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New comment by newacc9 in "Ask HN: What is this mental technique called?"

newacc9 — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 18:23:47 +0000

reframing

New comment by newacc9 in "Tell HN: If I see an “accept cookies” on a website, I close it immediately"

newacc9 — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 17:54:19 +0000

If I survive the cookie banner, I'm usually blasted with "subscribe to our email" popup half way through reading, then I definitely bail. When the EU collapses maybe we can redesign the web.

New comment by newacc9 in "Former NY Fed President: If Stocks Don't Fall, the Fed Needs to Force Them"

newacc9 — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 15:48:11 +0000

Middle America's 401k gets hammered (pushing retirement off x-years) and small set of tech workers can't buy as much? Seems more harmful than good. fwiw, I don't have 401k/and I own a tiny amount of stock.

New comment by newacc9 in "Former NY Fed President: If Stocks Don't Fall, the Fed Needs to Force Them"

newacc9 — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 15:11:28 +0000

High asset prices will make rent go up, but why would it affect anything else like food, energy or durable goods?

New comment by newacc9 in "In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism"

newacc9 — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 14:45:43 +0000

This has been solved with X-of-N multisig since 2012, but its opt-in.

New comment by newacc9 in "Seen from space, the longest conveyor belt is in Morocco"

newacc9 — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 14:04:14 +0000

Its the subject of this visually stunning 12m film, "This Sahara Railway Is One of the Most Extreme in the World" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEo-ykjmHgg

New comment by newacc9 in "Ask HN: Anyone else suddenly become a 'prepper'?"

newacc9 — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 21:23:02 +0000

My real prep, to be honest, is trying to maintain a state of grace in the pre-vatican2 Catholic Church. http://vaticancatholic.com for details

New comment by newacc9 in "Ask HN: Anyone else suddenly become a 'prepper'?"

newacc9 — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 01:37:56 +0000

I'm prepper, but I've been following Joel Skousen since 2005 who has been predicting ww3 with China + Russia vs the West, his geopolitical analysis on Ukraine makes everyone else look foolish, its not free, but you can get a free sample. https://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/ Also prepper tip, buy SPAM at Aldi its lie $2 for 1200 cals of meat.

New comment by newacc9 in "Ask HN: What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s?"

newacc9 — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 01:09:55 +0000

Use the bankers money to buy a rental duplex/triplex/quad I think is the shortest path to wealth, but atm I'm only interested in bitcoin, nvidia (watch GTC that came out yest) and SARK.

New comment by newacc9 in "Ask HN: What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s?"

newacc9 — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 21:12:01 +0000

Get married, have children, buy assets.

There's this idea that men don't need to settle down because they can have children at any age, which I guess is technically true but it presupposes that a 30 y/o woman will want to have children with you when you're 45, but they are more inclined to go +5 years, not +15.

Also take prescription labels more seriously, like don't take Advil all the time, because you will get an ulcer and don't mix alcohol and aspirin because it causes liver damage.

Exercise and don't eat to much, and invest in your posture (don't get carpal tunnel, hunch over at the computer, etc)

New comment by newacc9 in "Ask HN: Do not rent and live in basements"

newacc9 — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 13:30:22 +0000

You have a similar problem at very high floors, you are disconnected from street life (in fact, the higher you are, the less frequently you leave the dwelling), but at least higher up you get sunlight. I think the sweet spot is the 2nd to 5th floors.

New comment by newacc9 in "Folding bicycle small enough to fit in hand luggage"

newacc9 — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:04:17 +0000

Rollerblades will take care of that 1.6 mi commute in Cadillac in about 10 mins.

New comment by newacc9 in "Vitalik Buterin is worried about crypto's future"

newacc9 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:28:13 +0000

you didnt follow my point

New comment by newacc9 in "Vitalik Buterin is worried about crypto's future"

newacc9 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:28:22 +0000

A lot of "sound money", goldbug types got in early like Trace Mayer and Max Kaiser and SV guys who had a lot of time on their hands because they were rich from some earlier Internet thing, like Richard Heart and the Winklevosses.

New comment by newacc9 in "Vitalik Buterin is worried about crypto's future"

newacc9 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:19:45 +0000

It takes like 18 months to recover the cost of the miners, plus maybe they've leased out a warehouse, and so forth -- so its a sunk cost situation.

New comment by newacc9 in "Vitalik Buterin is worried about crypto's future"

newacc9 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:11:57 +0000

A developer wants the compute cost to be low, but the investors want it to be high. Is there anyway out of this contradiction?

New comment by newacc9 in "Vitalik Buterin is worried about crypto's future"

newacc9 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 13:57:08 +0000

Its always trendy to throw shade at white people.

New comment by newacc9 in "Ask HN: Are Web3 and DApps the Future?"

newacc9 — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 17:40:40 +0000

Web3 is centralized, MetaMask talks to Infura which runs on AWS. Its no small task to decentralize a smart contract platform.

Opportunity lies at the edges of technology, maybe in this vein you could dig into wasm instead.

New comment by newacc9 in "How did Europe become the richest part of the world?"

newacc9 — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 16:42:54 +0000

I found this video very interesting, on the same wavelength as Dimond

Facts about Africa's Geography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fof9xZA7dpg

New comment by newacc9 in "Ask HN: Has anyone come up with a use for blockchain yet?"

newacc9 — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 15:32:18 +0000

Find a true Scotsman, they'll give you a valid answer