Hacker News: crate_barre

New comment by crate_barre in "The tech sector teardown is more catharsis than crisis"

crate_barre — Wed, 18 May 2022 13:52:17 +0000

Someone needs to explain to me why our tech companies are so tied to interest rates. Are VCs borrowing with home mortgage equity??

New comment by crate_barre in "Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place"

crate_barre — Fri, 13 May 2022 16:30:01 +0000

The issue is that when tech companies look reasonable, everyone and their mother buys in until they look unreasonable.

There is nothing else to believe in. We have one growth industry in this world and it’s tech. It’s not a bubble, it’s the economy running on one lung. You can deflate it and hold your breath, but once you need oxygen, you are going to fill it up rapidly from holding your breath that long.

The same is true for housing. We need other viable industries.

New comment by crate_barre in "Writer and musician Ali Sethi has created an unconventional hit with “Pasoori”"

crate_barre — Mon, 09 May 2022 14:08:41 +0000

Bollywood was/is basically Urdu too.

New comment by crate_barre in "Japan's population falls by record 644,000 to 125.5M in 2021"

crate_barre — Sat, 07 May 2022 16:03:21 +0000

No no no, don’t say that. Your water, roads, sewage, and electricity have not been universally solved. It has nothing to do with better opportunities. It’s a shithole you guys are not committing to fixing.

New comment by crate_barre in "Japan's population falls by record 644,000 to 125.5M in 2021"

crate_barre — Sat, 07 May 2022 15:56:31 +0000

Why can’t you guys just make India not suck and live there?

New comment by crate_barre in "Knowledge is like a house of cards"

crate_barre — Fri, 06 May 2022 06:17:33 +0000

Better to yell when the car diverts west when it really needs to turn south immediately to get to the destination. Otherwise you end up all the way west and that’s the biggest waste of time of all. This is where being friendly is not optimal (or even correct).

New comment by crate_barre in "US sees largest productivity drop since 1947 [pdf]"

crate_barre — Fri, 06 May 2022 02:26:11 +0000

Someone break down how they are calculating productivity. Agile story points???

New comment by crate_barre in "One step closer to a passwordless future"

crate_barre — Thu, 05 May 2022 13:41:42 +0000

Just put the chip in my heart already, I don’t give a shit anymore.

New comment by crate_barre in "Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]"

crate_barre — Thu, 05 May 2022 04:43:16 +0000

How do you differentiate what you are saying versus what people have always said about reading comic books all day, or playing video games all day, watching tv, listening to certain music, spending all your time on the internet, etc?

Life is boring as fuck. It really is. It takes a lot to keep a human captivated.

New comment by crate_barre in "Fed lifts rates by half point, starts balance sheet reduction June 1"

crate_barre — Thu, 05 May 2022 00:21:51 +0000

I think it’s important to point out that this is what the Fed has been waiting for since 2008. We needed inflation. Now this debt gets washed away.

Merry Christmas y’all, not only did we bail Wallstreet out in 2008, we’re now bailing out the bail out with inflation lol.

And we’re too stupid to even realize it. They have no intention of curbing inflation until the debt is handled.

New comment by crate_barre in "IBM's Asshole Test"

crate_barre — Wed, 04 May 2022 22:20:38 +0000

That’s one way to look at it. The other way is to determine confidence. Either way, these are character traits and filtering for one or the other is unfortunate. Teams should mimic villages, everyone is there. Everyone. The shy, the arrogant, the nice, etc. There will be flawed people in a village, but that is a village. Not utopia.

New comment by crate_barre in "Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code"

crate_barre — Wed, 04 May 2022 20:00:06 +0000

Fair enough. I’m hoping one day they just make some simple mo cap devices that let you control an in-game model and one person just uses a in-game camera like a FPS. Many of these game engines look good enough if you can just get a few people together to act out scenes and do camera work.

New comment by crate_barre in "Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code"

crate_barre — Wed, 04 May 2022 11:46:49 +0000

SFM is a real tool. People have made production quality stuff on it:

https://youtu.be/PU1fu6ErBoA

New comment by crate_barre in "Square-Enix sells all of its Western game studios and their games to Embracer"

crate_barre — Mon, 02 May 2022 16:08:04 +0000

It was believed Square’s choice to put Final Fantasy on PlayStation killed the Sega Saturn, and dented N64 adoption. But this is console war mythos, not sure if anyone really dug into it.

The power of Square once upon a time may have been truly legendary, but who knows for sure?

New comment by crate_barre in "Maslow never proposed a pyramid"

crate_barre — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 18:38:31 +0000

the lower layers are absolutely necessary for the next layer up.

So to counter the idea, all you really need to do is find examples of self esteem and self actualization before achieving the physical needs.

New comment by crate_barre in "Ask HN: Why is the James Webb Space Telescope project going so well?"

crate_barre — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:21:43 +0000

I think they might have people that actually care about the vision (no pun intended) of what that telescope means. That kind of alignment isn’t always possible on many endeavors.

We’re basically making something to look at God.

New comment by crate_barre in "Deutsche Bank whistleblower found dead in LA's Lincoln Park"

crate_barre — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 08:26:06 +0000

Great point. The crux of the pure physical addiction, separate from the psychological groundwork that leads you to it, is that you just need more and more of that stuff.

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine.

^ Imagine needing more and more of that stuff to get your usual high. You’re dead.

New comment by crate_barre in "Rocket Mortgage to trim 8% of workforce as home-loan market shrinks"

crate_barre — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:24:35 +0000

Explain. I thought finding a high rated host is enough?

New comment by crate_barre in "Rocket Mortgage to trim 8% of workforce as home-loan market shrinks"

crate_barre — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:02:29 +0000

Housing legislation is something that few politicians have been talking about in the last decade. We have spent a lot more time talking about healthcare, and student debt, but not the number one financial factor which is housing. You really can’t leave it alone with legislation every 20 something years, you sort of have to keep evaluating and reevaluating it. Otherwise while we let the current systems in place fester, what you get is side effects that we simply can’t address until decades later (e.g Canada banning foreign buyers, ok great, the damage has already been done).

Many of the investor class had the first mover advantage where they simply bought a house before everyone else and can now leverage those gains into more investment/rental income property. Couple that with foreign investment. Couple that with home equity and margin loans. Couple that with the private sector collecting houses. Couple that with mortgage fraud where people don’t pay investor taxes and continuously buy homes as a first time home owner. Couple that with with all kinds of things. I know a home owner that owns multiple homes, stopped paying taxes on one and had a tax lien discharge. They go on to sell that other home at profit and pay off the IRS. They never took the hit on their first home in any way. Multiple ownership is a problem, period.

We finally end up to where we are today and the only powerful entity that modulates this is the Fed, but not a single politician is taking up the battle over the fact that the multiple home ownership is killing our society at the moment.

New comment by crate_barre in "Ask HN: How much of your monthly net income goes towards rent or mortgage?"

crate_barre — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:05:54 +0000

Edit: For those of you with very favorable percentages, if you don’t mind, what part of the world/states are you in, and how much is remote work enabling this?