adamc

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by adamc 1mo ago
I think you have to distinguish what the author can imagine and what the audience could likely accept. Part of writing stories is engaging the readers, who have biases of their own.
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by adamc 1mo ago
No. The past year has substantially nudged things in the other direction.
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by adamc 8mo ago
Ignores the totally exceptional nature of some of the US changes/instabilities of this administration. I say "not true" because that is my read of where things are going, regardless of preferences.
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by adamc 8mo ago
Not really relevant to why there is de-dollarization. And I am not a Trump fan.
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by adamc 8mo ago
Suffers from no government having a stake in it. If it causes them problems, it can easily become illegal.
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by adamc 8mo ago
Probably a mix of things, including commodities like gold.
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by adamc 8mo ago
Not true. Some, like myself, love the idea of the shining city on the hill, although we often find the behavior of the actual city less than shining. I would like for the US to continue being a beacon of freedom where people can come and
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by adamc 8mo ago
In many ways, this is the real problem.
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by adamc 8mo ago
I read it as side-stepping Hacker News' tendency to kill comments that get into politics.
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by adamc 8mo ago
The shutdown goes far beyond TV news-style topics. But whether by design or by fiat, Hacker News is no longer a place for intelligent discussion.
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by adamc 8mo ago
This is where MAGA leads. I'm gradually tuning out Hacker News, because it persistently tries to ignore the politics that are destroying the United States and freedom of enquiry. There is a dead comment below that tries to raise an arg
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by adamc 8mo ago
I think you are criticizing an idea for not being a study. I think it's a reasonable and interesting idea, but at most it is something to consider, not some infallible axiom. More akin to "the Peter Principle" than a theorem.
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by adamc 8mo ago
Sure, in all cases, acquiring knowledge of what the (potential) customers want is difficult. The point of the article is that vendors of layer N tend to think they know what it takes to succeed at layer N+1, but they don't, because tha
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by adamc 9mo ago
This. Actually, I would buy a cheap guitar (but not from Amazon), say $400-500, for a purpose like having one to place when visiting relatives at Christmas. But I wouldn't buy a nice guitar without inspecting and playing it.
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by adamc 9mo ago
I would think the sensitivity to this would depend a lot on family size. Shopping for just myself... it doesn't matter much. Shopping for a family of 4 would be very different.
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by adamc 9mo ago
In my experience, it varies. Amazon is competitive (usually) on high-volume stuff, but can be wildly overpriced in other cases.
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by adamc 9mo ago
I buy from Amazon: 1) When I really need it within a couple of days and can't quickly find it locally 2) When it isn't carried locally (the local retail stock is a lot thinner than 20 years ago) 3) If there is a BIG price
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by adamc 9mo ago
I dislike Home Depot's politics so much that I make a point of never going there. In general, I prefer buying local, because it makes my community healthier -- more jobs, directly and indirectly, more options to buy something this aft
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by adamc 9mo ago
Many of us enjoy shopping, at least enough that what we would pay for it isn't much of a deal.
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by adamc 9mo ago
I don't think that works either. I'm not a meal planner, but I will usually just make do with food I've already bought. Nothing appeals? I might eat cheese toast or yogurt.
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by adamc 9mo ago
Not a European, but this rings true for me in the US. I'll go out and get something, in part, because it is less lonely and feels more attached to life, to the world. Endless deliveries actually make that worse. I started buying more t
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by adamc 10mo ago
Thanks to both of you. That seems valuable.
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by adamc 10mo ago
There appears to be a lot of noise in the Tiobe already. What does it mean if Visual Basic is shooting up and C is near the top? They are surely in no way measuring the same programming market -- so who cares?
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by adamc 1y ago
The difference, at least in languages like Java or Python, is that there is a pretty strong "standard" library that ships with the language, and which one can assume will be kept up-to-date. It is very hard to assume that for NPM
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by adamc 1y ago
Yes, that party has gone over to the dark side. That doesn't mean the majority of their voters necessarily agree with that.
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by adamc 1y ago
Technologists who work on this are evil.
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by adamc 1y ago
"You can often pick up a paper for free when boarding a flight." I have literally never seen this. In the US?
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by adamc 1y ago
Would depend on market pressures, no?
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by adamc 1y ago
Very cool, although I have some reservations about "... closest vector problem is believed to be NP-hard and even quantum-resistant". "Believed to be" is kind of different from "known to be".
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by adamc 1y ago
Interesting. My great nieces have Lenovos (Windows) that they use for school work and light gaming. They'd like better gaming laptops, but don't have them.

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