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by issa 2y ago
It has been a decades long journey getting here. There are so many contributing factors it is hard to even know where to begin. The most important thing to remember is that about half the country is very unhappy with the way things are goin
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by issa 2y ago
I think the best advice is use something you are comfortable with. But the second best advice is hopefully that isn't WordPress. Yes, you can do it in WP, but you would have so many more options if you picked something like Angular or
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by issa 2y ago
My wife is from Germany and one of the weirdest things for her in moving to the US is that the power goes out.
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by issa 2y ago
Back in my freelance days I had a client who refused to pay. I took him to small claims court and won. Actually collected the money. - small claims court is very easy and relatively quick. no need for a lawyer. - there is a cap on the amoun
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by issa 2y ago
This doesn't seem like that cynical of a take at all. The US is terrible at infrastructure projects. I feel like you would never go wrong betting against them. Or at least betting that they take 10x the time and cost than predicted.
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Ask HN: Can Google Help?
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by issa 3y ago
Exactly. If growing up on a spaceship was all you ever knew, it wouldn't seem like a problem. It only seems like a problem to people who grew up with a lot of choices on Earth. Most people on our planet don't have a lot of choices
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by issa 3y ago
I just think it is a case of thinking small. A few key advances and all the problems are solved. For example: - Increased lifespan making the trip possible in 1 generation - A hollowed out asteroid or other extremely large biosphere. It is
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by issa 3y ago
Tons of respect for KSR but this reads like a treatise on why airplanes will never work. https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-flight-imp...
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by issa 3y ago
Never underestimate the value of tried and true solutions!
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by issa 3y ago
This is a really hard lesson to learn and it takes most people (myself included) many tries to learn it. From reading your post, it is super clear that you understand the lesson-- validate your idea early. But understanding the lesson and a
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by issa 3y ago
in the spirit of the article, hopefully you can plug it in at home to your direct solar!
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by issa 3y ago
Exactly. 10 electric cars with 20 mile pure-electric range will have a larger impact than 1 electric car with 200 miles.
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by issa 3y ago
I'm not sure your comment makes sense in the context of the article and my reply. The whole point is that batteries are expensive.
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by issa 3y ago
I feel like this is one area that requires a less extreme approach. It feels silly to forego batteries completely, but equally silly to put 100kW of batteries in a car. Most car trips for most people are going to be well under 50 miles.
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by issa 3y ago
In the US, I think it is more likely that we will regulate automobile speed than guns. I thought there might be a joke here, but sadly, this is just true.
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by issa 3y ago
It's really hard to "accidentally" not make payroll. This shouldn't be something that sneaks up on you. If you feel the founder deserves the benefit of the doubt, I would suggest reaching out to them first before doing a
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by issa 3y ago
I think most engineers need to be both. In most situations at least, you are deciding on engineering time vs non-engineering time. Meaning, if I can build something in a day that "gets the job done" with some usage constraints, or
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by issa 4y ago
Can it be done while making $5000 per week online?
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by issa 4y ago
This is an interesting perspective. My takeaway from the OP was not "depressed" in a clinical way--and I certainly could be wrong there. But I thought it was more a case of being young, overly focused on university, and needing to
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by issa 4y ago
I guess my question is: why do you want to go back to school? It seems like you would get a TON of practical experience spending that time at Shopify. In most situations having a few years of work at a well-known company is going to be wort
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by issa 4y ago
I agree completely. Hilarious example. But, hell, if a product's pitch is "you'll feel like Tony Stark or Captain Picard" it will probably be successful.
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by issa 4y ago
usually the more important information in a comment is WHY the code does what it does.
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by issa 4y ago
I don't feel comfortable speaking for ALL vegans, but in my house, we gently move spiders outside. We would also be totally fine with killing a mosquito. My general theory is that it is fine to hurt an animal if it attacks you first, b
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by issa 4y ago
Fake meat is generally aimed more at meat eaters than people who are already vegetarian or vegan. If you already like tofu and seitan, you probably aren't trading those in for the new products.
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by issa 4y ago
I don't think I've ever heard anyone suggest that "animals aren't able to think" before. Could you please explain what you could possibly mean by that?
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by issa 4y ago
...and transportation
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by issa 4y ago
This was a very exciting book to get my hands on as a teenager. Now I think this is the best take on it: https://thehardtimes.net/blog/recipes-anarchist-cookbook-tas...
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by issa 4y ago
Startup work is much more chaotic than established companies. It is much closer to my creative experiences of directing a feature film and being in a touring band than it is to my time at big software companies. Instead of having clearly se
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by issa 4y ago
The ability to avoid complexity is one of the most important skills for practical software engineering. As soon as you forget WHY you are building something, things can get crazy. You need to be able to do the calculation of work-to-value.

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