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pxue··on Robinhood Shares Down 60% Since IPO
ARKK etf is heavily invested, about 200M worth. Average cost $33
pxue··on US consumer prices soared 7% in past year, most since 1982
maybe things aren't that simple?

the corporate greed angle is justifiable because some part of the inflation can absolutely be attributed to the maxing out of the global supply chain.

our supply chain is optimized to perfection, it means companies consciously made the decision to ship US grown cotton overseas to Asia for processing and manufacturing into clothing to reduce cost. This back-and-forth takes time and eats up supply-chain resources.

pxue··on More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
Ahh. it begins.

- US midterm is coming up in november.

- One of Biden's major election point was combating Covid and curbing infections.

- This has largely been a catastrophic failure. More Americans have died from Covid under Biden than under Trump (not that it matters)

So, the left media will now begin a year long campaign down playing domestic covid severity, and make sure that Covid will NOT be a major talking point for the 2022 elections.

Edit: republican will 100% pull a "i-told-you-so" move in their campaign trails. I'm Canadian and our government (even conservative learning province/state government) is still using the partial lockdown as a mean to curb infection, it's very very obviously NOT working.

What will be really interesting is just how the medical community is so detached from the political community. I understand you shouldn't bring politics into science, but you also can't blind yourself and optimize for only one metric.. everything is a trade-off.

pxue··on No one died in China of Covid since April 15th 2020
the way Chinese government works is that thousands of local municipal level governments implements and then reports into the central government (politburo).

this basically becomes a huge prisoner's dilemma, no body in charge wants to look bad.

pxue··on Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1
email/password is terrible UX for vast majority of user. it's forgettable, it's not secure, and it exists only because it have existed since dawn of computers.
pxue··on The Case Against Crypto
Too early to tell is exactly correct.

Author pointed to the 13 year time line and pretended the "internet" didn't also take 20 years for it to go from lab to actual wide spread public use.

NFTs in theory, are no less productive than fine art. And fine art (or IRL collectibles) are a well accepted form of diversified asset.

I'm not bought into the overall hype though. Some toots web3 will change human nature, as if "decentralized" decision making would magically make people less lazy and less selfish. I doubt that.

too early to tell is the best we can do right now.

pxue··on How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs
Jr at 300k? Someone's lying to yah. Maybe total comp including RSU and 401k matching and you based in HCOL like San Fran.
pxue··on Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
yeap. it's sloowwly getting there.
pxue··on Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
maybe except a team at google? ;)
pxue··on Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China
I whole-heartedly agree with your narrative.

However, following your argument of human rights, would you cut diplomatic ties to Russia in similar fashion? Who's your largest trading partner?

pxue··on [dead]
the only way to slow down crypto/nft/defi/web3 hype-sphere now is a real and tangible near-term global energy crisis.
pxue··on California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain inefficiencies
> The president of a Southern California drayage company said the Lunar New Year, which starts Feb. 1, may be the recalibration the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach need to clear out the backlog as factories in China shut down for two weeks or more.

> “The salvation I see is this is a time when we can hit the clock and we’ve got 30, 40, maybe 50 days to get the congestion out and reset the game board to zero,” the company executive, who didn’t want to be identified for fear of retaliation by terminal operators, told FreightWaves.

That's one way to solve the problem.

pxue··on ECB sees rising risk that housing bubble will burst
But the problem is how much of the demand is artificially proped up by the extremely low borrowing rate?

What central banks and feds need to think about is, if they raise rates to combat high inflation, will the higher rates induce a coma in the borrowing market, thus overcorrecting the market into a high supply/low demand situation.

While your argument is logically sound, it's not the whole picture

pxue··on Reddit theorizing that a complex Fed facility is flashing signs of market crash
instruction unclear, bought more tsla calls.
pxue··on Twelve Years of Go
i have the completely opposite take.

every if err != nil; return err let's me mentally draw a line in the sand and not worry about exception handling for code above that line. It lets me start fresh and restart my mental model with the line of codes below the error handling block.

it doesn't take years of writing Go to understand this, all you need is a open mind to how Go does things.

pxue··on Twelve Years of Go
Compressing this into 1 line provides absolutely nothing for the reader, in fact, it absolutely takes away reability.
pxue··on When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Asimov’s Vision Gets Lost
Feels like they started writing Cleo's arc and hastily added Hardin's because it didn't check all the boxes.
pxue··on $1M bounty for details on Tether’s backing
short sell MicroStrategy (mstr), they are pegged to crypto because they decided to hold large amounts of crypto as a corporation

New crypto ETF is also right around the corner. There will definitely be futures on that.

pxue··on Stripe launched 10 years ago today
So when are you guys IPOing so I can throw my life saving at your stock and forget it until I retire?
pxue··on Show HN: HackerPen a better tool for tech interview
600/1.2 = 500

I think it’s correct? Now I’m confused too

Edit: yup was wrong. Read reply for right calculations.

pxue··on Alibaba to invest $15.5B for “common prosperity”
And then you end up with a overly complex tax code with a million loopholes that can be exploited given the resource and time.
pxue··on Visa Buys CryptoPunk #7610
how is a NFT any more arbitrary than a hallmark card?

both are "artistic" to a certain degree, completely useless after the purchase and initial exchange.

pxue··on 61% of Americans paid no income taxes in 2020
Is that 100% true though?

Some estimate maybe only 10% of Chinese individuals pay tax. Individual taxes account only about 8% of China's tax revenues.

Bulk of the tax burden comes from consumption and business.

I'm all for that. If I make a million dollars but I live frugally and invest my money, why should I pay 50%?

Sure the argument for individual taxes are about social wellness but how do you justify that when businesses are avoiding billions of tax legally.

Make no sense.

pxue··on Go 1.17 Release Notes
For JS, es6/ecma2015 -> ecma2021, lots of language changes.
pxue··on Go 1.17 Release Notes
The go code I wrote in 2015 looks and works exactly the same way new Go code I'm writing today. Even with all the upgrades.

You have no idea how amazing that feels.

pxue··on Ask HN: I feel trapped in my job and city
Is your work time demanding?

Why not try spending 25% of your work day on a business project you love? Make it profitable and do it full time.

pxue··on Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’
Open up city zoning laws so "local" food actually effing mean local and not within 8h truck shipping distance.

Lots of city dead space, roof tops, useless alley ways that can be turned into gardens that provide simple food source

pxue··on Entire German bond yield curve back in sub-zero territory
That's what Ponzi scheme sales person would proclaim, until not true.
pxue··on Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay?
Output/performance shouldn't be determined by pay, ie pay is a lagging indicator of output/performance.
pxue··on Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission
Nop. But likei said the tradeoff is clear, ease vs control.

Im sure we would have had this talk when on-premise transitioned to the cloud. Same arguments apply

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