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by abalone 5y ago
If this were actually true, Coinbase would not need to exist with a market cap of $100B.
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by abalone 5y ago
This is a poorly reasoned comparison. The .6% figure was in reference to .5% of wealth; presumably much more energy would be required to store closer to 100% of wealth with crypto. Given that we are nearing the irreversible destruction of o
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by abalone 6y ago
> considering Stripe has enormous negotiating leverage What negotiation are you referring to? Interchange pricing is fixed; they are not negotiating discounts on that. If you mean Stripe has VC funding to be a loss leader then, correct
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by abalone 6y ago
You’re assuming the low pricing is profitable and in this case it probably is not (and it’s not that low). Stripe’s play here is to upsell premium services.
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by abalone 6y ago
Prime was and is a genuine moat.
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by abalone 6y ago
Low pricing is not a moat.
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by abalone 6y ago
That is Chavez supporting Chomsky, not Chomsky “unconditionally” supporting Chavez. You offer no support or citation for your claims.
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by abalone 6y ago
Sure, Kristeva, famously.[1] [1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/was-the-philosopher-...
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by abalone 6y ago
Here is Chomsky describing what Libertarian Socialism is, how such a highly organized society would be constructed, and that it is “traditional anarchism” while noting that “anarchism” is a broad term.[1] [1] https://youtu.be&#x
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by abalone 6y ago
Source? Chomsky has been quite critical of Chavez.[1] As with most things in the world there are pros and cons but I would be interested if you could cite an example of “unconditional support.” [1] https://www.theguardian.com&#x2
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by abalone 6y ago
True about the product. Highly dubious about the social. While there are enthusiast communities for every kind of car, Teslas also get a lot of hate for various reasons. In my view it’s the biggest obstacle (that and the ho-hum design). I w
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by abalone 6y ago
This is a completely reasonable and realistic premise. Within the Left community there are plenty of Marxist-Leninist academics and there was a significant overlap with postmodernists, perhaps owing to its roots in the Parisian intellectual
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by abalone 6y ago
This is so misinformed. Much cattle production is in South America yet you cite only US figures which is less than 10% of headcount.[1] Even the US bison figures you cite predate the massive rise in industrial CO2 emissions, greatly reducin
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by abalone 6y ago
This is cool and I hope they don’t run into copyright issues with the domain, which they probably will. Trademark lawyers basically have to go after violations otherwise they risk losing control of the mark. Maybe GitHub could be nice and l
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by abalone 6y ago
It’s a bad article. The crux of it is Apple’s a hypocrite because they haven’t banned Facebook or worked hard enough on Maps. Give me a break. They just rolled out privacy nutrition labels, restrict geolocation, do more than any other plat
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by abalone 6y ago
Apple is one of the most privacy-forward large tech companies and regularly tries to engineer systems in a way that denies them and central governments control over your data. For example they designed iCloud Keychain to work securely on ad
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by abalone 6y ago
Maybe dumb question but why are they distributing through the Mac App Store? Seems like a lot of these problems are due to the review process. It is possible to just do direct downloads on the Mac.
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by abalone 6y ago
Your unsupported claim (a YIMBY propaganda line) is false. The most progressive supervisor has approved over 5K units in the past year alone.[1] [1] https://twitter.com/uhshanti/status/1311469878604263424?s=21
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by abalone 6y ago
Literally is a tax specifically constructed to target sellers (not buyers) of >$10M properties, otherwise known as rich people. With an exemption for sales to affordable housing nonprofits. This issue, passed by a wide margin, demonstrat
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by abalone 6y ago
I’m not following your logic here. How does driving a bidding war constitute “mind games”? How does your own internal sense of value affect the offers you get? This is just Negotiation 101.
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by abalone 6y ago
> This is a mischaracterization of the YIMBY position. Most YIMBYs are not opposed to raising taxes so that the city can pay for the construction of affordable housing units. This is false. YIMBYs opposed the recent prop I to tax >$
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by abalone 6y ago
Red flag for me is “next week”. That’s a really long space in between contacts. Ideally the whole interview marathon at multiple companies should be packed into a couple weeks so you can drive a bidding war so to speak. If they know you are
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by abalone 6y ago
Can somebody explain this problem for the uninitiated? Is this just about not hearing back about the next step in the interview process or why you didn’t get an offer? I mean I think it’s pretty clear why recruiters would keep their options
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by abalone 6y ago
This is just wildly incorrect. Landlords are very strongly opposed to left wing groups in SF, based on political funding. Landlords are the number one target of progressive legislation. The most left wing supervisor is literally a tenants r
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by abalone 6y ago
You’re mischaracterizing the left-wing / long term renter position here. This is a very common tactic among local SF “YIMBYs” for some reason. Progressives are not objecting solely on the basis of “character of the city” and in fact re
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by abalone 6y ago
Or perhaps encase the computer in a faraday cage.
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by abalone 6y ago
The range is only a few meters. The bigger problem is people bringing compromised devices within range. Limestone won’t stop that.
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by abalone 6y ago
This is not a high quality article. It’s more fodder for people to share their views in the comments but the article itself is not really HN caliber. Mostly just saying things suck without much specifics.
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by abalone 6y ago
> A program to load /usr/share/dict/words into a hash table is 3-5 lines Nooo.. For gods sake at least use a trie. This kind of thing makes me want to like “annoying” algorithm interview questions.
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by abalone 6y ago
Oh this is not the first time Yelp has done this. Back in the day they tried charging businesses a fee to list a number and iirc it was per call. So they listed a proxy number so they could track and bill. The crazy thing is to prevent sear

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