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lgregg··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Pax Romana peace.
lgregg··on The housing market isn't for single people
They are still around but less common. Some progressive cities like Austin calls them a "Boarding House"[0] I'm not sure if there is a unit cap where something like your historical tenement housing could happen like in Manhattan. It's the same idea just a different format.

[0] https://www.austintexas.gov/department/get-boarding-house-li...

lgregg··on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
I think they might have deeper issues still with their outage. I just got an email and retroactive charge for something I returned months ago and shows as returned on their own orders portal. The link in their transactional email also links to a totally different product.
lgregg··on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
Yeah, but that isn't really an apples to apples comparison. Texas for example had ~400 heat deaths in 2024 depending on where you look but in 2023 it was 334 or 563 depending on your criteria [1].

>But I want to put it into perspective. In 2024, ~62,800 people in Europe died to heat-related events.

Most of these deaths are not because of electrification but the fact that homes are built out of bricks and mortar and become ovens with heat waves that get hotter each year and ~10% to ~20% [2] of homes in Europe have air conditioning meanwhile ~95% [3] of homes have air conditioning. Your apples to oranges comparison mostly shows how Europe is generically unprepared for climate adaption (specifically heat resilience) and has nothing to do with electrification stability.

[1] https://www.texasenvironment.org/news-room/heat-related-deat... [2] It's all over the place some places like UK are around 5% adoption while southern Europe can be close to as much as 95% adoption. [3] https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/data/2020/state/...

lgregg··on 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program
I’m not sure about this round but I know someone that resigned out of the DOGE wave in Homeland and she got 9 months severance. I would assume something relatively similar.
lgregg··on Ask HN: What's your tips and tricks for the job seeker entering 2025?
It's just a tool I know, I guess if I posted any link you'd say the same thing regardless of the tool.
lgregg··on OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund
Where can you go to learn more about these entity / LP / LLP setups that finance orgs use?
lgregg··on "PayPal took $80k from me and banned me"
What payment provider did you switch to?
lgregg··on Uninstall the NightOwl app
It seems kinda weird to Dox the guy's home address.
lgregg··on Tell HN: Hulu does not allow subscription cancellation
> The appeal of sending a letter isn't to avoid human contact, it's to avoid the time suck of aggravation and frustration that these dark pattern schmucks throw in the way.

It also very likely goes through a different pipeline to get solved and is immediately escalated internally.

lgregg··on Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
I've cancelled everything but YouTube Premium and Apple TV and share for everything else I'm interested in.
lgregg··on The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)
how do you manage all these replies? is it just bookmarked or do you keep a spreadsheet? I see you do this often.
lgregg··on Tell HN: GitHub no longer supporting unauthenticated `git://`
> Because the next brownout is permanent - and that will be an even bigger PITA.

more like a blackout.

lgregg··on Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable Heroku and Netlify alternative
I think it’s more of a you than them problem. I didn’t take this as a production-grade.
lgregg··on `three = 1` in the Linux sourcecode (2014)
Looks like it's still there: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/ext4/resize...
lgregg··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
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lgregg··on Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid
Yeah normally 11 cents per kWh but right now am at $4.24 per kWh.
lgregg··on Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?
I been way more productive than I ever was in the office.
lgregg··on Simple Bank Is Closing
not for all major banks, mine (usaa) forces 2fa which broke ynab and made it useable because i don't want to do data entry for every transaction.
lgregg··on Ask HN: Why does an article critical of Paul Graham get removed?
strange, i can flag posts but can't vouch at 400+ karma
lgregg··on Ask HN: Why does an article critical of Paul Graham get removed?
whats the karma level for that?
lgregg··on YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
> What is odd though is that it's the RIAA filing suit here and not google. Google has a real complaint, RIAA certainly does not.

Probably not wanting to poke a hornets nest of the open source community.

lgregg··on YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
We might as well ban screen shots because it can illegally reproduce photography stills. /s
lgregg··on Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries
CRNA is very specialized nurse that is near the top of the ladder of education and credentials. Then tack on a bay area salary and you have 225k.
lgregg··on Companies that help people vanish
I know the French Foreign Legion used to/may still give out passports and many regular army and SS troops from Nazi Germany took this up as a way to restart their lives. For all intents and purposes, this could work too.
lgregg··on I just lost 1,400 BTC
This is exactly the reason why I don’t use crypto currencies.
lgregg··on YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
I think most frameworks/languages swing in and out of the lime light. Using Ruby as an example, it was great then got really hot, then as you said Python got the data science boost and moved a lot of people there. I'm curious if Matz makes good on his promise to 3x Ruby that will result in Ruby getting some more data science libraries.

That said, last I checked regarding performance Rails and Django were pretty much neck and neck with a negligible difference with rails being very slightly faster (iirc).

I think also a big reason why Ruby is feature so heavily in this list is because of it's focus of developer productivity. It's a nice mesh of flexibility and convention. Generally all projects are setup and organized the same but you can still write a conditional if statement a dozen ways. Compared to my personal experience working with Django and Python are the woes of getting everything configured and setup for each project which is frankly a pita. Also, Python is fairly regimented on a lot of flexibility which has its perks too.

lgregg··on Show HN: Codemap – Codebase Visualizer for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python
Can this be used inversely to find dead code?
lgregg··on US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
I would argue those are different things because there was the threat of violence in the case of a mugging.
lgregg··on US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
clicked through the transactions and found this wallet: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/17A16QmavnUfCW11DAApi...

a balance of 16m and over 1.4 trillon usd has passed through this account.

the oldest transaction i could find was 2019-11-02 14:19: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/17A16QmavnUfCW11DAApi...

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