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by ahallock 11y ago
What does a useful local business review site look like? Not being snarky--genuinely interested to see if there's an opportunity here.
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by ahallock 11y ago
It doesn't really matter. It's not like authoritarians in the State make principled, consistent decisions, or have rules that reflect the same. FF fleeces customers but State lotteries? Crickets. The State lottery is in the consti
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by ahallock 11y ago
Why don't we stop enumerating specific rights (which leads to picking winners and losers and inconsistent application) and refactor them into a few basic principles. Such as the basic property right of self ownership. Since you own you
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by ahallock 11y ago
So what magical system did you have in mind that would suffer none of your potential problems? Even a publicly funded service is still as vulnerable. Services you run yourself still cost money and have their unique set of problems. The cost
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by ahallock 11y ago
Capitalism ruins everything fun? Not sure I follow. There are so many amazing APIs available now, which aren't as frictionless as using Unix tools -- but why would they be? Unix tools are installed locally and don't fall under the
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by ahallock 11y ago
Homework is an abomination. It steals time a child could be spending with their parents, siblings, friends, etc. You spend all day in a classroom, sedentary, which isn't healthy to begin with, and then when you go home, you're exp
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by ahallock 11y ago
Counter anecdote: check out Durianrider. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W02aYmy1lcg High-carb, low fat.
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by ahallock 11y ago
I take issue with this because was it really the sugar or were you reducing and eliminating other bad elements from your diet? Cup cakes and ice cream, for example -- it's not the sugar -- it's the high fat combined with sugar cau
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by ahallock 11y ago
Are you speaking from experience? I've found plenty of great gigs on these freelancing sites. You just have to dig a bit and know what the "crap" jobs are, so you can avoid them altogether. The world is not underbidding you.
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by ahallock 11y ago
Not true at all. High-profile startups do post jobs there. You can find good clients--it just takes some digging, negotiation, and patience.
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by ahallock 11y ago
The author gives one bad example and extrapolates that to all of freelance. I've found plenty of well-paying gigs on these sites. As with most things in life, it takes hard work and lots of failure to get there. It's really that s
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by ahallock 11y ago
So you'd rather have a middleman coercively distribute funds or amass more debt, and take some of the funds in overhead, rather than be able to direct your money where it's deserved, especially in an age when you can use the inter
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by ahallock 11y ago
I'd rather it sit in a Caribbean bank than be spent killing people in foreign conflicts. Also, what's wrong with saving money? Not all money needs to be constantly spent.
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by ahallock 11y ago
Then don't charge the poor for VAT.
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by ahallock 11y ago
You don't choose anything (apart from some semblance of choice through voting). Stop using voluntary language for something that is compulsory. This isn't an argument against gov, but your reasoning about choice is after the fact.
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by ahallock 11y ago
My story parallels yours. I eventually saw a chiropractor (here come the downvotes lol) who performed what's documented here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081245 --I actually pointed him to th
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by ahallock 11y ago
Why tax the hell out of it? It sounds like some sort of psychological projection where the government are your parents and to appease them, you're willing to bargain badly for something. "If you just let me stay out a few extra ho
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by ahallock 11y ago
Puts a damper on the SPA + AWS Gateway API + Lambda app I was developing.
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by ahallock 11y ago
FTP is a good analogy. A lot of people are familiar with FTP, and given a good s3 client, it appears the same.
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by ahallock 11y ago
The point is you don't provision your own servers, not that servers don't exist somewhere executing your code. People seem to be taking the marketing too literally.
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by ahallock 11y ago
The implication is that you don't have to provision any servers to execute your code. That is the "serverless" part.
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by ahallock 11y ago
Money != wealth, but I like the flat tax credit idea--unless they do something shady like raise taxes because of the additional credit.
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by ahallock 11y ago
So how do you remove the conflict of interest? They have every incentive to abuse these revenue (more like theft) streams and become dependent on them.
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by ahallock 11y ago
There's a 25 MPH speed trap near me (no schools or anything nearby) that uses photo enforcement instead of actual police officers. It's basically an ATM for the tiny village of 179 residents. In 2013, they stopped 26 people for go
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by ahallock 11y ago
Love this idea, but I wish there were an official integration between Lambda and RDS; I don't want to use DynamoDB.
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by ahallock 11y ago
> You actually do at a wide variety of places - every job I've ever had had no problem letting me duck out in the middle of the day to do errands, visit my grandmother, celebrate my anniversary with my girlfriend, etc. You've b
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by ahallock 11y ago
Do the workers get a say in how they're classified? If we really care about the workers, then maybe they should have a choice in what they want. Instead it's "force-reclassified" because authoritarians and lawyers know b
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by ahallock 11y ago
> All to make a buck. Really? > Correct. Freelance sites' negotiation shows that there is due consideration and discussion, along with a meeting of the minds. Yes, so what? That's the nature of freelance marketplaces. So tho
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by ahallock 11y ago
I don't know, gov rules and regs are unclear and create this type of divisiveness, winners & losers, etc. I would only ask, do the Uber drivers get a choice? What if I value my flexible work schedule over setting my own price. Mayb
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by ahallock 11y ago
Negotiating with clients on freelance sites is more involved than requesting a ride on Uber, so I don't think that comparison fits.

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