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by Kadin 10y ago
Most people are only interested in Bitcoin insofar as it's convertible to a local currency. So if it's difficult to do that, it's difficult to use Bitcoin for most transactions.
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by Kadin 10y ago
The 40-hour workweek is a direct function of (1) that it's advantageous to have the fewest employees possible, because each additional employee has overhead costs; (2) you can't make employees work more than 8 hours/day (a nu
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by Kadin 10y ago
Bandwidth and storage space are cheap; hassle is expensive. I can't tell you the number of times I've ended up cursing the IT gods while sorting out some hellish dependency / shared-libary-versioning fiasco (and apps that use
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by Kadin 10y ago
If they can't get it to drive in the US, I doubt it'll be able to navigate most big cities in Asia. (Maybe a few of those ghost ones.) I think what's attractive about China may not be its lax regulatory environment with rega
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by Kadin 10y ago
http://parts-catalog.acdelco.com/ (ACDelco is a house brand of GM, similar to Chrysler's Mopar or Ford's Motorcraft.) The auto companies are an interesting example, because all of the major manufacturers have subs
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by Kadin 10y ago
The request is well within the realm of what anyone who wants to produce a product that could well endanger the lives of a lot of people needs to be able to deal with. It was the very minor ante required in order to play at a very high-sta
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by Kadin 10y ago
GM has heated cloth and leatherette seats on many of its trucks. I think the decision to package heating and leather together is for marketing reasons, not because of any technology-compatibility issues. (They're both "premium&q
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by Kadin 10y ago
There's a public benefit to those subsidies in that it's creating a marketplace for electric cars that probably wouldn't have otherwise existed. Who buys them is largely immaterial. It would be nice if the funds for the subs
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by Kadin 10y ago
> A good EV or a good gasoline car are both better than a hybrid, so what is the point? I don't think this is true. A plug-in hybrid will always have an advantage over a gasoline car, in that it can do short trips without starting
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by Kadin 10y ago
Doesn't really surprise me. I mean, where else do we expect NHTSA to get people qualified to regulate self-driving cars from? I'd rather they came from industry than just not have any background at all.
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by Kadin 10y ago
He would have had 11 days to produce something. If he'd wanted to play ball, he could have produced something in the way of a response, then waited for a response to that requesting clarification, then provided more information, etc.
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by Kadin 10y ago
Lots of interesting effects there, all the way up to basic urban land-use decisions. Suddenly the price people will pay for parking is going to be closely related to the price of gas. The maximum value of a parking space in the city is bas
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by Kadin 10y ago
Most use OpenVPN and tunnel all traffic over SSLed TCP. So your traffic goes out to an endpoint server run by the proxy company, and gets dumped onto the public net at that point.
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by Kadin 10y ago
Sure, but that's raising the bar a hell of a lot higher than where it is currently, where all you need is a HTML email message that happens to superficially resemble something a random person might expect Google to send. And in the lon
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by Kadin 10y ago
> you're willing to pay for a $10 coffee with a 95% profit margin than a $5 Monthly subscription One of those is $10, the other costs infinity dollars . There's a large, and IMO underappreciated, amount of friction involved in
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by Kadin 10y ago
I don't think that's a particularly fair reading of the audit. First, they had the audit done at all, which is something a very short list of software products can even claim. E.g., and I am not casting aspersions on the project
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by Kadin 10y ago
I find it interesting that the Nuremberg Trials are continually held up, often by people who ought to know better, as a shining example of "International Law" and not a fairly straightforward example of the victors of a war taking
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by Kadin 10y ago
It would be a fun hackathon project to build such a thing out of the components you could find in typical office equipment, and I wouldn't expect it to take a competent EE more than a few hours (if you'll allow continuous wave Mor
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by Kadin 10y ago
Agreed. I also think this is generally quite often true: what people perceive to be conspiracies are often as not instead emergent behaviors, rooted in the independent self-interested actions of a large number of individuals, acting with
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by Kadin 10y ago
I would appreciate some context and background as to what's going on, certainly. Twitter makes it pretty hard to backtrack through multiple conversations to figure out what started a particular thread.
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by Kadin 10y ago
There were, until very recently, some roads in Montana that didn't have any speed limit during the day. They provided at least a legal justification that there was a legitimate on-road use case for going more than 85MPH. I believe Mon
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by Kadin 10y ago
> Isn't that backwards? (ie. if Samsung failed, South Korea's economy would take a massive hit?) They are both true. If Samsung faltered, the Korean economy would take a hit, but the government would almost certainly prop it u
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by Kadin 10y ago
They are also a sort of crown jewel for South Korea, and probably far above the "too big to fail" threshold there. If worse came to worst, they'd be bailed out by the government. They're not going anywhere as a corporat
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by Kadin 10y ago
I think the author comes across a bit doe-eyed (although this is perhaps just them taking a necessarily politic angle, given the venue of the article), but I also think what they're saying is generally true. The vast majority of peop
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by Kadin 10y ago
There is, pretty clearly, a sort of "Goldilocks Problem" with regards to the optimal amount of regulation: you need some level of regulation, or you get monopolization by first-movers who then use their advantage to prevent the
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by Kadin 10y ago
Utopian communities are useful, in the sense that they're social petri dishes that let us run experiments that would be unbelievably destructive to attempt in the wider world. It is through the failure of various communities that we kn
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by Kadin 10y ago
> that sounds a lot like gentrification "Gentrification" is frequently just a polite euphemism for diversity that the person making the statement finds undesirable.
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by Kadin 10y ago
Two billion in revenue is a lot less impressive when you consider that they spent half a billion more than that in the process. Generally, people like their businesses to reliably turn $1 into $2 over time, not turn $2.50 into $2 over a
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by Kadin 10y ago
If a particular practice is acceptable for Apple, then it is presumptively okay for other software companies to do, too. And conversely, if everyone in the market for software-development labor wouldn't be allowed to do something, we
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by Kadin 10y ago
I find this explanation particularly compelling because it also explains a host of behaviors that have little to do with producing children. Khufu didn't build the Great Pyramid as a place for his kids to live in.

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