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stepanhruda

549 karma · joined April 24, 2014

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/stepanhruda; my proof: https://keybase.io/stepanhruda/sigs/G5PumJIRZ-XV6fi9pRZ8W0E23l0B9FxuTnkeyxR5a1E ]
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stepanhruda··on My dad's resume and skills from 1980
This is such a terrible take worthy of not making it past Econ 101. Yes in theory a completely free labor market is cool. In practice, centuries of labor exploitation and history of workers’ right show that this will quickly devolve in employer’s favor.
stepanhruda··on We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online
Hey I learned to code thanks to RunUO!
stepanhruda··on How history/tech YouTube channel Asianometry reached 270K subscribers, $5K/month
Not a sunk cost but a fixed cost.
stepanhruda··on Offline map test on Apple Watch Ultra for hiking
They are sunsetting future OS feature updates for it, not the hardware itself. Plus they release security patches for some older devices as well. Eg iPhone 8 supports latest OS, but they just released a patch for OS that supports iPhone 5s, which came out 9 years ago.
stepanhruda··on ‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s sizzle fizzled in the US
I absolutely love Beyond and Impossible alternatives, they are making it viable to not eat meat while getting an experience in the similar ballpark.

My only issue is actually not enough places offer them, or at least not in a variety of dishes. I don’t want to eat burgers multiple times a week, regardless of if they are beef or not.

stepanhruda··on ‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s sizzle fizzled in the US
I have been a vegetarian the past few years and can absolutely not relate. Bean patties at majority of restaurants are dry, I can’t even remember a good bean burger I got.
stepanhruda··on FTC Investigating Amazon’s Acquisition of iRobot
Would mainly make sense if I returned the original order, otherwise there must be much more efficient use of the recommendation space.
stepanhruda··on The Merge
Yes. That’s why diversity of client implementations is important.
stepanhruda··on The Merge
You can’t borrow enough money and immediately take over the network. Those funds need to be staked first in validators with 32 ETH each and you need to control enough validators to control consensus. It’s more difficult than PoW in a way since you can’t just start validating, there is an entry/exit queue.
stepanhruda··on Twitter lays off 30% of its talent acquisition team
It’s recruiters…
stepanhruda··on Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance
I’m a fan of asyncio, the parent probably meant to say parallelism though, since that’s what getting rid of GIL unlocks.
stepanhruda··on Absurd Trolley Problems
Do one that says “a child that will have a terrible life” vs “two adults who will have a good life” and let’s see the percents.
stepanhruda··on How the US Air Force Ditched the Average and Saved Lives
Yes, it can be a problem and I agree more context like median or a full histogram should be more common, but I have never seen anyone claim that the average was 2 in your example.
stepanhruda··on ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against Vice has been dismissed
We have lots of bugs in our product, but you will be happy to hear that our ratio of bug per line of code is excellent!

Also US numbers per capita are actually very bad (https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-us-gun-violence-worl...) and worse in rural states, are you just going by feelings?

stepanhruda··on How the US Air Force Ditched the Average and Saved Lives
Is this actually very common? “average” is the common word for “mean”, I haven’t seen anyone to present median or mode as an average.
stepanhruda··on What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?
You don’t need to automate the whole process, just use language models to establish rapport for a few weeks and have humans pick up the gullible ones at the bottom of the funnel.
stepanhruda··on iOS 16
Serious question: what do you mean by notifications for 2 different SIMs, like from the phone app? Nothing I do on my iPhone is related to my SIM card.
stepanhruda··on Restarting my career after motherhood
It’s pretty clear that’s what the author is talking about in that sentence - I remained [professionally] flat.
stepanhruda··on The Central Social Institution in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1937
Ha good point and fitting username.
stepanhruda··on The Central Social Institution in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1937
Quite a sight to see a luddite on hacker news.
stepanhruda··on Why is the nuclear power industry stagnant?
Solar/wind will always fluctuate - nuclear can provide a guaranteed output to smoothen the need for massive batteries.
stepanhruda··on Crypto Might Have an Insider Trading Problem
If they add liquidity at Uniswap, they do indeed get listed at a pre-determined price. The initial liquidity is added at a 50/50 ratio with an existing highly liquid asset, so the number of coins the initial liquidity providers have directly sets the price - of course the immediate dump/demand quickly swings the price.
stepanhruda··on Why All Cryptocurrency Should Die in a Fire
Collateralized vs not
stepanhruda··on macOS Multi-Monitor Problems
From what I have seen Apple chips have made significant improvements in the external display experience.
stepanhruda··on Why All Cryptocurrency Should Die in a Fire
You are saying dollars are so stable, how come the Zimbabwe dollar crashed!

That’s just wordplay, algorithmic stablecoins have been problematic and crashing since the beginning and a big one just crashed. Call me when USDC or DAI crashes - specifically not Tether because it’s arguably also undercollateralized.

stepanhruda··on Why All Cryptocurrency Should Die in a Fire
You are answering like it’s 2015 and all you know about is how Bitcoin works. All 3 problems that you mention are solved with 1. zero knowledge proofs 2. multisigs 3. stablecoins.
stepanhruda··on macOS Multi-Monitor Problems
Is this on a Mac with an M1 chip?
stepanhruda··on Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody's says
That is what they are saying though - people are actually buying the assets? All anecdotes I have seen recently say that houses go off market very quickly.
stepanhruda··on Shell profits nearly triple as oil prices surge
Because it’s difficult to verify how much who extracts, so very easy to extract more than agreed upon and earn more at the cost of others. This case is literally used as an example in an economics class.
stepanhruda··on Gen Z does not dream of labor
No house in Manhattan on a cashier’s salary has always been the case, that is not something that has regressed. You should check what areas people complain about being unaffordable before dismissing it as “of course NYC and California are expensive”.
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