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zenbai··on Svelte 5: Runes
Solid is still the best implementation of fine grained reactivity.
zenbai··on Migrating from Vue 2 to Svelte
Solid JS is what I would have chosen. Not sure if they considered it. Best performance and dev experience with least 'magic' of all frameworks I've tried.
zenbai··on Bitcoin is a Ponzi
People should learn about how much money the Fed is printing these days.

Bitcoin is getting a lot of attention from a lot of very smart financial people around the world because they see that with so much USD being printed, inflation is bound to happen and Bitcoin is one of many ways they can hedge against it.

HN is where you can find great commentary about tech related stuff. But outside of that eg. financial matters .. no.

zenbai··on Bitcoin is a Ponzi
People just trying to justify to themselves why they didn't buy bitcoin at $100.

Looking at the comments here it's almost like a political debate where they keep trying to come up with justifications.

zenbai··on Bitcoin is a Ponzi
A lot of people on HN seem to have 'strong opinions strongly held' about things.
zenbai··on Bitcoin is a Ponzi
You're being downvoted but I completely agree.

It's funny how people on HN which are likely some of the first people in the world to know about bitcoin (eg. since it was only at $100 or less) keep upvoting articles like this for years now.

I think these people deep down know that they missed an amazing chance by not investing in bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) years ago, so articles like this make them feel better about it and lets them justify not investing in bitcoin to themselves.

But then in a few years bitcoin 5xs again and then they realize if they bought it at todays price would still have made them massive profit.

But then they see a new article saying bitcoin is a ponzi and upvote it and feel good about themselves again.

Oh but they have to downvote any comments like yours too.

zenbai··on On Depression and Founders
Wow, thanks for sharing that. So how are you and the business now?
zenbai··on How Men’s Bodies Change When They Become Fathers
This is worse than reddit actually. Actually his comment is what I expect a subset of HN would think.

Male tech workers who value money above all else.

zenbai··on Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team
This is the worst thing about this whole issue.

If they were actually good at removing crapware from the store, then a bit of collateral damage would be understandable. Instead, it is still filled with crapware and even when reported they do nothing. And instead, they go for honest developers.

At this point Google is practically almost hostile to honest developers.

Also, it is strange that they value the revenue from these crapware apps more than their platform's reputation compared to ios App Store.

zenbai··on The Suicides in South Korea, and the Suicide of South Korea
So a Korean, who probably knows more about the topic of Korean culture than the average American HN reader, gives their view and somehow these other readers think they know better and downvote him/her?

Typical HN attitude really ... people on this board seem to have this "know it all / know it better than you" attitude even when they clearly don't.

As someone who is not a Westerner or American, this place always makes me feel that it is just a self validating echo chamber being so sure of your views even when it isn't matched to reality.

zenbai··on Oculus Rift S
No. Palmer Luckey even said so:

https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-founder-palmer-luckey-price-...

http://palmerluckey.com/free-isnt-cheap-enough/

zenbai··on Michael Crichton, Science Studies, and the Technothriller (2015)
His legacy will be that he was one of the most impactful climate deniers who influenced so many, including politicians and presidents, to ignore the issue of global warming precisely when there was still time to fix it.
zenbai··on FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support
I am considering FoundationDB for a SaaS project. Here are some questions I have:

1. What is the recommended way to filter on multiple indexes?

2. What is the recommended way to filter on one or more indexes and sort on another or more index(es)

3. If I use FoundationDB as my main datastore, how should I implement full text search?

4. From what I understand, FoundationDB stores keys sorted globally. How does it handle hot spots where a range of keys that is very frequently accessed is on one machine that gets overloaded?

Edit 5. How do you do backups?

zenbai··on Malaysia Resists China’s Investments, Fearing ‘Colonialism’
Wow. The most interesting thing I learned is Mahathir is now 93.
zenbai··on From Father to Son, Last Words to Live by (2007)
Woah, I guess you never heard of ISIS
zenbai··on How to take 7 years to ship a beta
How did you support yourself during all that time?
zenbai··on Escaping the SPA rabbit hole with modern Rails
Try developing Slack or Discord with Rails and turbolinks. The point is, some apps are naturally SPAs. For those that aren't then it is unneeded complexity to make them SPAs. Also personally, I have had great experience with Vue in an SPA.
zenbai··on Why I Left the U.S. 20 Years Ago and Why I Won't Be Coming Back
It reminds me of that dystopian mega simcity city that was on the front page a few days ago.

I guess people in that city feel the same ... they need their familiar chains in their cookie cutter neighborhoods or they feel lost.

zenbai··on Not your Tibetan Buddhism
The way this article talks of Tibetan Buddhism without comparing it or contrasting the teachings in it to the Theravada school of Buddhism practiced in Thailand and Myanmar is very disappointing. It is painting another wrong image of Buddhism as a whole.

It is almost like if someone never knew what Christianity was about and after learning about a sect (church) with strange practices proceeds to write an article talking about it using the name of the church interchangeably with Christianity as a whole- to a group that knows nothing about Christianity.

This is especially disappointing because the Theravada school is the school that emphasizes philosophy more than rituals (other than meditating) and is thus actually closer to the Western idea - even though it is not exactly the same, because again Westerners including the author of this article mostly know nothing about Buddhism.

The result is this articlle paints a picture that Buddhism as a whole isn't really worth learning about.

Yes the author says he is talking about 'Tibetan Buddhism' but he doesn't inform the reader of other schools of Buddhism that may be more interesting to learn about and that don't have an emphasis on tantric rituals and mysticism that he is complaining about.