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Devbox aims to solve this very problem: https://www.jetify.com/devbox

blackr, if you'd allow a small plug: we develop https://jetpack.io/devbox for this very scenario. Devbox will give you the same project environment (packages, env-vars) on your wor…

yikes! thanks for pointing that out. The blog's renderer is confused too and renders the `#cowsay -- flakes are neat` as a comment. To explain what's happening: - The example above…

idk, someone (moderator?) changed it back ...

I love the analogy! I think this is a great strength of flakes. Packaging an application can sometimes have nuances that external folks may not be fully aware of and so having the …

ah, yeah, we have a cheeky workaround for this in Devbox ;-) https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox/blob/main/internal/impl...

s/adopt/introduce done :)

Oh, it isn't intended to be provocative. The title is simply literally the question that I was thinking about a few months ago when working on Devbox, and wrote a version of this p…

would you mind elaborating on the difference?

+1 in exact same situation

There is a very good presentation on the Case for Electronic Cash by Jerry Brito of the Coin Center non-profit. I highly recommend people watch it to understand why cash is importa…

seems like many self-driving car startups follow this model?

Why is it not sustainable that household wealth is > 500% of GDP? In the parlance of company finances, GDP is like revenue and wealth is the valuation representing the present valu…

that's a cynical view. Capitalism is the freedom to buy and sell from whoever you choose. If what you choose to sell is something so unique, you'll escape competition.

sure! lets do this exercise. 1. I did a google search of "site:news.ycombinator.com Foxconn in Wisconsin", and opened the top 3 links. 2. first link: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

I felt it was patronizing because the original article is about manufacturing progress in a country that has been notoriously behind the curve on manufacturing. Making iphones is n…

fair point - not sure why you are being downvoted. Lets say SF to Chicago, then? Its about 2000 miles. I was trying to illustrate a more general point that speed isn't necessarily …

Nope - I don’t think there is, but the parent (to my original comment) seemed to be suggesting so

Your comment is rather patronising. Every year that goes by where India doesn't raise its standard of living, results in millions of stunted childhoods and lives. India needs all t…

counter-intuitively, bullet trains offer a great alternative that airlines cannot: travelling from SF to NY in about 10-12 hours. 8 hours to sleep on a flat bed, and an hour or two…