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by qzw 26d ago
How long until we’re like Cuba, still tooling around in 50s cars. But maybe that’ll actually be seen as some kind of Luddite utopia in the future.
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by qzw 1mo ago
In addition, it really matters when and for how long one has access to opportunities. If you wait until a poor child is an adult and then suddenly say, here’s an amazing opportunity, well, it’s not going to do much good. But if you start wh
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by qzw 1mo ago
Seems unlikely for there to be two different Moxies Marlinspike in any case, but appreciate your confirmation. Indeed his Wikipedia page didn’t need a disambiguation section.
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by qzw 2mo ago
The companies that want a piece of FIFA, I assume. Edit: I just realized you meant who here on hn, in which case I assume the hardcore capitalists/libertarians. But they can speak for themselves.
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by qzw 2mo ago
Doesn’t most of the developed world already have various forms of socialism? The U.S. is an outlier here, which is due a number of factors unique to this country.
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by qzw 3mo ago
That doesn’t answer the title question of why it’s quadratic wrt speed.
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by qzw 3mo ago
I use it on iOS daily and there’s no ad blocker. The page you linked only mentions tracking blocking. If you actually have ad blocking enabled, I’m sure a lot of us would love to hear how you did it.
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by qzw 4mo ago
Almost all wealth tax proposal I’ve seen start at the level of 8-9 figures of wealth. Why are we now talking about it as if it’s going to apply to your average person’s savings account? If we’re just going to accept these billionaire-invent
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by qzw 4mo ago
Only in theory. In practice it’s not equivalent at all because once you reach a certain (very high) level of wealth, there’s the “buy, borrow, die” strategy that avoids realizing most of your capital gains. I’ve also heard of proposals to t
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by qzw 4mo ago
Maybe “great” is going a bit far for some of those. “Not bad” vs “bad” seems more realistic.
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by qzw 5mo ago
Planned obsolescence really only works well if someone else is paying.
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by qzw 5mo ago
Just to well actually your well actually... What you've described is how the base level mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) work. The tranches work because there actually exist mortgages that are at lower default risk (high home equity,
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by qzw 5mo ago
> The problem w this model is that it only works if assets are relatively uncorrelated (it was true in the past but ignored systematic risk and adverse selection in originations). What this has to do w musk or spacex I’m still not sure W
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by qzw 5mo ago
I just want to make the observation that this whole SpaceX IPO is turning out entirely unlike the CDOs that led to the 2008 financial crisis. There's no mixing of AAA level assets with a bunch of subprime stuff and then getting someone
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by qzw 5mo ago
On Monday a crane company announces it’s pivoting to AI, followed by a quick 600% boost to its stock price. I wouldn’t even be surprised at this point.
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by qzw 5mo ago
There really should be a special category for business books written by people who’ve gone bankrupt. I know at least two well known examples, but there’s got to be a whole lot more.
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by qzw 5mo ago
You know what's an even more acceptable casualty that would greatly reduce ransomware? Cryptocurrencies.
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by qzw 7mo ago
Wow I had to hop over to check it out. It’s indeed still alive! But I didn’t see any stories on the first page with a comment count over 100, so it’s definitely a far cry from its heyday.
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by qzw 8mo ago
Did you miss the part where they generated tests too?! I mean what do you want, for him to actually review the code or something? That's what kills the love of coding , man.
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by qzw 9mo ago
While that’s definitely true, I think it’s maybe more fair to say that their actual strength has always been to take a personal computing technology that’s just about “ready-for-prime-time” and make it as accessible and fashionable as pos
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by qzw 11mo ago
Wait, are you parodying Madonna or meta-parodying Weird Al?
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by qzw 11mo ago
But then we have the same complaint against Electron, namely large deployment sizes and no shared memory, no?
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by qzw 11mo ago
Doing a mindless chore in the background to satisfy a meaningless metric sounds like the perfect task to give to an AI agent…
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by qzw 11mo ago
Definitely worse. This sort of thing still happening in 2025 is completely bonkers to me. Recently a financial institution sent me an email asking me to "re-validate my ownership" of a linked account by uploading a bank statement.
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by qzw 11mo ago
Well, one man's junk is another man's treasure. In any case, none of the requirements you listed seem that exotic. There are computer cases with hot-swap ready drive cages, and status lights (or even LCDs) are easy to find. The so
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by qzw 11mo ago
Doesn’t that name make it confusing for your users? A tribute maybe shouldn’t be identical ?
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by qzw 11mo ago
> in short, the ARM systems boot Windows and only Windows. I’ve not tried it myself, but a quick google seems to indicate people are running Linux on existing ARM64 laptops and there’s active development to try to achieve full support. F
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by qzw 1y ago
I abhor the general trend of governments outsourcing everything to private companies, but in this case, a technologically advanced country’s central government couldn’t even muster up the most basic of IT practices, and as you said, account
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by qzw 1y ago
Shit (meaning “how true”), shit is veritably the aladeen of words. It can basically mean anything depending on usage, context, attitude, or tone of voice.
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by qzw 1y ago
Appreciate the real numbers. Would be interesting to see what percentage of data structures contain Arc, but that's a lot more work.

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