Viewing profile — SanFranManDan

If they are endless where are they?

For substantially more risk…

That’s a Strawman argument. There’s a difference between having doubts and actively and willingly creating and distributing lies.

I get a “could not fetch note” on iOS

From personal experience I had the same carrier (blue cross) with the same deductible and same copay (the “gold” level PPO) but I currently pay $800 to buy it independently for my …

I mean you can get ten thousand monkeys throwing darts at a board full of companies as an investment strategy, and a handful of those monkeys will be top performers with excellent …

If you are using erlang you should be using pattern matching not regex. Erlang/Elixir are one of the easiest languages to build parsers in with their binary string pattern matching…

> It costs more money to store That might not be true if you consider that it is dramatically easier to lose $1b of bitcoin by forgetting the key, but there is almost no way you co…

But that is significantly different from the gas station example. The parent said that the gas stations primary income is selling food not gas. Ikea primary income is selling furni…

Housing prices change. Rent prices change. Here in SoCal I was going to buy a place but the pandemic hit so we decided to rent. Our rent payment is about half what we would pay if …

Started looking at Elm this weekend as a possibility for it to compile into other languages (javascript/elixir). Its too bad every release requires most packages to be rewritten. T…

It reminds me of how last year (and still ongoing) we saw heaps of meditation apps. It just seemed completely counter intuitive to me (as a Zen practitioner) to introduce something…

In order for equity to be worth it for employees at a Startup you need to be within the first 10 people and the company needs to be north of the $500,000,000 range. To illustrate, …

I think the point was that it was true for the national corporate media, but the local stations were somewhat protected until ajit pai allowed Sinclair to start sucking all of them…

I agree. However, I stumbled into the world of KV stores (like RocksDB, LMDB, LevelDB, etc..) last year, and what is most surprising is that they all stop in the same place. I unde…

From what I could tell, its tikv is virtually useless without the rest of the tidb (the MySQL layer that sits on top written in go) to be useful. TiKV has no replication / sharding…

> Avoiding both these extremes, the Tathagata (the Perfect One) has realized the Middle Path; it gives vision, gives knowledge, and leads to calm, to insight, to enlightenment and …

I had one person say after I put in 4 hours "The code wasn't clean". That was his feedback. I pressed him and he eventually said "I ran this by 3 Senior Python experts I know. All …

One problem I found is that streaming services have too much mental overhead. It sounds funny, but look at Netflix original content; Most of the story writing is "too good" and too…

All of this has been possible for the last century. For instance, at least in Russia you just get an actor that looks like the politician, film them doing some bad stuff and blackm…

Likely you don't need a generic implementation of Decimal. What money do you want to represent, they all have a "atomic value". For instance, when working with dollars store cents.…

This article doesn't say anything about using your card abroad or how widely accepted Amex is. I have an Amex and use it for all my subscriptions, and spending when I'm in the US. …

> trustless decentralized internet That is the solution. What is the problem? I understand the problem they want to solve but I don't think that is truly the problem. I drank the k…

So now the cost of labor went up 6x? Don't you see a problem in that solution? The people only have jobs because labor is so cheap. Other countries don't have child labor laws beca…

I saw an app for 5 minute meditation (I think it is a yc company) https://www.simplehabitapp.com it is one year for a $100 or something or $300 for lifetime. I think a lot of peopl…