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by aianus 9y ago
Where will poor people who are unqualified for mortgages live if there are no landlords? Some kind of government housing?
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by aianus 9y ago
Interac e-Transfers took 10+ min and cost me $1.50 every time I've used them. They're absolute garbage compared to Venmo. I actually use Venmo in Canada with friends that have US bank accounts because it's still more convenie
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by aianus 9y ago
My point is that your suggestion is unlikely to have helped prevent this specific incident or others like it. A guild or professional association keeps quacks and idiots out, it doesn't solve the problem of experienced competent people
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by aianus 9y ago
I think you're vastly underestimating the number of deadly mistakes doctors and lawyers and other such licensed professionals make every day. Just look at Enron! Maybe such a system would keep out the very worst programmers but I doubt
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by aianus 9y ago
> Short of a drug that provided a permanent cure for opioid addiction itself, I'm not sure what sort of solutions can be pursued by scientific/tech research, as opposed to addressing the root social causes. Just give them the o
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by aianus 9y ago
Fiat isn't much different. Forex is 24h a day and jumps around on central banker quotes all the time.
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by aianus 9y ago
If you buy stuff via bitpay with your hugely appreciated bitcoin you probably have a good shot of successfully evading the taxman. I bet that's what a lot of that traffic is. That and you can buy cash-like goods like gold bars which wo
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by aianus 9y ago
The reputation system is not unidirectional today. I don't accept rides from any Uber passenger with less than 4.5.
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by aianus 9y ago
I don't find this situation comparable to those programs. Boomers never paid any taxes on the extreme capital gains on their primary residences and I'm not holding my breath that prices will quintuple again in my lifetime. They go
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by aianus 9y ago
It's a regressive tax that shifts the tax burden away from rich old retirees to poorer younger workers who had the misfortune of being born later.
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by aianus 9y ago
Driving saves me 20min each way vs public transit, even in heavy traffic. And I get to sit! And the seats are comfortable and adjustable and have lumbar support. And I have music and climate control. And I don't have to stand or walk i
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by aianus 9y ago
I have encrypted backups of all my 2FA secrets in two locations. I change phones every year and have never lost an account.
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by aianus 9y ago
This anecdote makes me very happy with AWS. I want loss of 2FA to completely revoke access to my account. Otherwise any smart hacker can social engineer Amazon support with some fake drivers license photo and steal all my BTC (for example
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by aianus 9y ago
More likely the German engineers cost half as much as the New York ones. No health insurance and much lower CoL and market rates.
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by aianus 9y ago
They already nationalized it once... They'll surely nationalize it again when they go broke.
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by aianus 9y ago
You can be a professional engineer (the bridge designing kind) with a four-year undergraduate degree in all of Canada and the US as far as I know.
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by aianus 9y ago
This. If I'm a rich man and I ask a poor woman out, her answer actually might have a much bigger impact on her economic well-being than if I were an employer interviewing her for a job. Does that make it wrong for rich men to ask poor
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by aianus 9y ago
It's better because we have the opportunity to move to the US and Americans don't have anywhere better to move. I'm only partially kidding; all the best people in my class making the most money moved to the US immediately upo
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by aianus 9y ago
Although this is true, I can say from personal experience that my body will ramp up the vomiting and diarrhea to keep the weight gain to a minimum.
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by aianus 9y ago
The climate in Vancouver is horrific. Rain and clouds for months on end with no respite.
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by aianus 9y ago
International travel is a major use case for these apps. When I'm traveling I don't have my car with me and my usage of Uber skyrockets.
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by aianus 9y ago
What issues did you have with kinesis firehose? I just deployed a couple of those and would like to know what to watch out for.
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by aianus 9y ago
I think in the industries and positions where employees have bargaining power you do tend to see excellent healthcare plans. But that's a minority of the workforce.
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by aianus 9y ago
Consumers don't choose their health insurance companies in the US. Their employers choose them. And when the user != the purchaser, you don't get a good user experience, you get corruption and a race to the bottom.
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by aianus 9y ago
Single payer may work better overall but I can confirm that in Canada they do fleece the single payer in exactly this way. "Only one issue per visit" so they can charge for two visits. Making me visit to hear the negative results
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by aianus 9y ago
You like it because the costs are hidden from you. I bet you'd think twice about using your card to pay for your hotdog (or even something like a MacBook) if they explicitly passed the fees onto you and you could opt out with cash. The
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by aianus 9y ago
The fees can be a lot lower when you don't have to maintain rewards programs, liability for fraud, or dispute mechanisms. Bitcoin is ridiculously inefficient compared to what a centralized entity could be and it's already cheaper
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by aianus 9y ago
It's cheaper to lose 100% of your purchase 2% of the time than 3% of your purchase 100% of the time. Insurance is for health and houses not my $8 lunch or $500 wallet contents.
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by aianus 9y ago
Making things cheap is just as important as inventing things. Nobody would care about computers if they still cost $10m and took up a whole room.
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by aianus 9y ago
No taxes if you give it away to a registered non-profit as Bitcoin.

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