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ptudan··on A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge
Just search for 4. You're almost never going to get in trouble for sleeping 2 adults and 3 kids in a hotel room for 4.
ptudan··on Ask HN: Why did medium.com "fail"?
Youtube? Tiktok? Twitch?
ptudan··on What crappy beer demand tells us about the economy
I'm happy that there's someone out there who isn't particularly experienced with alcoholism, genuinely, but your figures are very, very off

$100 a month on alcohol is like, 5-6 low tier cases of beer. That's just 5-6 beers a day. That's alcoholism to be sure, but the degeneracy goes way, way further.

If you work at a liquor store, you'll see the grandma who comes in 3x a week to buy a cheap plastic handle of vodka. Or the guy who buys a 12 pack and two shooters, every single day. Or the new mom who goes from buying 2 bottles of wine a week to 10.

ptudan··on Big Tech Layoffs Are Hitting Diversity and Inclusion Jobs Hard
I don't deny that there's historical things to be said about light being good and darkness being bad. That definitely has nothing to do with racism. I have nothing against yin and yang etc

But modern America has a modern lens, not a 600BC lens. Why ignore that?

ptudan··on Big Tech Layoffs Are Hitting Diversity and Inclusion Jobs Hard
Somethings are definitely stupid, but I don't really see what's bad about changing whitelist. White = good and black = bad is a weird concept that when using an American lens, is hard not to see implied racism.

Plus, allowlist and denylist is simply easier to understand.

I agree that if your entire job is coming up with this kind of stuff, that's a bit ridiculous. But I don't really see anything wrong with a few engineers spending a few hours a month to push company discourse in a more egalitarian direction.

ptudan··on Big Tech Layoffs Are Hitting Diversity and Inclusion Jobs Hard
Corporations are not 100% efficient. I have seen so much favoritism in my short career. It's to be expected. A middle manager doesn't care about the company's bottom line, they care about maintaining/upgrading their own position. That sometimes means working towards the bottom line, but usually means working people relationships.

Those people relationships are affected by race gender etc. You really have NEVER seen someone get on a great project because they're better connected, even if they are a worse engineer than someone who doesn't fit in as well?

ptudan··on The hype around esports is fading as investors and sponsors dry up
Not really. Endorsements and Advertising are a good cut of the money but most of the big money in streaming is coming directly from fans, whether through premium subscriptions or donations.
ptudan··on The hype around esports is fading as investors and sponsors dry up
There's definitely derivative media in eSports too. Replace SportsCenter with youtube and twitch channels, and the rest is the same
ptudan··on FTC seeks to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard
I used to play Age of Empires in treaty mode. You had XX minutes where you couldn't attack one another so just focused super hard on macro. Utter chaos when the treaty period ended as everyone had max size armies. Lagged the hell out of my computer. Good times

It was a fairly popular variant of the game too, never had trouble finding matches

ptudan··on Tom Brady, Giselle Bündchen, Larry David Sued in FTX Class Action Suit
Obvious scams eh? Wheres your short money
ptudan··on Is this the end of crypto?
I work for a crypto payments firm

We're getting there and you can already use our product at 50k+ stores in the US.

Even in this market, merchants are still interested. We launched new ones this week.

Comparing us to Visa or Paypal we are rinky dinky af, no denying that. But we are definitely growing.

Your lens of investment vs currency is also very US based. Consider countries that frequently experience huge rates of inflation. Non-fiat money can be valuable for them.

ptudan··on Economist Nouriel Roubini Calls Binance CEO a “Walking Time Bomb”
DeFi and FTX (and all the CEXs/Centralized lending platforms who credited FTX) are basically on opposite ends of the spectrum.

Most who are getting fucked by this fiasco are retail who have never touched DeFi.

ptudan··on Crypto.com Halts Solana USDC and USDT Withdrawals
Please elaborate, how is it a negative sum game?
ptudan··on Want to live in a van down by the river? Ford has a new vehicle for that
Lol I don't really disagree with the fancy vans being outrageously overpriced but this reads as super patronizing
ptudan··on Laws barring noncompete clauses spreading
Makes a ton of sense. Completely absurd for security guards and administrative assistants to have non-compete clauses. Just another way businesses were trying to reduce the willingness of employees to quit so that they can suppress wages.
ptudan··on Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team
Messenger lol
ptudan··on Tornado Cash and collateral damage
> In the exact same way, the SEC will go after any cryptocurrency "securities" that they want to, as soon as those securities blow up. Filecoin had an ICO just like a lot of other securities, but seemingly because it hasn't blown up, the SEC hasn't come knocking yet. It's just an evidence collection game.

When did XRP blow up? I don't think the SEC is waiting for a rug pull or system failure to sue.

ptudan··on Tornado Cash and collateral damage
The implication is that the sanction, which caused the removal of the code, is violating free speech. Github doesn't have a choice in removing it if they want to avoid getting sued.
ptudan··on Facebook Gave Police Teenager's DMs in Abortion Prosecution
You can push back against a warrant legally. Doesn't sound like facebook cared to.
ptudan··on Someone Is Trolling Celebs by Sending ETH from Tornado Cash
Right, and if you want to use a CEX wallet, go ahead. They will block sanctioned addresses and move those funds into a frozen account for the feds.
ptudan··on Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title
I don't think it will ever go away if chess is still around. But perhaps it stops being the main viewership draw
ptudan··on Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping
I think one thing this discounts is that you form loose connections and sometimes those loose connections become stronger later.

If you have a friend of a friend who you add on socials, and then you see their updates, and then you see them at a mutual party, despite not being well acquainted you are reasonably up to date with their lives. This can make the conversation flow better and you may form a meaningful connection.

ptudan··on Scratch is a big deal
Scratch was my introduction to programming. I was already a computer nerd, but had never programmed before. This was in the mid 2000s.

Now I'm in the industry and so are 15% of my classmates from that time.

ptudan··on People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia, data shows
You're not giving professional sports enough credit. On the player picking side, it's arguably the last true meritocracy in the US. Teams are willing to take fliers on fringe Jrs because of genetics and maybe the media attention that will come to their team. Otherwise, they always pick the players with the best combination of potential and immediate talent, regardless of background.

Coaching on the other hand, that's as nepotistic as any political field.

ptudan··on Show HN: PocketBase – Open Source realtime backend in one file
This looks awesome! I will definitely give it a try. Right now I use postgres in a docker compose but its definitely a bit heavier for single machine prototyping.

One thing that I like about my setup though is that there's a clear migration path to horizontally scale. Do you have a recommended way to move past pocketbase should an app get to that point?

ptudan··on A fake job offer took down Axie Infinity
yeah but that's solved by disabling notifications before presenting.
ptudan··on A fake job offer took down Axie Infinity
Nahhhhh, I gotta browse the internet to be effective. That requires me logging into random sites with personal logins.

I don't install anything personal on my work computer, but I wouldn't hesitate to open an email or pdf from a seemingly trusted source. I don't really blame the dev here.

What you propose is a reasonable solution, but I feel like it slams in the face of actual human behavior. Most people act the way I describe, even most tech professionals.

ptudan··on St. John's woman loses home after Phoenix pay fiasco
Ignoring that this is pointless pedantry, I don't really think so. I think it says that complex is on the high end of the scale, and dumbing something down slides it towards the low end of simple.
ptudan··on St. John's woman loses home after Phoenix pay fiasco
Or, they could have built a system capable of having a bunch of different knobs and levers that each CBA represents.

Life is complex, technology should support that. We should not have to dumb life down to match.

ptudan··on US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and services for little to no pay
Prisons are a part of the legislative and lobbying systems that directly influence which laws send people to prison. So, yes, they can send more people to prison.
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