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by villasv 6y ago
Interfering with the hydrologic cycle can impact soil quality and may result in bunch of biome effects. It can also have good effects instead of bad effects, though. It really depends on the local dynamics.
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by villasv 6y ago
Vertical Farming saves space at the expense of electricity. I think the argument against them has to be along the lines of this trade-off >>possibly<< being a net negative for the environment. No one cares if the net result is u
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by villasv 6y ago
Nice straw-man. Keep HN being HN, two thumbs up.
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by villasv 6y ago
I’ve always said this to our CTO. If we were going to use AWS, we should go all in. Once we stopped trying too hard to avoid lock in, we stopped halfassing our architecture.
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by villasv 6y ago
By chance, I had a sequence of professors that didn't care about category at all. As consequence, I went through the entirety of my Applied Mathematics Msc without ever, not even once using the bits of category theory I learned as unde
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by villasv 6y ago
Meanwhile, other products like Notion are getting traction exactly because they promise to be all that and more.
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by villasv 6y ago
> Computers (other than smart phones) That is, the minority of currently owned computing devices.
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by villasv 6y ago
> Sending simple wires in the US takes hours. Joke is on you, though. Even Brazil now has instant wires (zero fees).
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by villasv 6y ago
This is a suggestion from someone from the FTC, not a study. It would be nicer to have data instead of opinion. For instance, PC games have microtransactions too. Many top-toxic companies are are mostly in the PC ecosystem and don’t have to
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by villasv 6y ago
> In hindsight, I just didn't enjoy writing code for money. This is the almost inevitable path of those who started their career thinking: how lucky am I that my hobby coincides with a well paying job.
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by villasv 6y ago
Game quality was not the point though, games are great. OP is talking about quality of life as a developer.
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by villasv 6y ago
And the evidence for that diagnostics is...? Got any reference that links margin to company culture? The few people I know from the mobile gaming industry tell me the margins are insanely high. They’d spend x on ads and get back 2~5x in mic
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by villasv 6y ago
There are so many ways protect assets from inflation.
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by villasv 6y ago
If by amusing you mean reducing battery life / beefing my electricity bill while giving the impression of “generating” money. Miss me with this new kind of planned obsolescence.
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by villasv 6y ago
Exactly. Product fit, not just being free.
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by villasv 6y ago
> Personally I trust developers more than marketing people, and I generally have a bit of disdain for marketing folks. They market their trade as exposing the right product to the right audience, but usually what it amounts to in substan
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by villasv 6y ago
And why did you choose Google Docs over LibreOffice or OpenOffice or something else also free? Not because the product was better?
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by villasv 6y ago
Ultimately this comes down to Mr. Musk stomping his feet until his personal vision starts being called "strategic" by Tesla C-level.
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by villasv 6y ago
Whatever the bull case is, we're approaching 15 years of it not coming to fruition. Makes you think if the time for a reality check isn't due.
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by villasv 6y ago
Starship is so good, I’m finally back from zsh do bash without having to roll my own oh-my-zsh replacements.
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by villasv 6y ago
I thought of ADRs too, but it seems the objective here is to be a bit more high level. It doesn’t help that the term “architecture” is so wide in meaning. I’ve adopted ADRs and it has been good for decision making, but it doesn’t help much
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by villasv 6y ago
Maracujá is its name in Brazil and coincidentally, is said to have “calming” properties. We have a saying here that passion fruit juice will make you relax - or sleep if you’re already relaxed. Not sure if there’s scientific basis for this
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by villasv 6y ago
Both, I guess, because they're correlated. Certainly culture plays a big part. The USSR days were intense for science and nationalism. I guess those books were just another reflex of the space race mentality that stuck for a while. I d
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by villasv 6y ago
They really are rubbish pedagogically. I remember me trying to grasp physics from Mir (the Soviet publisher) but the book was basically a compendium of hard as hell exercises with barely any explanation. Had a much better time with Tipler’s
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by villasv 6y ago
> making things cheaper improves the situation for everyone, especially the poor [...] is absent from the public debate. > When was the last time a major politician said something a long the lines of I can only answer considering Braz
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by villasv 6y ago
There's evidence of funds hedging against the squeeze actually happening, as seen by the millions in contracts aiming at 800. The short vs free float ratio is still said to be above 100% so shorting even more now is probably not a good
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by villasv 6y ago
TLDR > The trickle-down theory is all but dead, but there is more to the supply side of the economy than taxes. Thousands of government decisions affect real output and economic productivity. A new supply-side economics would recognize t
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by villasv 6y ago
> When you pour energy into a passion, you develop an expertise and an expertise of any kind is valuable I don't disagree with the overall spirit, but these Paul Graham aphorisms always turn me off. > To satisfy my mathematically
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by villasv 6y ago
> they will cave to mob rule just like the rest Would they? Microsoft is still serving ICE, despite all the "grilling".
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by villasv 6y ago
App stores exist on mobile because they're good business for who controls them. They need moderation because stores comes with policies.

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