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hilop··on Google Pixel pwned in 60 seconds
Modern journal doesn't involve "courses".

Copying Hunter Thompson , initiating "gonzo" style, has been the rage for quite a while -- it's more fun than being honest and careful

hilop··on What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class
Not every economist ignores the inequality costs if labor being forced to race to the bottom
hilop··on How Green Is That Grocery Bag Ban? (2014) [pdf]
The "misleading photos of visible trash" are even more trash in the ocean , in addition to the miles and miles of plastic particles.
hilop··on How Green Is That Grocery Bag Ban? (2014) [pdf]
Not every bag regulation was as stupid as Chicago's
hilop··on How Green Is That Grocery Bag Ban? (2014) [pdf]
Why don't you use canvas bags?
hilop··on Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
For copying a painting, you could fake it with a 3-D printer that reproduces a depth+scanned painting and a topcoat of paint
hilop··on Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
Some of the oil painting reproductions on HN at downright rude.
hilop··on Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
The problem is thst people use infographics that get a lot of links, to get SEO juice for the rest of their site thst is utter garbage.

Ideally, Google wouldn't credit one part of the site that is lower quality than the other part.

hilop··on Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
Decimal weeks
hilop··on Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
Can you pay the artists more?
hilop··on CPP: A Standardized Alternative to AMP
You can download a custom bundle of jquery from the source. But then it won't be shared with other websites. The solution is for browsers to cache common libraries and not try to load these resources per page.
hilop··on CPP: A Standardized Alternative to AMP
AMP is for news pages, stuff is one page away from Search. Browsers still work to optimize the overall experience for web apps and full sites.
hilop··on IHaskell – A Haskell kernel for Jupyter
What happens when I execute a notebook that you wrote, that had Haskell magics in it? Surely the server will run that code? And it might have exploitable bugs?
hilop··on Bill Gates: He eats Big Macs for lunch and schedules every minute of his day
That makes no sense. Gates doesn't work to create income anymore.
hilop··on Bill Gates: He eats Big Macs for lunch and schedules every minute of his day
OTOH, the stuff MS was vilified for is now how we expect everyone to operate (FB, Apple, Google, Amazon)
hilop··on Bill Gates: He eats Big Macs for lunch and schedules every minute of his day
Your scientific view is that McDonald's is a foundation of a healthy diet?
hilop··on Bill Gates: He eats Big Macs for lunch and schedules every minute of his day
I wonder how true that is and how much is part of Buffet's PR to make him a non-loathed billionaire. Being frugal is one thing, but feeding your family garbage on Christmas?
hilop··on Bill Gates: He eats Big Macs for lunch and schedules every minute of his day
Why would they be affordable? That is incredibly valuable information.
hilop··on Bill Gates: He eats Big Macs for lunch and schedules every minute of his day
And that relaxed state comes from externalizing your process into structure and routine, so your mind can focus on high thinking and not juggling all your cluttered concerns
hilop··on The Clockwise/Spiral Rule of C declarations
The first red flag is that the rule says "clockwise" where there s clearly to way to distinguish clocwise from anticlockwise inside the code. Only the completely arbitrary choice of up/down direction of the drawing affects clockwiseness.

It's been 20years(!) Why is this incorrect advise still up at c-faq?

hilop··on The Clockwise/Spiral Rule of C declarations
Go fixes a lot of C language design bugs, and the only cost you pay is (sometimes important) garbage collection and extreme memory layout control.
hilop··on Battery technology may emerge as a trillion-dollar threat to credit markets
What are the other interesting designs?
hilop··on Battery technology may emerge as a trillion-dollar threat to credit markets
Established companies ARE putting out EVs and getting better at them every year.
hilop··on Battery technology may emerge as a trillion-dollar threat to credit markets
That's a minor UX hurdle. The car can beep at you if it isn't plugged in, like it beeps of you leave the lights on.
hilop··on Battery technology may emerge as a trillion-dollar threat to credit markets
They just need to be reminded that they can rent a car for long trips. Some car sellers even bundle in a gas-car rental stipend with the electric car purchase.
hilop··on Battery technology may emerge as a trillion-dollar threat to credit markets
Same thing you do when you own a sedan and want to go on a big camping trip or move to a new apartment. You rent a journey-approppriate car for the rare special case.
hilop··on Battery technology may emerge as a trillion-dollar threat to credit markets
Obviously if you need a full tank you'd unplug your house from the car. But the point of the Tesla car is that, like a gas car, 30% tank is enough for 99% of the days of the year.

An X Km warranty is just an X KWHr warranty in different units.

hilop··on Battery technology may emerge as a trillion-dollar threat to credit markets
Strict libertarians don't believe in "forced"
hilop··on Battery technology may emerge as a trillion-dollar threat to credit markets
The political question isn't a out bailing out losers, it's about overall total economiic value. Stability is incredibly valuable, and it's even worth taxing the beneficiaries of a bail out (by taking an ownership stake) to help finance the recovery.
hilop··on Battery technology may emerge as a trillion-dollar threat to credit markets
It's not. That's the original Keynesian analysis of the liquidity trap. Dollars have no inherent stored value, so putting them to use can improve economic productivity, even if the reason they start moving is silly.

Breaking windows is a stupid way to crate liquidity though. Better to do some debt-financed spending without destroying anything. For example, the USA's CCC and TVA, that started ending the Great Depression.

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