throwawaybbb

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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
My grandmother knew 6 languages.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
The price of borrowing has never been lower. Stable governments can borrow at negative real rates. When prices drop it means there is more supply than demand.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
Long term too. The bottom 50% of Americans lost all their wealth and went into debt to live since then.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
I had a great-grandmother from rural Moldova. She spoke Vlach, Bulgarian and Russian. Speaking three languages is not a big deal when you live in a village where everyone else speaks them.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
A lot of places can't do more than 10k a day. So you either try and sell at the peak and eat the risk of them going under, or you sell continuously and leave a lot of money on the table because price fluctuates week to week.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
These people are too poor to be a viable market. There is a lot more money in getting more of them in prison than getting them out.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
The same people who benefit from encryption if govts are to be believed. If cash keeps being as unwieldy as it has become, a $100 note today is worth about what a $10 note was worth in 1920, people will just stop using govt back cash and us
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
The bottom 50% of US citizens have -0.2 trillion in wealth. That's right, they are in debt. Never in the history of the world have the poor had less than nothing.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
The bottom 50% of the US are poorer than they were in 1968 in both real and absolute terms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
To quote Feynman: explaining how something happens makes the why irrelevant.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
Stop the always on web. There is no reason why latency for Twitter or facebook should be any faster than 1h.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
You can easily run a workload with 20tb/day on a single thread ripper. My last contract we wrote a c tool that did dsp on 10tb/day data with a latency of 50 microseconds. We are using less than 10% of the CPU on that.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
Imagine if 70% of roads were privately owned by one company. That company, call it roadle, opened a restaurant chain. There is free parking in front of all roadle restaurants. There are always roadworks around all non roadle restaurants. Th
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
And no one will stop her. Just how today some women elect to give birth without anesthetics. And others do it at home.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
It's an odd world where 4chan back in its worst days had a better community than fb, Twitter or reddit do today. And that's with the gore and other unmentionables.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
Working on an artificial womb because my wife went through the same. Pregnancy is barbaric the sooner we stop forcing half the world to do it the better for everyone.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
Earth shine is a thing.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
As it should be. Doing things as have they always been done means we haven't killed everyone yet. That is quite an achievement when you consider just how hostile to life nature is.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
Were talking about $5k of hardware to meet your needs 20 times over with the new threadrippers. Is your aws bill really under $500 a month?
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
That's 10tb = 10000gb = 10000/24/60/60 = .11gb/s. My 2015 desktop could handle that. Where do you work? I'd like to pitch my radical idea of edge consolidated cloud computing.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
Here's one in the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Company The 90% death rate in the first two years is really impressive.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
Ok give me your address. I'll call a developer and well start a 120 story highrise where you live. You'll end up living in a much worse place when it's all said and done but anything else would be immoral.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
I've been called a tech bro, late 20 something 1m in net assets. Me and my group of friends are absolutely the geeks of yore. Ffs my last pitch had a wh40k reference in it and the guy financing it spend more time talking about warhamme
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
Ironic that all journalists got the Iraq war wrong without the need for fake news. We don't need real journalists, we need a way to pay for news that makes accurate reporting profitable.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
Partisanship is a hell of a drug.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
I have written interpreters in python and god help me lex and yacc. The point is that writing one in scheme is so easy you almost think that the language was designed with that in mind, it was in case the sarcasm doesn't get through th
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
Yes. That's the point, you will write the dsl to do that in scheme. Then use that to solve the original problem. Abstractions on top of abstractions.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
The cpp 2020 is 2000 pages. There comes a point when a language is a valid target of complaints.
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
Simple question: do you know enough lisp to write a self hosting interpreter in it? People talk up their language until they learn lisp then this happens: https://www.draketo.de/proj/py2guile/
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by throwawaybbb 7y ago
I hope you enjoy being uninsurable for Parkinson's in the future.

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