Hacker News: new_realist

New comment by new_realist in "YC’s $500k Standard Deal"

new_realist — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 05:05:11 +0000

$125,000 for 7% is still exploitative, not even considering the inflation of the money supply we’re seen recently. So much money chasing deals and this term hasn’t budged.

New comment by new_realist in "Launch HN: Homestead (YC W20) – Lot-splitting to build new housing supply"

new_realist — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 20:49:49 +0000

Increasing housing supply is like building more roads to reduce traffic: it doesn’t work. Humans reproduce to fill all available habitat. More humans, no tangible benefit, worse Earth.

New comment by new_realist in "Homelessness rises faster where rent exceeds a third of income (2018)"

new_realist — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:28:17 +0000

More housing decreases homelessness in the short term, but not in the long term. Humans breed and will always reproduce to fill all available habitat, like any animal.

Building more housing reduces homelessness like building more highways reduces traffic.

New comment by new_realist in "Slicer: Auto-Sharding for Datacenter Applications"

new_realist — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 01:20:49 +0000

Does Slicer work with range partitions?

New comment by new_realist in "Tesla Q4 2021 Vehicle Production and Deliveries"

new_realist — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 18:31:31 +0000

Tesla's investor relations department leaks these sandbagged estimates to the press at the end of every quarter so that they can beat them. It's an old game.

New comment by new_realist in "Elon Musk’s Software Focus Helped Tesla Navigate Chip Shortage"

new_realist — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 16:04:21 +0000

Parts from Home Depot used just 15 months ago: https://www.thedrive.com/tech/36274/tesla-model-y-owners-fin...

New comment by new_realist in "Why Linux is now my primary OS going into 2022"

new_realist — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 04:39:30 +0000

Author is willing to use Windows, but no mention of macOS. This article reads like someone trying to convince you that vegan chicken tenders taste like regular chicken tenders.

New comment by new_realist in "How Y Combinator Changed the World"

new_realist — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 23:41:03 +0000

Y Combinator managed to convince startups that would have been founded anyway to give up expensive equity to them. I'm not sure they would have failed without YC.

Put another way, if you take a piece of every startup on the planet, can you claim influence if some of those startups eventually succeed?

New comment by new_realist in "Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects"

new_realist — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 13:50:23 +0000

Discord functionality is driven by market forces, which is more than I can say for FOSS. FOSS is less likely to offer a product that works for mainstream users.

New comment by new_realist in "Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects"

new_realist — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 13:46:46 +0000

More sermons, and it isn’t even Sunday.

New comment by new_realist in "The state of external retina displays"

new_realist — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 04:34:22 +0000

It's shameful that Dell's 8K monitor is sabotaged by Apple.

New comment by new_realist in "Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without snow"

new_realist — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:06:48 +0000

“excluding mountains”

Further, the aggregate for all of North America hardly excludes the possibility of regional snow drought.

New comment by new_realist in "Why is U.S. labor supply so low?"

new_realist — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 22:47:30 +0000

Retirement is a near universal human goal. Why would people work instead of retire? That seems at odds with observed behavior.

New comment by new_realist in "Why is U.S. labor supply so low?"

new_realist — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 22:45:23 +0000

The equivalent of universal basic income during the pandemic has caused the labor force to shrink, and inflation to increase.

New comment by new_realist in "Ask HN: Is Web 3.0 just crypto or something more?"

new_realist — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 19:10:01 +0000

Web 3.0 is a stock pump.

New comment by new_realist in "Kinesis Advantage 360"

new_realist — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:11:34 +0000

And barely innovating.

New comment by new_realist in "Kinesis Advantage 360"

new_realist — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:11:04 +0000

There's a renaissance in hobbyist ergo keyboards happening right now, and this is the best Kinesis could do?

New comment by new_realist in "[dead]"

new_realist — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 16:01:28 +0000

Also, Birds Aren't Real.

New comment by new_realist in "A molten salt storage solution using sodium hydroxide"

new_realist — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 21:34:59 +0000

Does this hold true for spilled wind and solar? Does the efficiency matter at all if it would otherwise be wasted?

New comment by new_realist in "Apple Open Source"

new_realist — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:59:07 +0000

Darwin, Apple's OS, is open source.