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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
Sure there may be some exceptions. That's why I said "generally".
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
If you have a zero revenue business you generally shouldn't write tests. Just add some health checks for backend services and use strongly typed code for everything.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
Did he forget Minecraft? It was made by a solo developer. He's now a billionaire from it and bought one of the most expensive homes in LA.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
Even with nomads, they had territory they could live in or not live in, based on the existence of other tribes. I was clumping that in with real estate. Even animals do this (for example wolves). And obviously in the feudal system land was
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
For countless millennia, humans didn't need anything more except food, some very basic tools, a place to live, and other humans. You could argue that everything since then is layers and layers of bullshit. Bitcoin is just another one.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
It definitely has utility but it is at the same time overhyped IMO. Some examples of utility: 1. Cross-border transfers without needing permission from banks or identification 2. A fungible digital asset you can hoard and nobody can physica
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
The entire economy outside of agriculture and real estate is basically "bullshit", if you really think about it. The ratio of bullshit to everything else seems to increase over time, though, as a general trend. It's probably
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
I remember when people used to first talk about Bitcoin on HN back in early 2011 or so. The price was only $2 then. Congrats to anyone who had some and held onto it this long - personally I sold off mine in 2015 (big mistake in hindsight).
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
Incidentally I noticed in India most fast food shops have enough spare workers to clean tables for you. So you don't have to clean your own table.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
One of the reasons Communism failed was because of incentives. People were not rewarded with more compensation for working harder.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
What do you mean exactly? Literally every job that exists in the private sector is created by a company, and companies are created by shareholders.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
The original shareholders created the company. Without them there wouldn't be jobs. The newer shareholders provided liquidity to the original shareholders. Their benefit to society was helping to incentivize the people who created the
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
Do you consider $450k a lot for a house? That would hardly get you a shack in the Boston area.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
Air pollution and CO2 emissions are different things. One causes cancer and heart issues, the other causes global warming. Large amounts of particulate in the air (for example from a volcano) would probably cause global cooling since it blo
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
Standard of living and human development index is a better metric to measure how well a society is doing than money.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
It just means they like raylib and Zerl and used them.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
CouchDB/PouchDB has very clunky auth so IMO it's better to roll your own auth and either use a reverse proxy with a JWT or else hide the DB behind an API service.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
There are near-infinite things they could name their software, but instead they copied an existing name of another software project. Quite insufferable if you ask me.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
Were centuries-old fictional characters software projects?
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
TypeScript is good for this kind of a thing if you're only running it on your own machines and don't have to mess around with environments all the time. You can also run it with ts-node.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
Exactly, plus there's no compiler or type safety.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
Not trying to offend anyone here but I think shell scripts are the wrong solution for anything over ~50 lines of code. Use a better programming language. Go, Typescript, Rust, Python, and even Perl come to mind.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
It's easier to finish if your goal is to make money - then you are forced to make your customers happy and finish things. If the rewards are nebulous, then so will the motivation to complete anything.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
I guess it's too much work to write articles all the time?
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
Telling someone "you should learn..." is patronizing and can lead to blocking a good portion of the time.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
Mining, airdrops, or minting your own
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
Now check a map of air pollution in South Asia for comparison. Maybe it's a reason India does so badly in the Olympics.
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
It’s not exploiting if they voluntarily do it. The default state of humanity for thousands of years has been a lot of people living in mud houses and working all day to do subsistence farming and tending to livestock. Doesn’t sound like a g
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by xyzzy4747 2y ago
People claim to hate Google but they don't want to use other search engines - Google has above 90% market share despite other options being a click away.

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