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nerdkid93

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Lead Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

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nerdkid93··on Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S.
Check out US Mobile. They follow a similar ethos of prepaid plan, but you don't necessarily even need to sign up for months at a time like Mint.
nerdkid93··on Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees
> relatively high crime

You mention crime in regards to safety within a city, but there is a study floating around Twitter that factors in traffic fatalities in suburban and rural areas, and the dangers of cars make suburbs and rural areas MORE dangerous that urban areas! Take a look at this article detailing urban vs rural deaths: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-rural-a...

nerdkid93··on Microsoft SEC 8-K: IRS is seeking an additional tax payment of $29B
A good financial advisor will recommend keeping 3-6 months of non-negotiable expenses saved, not revenue. 6 months of revenue would be a quite significant amount of savings for most people.
nerdkid93··on Autopay is making us worse at managing credit-card bills
This article seems a little fearmongering. Autopay is great, and several credit card companies offer a variety of nice features to help reduce the likelihood of temporary cash flow management issues. Citi for example allows you to split your payment in 2, so if you are paid biweekly, you can arrange your payment dates to align with your paydays.
nerdkid93··on Autopay is making us worse at managing credit-card bills
https://archive.ph/4IyOF
nerdkid93··on Weight-based motor vehicle tax
> have very little tax for people's primary residence

Homeowners already get crazy tax breaks that our society bears the cost of. This would just be an even bigger shift to funding government services on the backs of renters rather than homeowners, as any increase in taxes that "landlords" are assessed is passed on to renters.

nerdkid93··on Weight-based motor vehicle tax
> which is every human activity

A lot of human activities don't use that much energy in the grand scheme of things. Playing board games, walking around a neighborhood, going to concerts or shows at the theater, these are all things that use very little energy when compared to heavy manufacturing, transportation, and most agriculture. Since most humans will bear the costs of climate change as it begins to destroy our past investments, I think it's fairly reasonable to fix that damage based on how much carbon activities generate.

> now you have to pay more tax

I mean I buy a cheap stock and it's value goes up, why should I have to pay tax on that too!? The value of the land has gone up because it has more amenities and benefits as well. If you feel you are not benefiting from the increased investment around your land, then you should sell it so it can be put to better use.

> it was EPA mandates

Correction: it was the exemptions from EPA mandates that created the huge truck situation. The fix would be to remove the exemptions for "light trucks"

nerdkid93··on Why are there no startups in the real estate construction sector?
There are some startups, but they seem to be very limited in their growth potential given the very cyclical nature of construction. I believe this hampers their access to VC and debt funding, so they don't make as big of a splash.

My city has a local construction startup that is trying to drop the cost of housing units by fabricating panels and rooms offsite and assembling at the construction site: https://www.modulehousing.com/

nerdkid93··on Show HN: The Fuck Cards – make a card for a friend or enemy
On mobile Firefox, the app captures the gesture to go back to the prior page, so I couldn't come back to here until I typed in the URL box to navigate to Hacker News
nerdkid93··on Apple Rankings
I love Super Juice! If I'm going to have friends over for a get together or party, I'll make a batch (or multiple if I want more than 1 fruit) a few days ahead of time to increase the speed in which drinks can be made. The downside is that garnishes still generally tend to need peels, so I still need to have a couple real fruits hanging around.
nerdkid93··on Worldwide Rail Network Map
There's this, but it doesn't appear to be fully complete: https://www.infrapedia.com/app
nerdkid93··on A cautionary tale from the decline of SourceForge
I feel like this linked page has more info then the page that OP posted: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.2874
nerdkid93··on Detailed Assemblies for an Airtight Small Home
Matt Risinger is a builder based out of Austin, TX that has a lot of videos detailing how to build high performance, airtight homes. https://youtube.com/c/MattRisinger
nerdkid93··on Improving GitHub Code Search
I wonder if it is the followup to this conversation from last year when https://grep.app was released: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22397728
nerdkid93··on Facebook chooses profits over people
Zuckerberg is a minority shareholder in Facebook with majority control due to dual-class Founder's shares he possesses. The only person he's accountable to is himself.
nerdkid93··on Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found security flaw in state site
I agree that it's a potentially dumb idea, it sounds like just another kind of Jim Crow era law that could very easily be misused to prevent people from running for office for any reason that people in power see fit (e.g. racism, sexism, other -isms). The only way I see it being a good idea is if you just need to answer the provided questions, and not necessarily "pass" the exam, but that would necessitate voters actually caring if their lawmakers know anything about tech (or the other variety of topics included).
nerdkid93··on How to win at CORS
> remember, the 's' in 'IoT' stands for security

I don't know why, but this cracked me up. :D

nerdkid93··on JWT should not be your default for sessions
I believe refresh tokens are supposed to be HTTP Only
nerdkid93··on Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2020)
Related video from City Beautiful on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TaU1UH_3B5k
nerdkid93··on Verizon Sells AOL and Yahoo to Apollo for $5B
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27024376
nerdkid93··on Robinhood: The old guard of investing is at it again
tldr: Robinhood got offended that Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger called their company out for incentivizing gambling and not investing... which seems particularly obtuse since Robinhood makes their profit from the r/WSB community and not the people who use their platform for long term investments.
nerdkid93··on Wildtype: Sushi-grade salmon grown from Pacific Salmon cells
I found that video fascinating as an example of how pernicious myths can be. Makes me wonder how many myths I've propagated to others without verifying them myself.
nerdkid93··on Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript
Over a year ago, I was investigating using Prisma to be the ORM for a GraphQL API of a Postgres database. When doing a proof-of-concept, I discovered that under the hood @prisma/client was spinning up it's own GraphQL server that it would send requests to in order to generate SQL to send to postgres. This extra middleware layer between my frontend code and postgres generated some pretty poor performing queries that took 50% longer to complete than the queries generated by using Hasura as our whole GraphQL API.

A quick glance at the @prisma/client code makes it seem like this pattern is still the case, since they have an "engine-core" package that downloads a binary server behind the scenes and runs it on a free port in the background.

nerdkid93··on Robinhood Files S-1
Why did you post this? Their S-1 still hasn't been publically released yet, and this news that they filed it with the SEC is from ~1 month ago.
nerdkid93··on Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming
> deep learning team for Capital One

What!? Capital One has a deep learning team? As a long-time customer of theirs, I can't even begin to guess what that team might do for their set of products, except maybe to optimize their credit card offerings.

nerdkid93··on Word usage guidance and alternative terms
Technically, America is metric in that our units are based on metric units now. So 1 yard is defined as 0.9144 meter and 1 pound (avoirdupois) is 0.45359237 kg[0].

0: https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/FedRegister/FRdoc59-5442.p...

nerdkid93··on Just Be Rich
see page 199 in this dataset[0] which is the dataset used for this list of countries on Wikipedia[1]. If you sort on Wealth Gini (2019), then Netherlands is ranked first.

0: https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_eq...

nerdkid93··on FDA approves first test of CRISPR for genetic defect causing sickle cell disease
I was super pumped for this tech to start being used in human clinical trials, but a couple of years ago, there was a study[0] that raised some key concerns about CRISPR therapeutics increasing the risk of cancer due to some edited cells self-destructing once their genomes have been modified, leaving behind cells with a higher risk of cancer due to not being as sensitive to genomic edits. Have these challenges been overcome yet?

[0]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crispr-edited-cel...

nerdkid93··on Yellen calls for a global minimum corporate tax rate
So 2 ideas, 1) make capital gains over $1 million a year taxed as regular income and 2) get rid of Stepped-Up cost basis from estate tax exemptions
nerdkid93··on Robinhood Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO
True, but most of the negative sentiment by r/WSB that I have seen has been done through options contracts (from what I've seen at least).
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