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by vitaflo 4y ago
My wife has a similar story. She had a decent dentist for a while but after a botched crown install she was dissatisfied with the response and started looking for a new dentist. Found one that had a nice modern practice. New dentist said
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by vitaflo 4y ago
My father worked for 35 years as a carpenter on mega yachts for insanely rich people. Yes it put food on our table in a rural area otherwise devoid of job opportunities. Rich people spending their money isn’t really the problem. It helped p
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by vitaflo 4y ago
This is how I read it too. That a fast learners skill is degraded in a field that is constantly reset (software dev) vs one where you can stack knowledge. And thus the fast learners will eventually leave the software field and transition to
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by vitaflo 4y ago
Because you are able to build and modify radios as a ham, many do and charge for said hardware. This just spilled over into software where people feel they should be paid for the work they’ve done just like the hardware folks. And since a l
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by vitaflo 4y ago
Any items that have memories attached, I take a photo of, then throw them out. The photo will give the same memories, but not take up the space.
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by vitaflo 4y ago
There is nothing about blockchains that requires them to be decentralized, trustless or permissionless. This is a common misunderstanding of blockchains.
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by vitaflo 4y ago
If COVID killed 7 year olds at the same rate as 77 year olds the response here would have likely been much different.
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by vitaflo 5y ago
Ditch the RPi4 emu idea and get a Mister FPGA. It’s wonderful for retro computers as well and arcade and console games.
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by vitaflo 5y ago
My wife is a star seller on Etsy and it hasn’t been hard for her to maintain at all (and she’s never asked for ratings). But she’s also never had even a negative comment made about her product after thousands of sales. I wonder if some pro
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by vitaflo 5y ago
You're missing one of the key points of the OP's post, deflation. With fiat currencies, small inflation is a feature not a bug. If goods cost more tomorrow than they do today, it promotes purchasing today not tomorrow. If the e
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by vitaflo 5y ago
This feels a little strange since Rocky Mountain Lab is in Hamilton, MT which I think many people would consider in the "middle of nowhere".
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by vitaflo 5y ago
I had my clock radio set to MPR as well and woke up to them talking about the first plane. Usually the news every morning didn’t register but that day it did. I turned on the TV to see what was going on, which I usually don’t do. After a co
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by vitaflo 5y ago
Yup the design scene around the turn of the century was a magical time. Really happy to have been a part of it. Wish it still existed but we went from being punk 20 year olds trying to prove ourselves to middle aged adults with families and
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by vitaflo 5y ago
It says right in the article it applies to HN.
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by vitaflo 5y ago
Agreed. They also do some black magic where even with my mic wide open it won’t pick up things I don’t want it to. I could eat potato chips right into the mic and it won’t turn the mic on, but as soon as I speak it does. The vox in discord
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by vitaflo 5y ago
Hell, Honda put ALL the knobs, buttons and switches back into the new Civic. They've done a 180 on car controls because they realized everything being touch was bad.
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by vitaflo 5y ago
>Even Model 3 has a physical hazard light switch. That's because a physical hazard light switch is required by law.
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by vitaflo 5y ago
Rural communities don't need to be walkable. I would regularly bike 5+ miles to visit my friends in our rural area (all farm country) and did so about as soon as I learned to ride a bike (6 or 7 years old). Kids biking wherever they w
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by vitaflo 5y ago
We live in an age where it’s easier than ever to socialize. Lincoln, the town in this article has a population of 1.2k. I grew up in the rural Midwest in a town of 800 before the internet was a thing. I had plenty of opportunities for socia
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by vitaflo 5y ago
Deflation of actual currency is worse as it promotes hoarding. If something becomes cheaper tomorrow than today (deflation) then I am incentivized to not spend my currency. This grinds the gears of economic activity. Of course this only ma
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by vitaflo 5y ago
Grantham’s track record is hilariously poor. He’s basically been saying the bubble is going to pop for the past 10 years. Eventually he’ll be right.
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by vitaflo 5y ago
I’ve been a dev for over 20 years and have never had to do leetcode to get a job. You either find a place that doesn’t require it (more places than you think) or rely on your network to get jobs (which is probably what OP is referring to).
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by vitaflo 5y ago
You are forgetting the dozen other computers you are routing your request through in order to get to that walled garden, any one of which if it went down would route to a different computer so you could always get to that walled garden. Tha
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by vitaflo 5y ago
Share buybacks also create value and have been on the rise.
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by vitaflo 5y ago
Don’t forget share buybacks, which have become more popular as of late. Dell being the prime example in the tech industry by leveraged buyout and making it private.
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by vitaflo 5y ago
Yeah it’s starting to sound a lot like “this is the year of Linux on the desktop” to me. We’re always one year away.
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by vitaflo 5y ago
Many moons ago a friend of mine came up with an idea called "Experimonth". Where you would pick something you want to do, and do it for an entire month. Something like wake up at 4am or not eat any meat, etc. I've done many
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by vitaflo 5y ago
I have yet to hear what “progress” encryption enables that operating via and open protocol doesn’t.
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by vitaflo 5y ago
Great write up. Took the words out of my mouth.
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by vitaflo 5y ago
Not to mention in casual conversation when talking about the M1 Max and people think you’re talking about the more general “M1 Macs”.

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