maehwasu

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by maehwasu 6y ago
Fiat game mechanics force them to "invest" in "productive" assets in order to stay ahead of inflation. Scare quotes used because a ton of the price of those assets now reflects a monetary premium. I.e. a portion of the p
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by maehwasu 6y ago
> Although I'll admit that since my employer is looking at 100% remote, it opens the door to moving to a nicer/cheaper house outside of the office-commutable bubble. This is the key part--many people desire a home they can buil
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by maehwasu 6y ago
Wait, the government gives investors essentially infinite cheap credit, resources get allocated in an incredibly perverse manner, and it's Friedrich fucking Hayek who has it wrong???? I certainly don't think Hayek is above criti
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by maehwasu 6y ago
Theoretical articles like this ("proving" that X won't work) are almost always doomed to be wrong, because you can't enumerate all possible ways that something COULD work, but won't. A shorter way to say that is tha
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by maehwasu 6y ago
I’m surprised Google et al. haven’t been forced to make more contractual disclosures at the time of a user submitting an extension or app. Absent blaring warnings like “you understand that if you build any type of business on this platform
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by maehwasu 6y ago
I’m torn here. 1. I agree as to the need to get off the Google lands. 2. Being able to create business relationships to build on other people’s property and work without fear of their yanking the rug out is an incredibly important part of a
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Yes, and usually the people they worked with or learned from were also extremely talented.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Awesome. To put my own money when my mouth is, here is the bash script to start up a nREPL server in Docker: https://pastebin.com/PPmfDPyA Here is the Dockerfile: https://pastebin.com/ymcUFdYT And here is a
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by maehwasu 7y ago
As someone who uses Clojure a lot: It would be a lot better for language adoption if people would write more blog posts showing best practices for tooling, and less vague stuff about how awesome the language is. For example, the startup tim
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Now ask the airplane engineers about the F-35. Voting apps are basically political money laundering schemes. Using them to make comments about software vs other industries suggests either stupidity, laziness, or malice.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Employee compensation does indeed raise the price the company has to pay. However, it doesn’t end up in government coffers, making it not a tax. This isn’t rocket science.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
It effectively raises the price the company has to pay and thus lowers profits.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Regardless of the fact that he missed by a bit, this type of writing is way more valuable than the standard NYT/Bloomberg "OMG IS IT A BUBBLE???" articles?
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by maehwasu 7y ago
This is (unintentionally?) a fairly strong argument against the desirability of democracy, at least as she is practiced in the US. This feels like a Unix poweruser telling grandma why she doesn’t need Dropbox.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
If their actual goal was to build up an endowment to survive lean times, their spending profile would be quite different. That may be an ancillary goal of theirs, but it’s demonstrably not close to the primary one (in a revealed preference
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by maehwasu 7y ago
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that HN is the HR department at your company. Pointing to someone's opinions and shrieking doesn't really fly here. Particularly when the opinions are fairly defensible. (I.e. the only
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by maehwasu 7y ago
I actually agree strongly: one of the best things in his writing is his references to primary sources, many of which I found extremely enjoyable to read. The past is a foreign country more interesting than any tourist trip you can take. If
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by maehwasu 7y ago
The reason I found Yarvin’s (awesome) writing in the first place was because of a post like this on Twitter. I figured that if vinegar-drinking scolds hated him, he might have something interesting to say. Your post will probably have a sim
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Sure, but it also seems unlikely that anyone would be this dumb. OP’s point isn’t that Griffith is innocent, just that we’re likely missing some piece of info which would make his motivations/thought process make more sense.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
“But now maybe it’s time to get in the studio with some other people, who maybe don’t have your chops, but who are cooler than you, who listen to more hip-hop and dance music, who can balance out your intellect with some guts.” And then he
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by maehwasu 7y ago
If you’re not able to think creatively enough to find a place in the US or the world to live off a $1-2M starting point, then early retirement probably isn’t for you. Meant with no disrespect: some people are naturally better suited to be e
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Disclaimer: I think his essays are strong. There’s a lot of selection bias in his upvoting: a large number of people know/knew about HN because they liked PG’s writing.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
I'm excited for your coming adventures, in which our intrepid hero breaks into people's diaries and then tells their friends about the naughty things they wrote. Brave!
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by maehwasu 7y ago
This was probably true at one time, but the States are utterly brutal from a compliance/reporting perspective now.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Khmer Rouge killing lots of intellectuals is one classic example, although most socialist revolutions had their own variants. I suppose you can do a No True Scotsman and say that those weren’t truly enforcing equality of outcome since there
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by maehwasu 7y ago
It’s very enforceable. It’s just that it really, really sucks to live in a society that implements that enforcement.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
So Harvard makes it overly hard for non-athlete/legacy white kids to get in relative to other groups, while also favoring them when they're from those categories? Speaking as an alum who will never donate or allow his kids to appl
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by maehwasu 7y ago
The common wisdom wrt democracy, for centuries, was that this was basically exactly how it would work, if actually implemented. These aren't unforeseen problems.
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by maehwasu 7y ago
How is it fraud? They disclosed everything, people said “this is crap,” and they all had to take a huge bath. Yes, Softbank and others will lose a lot of money, and Neumann made money off them, but they’re all grownups who knew what they we
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by maehwasu 7y ago
Alternatively, never be too quick to attribute to stupidity when there’s a strong incentive for malice to take advantage of that attribution to hide itself.

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