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by aeternus 8y ago
SF restaurants now add a healthcare surcharge which ranges from 3-10% (mandatory), then expect a 20% tip on top of that. Pretty ridiculous, I've started subtracting the healthcare surcharge out of what I would normally tip since it see
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>I also don't want to be able to verify my vote. If I can, that means that somebody else also can. Given how tech-illiterate the average human is, voting crypto keys will be littered all around the internet. Right, I should have bee
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by aeternus 8y ago
You can easily go a 3rd level (more) deep by adding another veracrypt file within the hidden partition. You could also use stenography techniques to hide your encrypted file/data within an image or video. There are also use-cases that
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Technology can already more or less deal with this. Encryption plus a hidden volume (the existence of which cannot be proven) provides the ability for someone to 'unlock' the phone but still not provide access to the real data. It
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You still require trust with the paper ballots, there are multiple threat models: - System needs to ensure everyone votes only once - Ensure each person meets the qualifications to vote - Ensure ballots cannot be counterfeit or additional b
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How much risk did those founders take though? Consider the salary they could have made at a large company and that they effectively invested 100% of that at seed-stage multiples. (Assuming they were taking zero salary early on). There was
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by aeternus 8y ago
>companies are incentivized to bargain for as much profit and as little employee compensation as possible Not necessarily, especially when employees are in high demand. Netflix has done quite well by paying employees well above average
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This implies a significant arbitrage opportunity for competitors. If workers really are producing the lion-share of the value, then smaller competitors should be able to gain market share by taking the best workers, paying them slightly mo
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Those people should not get fucked over but they should also not be compensated for taking risk.
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There are plenty of secure messaging services out there. Making one that works for everyone is not a trivial problem. Suppose you own a coffee shop and offer free wifi, should you be held responsible if someone logs into a bank without SSL
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The room searches are an invasion of privacy with zero merit. How likely is it that a shooter is going to leave guns laying out in the open? Unless they are willing to toss the entire room like a prison cell, these searches are worse than
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by aeternus 8y ago
There is always a chance of bias, but mandates like this can serve to strengthen and reinforce that bias, which could be a significant step backwards. The credentials of any woman serving on a company board will be questioned, and for many
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by aeternus 8y ago
I don't think this is correct. According to that link: A motor-driven cycle has 149cc or less engine size. CVC §405 A motor-driven cycle has to be registered and the driver must have a motorcycle license (M1).
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by aeternus 8y ago
The electric moped companies like Scoot are somehow getting around this. They must cap top speed at 20mph so that a license is not required. They do recommend an in-person training course, but you can also simply watch a series of videos o
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by aeternus 8y ago
The cleaning fee is already a decent solution for the common case. It looks like these companies don't yet have a solution for the exceptional case. Relying on passengers to 'prove' the fraud and charging them $50-150 if the
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by aeternus 8y ago
This definitely seems like the right way to go. Compensation for time & effort should go both ways.
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I enjoy solving complex problems, and it is great working with a strong business team that is able to sell those solutions for the benefit of others. This often leads to even more interesting & complex problems, and the market provides
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by aeternus 8y ago
Most of the prisoner work programs are optional. Same with foreign labor, yes working conditions are not optimal and there are improvements that could be made. However having an an alternative option is almost always better than not having
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by aeternus 8y ago
Equal pay would likely make labor programs like this infeasible since there are overhead costs, like the feeding, housing, and guarding of prisoners. Those costs are not present for regular employees / volunteers.
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Even that incentive may be good for society overall though. Efficient transportation is not a zero-sum game. There are currently people sitting in traffic who are willing & able to pay more not to sit in traffic. By building systems w
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by aeternus 8y ago
Standups are one possible solution to a variety of common problems when managing engineers: - Many engineers prefer to solve issues themselves rather than ask others for help. Often newer engineers don't know when to ask others for he
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by aeternus 8y ago
Not always, even the exact same card can run on different networks. For example: 1) You buy a product with your Visa debit card and enter your pin 2) You buy the same product, same card, but don't enter your pin 3) You buy the same pr
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by aeternus 8y ago
Short of cutting off all access to the internet, it is very difficult to block access. Someone could always set up some kind of tunnel via an allowed site / channel.
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Trust in, and disagreements over monetary policy may actually be at the root of many of the problems you outline. The euro crisis was likely a significant contributing factor to Brexit. The US bailouts of 2008 are still are source of poli
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Just because usage is down from peak doesn't mean that scaling isn't a problem. Bitcoin does support slightly more txns/sec than it did a year ago due to more widespread adoption of SegWit. Lightning network also has orders
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Summary: Because it currently only supports 15 txns/second total and offchain scaling solutions are estimated to be 2 years out.
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Human effort, passion, and drive are highly dependent on belief in a shared vision and end goal. You're likely to get much more effort out of a team if the end goal is to find a thermal material that can survive Mars re-entry vs. a th
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by aeternus 8y ago
Technology is actually one of the few things that definitely does trickle down. Refrigeration, washing machines, cellular technology, farming tech, medicine & vaccines, all of these have had extreme impact on those at the bottom. I&#x27
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by aeternus 8y ago
I'd rather have the operating system provide this protection. Mobile OS, especially iOS really seems like the optimal model. Give apps a secure sandbox by default, and require them to prompt for any external or 'dangerous' p
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Exactly, I'm surprised there isn't more concern about facebook's proposed use of AI to remove/censor posts. Zuckerberg has championed AI as a more fair way of performing this censoring, however it is easy for AI to pick

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