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by frinxor 5mo ago
And the same applies to HN? Edgy messages make it to the top, and the reader should learn to react accordingly (in what way?)
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by frinxor 6mo ago
California went from 235B in 2022 with a surplus, to 317B with a deficit in 2025. Budgets should be balanced, with smart long term planning and sensible spending. We should not resort to a special “billionaire tax” to fund our mismanaged bu
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by frinxor 7mo ago
Its incredibly simple - they want to get off the supply chain risk list. Its very evident in his statement, he's trying very hard to clarify what that list means for corporations and downstream business with large commercial and strate
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by frinxor 7mo ago
It’s a business decision.
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by frinxor 8mo ago
I think a major factor is politics - when China's leadership sets out to do something, they go out and get it done. Look at China's high speed rail (now more than the combined rest of the world), renewable energy growth, and their
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by frinxor 8mo ago
wrong incentives, good outcomes? is there a world where the long term outcomes are also good, or at least much better than the current ones? also, hi there! (da from oblong)
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by frinxor 9mo ago
I think it comes from the all-billionaires-are-evil mindset, which I see more and more of
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by frinxor 9mo ago
Seeing a lot of these pop up more recently, but this has been happening for a decade now apparently. Isn't this the fault of Medicare itself, of not having routine checks and better processes for preventing these fraudulent claims at t
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by frinxor 1y ago
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by frinxor 1y ago
Cribl | https://cribl.io/careers | REMOTE We have a lot of positions open. Backend, Frontend, SRE. Mostly a node.js shop. Hiring from senior to principal roles. I'm hiring for a Senior Staff Engineer https:/&#x2F
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by frinxor 1y ago
Cribl | https://cribl.io/careers | REMOTE We have a lot of positions open. Backend, Frontend, SRE. Mostly a node.js shop. Hiring from senior to principal roles. We are desperately seeking a Senior Performance Engineer http
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by frinxor 1y ago
SNCF was one of the early bidders for this project, proposing the I5 route. They later pulled out from the politics of the Central Valley line in 2011, and went on to successfully implement high speed rail in Morocco instead - which went li
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by frinxor 2y ago
This was interesting, thanks!
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by frinxor 2y ago
if its on front page of HN already w/ hundreds of votes, i think its fair to assume its legitimate regardless of the source.
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by frinxor 2y ago
Insurance companies are for profit. They run the analysis of how much they need to charge to break even, and aim to charge above that. If they charge too high, customers will look at the alternatives and switch to a competitor. You can repl
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by frinxor 2y ago
some fantastic older reading (2014): HFT in My Backyard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8354278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8371852
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by frinxor 2y ago
great read, thanks for sharing! some more fun and short reading: Report on an Unidentified Space Station by J. G. Ballard https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/roauss.htm The Last Question By Isaac Asimov https://us
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by frinxor 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper#Launch_and_traj... really cool to see the trajectory: - earth mars gravity assists - complex trajectory around jupiter and its moons
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by frinxor 2y ago
ah missed this one, thank you!
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by frinxor 2y ago
Good read! Reminds me of the Gervais Principle https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-... , which is also a fantastic (and much longer) read with a similar lifecycle of the “corporation”
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by frinxor 2y ago
Cribl | https://cribl.io/careers | REMOTE We have a lot of positions open. Backend, Frontend, SRE. Mostly a node.js shop. Hiring from senior to principal roles.
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by frinxor 2y ago
yep, my first though as well here - and one of my favorite reads. lots of posts, even one this month https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41214180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21767151
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by frinxor 2y ago
Makes sense, I dread the day when one of my cats passes (5 year old and 1 year old cat). A nitpick: The researchers are asking the owners for the owners' observations during a time of grief, which doesn't seem as robust as it coul
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by frinxor 2y ago
Cribl | Backend Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE Canada | www.cribl.io Senior, Principal Backend Engineers As a Senior Backend Engineer at Cribl, you will help set the technical direction for Stream by working closely with an existing team of
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by frinxor 2y ago
came here to mention this as well! fantastic ezine that i click everytime i see it linked here.
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by frinxor 3y ago
kraken getting hit by the SEC?
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by frinxor 3y ago
https://growsf.org/dumpdean/
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by frinxor 3y ago
Cribl Inc | Remote, US, CANADA | FULL-TIME | REMOTE Cribl makes open observability a reality, giving customers the freedom and flexibility to make choices instead of compromises. Our suite of products puts the customer back in control of th
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by frinxor 3y ago
Followed some links around, and this was interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abell_3266 ! "The Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County discovered that a large mass of gas is hur
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by frinxor 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/c/Asianometry lots of cool videos on his channel about chips - i've definitely learned a lot watching these.

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