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Why not work to become a billionaire, then donate your wealth? Or begin donating your earnings today? I would guess most people on Hacker News are in the upper decile of wealth glo…

Warren Buffett. Berkshire Hathaway has over $300B in cash reserves, Buffett owns 15% of Berkshire and directs investments — he chose to park all that value in cash reserves, roughl…

I’ve used first@last.name for the last 10 years or so. There have been probably a half dozen web forms where a regex expected 2-3 characters and I input an old gmail account that f…

You earn gross income with your labor, on which you pay tax. The net is used to pay Jiffy Lube, which pays employer taxes on the mechanic’s labor, and passes that cost onto you, th…

Another benefit — no one can tax your own labor for yourself. 100% of your effort goes towards your own gain.

I think there’s a common misunderstanding that with IPv6 anyone can connect to anyone else. That’s not true. My laptop has an IPv6 address, as does the router that routes its traff…

I suspect one is masking that a call center is in a low wage country, e.g. make customer in U.S. believe they’re talking to someone in U.S. while paying a fraction of the U.S. wage…

We’re not Mormon. And it’s come from her — in fact, I’m somewhat uneasy about it as finances will get tight.

It’s interesting, the grass is perhaps greener on the other side. My wife is planning on staying home with the kids when we have our second, and there’s a part of me that envy’s th…

Company has recurring expenses to keep your cloud-connected device running. They need recurring revenue to cover those costs. Depending on one-time revenue from the sale of new dev…

Organized by an employer, capital, and management. The orchestration, decision making, done well, is the difference between a highly valuable well functioning company, and dysfunct…

And the answer to that is totalitarian control on wealth accumulation?

Sounds like either NACKs are not getting through to indicate a need to retransmit, or should use a forward error correction (fec) extension.

This has been addressed with mDNS host candidates in lieu of local IP host candidates.

So that various sets of ideas can be tried as experiments. Also, so that groups of people with different values and ideas can live in their own worlds and not have to reach consens…

As a DIYer, I like this. But why does this need legislation? If enough DIYers want this, wouldn’t they vote with their dollars and not buy unrepairable products?

From the article: “To get a TRULY random number sequence, you'd need to rely upon some truly random phenomenon, like the decay of a radioactive isotope.” How is the true randomness…

The metrics for websites are flawed. For instance, time-on-site. If a user spends more time on a site before clicking back, maybe that site is more useful. Or maybe that site has m…

The main benefit I’ve seen with more experience is being able to find better solutions to complex problems more quickly. Essentially, knowing the right way to do things up front ra…

Spot on. I’ve found the same — used to be I could get things I couldn’t get elsewhere or could get things for a lower price. Now there’s so much junk.

When there’s a mismatch between capacity and load, price increases bring the two back into balance (incentivizing additional capacity and reducing load). But if price increases are…

Very cool. Out of curiosity, why is the H.265 size slightly more than the H.264 size? How does the compute complexity for encoding and decoding compare with those two codecs?

Seems like with LCEVC you still need to decode your encoded frame and compute a difference between the original input to the encoder, at say 30 fps. Many embedded system-on-chips t…