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by CamTin 8y ago
"...steps that provided seating for gatherers have now been filled with plant boxes" This is the real tragedy, since it is a change that doesn't apply only at night. It makes the square less valuable to people 24 hours a day.
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by CamTin 8y ago
Totally agree on making this kind of data better available. This way, everybody could have the city they want, with people segregating themselves into neighborhoods depending on the kind of night-life they are looking for.
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by CamTin 8y ago
django-rest-framework + Bootstrap + plain JS frontend (not necessarily SPA-style, but can be) I presume that some of the fancier new frontend options would be an easier way to consume a vanilla RESTy backend. Doing things this was also has
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by CamTin 8y ago
'Police now move people on at 23:00. Rubbish lorries, which had previously cleared up when the partygoers left in the early hours, have been rescheduled for the morning, and steps that provided seating for gatherers have now been fille
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by CamTin 8y ago
They've done so in other industries a couple times with HIPAA and FERPA. What makes newspapers different?
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by CamTin 8y ago
These recently-discovered European "rights" are probably non-starters, but the ability to get a Google-takeout style package of your own data, and some reasonably protections regarding consent and the way your data is used would c
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by CamTin 8y ago
Also note the historical, mind-bending three-way baseball game (Dodgers vs. Giants vs. Yankees) to sell War Bonds just a couple weeks after D-Day in 1944: https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/just-because-june-26-194
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by CamTin 8y ago
Yeah, they have the same wealth right now . I'm not sure what "economic impact" means here, but Citizen B will likely be much much richer in the future, seeing has how his 1million in cash can basically instantly be converte
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by CamTin 8y ago
Well that escalated quickly. I'm not saying "people with adequate, diversified retirement savings are evil capitalists." I'm just saying that "We shouldn't count the value of people's houses when determini
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by CamTin 8y ago
While is it always EUR800? There's no option to simply reimburse their mileage (kilometerage?) ? I.e. "You submitted your mileage report to the payroll department and it said you drove 214km on company business since last pay peri
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by CamTin 8y ago
Not accounting for people's home equity when determining their wealth is one of the most bonkers bougie things I've ever heard. Should we not count their 401k savings either, because "if X took the early withdrawal penalty&qu
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by CamTin 8y ago
I totally agree that we've made great progress in providing material abundance since the start of the fossil fuel era. Unfortunately, we're heading toward the end of this era. Without some kind of miracle (this isn't totally
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by CamTin 8y ago
That's pretty bonkers. Is there some bizarre tax incentive that makes this more attractive (for somebody presumably? the company? the employee?) than just paying them more and possibly reimbursing them for mileage?
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by CamTin 8y ago
Is it really that common for French developers to get a company car? What on earth is it for? Driving around in meatspace to meet clients for consulting-firm type gigs?
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by CamTin 8y ago
From the GPL: This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public L
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by CamTin 8y ago
Both of these are great ideas. Too bad about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence though.
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by CamTin 8y ago
Well first, I'm not talking about pay necessarily, though executive compensation is (IMO) out of control. I was more referring to the intangible "respect" afforded to decision-makers (aka "leaders"). As far as pay g
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by CamTin 8y ago
Nadella can only "move the needle" and have a big impact because of the high leverage of the position he's in. That has little to do with the skill required to pull it off, unless high-stakes decision-making is inherently mor
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by CamTin 8y ago
Exactly. Hierarchies aren't inherently bad (though I think newer forms of organization are increasingly ripe to displace the largest hierarchies. Amazon's success in moving to computer-mediated APIs between departments rather than
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by CamTin 8y ago
> CEO's cultivating trillion dollar companies But do these people posses something called "leadership" though, or are they just in control of a lot of capital (either by the lucky success of their app, or by being crowned
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by CamTin 8y ago
Totally agree. The idea that was should all strive for some nebulous quality called "leadership" and all talented people should want to be in charge of other people, rather than doing interesting work, drives so much needless work
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by CamTin 8y ago
If so, how is that measured, and what are the consequences (to whom) if it isn't met?
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by CamTin 8y ago
I would think this is a rather fringe use-case, depending on what things you define as criminal. I mean, in the original technolibertarian/cryptoanarchist formulation, cryptocoin was meant to free folks from being persecuted for such &
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by CamTin 8y ago
My sense is that it's mainly speculative, with a strong base of "honest" demand from people with security concerns (ransomware, drugs, money laundering, other crime) that preclude them from using the regular banking system. T
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by CamTin 8y ago
They should be mild, really, so long as immigration makes up for it, and the US is historically good at attracting and assimilating immigrants. Trump aside (which is indeed a big aside), it seems like that will probably continue. Politicall
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by CamTin 8y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I think if you are accused of being a monopoly, suddenly increasing your prices is a bad legal strategy because it proves you have pricing power, which is the classic sign of a Sherman-style monopoly that regulato
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by CamTin 8y ago
Yeah, you just need a pulse to be denied.
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by CamTin 8y ago
I'm in Texas. I've never experienced this myself, and haven't ever had to apply for unemployment benefits (knock on wood), but I know plenty of people (5-6 in as many years, all with different companies) who have been fired o
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by CamTin 8y ago
China could be a threat in the next 10 years, but it isn't a Germany-and-Japan-in-1941 level of threat, not even close. Russia and whatever jihadi wannabe idiots in HiLuxes in the middle east don't even rate. There are street gang
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by CamTin 8y ago
What's the existential, Germany&Japan-level threat we're facing right now?

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