. If I could l
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by traviswingo 2y ago
I refuse to pay for this. I’m willing to wager it will be free within a reasonable amount of time.
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by traviswingo 2y ago
I picked up a car from a mechanic the other day and we got to riffing about my own Tesla. He admitted to having friends that worked at Tesla on the manufacturing line. In his own words, these guys are “complete idiots,” and “do shrooms befo
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CA insurance crisis: Thousands to lose coverage as two more insurers withdraw(sfchronicle.com)
43 points by traviswingo 2y ago|59 comments
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by traviswingo 2y ago
Not sure if you’re discrediting the parent comment or pointing out the reality of it. But yes this is something only someone with a high income would say. And yes, it’s true. Beyond a certain income, the wrong job can be soul sucking and de
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Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images(wsj.com)
305 points by traviswingo 2y ago|680 comments
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by traviswingo 2y ago
This sounds an awful lot like analysis paralysis to me. My recommendation: just launch. You probably won’t run into any of the problems you’re worried about and, if you do, you can just patch them up. As you launch more and spend more time
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Show HN: Send a Postcard with a Text Message(postcardbot.com)
7 points by traviswingo 3y ago|2 comments

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