twoodfin

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601.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
Probably stretching the cultural metaphor too far here, but Rust has much more of a “vanguard of the proletariat” vibe & appears susceptible to some of the problems inherent in that political mission.
602.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
This is some relatively neutral contemporary coverage of the Obama regulations: https://www.ttnews.com/articles/teamsters-call-obama-move-fo... The effect you describe of pushing independent drivers into (union?) corpo
603.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
I was on the crest of this wave—I actually taught myself Java and Scheme the summer before my freshman year @MIT—so I’m fairly certain that’s not quite right. The intro CS curriculum stayed on Scheme until it switched to Python something
604.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
Why? Doesn’t that suggest that demand justifies the “bubble”?
605.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
“Just”? As if there aren’t pension funds and 401(k)s and IRAs serving >100 million Americans via investment in public companies? “Open for the elite” how?
606.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
No one is allowed in the cockpit if there’s something wrong with them, so if you’re here, you must be fine. One of the all-time great seasons of television.
607.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
The government is now funding savings accounts for kids, with the financial education benefits a prime motivator. Dell’s contribution is explicitly piggybacking on the new federal accounts.
608.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
That’s not the kind of software I had in mind. I mean single large logical systems—databases being likely the largest and most common—that can’t meaningfully be distributed & are still growing in size and workload scale.
609.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
As opposed to waiting for uncertain court cases (based on the existing shitty laws) to play out for years, ultimately decided by unelected judges? Democracy is the worst system we’ve tried, except for all the others. (Also: The GPL can only
610.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
Ideally, Congress would just settle this basket of copyright concerns, as they explicitly have the power to do—and have done so repeatedly in the specific context of computers and software.
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by twoodfin 11mo ago
I’m guessing this is less about average latency / throughput tradeoffs and more about providing predictable performance (all else being equal) for both. Plenty of legacy software out there that a) will never be optimized for NUMA b) sc
612.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
That’s what I mean by condescending. I don’t need to be sold “one neat trick to show off in code reviews”. I actually wanted to learn something about async Python!
613.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
My New Year’s Resolution will be to give up complaining about this on hn, but for now: I find ChatGPT’s style and tone condescending and bland to the point of obfuscating whatever was unique, thoughtful and insightful in the original prompt
614.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
“Solving the Seinfeld Chinese restaurant problem”-aaS!
615.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
It’s ridiculously common. Airlines and hotels both charge you for the privilege, it’s not a moral failing to take them up on it!
616.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
Right! This is fundamentally the risk of being a broker: You think you will have X available for $Y, sell it, only to discover that X will cost you $Y + Z. Without that risk you’re not functioning as a broker and shouldn’t be rewarded as on
617.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
No, it’s extracting more money out of different people. Because they’re a more profitable target for investment than the former people.
618.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
OK so what’s the problem then? Surely if McDonald’s made their own decision to move up-market, competitors have swooped in to serve the customers they’re leaving behind?
619.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
Bribing an appraiser to get a larger deduction on a donation is cut-and-dried tax fraud. It’s not a “loophole”.
620.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
Sorry, I don’t understand your position. Income taxes are transfer taxes: The government takes a cut of money moving from a labor buyer to a labor seller. Not unlike excise taxes or tariffs, though we needed a Constitutional amendment for C
621.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
By “laying claim” you mean “holding a legally recognized title to the real estate”? That’s a property rights regime that applies to everyone. If you want to get rid of it you have to get rid of it for everyone, you can’t say “titles are no
622.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
You got it. The LVT doesn’t work unless it’s so high it can force Grandma out of the house she grew up in, the one she thought was built on “her” land in Alameda. It has to act like a market rent paid to the government, or it can’t induce t
623.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
Yes, there are lots of “loopholes” available if you are willing to commit tax fraud! But that’s something anyone can do, it’s not particularly harder to lie about the value of charitable donations if you’re not ultra-wealthy.
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by twoodfin 11mo ago
How would you differentiate that argument from similar arguments about other observable phenomena? As in… No one has ever seen or otherwise directly experienced the inside of a star, nor is likely to be able to do so in the foreseeable futu
625.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
Yes, they have progressively become a higher-margin business, which necessitates moving up market to consumers who will pay those margins.
626.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
Markets are the best mechanism ever invented to resolve that challenge to maximum aggregate benefit.
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by twoodfin 11mo ago
I’m trying to be illustrative through glibness here, but… If consumers can’t afford the prices required to pay a restaurant’s labor living wages, then perhaps they’re not viable customers of that restaurant. Minimum wages above the market-s
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by twoodfin 11mo ago
I find that framing difficult to apply to the last few big waves of technology: Mobile, broadband Internet telecommunications, personal computers, integrated circuits, … It seems glib, rather than insightful.
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by twoodfin 11mo ago
I would bet against this hypothesis. Perl exploded because it was the easiest, richest ecosystem available to plug into CGI and the web. PHP & Ruby & Python then collectively covered the same waterfront whether you wanted “easy” or
630.
by twoodfin 11mo ago
I am genuinely curious (albeit skeptical!) how anyone like Cloudflare could make that kind of feedback loop work at scale. Even only in CF’s “critical path” there must be dozens of interconnected services and systems. How do you close the

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