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Re:Graham Stephan is leaving California
on Friday October 09, 2020 @09:29PM (#24736045)
He citing high state taxes. High crime rates. Homelessness. State regulations for new buildings.
Protip: Add Cloudflare (CDN) to provide caching and https for the api. Makes it faster, reduces traffic on the endpoints, and makes them secure.
Also try to host it as a lambda function.
Re:Home Price-to-Income Ratios
on Thursday January 30, 2020 @12:47PM (#22193433)
The difference is one doesn't have a choice in paying taxes i.e. one is obligated to pay them. If one doesn't pay, one loses their house.
Re:The most successful people are just the luckiest, a new computer mo...
on Monday October 21, 2019 @12:36PM (#21314255)
And what guarantees that rolling the dice will always be profitable. Rolling the dice can bring profits or losses.
Re:The most successful people are just the luckiest, a new computer mo...
on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:59AM (#21313762)
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecc 9:11
Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:56PM (#21285785)
Bitcoin is good for the economy because it encourages spending. It's better than having a electricity as a resource and not using it. Miners buy equipment which is income to the producer. Also increases employment in the power plant and the factory producing the equipment.
Re:Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah
on Friday September 20, 2019 @12:35PM (#21028551)
The high interest rate is for the high risk. If anyone who could qualify for a lower interest rate, wouldn't go and borrow at the higher interest rate.
Re:Python at Netflix
on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:26PM (#19789365)
It would be nice if the language was typed. Easier for overall maintenance, and refactoring for big projects.
Re:Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
on Monday April 22, 2019 @08:29AM (#19718362)
r/wallstreetbets :D
Just joking. Don't downvote please
Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal
on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:44PM (#18858180)
I am not getting this. Highly processed foods are the source of all problems and people cheer up for synthetic food!
Re:Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
on Monday November 19, 2018 @10:22AM (#18487006)
Aria2: https://github.com/aria2/aria2 an excellent download manager. Supports many functionalities such as downloading torrents, multi-connection downloads, and resuming uncompleted downloads. It also support RPC calls which enables it to be an excellent download manager back-end.