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ReadTheLicense··on A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
No, they won't necessarily. I have a few banned accounts and a few working ones. Not saying it never happens - I bet it does. But not always.
ReadTheLicense··on A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
Never ever use your personal Google account for anything you don't want to lose. You haven't seen all the horror stories the past few years?
ReadTheLicense··on JPMorgan: “El Salvador Reduces Fiscal Deficit, Despite Bitcoin”
We care about attracting investors because the country is full of people dying due to not enough monetary resources both for the state and for individuals.
ReadTheLicense··on A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
Not sure where you'd upload the photos to Google domains?

Assuming, of course, that you don't use your personal account for your domains - that'd be crazy!

ReadTheLicense··on JPMorgan: “El Salvador Reduces Fiscal Deficit, Despite Bitcoin”
> that's not a great benchmark

> US homicide rate is 10 times worse than my country and my country is just average...

Cool, but you have to compare El Salvador to its peers. How much money and continuity does your state have compared to ES? Even the poorest [GDP per capita] European Union states have literally multiple orders of magnitude bigger state budgets than ES. Getting homicide rate in Americas under the US average is a huge achievement, especially given how quick it was and how hopeless it seemed just a few years ago.

> small potatoes

Hahahahahah, maybe for you. It's the entire yearly budget deficit for El Salvador. These 700 million were the difference between life and death for many El Salvadorans who couldn't get their pensions or healthcare payouts raised with the inflation. Perhaps you could donate some "small potatoes", they really need it and it seems like you have more than enough.

> Lula was innocent BTW

I guess your investigation has turned up a new suspect?

ReadTheLicense··on JPMorgan: “El Salvador Reduces Fiscal Deficit, Despite Bitcoin”
I disagree that there was a better crypto than Bitcoin. It's very much a long and very technical discussion that I can't afford right now, but I wanted you to know that your opinion is not universal - it's much less clear cut than "there was a better crypto, why not use it?".
ReadTheLicense··on Countries with No Property Taxes Where You Own Your Home
That's one out of hundreds kingdoms and "democratic republics". I don't think it's possible to base a strategy on that, it seems to be an enormous outlier of extreme historical significance.
ReadTheLicense··on JPMorgan: “El Salvador Reduces Fiscal Deficit, Despite Bitcoin”
Did you read the communication from before it was implemented? The largest talking point was getting money from El Salvadorans living outside the country back home (because the traditional banking system is failing them), not making capital gains from BTC.
ReadTheLicense··on Countries with No Property Taxes Where You Own Your Home
Both monarchies and dictatorships also transfer huge amount of the wealth to the autocrats. So perhaps by giving the resources to someone to exploit?
ReadTheLicense··on JPMorgan: “El Salvador Reduces Fiscal Deficit, Despite Bitcoin”
The point was never to make capital gains on the Bitcoin investment. The point was to make the economy interesting to foreign investors and bring in their money.
ReadTheLicense··on High-speed rail board completes environmental clearance in northern California
Your remark is quite the statement. The death toll of CCP is >40 million. The only other organization that might beat that is the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
ReadTheLicense··on Ask HN: Is anyone else terrified about a nuclear catastrophe from Ukraine?
Because having a direct war a little later is so much better.
ReadTheLicense··on What I learned working with a senior engineer as a new grad
You mean like React (9 years ago), Angular (12 years ago) or Vue (8 years ago)? Who seriously uses anything else?

I think you confused the JS ecosystem with the C# one.

ReadTheLicense··on What I learned working with a senior engineer as a new grad
The meaning is different. In software industry, senior means "doesn't need handholding", not "super-super-long experience" as in other more traditional fields.
ReadTheLicense··on Ask HN: Did the Tesla return to work happen?
I don't see a word about race. This is more about culture anyways - not even nation.
ReadTheLicense··on 6 Raspberry Pis, 6 SSDs on a Mini ITX Motherboard
The future of cloud is Zero Isolation... With all the mitigation slowing it down, and the current energy prices and rising, having super-small nodes that are always reserved to one task seems interesting.
ReadTheLicense··on Prometheus: Fuel from the Air
The conversion might not be as efficient but all cars having a 350km battery for the rare occasion when they leave the city 2-3 times a month seems like a bigger waste. They would normally use the 50km battery and the lesser efficiency would kick in only during long distance trips. Modern range extenders can be pretty lightweight... It could even be modular/take-out in your frunk.
ReadTheLicense··on Why React Re-Renders
Problem is, Web Components still don't support reactivity and passing complex props, so you need a framework anyways, and at that point it might as well be React.

I've seen people do abominations like each web component is a React root, message passing systems on the side for complex objects... better use React directly

ReadTheLicense··on Prometheus: Fuel from the Air
Yes! The same way, using CNG or bio-diesel (for example wood or algae-derived) in plug-in hybrid vehicles with smaller batteries (50 km) would be much more ecological than large battery vehicles.
ReadTheLicense··on WeWork's former CEO has a new startup, reportedly valued at more than $1B
It's not so much money nowadays. The value of money went way down past 5-10 years.

It's just 10 people after a $1B exit allocating 10% of their assets. Sounds crazy, but that's this guy's social circle. Really underlines how important is networking in business.

ReadTheLicense··on MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason
The cheapest comparable desktop display costs $1500 (27 inch)...
ReadTheLicense··on Rufus: Microsoft is blocking Windows ISO downloads
Sure, but the license itself is almost identical. You can run it in VM though - on a Mac, if you own MacOS already.
ReadTheLicense··on Rufus: Microsoft is blocking Windows ISO downloads
It's also not true. MacOS is licensed very similarly to Windows, it's just that every Mac includes a license.
ReadTheLicense··on I hacked my car
In what universe is 20+ years "recently"? Actually the Hyundai I had - with an immobilizer - was made in 1995 so 27 years. Is this American thing?
ReadTheLicense··on 1959 Santa Susana meltdown
Which company ducked it up there?
ReadTheLicense··on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles
This is standard in Node.js ecosystem and I love it. Each package has scripts in package.json that you can run with npm run [name], and some of these like start, test or build (and more) are standardized. It's really great DX.
ReadTheLicense··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
No money transfer from the state to the energy company.
ReadTheLicense··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
I'd guess this is because of price regulation, not subsidy.
ReadTheLicense··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
You have day-ahead pricing at home? Please tell me how
ReadTheLicense··on An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter
If Musk is right, it's not weaseling out of contract.
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