texaswhizzle

Happy to stop using Hacker News. Thanks. Please ban.

There is nothing special or important about a single entire Bitcoin. It’s completely arbitrary. The question is whether Bitcoin is scarce. If there are millions of trillions of tradeable assets, it’s not scarce.

Doesn’t want to talk to the media because she “wants to protect her mental health.”

Kicks off a media shitstorm by refusing to talk to the media. Risks tens of thousands in fines, a WTA investigation, default from the French Open, and expulsion from future Grand Slam events.

I’m sure all that is great for her mental health.

It’s not artificial scarcity, it’s outright fake scarcity.

The total supply of Bitcoin is 21,000,000 coins. However, every single coin is 100,000,000 individual assets.

21,000,000 sounds pretty finite. But 21,000,000,000,000,000 sounds a tad less finite. The price of Bitcoin relies on the fundamental false premise that it’s scarce.

Using a toilet without a bidet is the equivalent to stepping barefoot into dog crap, the crap gets all in between your toes, and then you use dry paper towels to clean off.

Disgusting.

Don’t touch the bidet with your hands? The nozzle and water are clean. Not sure what you’re worried about there.

Stop posting your life and thoughts on the internet! Privacy advocates have been screaming about this for years but no one seems to care until they have a gun in their face.

The really sad thing is the children. Parents uploading their kids entire lives and the kids have absolutely no way to opt out. Permanently giving your kid an online identity before they can even talk. Horrible thing to do to your child.

The biggest problem I have with Amazon is USPS theft. I have had dozens of packages delivered in my mailbox despite the fact that my mailbox is 3” tall. Amazon doesn’t care, USPS doesn’t care. But Amazon always make me wait at least a week to verify that this obvious theft is real. Photo evidence of my mailbox does not move the needle.

I’ve never been asked to print a barcode and put it in the box. I just returned a $300 item last week, and all they wanted me to do was ship it back.

This is also true for Amazon business purchases. I have returned items around $600 and have never been asked to put a code in the box.

But I’ve never returned anything over $1,000.

Why is this content on Hacker News? It has absolutely nothing to do with tech.

If you’re saving cash you’re legitimately losing money.

The market is so wild that it doesn’t even make sense to make a down payment. Just take the PMI.

Borrowing rates are just too low, and banks are letting people and businesses lever up way beyond reasonable levels.

Short term rentals are lucrative. Owners can earn many multiples of their costs per month on the short term rental market. Significantly more lucrative than traditional long term rental properties.

...and finally, the ridiculous bonus depreciation rules.

Borrow at low rates, secure cash flow into the future, and write off 100% of eligible improvements the year you spend. Yeah, no shit the housing market is going ballistic.

I think where people get into trouble is when they try to implement a true microservice architecture without actually understanding the tradeoffs and complexities. You will likely end up with a spaghetti rube goldberg mess with weird service dependencies.

I also think people tend to strive for too much purity. It's okay if you want to avoid the replication and event bus complexity of microservices and choose a monolith-esque database architecture. Just split your APIs across business domain, leave your database as it is, and be done with it.

Just make sure you stick to the fundamental principles of microservices. Scoped, fault tolerant, independently deployable. Fault tolerant does not 100% have to include database failures. Don't ever directly cascade API calls from one service to another.

The biggest "why not" is that you should choose the architecture that best solves the problem. Don't treat architecture as a playground to try out random shit. Solve the business problem in the simplest way possible. In most scenarios you probably don't need isolated, fault tolerant, distributed services. I would guess that 75% of microservices implementations fall under the premature optimization anti-pattern.

LeetCode is an excellent collection of problems you’ll never encounter in real life. If you don’t have a computer science background you might learn some things. Otherwise, it’s just solving silly problems for the sake of solving silly problems.

It reminds me of when my college required linear algebra for my degree. Learning things that I knew without a shadow of a doubt I would never put to use again.

Other “groups” don’t have national broadcasts and major websites.

Ah, interesting. I stopped after book 6. Can I jump straight to 8 or do I need to slog my way through 7?

The problem with this is who is the arbiter on what is, or isn’t, a conspiracy theory. The main stream media in the US seem to innately believe certain claims, without evidence, while also portraying other claims as “conspiracy theories.”

In the case of covid there seemed to be universal belief in the media that covid originated in animals. There was no proof of this claim.

It’s one thing to just simply pick a claim and believe in it. It’s quite another to attack people who are providing an alternative claim.

The same thing rings true with regard to what is a “correct” thing to say. “China Virus” is apparently repugnant. However, naming the country of origin for variants is not. South African Variant is fine.

I’ll take that hypothetical problem over what we had in the past. A dozen different plugs, a dozen different cables, multiple required docks, incompatible charging bricks, proprietary plugs, and more.

I have yet to come across an issue with USB-C either personally or externally. But maybe some day it will happen. And I still won’t care because it’s better than it used to be.

Way too risky. It would have to be significantly above market rate before I would consider it. Risk of damage to the property.

It’s because virtually no one outside of Hacker News seems to have these problems. The rest of the world seems to love the singular port.

How is this any different than buying the wrong cable in the past? You used to have to choose USB2, USB3, USB3.x, micro USB, mini USB, DisplayPort, Mini DisplayPort, HDMI, mini HDMI, VGA, DVI, thunderbolt, and more.

I think people are either too young to remember this disaster, or have just outright forgotten.

Season 4 is bad because the book is bad. Unfortunately, the source material doesn’t get any better after this.

Both major mobile OS platforms support steam link.

Why not just buy a solid controller for your phone or tablet?

How could this hypothetical device possibly be better than an iPhone 12 Pro Max, Note, Galaxy S, etc?

This measure of value is no longer relevant. Short term rentals are the lucrative market segment now. Long term tenants provide stability, but much lower upside.

There are other factors at play.

Bonus depreciation rules from the tax cut and jobs act. Real estate investors can depreciate 100% of an investment within the first year until 2022.

Low interest rates. Borrow money cheaply now and secure cash flow later.

Interest only financing. Financing schemes that allow investors maximum leverage. More leverage means more buying.

All together the current market is tilted heavily toward real estate investors. Unless the tax law changes, I wouldn’t expect things to fundamentally change until 2025.