nerfhammer

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Comment · 3 years ago
no hits on google; it appears to be original
Comment · 4 years ago
At some point I realized his "solution" to philosophical problems was always to get really vague and hand-wavey
Comment · 4 years ago
if broadcom were supplying at below cost as a marketing expenditure it would explain a bunch of things such as why raspberry pi doesn't allow bulk sales but would give them away with magazines
Comment · 4 years ago
why not make an additional eye a diacritic mark so you can just add an arbitrary number of eyes
Comment · 4 years ago
Sure but the early employees whose value he disproportionately captured still mostly became very rich and aren't in much position to complain
Comment · 4 years ago
FYI, jwz hates HN for whatever reason and redirects HN referers to shock sites
Comment · 4 years ago
That's being unfair to him, there is tremendous local market for millionaire homeowners that still want to think of themselves as socialist revolutionaries as long as the value of their home never ever drops, and he is merely filling that demand
Comment · 4 years ago
you obviously should have hired the services of a "permit expediter" which is totally not a legal form of bribery
Comment · 4 years ago
the alternative is the system we're evolving to where the landless class will owe the landowning class most of their productivity, forever
Comment · 4 years ago
I've always wanted a way to extract just the kick drums in realtime but I don't understand this field well enough to understand whether it would be remotely possible or not.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
> intense Bay Area winds

the Bay area has intense winds?

Comment · 4 years ago
quasi-python is a lot easier for beginners than quasi-C imo
Comment · 4 years ago
key word = "labor mobility"
Comment · 4 years ago
On the contrary, labor mobility has declined precipitously since WWII, and this is a bad thing because it means people can't move to where there is a better job for them

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