Anderkent

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by Anderkent 4y ago
Just because the incentives to reassert the peg don't work out because of costs doesn't mean this isn't a depeg.
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by Anderkent 4y ago
Building is fast if you allow people to do it. You could have a new apartment building in around a year, and that's without really pushing it. Zoning and permits are what's holding construction back
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by Anderkent 4y ago
> I say this backfired because the employees ended up getting fired Did they struggle to find new work because of this termination, and/or had to accept much worse conditions? If not, this didn't really backfire
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by Anderkent 4y ago
> If you have to implement a feature or fix a bug, complaining that it's old code won't make things go away. sure, but you might decide to work on a different feature/bug because this part of the code is too arcane to touc
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by Anderkent 4y ago
You mean any stable coin that is _not_ 1-1 backed?
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by Anderkent 4y ago
Usually it's not the average latency but the random spikes that kill your responsiveness. My wifi ping is usually within a couple ms of wired ping, but packet loss / latency spikes are a daily occurence
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by Anderkent 4y ago
presumably it gets you a better effect than cutting with nonactive substances, meaning the users buy from you instead of the 'weak shit' that's cut with soda
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by Anderkent 5y ago
> Twitter has the absolute right in the free market to moderate as they see fit when free speech only protects from governmental actions You confuse free-speech-the-legal-concept (which yes mostly deals with governmental actions' wi
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by Anderkent 5y ago
No, that's backwards. On low difficulty you can indeed force a strategy chosen in advance, but as the game gets more difficult you need to make choices that trade off the late-game power of your deck against the needs right now (so you
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by Anderkent 5y ago
> The company knows you're worth more, they can feasibly pay you more, they pay someone similarly skilled and talented more. But they do not simply because of a conversation at the very beginning of accepting a role (and once a year
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by Anderkent 5y ago
if they're plugged into my phone, sure if i'm on the laptop, by the time i take five paces away the sound quality on bluetooth is so bad it's basically unusable anyway
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by Anderkent 5y ago
> while not rainbows it does come with the fact that you're expected to be a slave on location for 24/7? Not at all. You're expected to be productive to a certain standard (and even that is sometimes iffy), not to be 24&#x
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by Anderkent 5y ago
I think this assumes a more efficient rental market than what actually exists. Even in highly demand-skewed some properties sit empty for weeks/months between tenants. > this will simply increase incentive to sell (if you can’t get
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by Anderkent 5y ago
>If you charge 1k a month now, the reason you don’t charge 1200 is because they won’t pay it. >If you have a LVT, and try to increase the rent, your tennent wouldn’t be gaining any more value from the land that they currently are, so
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by Anderkent 5y ago
>For the few that would, money clearly isn't a huge problem. That's not really true? A lot of people will refuse to sell their house even for a multiple of the 'market value', because that's the place they lived
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by Anderkent 5y ago
I've never had an issue with a foreign passport buying a SIM. You usually need a local address but you can just use your hotels.
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by Anderkent 6y ago
Hm, OK, I was wrong about the ratio of fees to reward. Good news is that reward is going to halve every 4 years so in 12 years it's probably going to be much more even.
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by Anderkent 6y ago
I guess this is something that might have changed - but I definitely recall being charged for making transfers from Poland to the UK, and same very recently for Switzerland <-> UK transfers. In both, rather insidiously, the outgoing b
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by Anderkent 6y ago
> It's called an externality. It doesn't matter if you'd pay $10 for it if the cost imposed is too great The cost imposed is proportional to the fee, since the fee has to pay for the electricity used to mine the transactio
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by Anderkent 6y ago
Where do you live? Bank wires are pretty expensive everywhere I've seen. (local bank transfers like ACH are free on TW too)
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by Anderkent 6y ago
>Then it'd be "only" 65 kilowatt hours, compared to ~1 watt-hour for conventional payment networks. Sure, and? You get other benefits, those might not be relevant for you in which case keep using conventional payment netwo
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by Anderkent 6y ago
It's not _obligated_ to, no one says it's illegal. NYT can decide to be an asshole and reveal it despite the request not to. Which it has. Is there a real argument for why the NYT _should_ publish Scott's name? Other than &qu
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by Anderkent 6y ago
This assumes that leadership has perfect knowledge of the situation, which is just never the case. Unions can be an additional source of information about the state of the company, for things that are not being communicated via the usual ma
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by Anderkent 6y ago
>I can't negotiate my pay directly with my manager. Why not? If you go talk to your manager and tell him "I have another offer at XXX, I want you to match it or I'm leaving" what is going to happen?
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by Anderkent 6y ago
Right, no one ever died from being arrested by the police.
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by Anderkent 6y ago
>I also find it fascinating that the users of the Portland subreddit will shun or ban you if you are not actually in Portland, as I am sure that a lot of those folks strongly favour all immigration in general What's wrong with that?
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by Anderkent 6y ago
Both sides need to be present to escalate the situation. If you look at the videos from a couple weeks ago of the police just herding protests with tear gas and dragging people into vans, they're not exactly a deescalating presence.
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by Anderkent 7y ago
Surely not? If there are more numbers that can be represented in any amount of bytes (as shown by the diagonal argument), then you cannot represent a constructive proof for each of them in any amount of bytes.
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by Anderkent 7y ago
Why wouldn't EU bureaucrats want to use their phone numbers as the identity?
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by Anderkent 7y ago
I don't know if you're misreading on purpose or missing a point. Suppose I each year I produce two eggs and you produce two slices of bacon. We both value these at $1 each. The total value produced this year was $4. Next year, we

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