pc_edwin

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by pc_edwin 1y ago
tip of the iceberg.. There is a lot to cover and almost all of it is well hidden. Biggest culprits being the Ocean and dense unreachable forests.. Also there is the constant of change/time which has erased the vast majority of the past
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by pc_edwin 2y ago
CFPB needs to be burned to the ground. How tf is this even constitutionally legal? It doesn't matter what your political leanings are or what you think about the matter at hand. No agency should have the much power to be the judge jury
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by pc_edwin 2y ago
Its almost here. They've been making a lot of progress on windows and linux support: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/commits/main/?since=20...
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
I guess the point is not some libertarian utopia, but rather to eliminate any and all institutions and mechanisms that fulfil this post WWII socialist idea of corrective redistribution. We don't need to get into why this concept is dee
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Thats the thing, there is no risk. No free market entity is going to write off tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on pretty much most 18 year olds. Its almost entirely backed by the government in most western nations aka socialism. In
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
The elephant in the room is the modern collectivist initiative of college/higher education for the common man. I don't how people don't see it, especially the HN crowd.. This article is shows only one of the smaller downstrea
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
"recorded history".. glacial maximums and minimums.. Also would be very helpful to look at the worst case predictions and what that would entail hundred years down the line. Its not cool but it really not that bad. Definitely not
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
The British empire peacefully transferred power to their descendents/cousins, this is a success story. Speaking english. Christian. Shared ancestry. Besides, we are not talking about breaking up the empire. That already happened with t
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Btw going to back to my op, this is exactly what Putin has been doing by working on hypersonic missiles. Taking Crimea. Trying to forcefully bring Ukraine back to Russia's sphere of influence.. etc I'm not saying I condone his act
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Over the span of three decades your nation went from being a global superpower with immense economic, political and military power to a rapid declining shell of its former self. Your economy is more comparable to an American state like Flor
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
It goes with out saying, I mostly disagree with Noah but I find the depth of his content so refreshing. It is very rare to see this level of sophistication and depth from the people he shares his political believes with.
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Interesting read. The underlying point here is what many of us have been saying since the beginning of the conflict. Putin is not some crazy drugged up megalomaniac. Morality aside, his moves are clearly rational and shows a high level of s
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
as a side note, I think 7 trillion is likely a gross misrepresentation. Its probably somewhere between 100 - 200 billion.
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Climate Change: Energy != climate change. Even if it entirely did, using it as an argument without including the benefits is to put it politely (i dont want to) is very silly . AGI (if possible) will solve climate. Economic Resources: Agai
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
This is true but the thing is, it can take a decade of two for the free market to do its thing. Its really hard to break network effects, especially at Apples scale. If it was just gonna end with a minor gatekeeping fee, I can see myself (a
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Microsoft did the exact same thing and it took them the better part of almost two decades to undo the damage. The difference here is the entire map has shifted. Tech is no longer just a niche or a B2B thing. Pretty much everyone in the west
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
The alternative is to take the L and turn it into a win. Being forced to open up by both the EU and homefront is more than enough a mandate for Tim and the rest of the leadership to make the transition without any trouble from shareholders.
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
There are so many minor (sometimes major) differences in how even macos(zsh/bash) and linux (bash) works, let alone windows (cmd, powershell) A layer that abstracts these differences can be very useful for buildng CLI's and just a
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
At some point you have to pay the pied piper. All the collectivist projects ("safety nets") are just shifting liability/cost/risk from one part to another at the extreme detriment of the system a whole. Its causes massiv
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
I would much rather get a risky tech job in the US than in my current country (UK) where we get paid half or even less than half.. Btw its not just the money either, imagine the kind of companies/opportunities that can survive such ext
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
These kinds of takes really rubs me the wrong way. Its basically saying "X doesn't make sense to me so it must be wrong therefore it shouldn't exist". In reality, people (especially the exceptional kind) have all sorts o
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
I never understand why these kinds of practices gets so much hate. If you have the qualifications for this type of job (high skill high pay) then life is pretty much choose your adventure mode. There are people in this world who would willi
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Digital Ocean too: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/bw3r3j9b5ph5 I don't know if I should be proud or scared that a lot of these products are just wrappers around Cloudflare offerings. In this case I don&
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
This is not looking good. I really hope they don't move away from dogfooding because of this. Also vercel deployments (and edge functions in general) aren't working. Their status page says: "We identified the root cause as an
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
> The employee did not have access to any source code, secrets, or the ability to change settings or deployments. We are talking about an employee who has access to the customers personal information as part of their job doing something
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Thats irrelevant. They got billions on their balance sheet and the are rumours of a new phone company with Jony Ive. The bankroll along with the dynamism both parties bring to the table might just cross the threshold for becoming a viable c
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
This is why I'm very excited at the prospect of an OpenAI phone. Without billions in funding, its impossible to build a viable alternative to the android/ios duopoly. Heck, its near impossible even with the billion (RIP windows ph
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Not yet, this is the part where they are trying to avoid that like hell. That said, even when/if (lol) they get there its still part of the capitalism just like how hiring a good salesman or marketer is part of capitalism.
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
I tend to agree with you, nature can be brutal but there are also fatal second and third order consequences for a society with no sharp/rough edges. In other words, a society without consequences leads to "too big to fail" ba
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
This is has been me exact experience with WeWork in London, honestly its the only thing that kept me sane during the lockdowns. Me and like 2 other people would have an entire floor to us. Then some time around early last year it went from

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