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> power, torque, speed

Unless you’re planning on driving on a course, or being an asshole in traffic, these matter a lot less than people think in day-to-day driving

At least with a monolith, all of your ball of mud is in-process.

Perhaps I’ve been in tech for too long but isn’t $75M peanuts in the scheme of things?

> Official records of real estate transactions have a data point for "closest shopping mall" for a reason.

It baffles me that anyone, let alone a bunch of people, would look at this and say “ah, yes, this seems like a good place to live”.

To each their own, I guess.

Yeah, sorry. I got contractor and freelancer mixed up. It doesn't help that in Sweden freelancer/contractor/consultant are used interchangably for someone who invoices for their time instead of getting a salary.

The contracting agencies don't do any permanent position, they only do medium-to-long term contracts (3-24 months). The biggest is Northern Europe is probably https://www.verama.com/ (ex E-Work)

Contacted a few brokers and had a 6 month assignment within a week. They took 10% of all my invoicing

I chose a Kia eNiro because it had ”bad” but predictable controls/UX. Basically a normal, boring car with dedicated buttons for most things, but with a EV drivetrain.

> We had 50 years of freedom

More “Wild West gold rush” than “freedom”

Windows 2k was the pinnacle of Windows. Basically same OS as XP, but with a spruced up Win 98 design.

> I already feel that I'm not as fast as I was in my 20s;

I’ve also observed this but there’s another way to frame it - you’re doing a lot less thrashing around. Instead of brute force testing 5 approaches to a problem, experience allows you to narrow it down to 1 or 2.

Sorely disappointed this wasn’t about Gravis UltraSound

> He's just mad

This seems to be his natural resting state these days

I’m guessing it’s because AFAIK most people don’t have a separate set of winter tyres which means you automatically rotate them twice a year.

> they're basically boring, kind of ugly and utilitarian.

Good, it’s what cars should be. “Car culture” is a plight on society and the sooner we break free of tying our self worth to our cars the better.

So money is the objective, but with extra steps ;)

> money is not the objective

What is the objective in your opinion?

I won’t. “Making money online” is a MLM/cult that thrives on survivor bias.

Learning a new skill and changing jobs/getting promoted and (this is the tricky part) not getting on the hedonic treadmill but rather putting the surplus cash in low cost index funds will net you a far greater ROI.

> There's two primary reasons- zoning, and speculative investment that keeps good land off of the market.

While I agree with the second point, I’m having a hard time understanding how zoning can affect pricing. Isn’t it just “you can’t build industry next to residential”?

> I just want macOS to support variable scaling like Windows has for, what, 15 years at least?

I’ve tried to adopt MacBooks twice over the last three years and both times this has been the dealbreaker for me. I was flabbergasted that MacOS didn’t have better support for it.

To be fair, generating stock images and videos and writing listicle blog post is pretty menial labour.

> what actual publicly available product has he ever produced? oh, i remember - a not very good smalltalk test framework.

See also, Bob Martin.

This has been my main gripe with the “indie hacker” flavour of entrepreneur-porn.

If you’re doing international sales and not trusting a MoR service you’re 100% committing tax fraud in multiple jurisdictions.

> The eye tracking driven input method which was seen as holy grail turns out to be annoying after a while because people don't naturally always look at what they want to click on.

This has been know for at least 30 years in the eye tracking business and it even has a name - The Midas Touch problem.

No sweat! First time I’ve read those words on HN, kudos :)

> Is not disposable income what's left over after you pay your mandatory expenses, like housing?

No, it’s what’s left after taxes, before any actual spending on things like housing occurs.

> Gross disposable household income is the amount of money that individuals in the household sector can spend or save after income distribution measures.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/regionalaccounts/grossdisposa...

Green is disposable income, orange is cost of apartment housing:

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tonEuOE0IXE/WfpBpIzy8rI/AAAAAAAAF...

The ratio of housing cost vs real income almost tripled over the last 20 years in Sweden. Add a looming climate crisis and a self-fulfillment-oriented culture and you get very few new babies.

“Personal space” for anyone below the rank of, say, a duke is a very recent trend

The Soviets used a handwritten HTML file served with Apache

> Making housing cheaper also means making higher quality housing cheaper.

Or, much more likely, builder profits higher.