alexasmyths

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by alexasmyths 9y ago
#1 issue with applets was integration. Was it on the browser? Which version? How does auto-update work? etc. Adobe did an amazing job of making sure Flash was there, and seamless. To the point people barely had an awareness. Java Applets
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"WebAssembly makes the web more open because it puts nails in the coffin of Flash, Unity Player, and the like." In practice, it does not. It's too low level, and the APIs to access browser features are not available, so you h
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" The idea that a new culture cannot arise from the blending of extant ones is contradicted by countless examples" I didn't imply that new cultures could not be created by the blending of others. But it's glaringly obvio
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Admiring one's own culture, or the culture of another, and recognizing the value of them, isn't a 'thin margin' away from xenophobia, I think. FYI I live in an area where I'm a tiny ethnic minority English speaker a
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I don't for a second see how the issues we're trying to solve have anything to do with the technology or even social contract of currency.
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That's great. I suggest it's probably not a huge factor for most people. But there's a huge amount of information embedded into culture - ideas, mannerisms, forms of education, language, social strata - it goes far, far beyon
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"we also live under an economic system predicated on endless growth." Yes, but it does not have to be this way. It's just the way it's designed for now.
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Uhhmm - you visited basically anywhere outside the periphique in Paris? I mean the entire ring around Paris is a ghetto - as grungy as any American city. Murder rates are not as bad - but petty crime and other forms of violence are just as
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"Nobody has that figured out. For now the answer for developed countries involves allowing in immigrants to make up for the deaths." No - this is false. There's nothing to 'figure out'. We simply don't need as
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"Do people really romanticize it, outside of certain delusional anime fans?" Are you kidding? Extremely low crime rates? Exceptional innovation, powerhouse industry, dozens of cultural imperatives, engineering marvels? It's o
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headphone jacks give a pretty crisp signal :)
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Bravo! Cute game. So many things done well.
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Only about 1/2 of Americans at any given time work (very roughly - think kids, elderly etc.) so most Americans don't pay tax is technically kind of correct, but not very meaningful at all in any discussion.
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Wealth concentration is a problem but poor countries are not poor because some rich Westerners 'have a lot of power'. Nice sentiment though, and that counts for something.
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Ha ha ha. Ya. Glancing over. Irony :)
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"but if you can’t reasonably quantify it based on anything empirical," Simply the writing quality, grammar and sentence structure of the comments on HN would easily be enough to prove that HN readers (well, commenters) are above a
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"What is the success metric for these playlist companies?" Extremely difficult to determine. And the 'taste-makers' in music are very hard to find, though they should easily have access to the latest/hippest tracks.
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
I meant to say that a managed currency does not imply inflation, as the commenter was saying. I'm saying a managed currency can be whatever you want it to be. I agree targeting deflation would be bad. Hint: deflation is kind of bad, an
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What he means to say is that the currency goes up, prices go down. So if a currency goes up in value, that's actually economic 'deflation', because the prices of goods go down. Now - I don't agree with any of the comment
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"Since taxes are not voluntary, this creates built-in demand for the fiat money." Not really. The real underlying demand for a currency comes from the advantage that everyone gets by using the same currency in a common market. The
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" so we self censor." I don't. I mean - you'd have to literally indicate you wanted to cause harm to a government official to get in trouble with the US Feds - and it's not unreasonable they do come after you as tha
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The CIA, FBI, DEA etc are not 'censors' either. They are law enforcement. Censorship of US citizens for the purposes of state propaganda is a whole other different thing than anything the CIA/FBI/DEA does. And FYI the CI
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The NSA is watching, but they are not censors.
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I can see why these things make sense to legislators and policymakers - but in all pragmatic reality, I'm weary of it actually working. 1) Most startups fail. What happens then? What is the path? Many folks will come from 2cnd-tier eco
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Not only does it not commodify women, you're assumption that men will treat them as objects is possibly bigoted. Men having polite conversations with women is 'wrong' only in a dystopian future. I personally think it's a
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"but for the misogynistic dynamic" Male appreciation of female company is utterly and absolutely in not 'misogynistic'. Not only that - it's also very normal, and frankly good. If people are treated as sexual object
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" The whole point is to celebrate with the employees and their families and recognize the hard work everyone has put in over the year. " Not really, that's more a 'New Years' thing. Christmas 'party' is ju
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This is fine. (I mean gender issues aside). Because they are on 'roller skates' they are differentiated, and basically identifiable as 'hosts/hostesses'. There's nothing wrong with hiring hosts for a party. It&
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"How much money needed to come into the bitcoin market for it bump from 15k to 19k?" Almost none. If there are just a few transactions at a price, well, we assume that is the worth of all bitcoins in existence. Which is a crazy as
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To be fair - most innovation boils down to this kind of incremental stuff. 99% of 'tech' is an amalgamation of more basic ideas, not 'magic leap' kind of innovation. I mean, we all love the magic, but I think we're

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