HN user

the_local_host

562 karma
Posts0
Comments161
View on HN
No posts found.

I believe the answers are CC-SA.

But the parent to your response has a point - knowing that the answers are CC licensed and knowing that the owners might have a ten-figure exit are different things. If the community were more aware of the latter, they might have been more canny about donating their efforts.

Not the person you originally asked, but an HOA is an additional layer for a start. Moreover it tends to have more restrictions, of a kind that would seem ridiculous at the level of local government (e.g. what color your curtains can be, in the case of the condo I'm currently renting.)

This was the same author that wrote about the Uber iOS YOLO recently [0], without cursing Travis Kalanick.

I somehow missed the second half of the title (with the word "quit") and I was worried he was again getting into a situation where he was doing a lot of heavy lifting for a company that was ultimately taking advantage of its contributors.

Glad to see he dumped Plato.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27267368

I don't know why you're getting downvoted, this is my experience as well. It's to the point where if it doesn't ship from Amazon, I don't buy it.

The last thing I accidentally bought from a non-Amazon shipper arrived in a semi-destroyed box, inside a too-small bubble-wrap envelope, apparently shipped from someone's condominium (I guess they bought in bulk and repackaged?)

Scottish Café 5 years ago

People back then knew that "hanging out" in a public place was worthwhile.

I wish there was a model of public place where you and your pals could buy breakfast+lunch, or lunch+dinner, and occupy the table for the whole time in-between.

Bars let you stay for long periods, but after three or four hours everyone ends up hammered, which is a different thing.

Instagram should allow users to simply set the number of likes to whatever they want to have displayed, and let it increment from there.

If Instagram is letting people turn the feature off, then it's likely that they don't actually need "likes" for their data-collection purposes.

I'm surprised that "moral hazard" is rarely mentioned in these types of stories. By making their overtime effort available to the CEO as insurance against bad decisions, the engineers are in a way encouraging more bad decisions, since it's the engineers bearing the costs.

Many cultures chastise sleepers as lazy, but every time you sleep, it's like a big reconstruction process in your body.

The morning alarm is society telling you "stop reconstructing yourself, start working on our problems."

Isn't proof-of-work intrinsically wasteful though, as a proxy for costing money (e.g. instead of paying money directly for the right to mine BTC, you buy electricity and burn it)? In any context other than cryptocurrencies it seems like microtransactions would be a better choice.

...shouldn't it be possible that these things will be avoided by confirming the validity of the code...

It would be better to build in a margin of tolerance for correcting mistakes, but that's contrary to the rigid determinism that smart contracts and cryptocurrencies, for some reason, strive for.

Yeah it's possible, but it makes more sense to think about negative outcomes before positive outcomes. With enough leverage, you lose half of your money if the market goes down 10%. With more leverage, you lose all your money if the market goes down a few percentage points, as your account gets liquidated on the spot.

I buy that some consumers don't understand the separation between Chrome the browser and Google the website. But if ignorance is allowed...

When you "log into Chrome" with a Google account, is it really ignorant to assume that the scope of the settings in Chrome is the same scope as the Google account? I mean it's wrong, but it's wrong because Google is deliberately blurring distinctions and undermining common-sense assumptions.