claydavisss

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by claydavisss 6y ago
If you think Trump and/or his army treats this as a defeat, think again. Once Biden is in office, social media companies will become rubber stamps for the establishment or be faced with breakup. You wanted one-party rule...you're
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by claydavisss 6y ago
600 have already been delivered. Covid caused a disruption in final certification, that's it. The F35 isn't being cancelled, although I predict most comments here will devolve into a debate of the plane's merits. The US and m
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by claydavisss 6y ago
Increasingly, single family detached homes in the interior of SF are owned by the very wealthy who can remain in the city to shape policy over the long term, while renters come and go. So don't expect anyone at City Hall to swing a wre
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by claydavisss 6y ago
Oh come on, HN. Plenty of people love using Facebook. Despite what you might think, it isn't a giant global Nuremburg Rally. I don't personally have an account but everyone in my family does and their feeds are dominated by entire
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by claydavisss 6y ago
ugh, no programmer is making $700k a MONTH from programming alone
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by claydavisss 6y ago
HN really needs an AMA on this so people stop repeating these false claims
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by claydavisss 6y ago
Times change. At least in Austin (where most of the tech people go), the prevailing political viewpoints are pure coastal-envy liberal
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by claydavisss 6y ago
The UI is the primary management interface, log search interface, and in certain cases, analytics interface.
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by claydavisss 6y ago
an OS Google can control. Open source just like Go is open source - you are free to download and use it, but Google controls it.
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by claydavisss 6y ago
The grinding sound is the pump trying to evacuate water. Your outbound filter is clogged. Look to the bottom left of the front of the unit, open the little door. Watch some Youtube videos on how to clean it. Agree with others that Samsung a
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by claydavisss 6y ago
I think you'll be interested in Simon De Montfort, although not technically a king. His image is enshrined on the ceiling at the Capitol in Washington
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by claydavisss 6y ago
For 98% of Californians, "muh fifth largest economy" has actually been a profound net-negative. I'm amazed people who pay $3k/month to rent to one-bedroom apt still trot this out as a brag point. "Fifth largest econ
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by claydavisss 6y ago
A Jew sat down with Nazis to see what made them tick. This book could not be written in 2020.
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by claydavisss 6y ago
owning your home > promotion
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by claydavisss 6y ago
There are "real" companies using Perl presently...Booking and DuckDuckGo and others. Looking at Redmonk, Tiobe, other surveys...Perl isn't at the top of the heap by any measure but it also stubbornly refuses to die. I write P
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by claydavisss 6y ago
The Fed Digital Dollar will be a purchasing instrument that exists only in an app or website. They will be added and subtracted as the government sees fit. If, for example, the government should want to spike consumer spending, they need on
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by claydavisss 6y ago
A "ban" on gold would only achieve multiplying the spot price by ten overnight. It would be the final signal that fiat currencies should be avoided at all costs.
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by claydavisss 6y ago
In Los Gatos, some homeowners were denied a few years back and Senator Feinsteinn threw a fit, so the insurance cos relented.
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by claydavisss 6y ago
Almaden has been there since the 1800s. Lexington wasn't always just a reservoir, it was also once a town, going back to the 1800s as well. Hard to call them "irresponsible", they predate California urbanization.
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by claydavisss 6y ago
It has to be torture for theaters now. Basically zero revenue for months while all of the bills and debts accumulate. Studios are quietly walking away through endless delays. Everyone will make less money in the future...home streamers don&
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by claydavisss 6y ago
At worst, Cineworld pays a penalty for breach of contract, but that will be another debt collected in bankruptcy.
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by claydavisss 6y ago
I predict the Pixel 5 will be the last phone Google markets. They failed to take the high end and retreated. Now they seem to be back focusing on the mid-range with a phone that has awful specs...you'd be better off buying a used S20.
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by claydavisss 6y ago
Why can't people just start their own profit/non-profit organizations that codify their social and policy goals? Why are activists relying on capitalists to create the organizations they participate in?
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by claydavisss 6y ago
Most of you only really believe in free speech (or any other exercise of power) when it conforms to, or reinforces your worldview.
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by claydavisss 6y ago
Aaaaand this is why I buy gold. Eventually your USD will be toilet paper. None of these stimulus measures is being funded by real economic growth, its just "printed". In the end the poor will have as many dollars as they want...pr
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by claydavisss 6y ago
A Fed-sponsored digital currency is probably already on its way...as the "fourth branch" of government, this may be as close as you ever get to "public banking". The public will soon learn that public banking means your
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by claydavisss 6y ago
California is now at parity https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-no-l...
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by claydavisss 6y ago
And yet most Bay Area techies continue to discuss these trends as something that could happen but probably won't The train left the station years ago, Google seems to be the only company doubling-down on Commercial Real Estate in t
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by claydavisss 6y ago
High COL regions continue to lean on marquee companies and the supposed geographic affinities. The trend of companies fleeing to cheaper locales isn't theoretical, its decades-old already and merely being highlighted and accelerated. T
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by claydavisss 6y ago
For almost all of human history, people have "worked from home". The workplace as a distinct separate space from the home is only about a couple of centuries old.

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