jiveturkey42

Sorry, sarcasm was the wrong word, I meant pedantic nit-pickers

I agree!

I'm shocked to see a fun and positive comment on HN and not sarcasm, irony, or the endless steam of 'what I think the world's must successful man should do'

Bankers, hedge fund managers, and traditional currency enthusiasts are far more cuddly and charitable

"Coded in assembly language 59 years ago, the IMF seems small, at 200,000 lines of code. But the nature of assembler is that each line does a lot. Somehow replicating the logic in a more contemporary language has resisted efforts dating back a couple of decades."

Considering that average IQ has been dropping for decades in developed countries, one has to begin wondering if we are even capable of building code or infrastructure as well as they did 50-70 years ago

What is the difficulty in developing more housing in less populated regions of Canada? Cost of materials, permitting and regulations, uninhabitable climate?

Have you tried confronting them about it?

I imagine there is a huge backlog after the lumber price spike in 2020 has trickled back down

The US is huge, with long highways and long commutes. EVs might eventually overtake ICE cars in certain cities, but a large part of the population drives 200+ miles daily, and can't re-orient their routine around charging

Excluding children from education is the exact same thing as excluding minors from consuming alcohol

Is it reasonable to assume that if a publishing or media company is owned by a parent company, and that parent company has financial stakes in other industries, the parent company might pressure or incentivize a specific headline narrative to benefit their other financial stakes?

This was certainly evident with some covid restrictions. Hamper the education and mental development of healthy children to protect the elderly at all costs

Imagine if the military had this mindset.

'We should surrender our lawfully owned territory in case force might be used against us in the future'

What was paranoid? It was a convenient way to move around trillions of dollars

No, you're right. Everything happened exactly as the experts and fact-checkers said it did

It sure was a convenient way to move around trillions of dollars

That is factually untrue, in the last decade;

"Approximately 13 percent of the population in Sweden experience problems in their own residential area with crime, violence or vandalism. It is one of the highest proportions in Europe."

https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/artiklar/2019/fler-upplev...

You would have to adjust for all external influences. Mexico and Syria are mostly dangerous because of failed USA policies (drug war, war on terror) than their internal cultures

I wonder how much of this correlates with the drop in religious participation. Religion, for better or worse, was a useful tool for stigmatizing bad behavior and incentivizing good behavior

Thank you for an honest answer. I've also observed that cryptocurrency enthusiasts have a orientation towards high-risk, which is a different mindset than most engineers who prefer reliability and predicability

I've noticed that HN is typically hostile to crypto topics? Anyone care to explain why? I'm asking this question in genuine good-faith because I'm curious

People who steal things

Is hydroelectric generation seasonal with snowmelt?

Again, not a valid comparison. The massive tariff increase was due to a hardware failure, not market pressures. It would like being given a credit card, with unforeseeable terms and conditions occurring outside the scope of your contract which are then resolved later in the month

Is this a valid comparison? The issue in Texas was due to faulted generation which automatically triggered a cascade of tariffs - all of which were resolved and not billed to customers.

That's quite the leap from moderating information to a murder investigation

If you thought the world is bad with aggressive bullies in power, wait until you see how bad it gets with aggrieved nerds in power.

Christian monasteries maintained and improved on technology after the absolute collapse of the Roman empire