Jabanga

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by Jabanga 10y ago
Increasing the utility of cash is very important to push back against the seemingly inexorable trend toward all private information being collated in a few larger data centres and susceptible to mass surveillance.
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Christie Blatchford: B.C. man pleads for family court reform in suicide note(nationalpost.com)
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by Jabanga 10y ago
A close family friend recently had plans to visit my sister who lives in the US. She's a Canadian citizen and moved to Canada from Iran when she was four years old. Anyway, she's been to the US numerous times, but was denied entry
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by Jabanga 10y ago
A much more important question is whether the Luddite fallacy, which all of your predictions are based on, will prove to not be a fallacy. So far no evidence it's a valid economic theory, and plenty of evidence to suggest it isn't
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by Jabanga 10y ago
If you understand why previous bouts of automation didn't harm workers, you'll understand why the pace and magnitude of automation doesn't make a difference in whether automation is harmful or beneficial to workers.
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by Jabanga 10y ago
You will not need to become a programmer or roboticist to have a job, anymore than you have to be a mechanic or factory worker to have a job today. Assuming we don't have human-like AI, there will be vast numbers of tasks that only hum
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by Jabanga 10y ago
People will take the best job available on the market. If bringing back manufacturing brings back a lot of subsistence level jobs, you won't have people in middle class jobs leaving those jobs for the subsistence jobs. The only people
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by Jabanga 10y ago
He may subconsciously sabotage his own rehabilitation because doing so could net him even more compensation. I strongly believe that now that he's received compensation and full public exoneration, he should be expected to return to su
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by Jabanga 10y ago
Otzi looks remarkably similar to Kris Kristofferson http://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Abraham-Whistler-... I wonder if this is an indication that modern people from Scandinavia, where half of Kristofferso
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by Jabanga 10y ago
What happened to him was terrible, but I tend to agree that he received adequate compensation. My armchair judge verdict: calls for further compensation should be strongly discouraged, but the lesson this story teaches of how devastating a
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by Jabanga 10y ago
When was Ethereum proven to be insecure? It was proven that not all third party applications built on top of Ethereum are secure. That doesn't prove that they can't be secure. Arguing that Ethereum is insecure because a contrac
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by Jabanga 10y ago
It's a surprise to see you here! :) Thanks for the explanation. Good luck with your work!
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by Jabanga 10y ago
>austerity for most, government handouts for the wealthy. It hasn't been austerity for most. I thought we just established that there has been a massive increase in social welfare spending. >So what's your point. My point is
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by Jabanga 10y ago
You misunderstand. It groups those who do not work and are looking for a job, with those who work, as being part of the labour force, and thus "participating". Nonparticipants are anyone not looking for work, like homemakers, stud
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by Jabanga 10y ago
I'm part of the Ethereum community and I think immutability is vital for its success (immutability is the core value proposition of public blockchains). I also think the DAO was early enough in Ethereum's life that it could be har
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by Jabanga 10y ago
Most welcome! It was just released so you wouldn't have seen it last year. There was a major push toward more secure smart contacts, in particular using formal verification, after the DAO hack, and the efforts continue to this day.
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by Jabanga 10y ago
Yoichi Hirai has built a formal definition of the EVM in Coq which makes it possible to produce formal proofs of an Ethereum smart contract's correctness: https://medium.com/@pirapira/ethereum-virtual-machine-for-c
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by Jabanga 10y ago
That doesn't make it exploitation. This attitude of promoting victimhood and helplessness is intellectual dishonest and harmful.
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by Jabanga 10y ago
I remember six years ago when there was a similar skepticism about Bitcoin. Those skeptics were proven wrong, and I believe they will be proven wrong again, about Ethereum. But be warned, it will be a long time before it matures, and it wil
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by Jabanga 10y ago
I want that. Then it would be truly peer-to-peer. Where intermediaries are needed, the services the intermediaries offer can be debundled so that there's competition for the various services, driving fees down and quality up.
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by Jabanga 10y ago
Japan is more land constrained than the US. That's why rent is higher. It has a much less developed construction tradition than the US, which inherited its construction technology from Europe. More importantly Japan focused much less o
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by Jabanga 10y ago
In the aggregate, there has been a huge increase in social welfare spending. I can show you the raw, inflation-adjusted statistics if you wish. What this means is that social welfare expansions have far outsized the cuts. >productivity h
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by Jabanga 10y ago
>That is actually remarkable given that women entered the workforce en-masse during that time. The labour participation rate went from 60 percent in 1970 to 66 percent in 1992. At the same time, average hours worked per employed person d
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by Jabanga 10y ago
Growth is how much something improves by. Socialism doesn't destroy the knowledge that has been built up. It destroys the ability of society to accumulate new knowledge.
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It's ironic that the US population has continuously voted to increases social welfare spending since the 1970s. Thanks to all of this socialism, the US now has lower labour productivity growth than anytime in the past century.
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by Jabanga 10y ago
Please, for the love of God, learn about the US home building industry and about the construction industry in general. Nothing you said even approaches the truth, except for old Japanese housing (new Japanese housing is much better than t
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by Jabanga 10y ago
No one is forced to drive for Uber. The title is misleading and inflammatory. Fodder for the majority who are addicted to manufactured outrage. Ironically, the title and the comments in hacker news are pro-union propaganda.
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by Jabanga 10y ago
UN report authors don't understand economics. If robots ever get cheap enough to replace sweatshop labor, that will mean a substantial increase in the number of people in the developing world that will be able to afford these robots. T
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by Jabanga 10y ago
The rate of single parenthood (particularly low income single parenthood) has been exploding in the West, concurrent with rising social welfare spending. As for the general birthrate, that seems to be affected by income, not the availabilit